Steven Chu: "[Sea level is] rising even faster than we thought. The number of violent rainstorms have increased faster than we thought”; he's allegedly learned "many things" from the Solyndra fiasco

Chu: Climate change evidence mounting - The Hill's E2-Wire

“Over the last couple of years, the dispassionate, hard science evidence has been mounting, increasing,” said Chu, speaking at an energy forum hosted by The New York Times.

Chu noted that “we don’t understand everything” and that in past years scientists have actually underestimated the pace of some changes, including sea level rise.
“It is rising even faster than we thought. The number of violent rainstorms have increased faster than we thought,” he said at the event in New York, adding that though there are “bumps and wiggles” that are not understood, trends are clear in the long term.

“The debate is how much will it change. There are feedbacks both positive and negative that we are trying to understand,” said Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
...Asked what he has learned from Solyndra specifically, Chu sighed audibly.

“Many things,” he told Friedman. “I can tell you over a beer.”