Christine Shearer, PhD, is the Senior Researcher at the energy and climate organization CoalSwarm. She previously worked as postdoctoral scholar in Earth System Science at the University of California in Irvine, as a research fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and as a reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Her writing has appeared in science and media publications including Nature, Environmental Research Letters, National Geographic, and The New York Times. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.