David Archer is Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago where he has taught since 1993. He has worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to global climate and was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2010 for exceptional scientific contributions to the field. Dedicated to scientific outreach, Archer is the author of several books on climate change science and regularly speaks to general audiences.