Welcome to my website!

I'm Eric P. Grimsrud, author of Thoughts of a Scientist, Citizen, and Grandpa on Climate Change: Bridging the Gap between Scientific and Public Opinion.

About the Author

I graduated from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, and received a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970. I have been a teacher and research scientist at several universities and was a Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University, Bozeman, for 29 years. I have been an active participant in the field of atmospheric chemistry for more than 35 years. I presently live near Kalispell, Montana.

About my latest book, Thoughts of a Scientist, Citizen, and Grandpa on Climate Change

We are now live in critical moment in the history of human civilization and have a choice of monumental importance to make.

Are we or are we not going to aggressively address the issue of anthropogenic global warming? If we do, the short term costs are likely to be quite high. If we don't, however, the longer term consequences are sure to be horrendous even during the lives of my grandchildren.

So, how do we decide which of these choices to make?  For starters, we must learn what Mother Nature will actually do in response to the decisions we make - and what She does do can be predicted only via our understanding of the science involved. Therefore, a primary goal of Thoughts of a Scientist, Citizen, and Grandpa on Climate Change is to provide the general public with an improved understanding of the various causes of climate change. Of course, the economic and social aspects of addressing climate change are also important to us all and these topics will be discussed as well.