LMU professor shares Nobel glory with Gore
Although former Vice President Al Gore soaked up most of the spotlight for his decades of work and involvement in the 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” LMU Professor Jeremy Pal is one of the thousands of scientists and authors who have added to the growing bank of information on global warming since the panel was formed in 1988.
Here's a snippet from Kristin Agostoni's profile of Pal in Saturday's Daily Breeze...
Jeremy Pal was mostly apathetic about his career when he enrolled in Santa Monica College after high school.The Venice native, then 18 with something around a 1.5 grade point average, thinks his mom made him apply. One semester - even though he hadn’t declared a major - Pal signed up for a course on human ecology, which touched upon everything from DDT pollution and runoff to climate change.
“I was just this surfer-lifeguard guy teaching this class,” said Pal, who can’t even recall the man’s name.
But he admits that instructor made an impression, steering him toward a career in environmental science and research that got an unexpected boost last week.