“The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.”

American journalist and author

Timothy Robert Noah is an American journalist and author, and a staff writer at The New Republic. He has also worked as labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor at The New Republic, and a senior writer at Slate. At The New Republic, he wrote the biweekly "TRB From Washington" column, and at Slate he wrote the "Chatterbox" column for a decade. In 2012, he published The Great Divergence, a book about income inequality in the United States.