H.E. Ban Ki-Moon,
Secretary-General, United Nations
First Avenue and East
44th Street, New York, New York, U.S.A.
November 29, 2012
Mr. Secretary-General:
On November 9 this year
you told the General Assembly:
“Extreme weather due to
climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger
climate shocks … and to reach a legally binding climate agreement by 2015 …
This should be one of the main lessons of Hurricane Sandy.”
On November 13 you said
at Yale:
“The science is clear;
we should waste no more time on that debate.”
The following day, in Al
Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Webcast, you spoke of
“more severe storms,
harsher droughts, greater floods”, concluding: “Two weeks ago, Hurricane Sandy
struck the eastern seaboard of the United States. A nation saw the reality of
climate change. The recovery will cost tens of billions of dollars. The cost of
inaction will be even higher. We must reduce our dependence on carbon
emissions.”
We the undersigned,
qualified in climate-related matters, wish to state that current scientific
knowledge does not substantiate your assertions.
The U.K. Met Office
recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant
global warming for almost 16 years. During this period, according to the U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), carbon dioxide (CO2)
concentrations rose by nearly 9% to now constitute 0.039% of the atmosphere.
Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of
the past few years. Whether, when and how atmospheric warming will resume is
unknown. The science is unclear. Some scientists point out that near-term
natural cooling, linked to variations in solar output, is also a distinct
possibility.
The “even larger climate
shocks” you have mentioned would be worse if the world cooled than if it
warmed. Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The
hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous
warming is not supported by the evidence.
The incidence and
severity of extreme weather has not increased. There is little evidence that
dangerous weather-related events will occur more often in the future. The
U.N.’s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in its Special Report
on Extreme Weather (2012) that there is “an absence of an attributable climate
change signal” in trends in extreme weather losses to date. The funds currently
dedicated to trying to stop extreme weather should therefore be diverted to
strengthening our infrastructure so as to be able to withstand these
inevitable, natural events, and to helping communities rebuild after natural
catastrophes such as tropical storm Sandy.
There is no sound reason
for the costly, restrictive public policy decisions proposed at the U.N.
climate conference in Qatar. Rigorous analysis of unbiased observational data
does not support the projections of future global warming predicted by computer
models now proven to exaggerate warming and its effects.
The NOAA “State of the
Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any
statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between
observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now
proven that the models are wrong by their creators’ own criterion.
Based upon these considerations,
we ask that you desist from exploiting the misery of the families of those who
lost their lives or properties in tropical storm Sandy by making unsupportable
claims that human influences caused that storm. They did not. We also ask that
you acknowledge that policy actions by the U.N., or by the signatory nations to
the UNFCCC, that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to exercise any
significant influence on future climate. Climate policies therefore need to
focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events
however caused.
Signed by:
- Habibullo I. Abdussamatov, Dr. Sci.,
mathematician and astrophysicist, Head of the Selenometria project on the
Russian segment of the ISS, Head of Space Research of the Sun Sector at
the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.
Petersburg, Russia
- Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics,
Emeritus and Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of
the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
- Bjarne Andresen, Dr. Scient., physicist,
published and presents on the impossibility of a “global temperature”,
Professor, Niels Bohr Institute (physics (thermodynamics) and chemistry),
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- J. Scott Armstrong,
PhD, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, Founder of the International Journal of Forecasting, focus
on analyzing climate forecasts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Timothy F. Ball,
PhD, environmental consultant and former climatology professor, University
of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- James R. Barrante, Ph.D. (chemistry, Harvard
University), Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, Southern
Connecticut State University, focus on studying the greenhouse gas
behavior of CO2, Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Colin Barton, B.Sc., PhD (Earth Science,
Birmingham, U.K.), FInstEng Aus Principal research scientist (ret.),
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Joe Bastardi, BSc, (Meteorology, Pennsylvania
State), meteorologist, State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Franco Battaglia, PhD (Chemical Physics),
Professor of Physics and Environmental Chemistry, University of Modena, Italy
- Richard Becherer, BS (Physics, Boston
College), MS (Physics, University of Illinois), PhD (Optics, University of
Rochester), former Member of the Technical Staff – MIT Lincoln Laboratory,
former Adjunct Professor – University of Connecticut, Areas of
Specialization: optical radiation physics, coauthor – standard reference
book Optical Radiation Measurements: Radiometry, Millis, MA, U.S.A.
- Edwin X. Berry,
PhD (Atmospheric Physics, Nevada), MA (Physics, Dartmouth), BS
(Engineering, Caltech), Certified Consulting Meteorologist, President, Climate Physics
LLC, Bigfork, MT, U.S.A.
- Ian Bock, BSc, PhD, DSc, Biological sciences
(retired), Ringkobing, Denmark
- Ahmed Boucenna, PhD, Professor of Physics
(strong climate focus), Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Ferhat
Abbas University, Setif, Algéria
- Antonio Brambati, PhD, Emeritus Professor
(sedimentology), Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine
Sciences (DiSGAM), University of Trieste (specialization: climate change
as determined by Antarctic marine sediments), Trieste, Italy
- Stephen C. Brown,
PhD (Environmental Science, State University of New York), District
Agriculture Agent, Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Ground Penetrating Radar Glacier research, Palmer, Alaska, U.S.A.
- Mark Lawrence Campbell, PhD (chemical physics;
gas-phase kinetic research involving greenhouse gases (nitrous oxide,
carbon dioxide)), Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Maryland, U.S.A.
- Rudy Candler, PhD (Soil Chemistry, University
of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)), former agricultural laboratory manager, School
of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, UAF, co-authored papers
regarding humic substances and potential CO2 production in the Arctic due
to decomposition, Union, Oregon, U.S.A.
- Alan Carlin,
B.S. (California Institute of Technology), PhD (economics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology), retired senior analyst and manager, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, former Chairman of the
Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club (recipient of the Chapter’s Weldon
Heald award for conservation work), U.S.A.
- Dan Carruthers, M.Sc., Arctic Animal Behavioural
Ecologist, wildlife biology consultant specializing in animal ecology in
Arctic and Subarctic regions, Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada
- Robert
M. Carter, PhD, Professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James
Cook University, Townsville, Australia
- Uberto Crescenti, PhD, Full Professor of
Applied Geology, Università G. d’Annunzio, Past President Società
Geologica taliana, Chieti, Italy
- Arthur Chadwick, PhD (Molecular Biology),
Research Professor of Geology, Department of Biology and Geology,
Southwestern Adventist University, Climate Specialties: dendrochronology
(determination of past climate states by tree ring analysis), palynology
(same but using pollen as a climate proxy), paleobotany and botany; Keene,
Texas, U.S.A.
- George V. Chilingar, PhD, Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Engineering
(CO2/temp. focused research), University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Ian D. Clark, PhD, Professor (isotope
hydrogeology and paleoclimatology), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Cornelia Codreanova, Diploma in Geography,
Researcher (Areas of Specialization: formation of glacial lakes) at
Liberec University, Czech Republic, Zwenkau, Germany
- Michael Coffman, PhD (Ecosystems Analysis and
Climate Influences, University of Idaho), CEO of Sovereignty
International, President of Environmental Perspectives, Inc., Bangor,
Maine, U.S.A.
- Piers Corbyn, ARCS, MSc (Physics, Imperial
College London)), FRAS, FRMetS, astrophysicist (Queen Mary College,
London), consultant, founder WeatherAction long range weather and climate
forecasters, American Thinker Climate Forecaster of The Year 2010, London,
United Kingdom
- Richard S. Courtney, PhD, energy and
environmental consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, Falmouth, Cornwall, United
Kingdom
- Roger W. Cohen, B.S., M.S., PhD Physics, MIT
and Rutgers University, Fellow, American Physical Society, initiated and
managed for more than twenty years the only industrial basic research
program in climate, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Susan Crockford, PhD (Zoology/Evolutionary
Biology/Archaeozoology), Adjunct Professor (Anthropology/Faculty of
Graduate Studies), University of Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia,
Canada
- Walter Cunningham,
B.S., M.S. (Physics – Institute of Geophysics And Planetary Sciences,
UCLA), AMP – Harvard Graduate School of Business, Colonel (retired) U.S.
Marine Corps, Apollo 7 Astronaut., Fellow – AAS, AIAA; Member AGU,
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
- Joseph D’Aleo, BS, MS (Meteorology, University
of Wisconsin), Doctoral Studies (NYU), CMM, AMS Fellow, Executive
Director – ICECAP (International Climate and Environmental Change
Assessment Project), College Professor Climatology/Meteorology, First
Director of Meteorology The Weather Channel, Hudson, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
- David Deming, PhD (Geophysics), Professor of
Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
- James E. Dent; B.Sc., FCIWEM, C.Met, FRMetS,
C.Env., Independent Consultant (hydrology & meteorology), Member of
WMO OPACHE Group on Flood Warning, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, United
Kingdom
- Willem de Lange, MSc (Hons), DPhil (Computer
and Earth Sciences), Senior Lecturer in Earth and Ocean Sciences, The
University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Silvia Duhau, Ph.D. (physics), Solar
Terrestrial Physics, Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Geoff Duffy, DEng (Dr of Engineering), PhD
(Chemical Engineering), BSc, ASTCDip., FRSNZ (first chemical engineer to
be a Fellow of the Royal Society in NZ), FIChemE, wide experience in
radiant heat transfer and drying, chemical equilibria, etc. Has reviewed,
analysed, and written brief reports and papers on climate change,
Auckland, New Zealand
- Don J. Easterbrook, PhD, Emeritus Professor of
Geology, Western Washington, University, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A.
- Ole Henrik Ellestad, former Research Director,
applied chemistry SINTEF, Professor in physical chemistry, University of
Oslo, Managing director Norsk Regnesentral and Director for Science and
Technology, Norwegian Research Council, widely published in infrared
spectroscopy, Oslo, Norway
- Per Engene, MSc, Biologist, Co-author – The
Climate, Science and Politics (2009), Bø i Telemark, Norway
- Gordon Fulks, B.S., M.S., PhD (Physics,
University of Chicago), cosmic radiation, solar wind, electromagnetic and
geophysical phenomena, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
- Katya Georgieva, MSc (meteorology), PhD
(solar-terrestrial climate physics), Professor, Space Research and
Technologies Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Lee C. Gerhard, PhD, Senior Scientist Emeritus,
University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological
Survey, U.S.A.
- Ivar Giaever PhD, Nobel Laureate in Physics
1973, professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a
professor-at-large at the University of Oslo, Applied BioPhysics, Troy,
New York, U.S.A.
- Albrecht Glatzle, PhD, ScAgr, Agro-Biologist
and Gerente ejecutivo, Tropical pasture research and land use management,
Director científico de INTTAS, Loma Plata, Paraguay
- Fred Goldberg, PhD, Adj Professor, Royal
Institute of Technology (Mech, Eng.), Secretary General KTH International
Climate Seminar 2006 and Climate analyst (NIPCC), Lidingö, Sweden
- Laurence I. Gould,
PhD, Professor of Physics, University of Hartford, Past Chair (2004), New
England Section of the American Physical Society, West Hartford,
Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Vincent
Gray, PhD, New Zealand Climate Coalition, expert reviewer for
the IPCC, author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of Climate Change
2001, Wellington, New Zealand
- William M. Gray, PhD, Professor Emeritus,
Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Head of the Tropical
Meteorology Project, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Charles B. Hammons, PhD (Applied Mathematics),
climate-related specialties: applied mathematics, modeling &
simulation, software & systems engineering, Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Management, University of Dallas; Assistant Professor,
North Texas State University (Dr. Hammons found many serious flaws during
a detailed study of the software, associated control files plus related
email traffic of the Climate Research Unit temperature and other records
and “adjustments” carried out in support of IPCC conclusions), Coyle, OK,
U.S.A.
- William Happer, PhD, Professor, Department of
Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
- Hermann Harde, PhD, Professur f. Lasertechnik
& Werkstoffkunde (specialized in molecular spectroscopy, development
of gas sensors and CO2-climate sensitivity),
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr Fakultät
für Elektrotechnik, Hamburg, Germany
- Howard Hayden, PhD, Emeritus Professor
(Physics), University of Connecticut, The Energy Advocate, Pueblo West,
Colorado, U.S.A.
- Ross Hays, Meteorologist, atmospheric
scientist, NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (currently working at
McMurdo Station, Antarctica), Palestine, Texas, U.S.A.
- Martin Hovland,
M.Sc. (meteorology, University of Bergen), PhD (Dr Philos, University of
Tromsø), FGS, Emeritus Professor, Geophysics, Centre for Geobiology,
University of Bergen, member of the expert panel: Environmental Protection
and Safety Panel (EPSP) for the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and the
Integrated ODP, Stavanger, Norway
- Ole
Humlum, PhD, Professor of Physical Geography, Department of
Physical Geography, Institute of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo,
Norway
- Craig D. Idso, PhD, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change,
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
- Sherwood B. Idso, PhD, President, Center for
the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
- Larry Irons, BS (Geology), MS (Geology), Sr.
Geophysicist at Fairfield Nodal (specialization: paleoclimate), Lakewood,
Colorado, U.S.A.
- Terri Jackson, MSc (plasma physics), MPhil
(energy economics), Director, Independent Climate Research Group, Northern
Ireland and London (Founder of the energy/climate group at the Institute
of Physics, London), United Kingdom
- Albert F. Jacobs, Geol.Drs., P. Geol.,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Hans Jelbring, PhD Climatology, Stockholm
University, MSc Electronic engineering, Royal Institute of Technology,
BSc Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Bill Kappel, B.S. (Physical Science-Geology),
B.S. (Meteorology), Storm Analysis, Climatology, Operation Forecasting,
Vice President/Senior Meteorologist, Applied Weather Associates, LLC,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, U.S.A.
- Olavi Kärner, Ph.D., Extraordinary Research
Associate; Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, Tartu Observatory, Toravere,
Estonia
- Leonid F. Khilyuk, PhD, Science Secretary,
Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor of Engineering (CO2/temp.
focused research), University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California, U.S.A.
- William Kininmonth MSc, MAdmin, former head of
Australia’s National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World
Meteorological organization’s Commission for Climatology, Kew, Victoria,
Australia
- Gerhard
Kramm, Dr. rer. nat. (Theoretical Meteorology), Research
Associate Professor, Geophysical Institute, Associate Faculty, College of
Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, (climate
specialties: Atmospheric energetics, physics of the atmospheric boundary
layer, physical climatology – see
interesting paper by Kramm et al), Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
- Leif Kullman, PhD (Physical geography, plant
ecology, landscape ecology), Professor, Physical geography, Department of
Ecology and Environmental science, Umeå University, Areas of
Specialization: Paleoclimate (Holocene to the present), glaciology,
vegetation history, impact of modern climate on the living landscape,
Umeå, Sweden
- Hans H.J. Labohm, PhD, Independent economist,
author specialised in climate issues, IPCC expert reviewer, author of Man-Made Global Warming:
Unravelling a Dogma and climate science-related
Blog, The Netherlands
- Rune Berg-Edland Larsen, PhD (Geology,
Geochemistry), Professor, Dep. Geology and Geoengineering, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
- C. (Kees) le Pair, PhD (Physics Leiden, Low
Temperature Physics), former director of the Netherlands Research
Organization FOM (fundamental physics) and subsequently founder and
director of The Netherlands Technology Foundation STW. Served the
Dutch Government many years as member of its General Energy Council and of
the National Defense Research Council. Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honorary Medal and honorary doctorate in all technical sciences of the
Delft University of technology, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
- Douglas Leahey, PhD, meteorologist and
air-quality consultant, past President – Friends of Science, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
- Jay
Lehr, B.Eng. (Princeton), PhD (environmental science and ground
water hydrology), Science Director, The Heartland Institute, Chicago,
Illinois, U.S.A.
- Bryan Leyland, M.Sc., FIEE, FIMechE, FIPENZ, MRSNZ,
consulting engineer (power), Energy Issues Advisor – International Climate
Science Coalition, Auckland, New Zealand
- Edward Liebsch, B.A. (Earth Science, St. Cloud
State University); M.S. (Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University),
former Associate Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; former Adjunct
Professor of Meteorology, St. Cloud State University, Environmental
Consultant/Air Quality Scientist (Areas of Specialization:
micrometeorology, greenhouse gas emissions), Maple Grove, Minnesota,
U.S.A.
- William Lindqvist, PhD (Applied Geology),
Independent Geologic Consultant, Areas of Specialization: Climate
Variation in the recent geologic past, Tiburon, California, U.S.A.
- Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, Prof. Dr. , PhD
(Physics), retired from university of appl. sciences HTW, Saarbrücken
(Germany), atmospheric temperature research, speaker of the European
Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), Heidelberg, Germany
- Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D., Professor of
Atmospheric Science, Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric
Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.
- Oliver Manuel,
BS, MS, PhD, Post-Doc (Space Physics), Associate - Climate &
Solar Science Institute, Emeritus Professor, College of Arts &
Sciences University of Missouri-Rolla, previously Research Scientist (US
Geological Survey) and NASA Principal Investigator for Apollo, Cape
Girardeau, Missouri, U.S.A.
- Francis Massen, professeur-docteur en physique
(PhD equivalent, Universities of Nancy (France) and Liège (Belgium),
Manager of the Meteorological Station of the Lycée Classique de Diekirch,
specialising in the measurement of solar radiation and atmospheric gases.
Collaborator to the WOUDC (World Ozone and UV Radiation Data Center), Diekirch,
Luxembourg
- Henri Masson, Prof. dr. ir., Emeritus
Professor University of Antwerp (Energy & Environment Technology
Management), Visiting professor Maastricht School of Management,
specialist in dynamical (chaotic) complex system analysis, Antwerp, Belgium.
- Ferenc Mark Miskolczi, PhD, atmospheric
physicist, formerly of NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia,
U.S.A.
- Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Expert
reviewer, IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Quantification of Climate
Sensitivity, Carie, Rannoch, Scotland
- Nils-Axel
Mörner, PhD (Sea Level Changes and Climate), Emeritus Professor
of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
Sweden
- John Nicol, PhD (Physics, James Cook
University), Chairman – Australian climate Science Coalition, Brisbane,
Australia
- Ingemar Nordin, PhD,
professor in philosophy of science (including a focus on “Climate
research, philosophical and sociological aspects of a politicised research
area”), Linköpings University, Sweden.
- David Nowell, M.Sc., Fellow of the Royal
Meteorological Society, former chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Cliff Ollier, D.Sc., Professor Emeritus
(School of Earth and Environment – see his Copenhagen Climate
Challenge sea level article here),
Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A.,
Australia
- Oleg M. Pokrovsky, BS, MS, PhD (mathematics
and atmospheric physics – St. Petersburg State University, 1970), Dr. in
Phys. and Math Sciences (1985), Professor in Geophysics (1995), principal
scientist, Main Geophysical Observatory (RosHydroMet), Note: Dr. Pokrovsky
analyzed long climates and concluds that anthropogenic CO2 impact is not
main contributor in climate change,St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Daniel Joseph Pounder, BS (Meteorology,
University of Oklahoma), MS (Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign); Meteorological/Oceanographic Data Analyst for
the National Data Buoy Center, formerly Meteorologist, WILL AM/FM/TV,
Urbana, U.S.A.
- Brian
Pratt, PhD, Professor of Geology (Sedimentology), University of
Saskatchewan (see
Professor Pratt’s article for a summary of his views), Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada
- Harry N.A. Priem, PhD, Professore-emeritus
isotope-geophysics and planetary geology, Utrecht University, past
director ZWO/NOW Institute of Isotope Geophysical Research, Past-President
Royal Netherlands Society of Geology and Mining, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
- Oleg Raspopov, Doctor of Science
and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor –
Geophysics, Senior Scientist, St. Petersburg Filial (Branch) of N.V.Pushkov
Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowaves Propagation
of RAS (climate specialty: climate in the past, particularly the influence
of solar variability), Editor-in-Chief of journal “Geomagnetism and
Aeronomy” (published by Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg,
Russia
- Curt G. Rose, BA, MA (University of Western
Ontario), MA, PhD (Clark University), Professor Emeritus, Department of
Environmental Studies and Geography, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke,
Quebec, Canada
- S. Jeevananda Reddy, M.Sc. (Geophysics), Post
Graduate Diploma (Applied Statistics, Andhra University), PhD
(Agricultural Meteorology, Australian University, Canberra), Formerly
Chief Technical Advisor—United Nations World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) & Expert-Food and Agriculture Organization (UN), Convener
- Forum for a Sustainable Environment, author of 500
scientific articles and several books – here is one: “Climate
Change – Myths & Realities“, Hyderabad, India
- Arthur Rorsch, PhD, Emeritus Professor,
Molecular Genetics, Leiden University, former member of the board of
management of the Netherlands Organization Applied Research TNO, Leiden,
The Netherlands
- Rob Scagel, MSc (forest microclimate
specialist), Principal Consultant – Pacific Phytometric Consultants,
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
- Chris Schoneveld, MSc (Structural Geology),
PhD (Geology), retired exploration geologist and geophysicist, Australia
and France
- Tom
V. Segalstad, PhD (Geology/Geochemistry), Associate Professor
of Resource and Environmental Geology, University of Oslo, former IPCC
expert reviewer, former Head of the Geological Museum, and former head of
the Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden (UO), Oslo, Norway.
100.
John Shade, BS (Physics), MS (Atmospheric Physics),
MS (Applied Statistics), Industrial Statistics Consultant, GDP, Dunfermline,
Scotland, United Kingdom
- Thomas P. Sheahen, B.S., PhD (Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology), specialist in renewable energy,
research and publication (applied optics) in modeling and measurement of
absorption of infrared radiation by atmospheric CO2, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (2005-2009); Argonne National Laboratory
(1988-1992); Bell Telephone labs (1966-73), National Bureau of Standards
(1975-83), Oakland, Maryland, U.S.A.
- S. Fred Singer, PhD, Professor Emeritus
(Environmental Sciences), University of Virginia, former director, U.S.
Weather Satellite Service, Science and Environmental Policy Project, Charlottesville,
Virginia, U.S.A.
- Frans W. Sluijter, Prof. dr ir, Emeritus
Professor of theoretical physics, Technical University Eindhoven,
Chairman—Skepsis Foundation, former vice-president of the International
Union of Pure and Applied Physics, former President of the Division on
Plasma Physics of the European Physical Society and former bureau member
of the Scientific Committee on Sun-Terrestrial Physics, Euvelwegen, the
Netherlands
- Jan-Erik Solheim, MSc (Astrophysics),
Professor, Institute of Physics, University of Tromsø, Norway (1971-2002),
Professor (emeritus), Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of
Oslo, Norway (1965-1970, 2002- present), climate specialties: sun and
periodic climate variations, scientific paper by Professor Solheim “Solen
varsler et kaldere tiår“, Baerum, Norway
- H. Leighton Steward, Master of Science
(Geology), Areas of Specialization: paleoclimates and empirical evidence
that indicates CO2 is not a significant driver of climate change,
Chairman, PlantsNeedCO2.org
and CO2IsGreen.org,
Chairman of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (geology,
archeology & anthropology) at SMU in Dallas, Texas, Boerne, TX, U.S.A.
- Arlin B. Super, PhD (Meteorology – University
of Wisconsin at Madison), former Professor of Meteorology at Montana State
University, retired Research Meteorologist, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,
Saint Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A.
- Edward (Ted) R. Swart, D.Sc. (physical
chemistry, University of Pretoria), M.Sc. and Ph.D. (math/computer
science, University of Witwatersrand). Formerly Director of the Gulbenkian
Centre, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor and Head of the
Department of Computer Science, University of Rhodesia and past President
of the Rhodesia Scientific Association. Set up the first radiocarbon
dating laboratory in Africa. Most recently, Professor in the Department of
Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo and Chair of
Computing and Information Science and Acting Dean at the University of
Guelph, Ontario, Canada, now retired in Kelowna British Columbia, Canada
- George H. Taylor, B.A. (Mathematics, U.C.
Santa Barbara), M.S. (Meteorology, University of Utah), Certified
Consulting Meteorologist, Applied Climate Services, LLC, Former State
Climatologist (Oregon), President, American Association of State
Climatologists (1998-2000), Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.
- J. E. Tilsley, P.Eng., BA Geol, Acadia
University, 53 years of climate and paleoclimate studies related to
development of economic mineral deposits, Aurora, Ontario, Canada
- Göran Tullberg, Civilingenjör i Kemi (equivalent
to Masters of Chemical Engineering), Co-author – The Climate, Science and
Politics (2009) (see here for a
review), formerly instructor of Organic Chemistry (specialization in
“Climate chemistry”), Environmental Control and Environmental Protection
Engineering at University in Växjö; Falsterbo, Sweden
- Brian Gregory Valentine, PhD, Adjunct
professor of engineering (aero and fluid dynamics specialization) at the
University of Maryland, Technical manager at US Department of Energy, for
large-scale modeling of atmospheric pollution, Technical referee for the
US Department of Energy’s Office of Science programs in climate and
atmospheric modeling conducted at American Universities and National Labs,
Washington, DC, U.S.A.
- Bas van Geel, PhD,
paleo-climatologist, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics,
Research Group Paleoecology and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Science,
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Gerrit J. van der Lingen, PhD (Utrecht
University), geologist and paleoclimatologist, climate change consultant,
Geoscience Research and Investigations, Nelson, New Zealand
- A.J. (Tom) van Loon, PhD, Professor of Geology
(Quaternary Geologyspecialism: Glacial Geology), Adam Mickiewicz
University, former President of the European Association of Science
Editors Poznan, Poland
- Fritz Vahrenholt,
B.S. (chemistry), PhD (chemistry), Prof. Dr., Professor of Chemistry,
University of Hamburg, Former Senator for environmental affairs of the
State of Hamburg, former CEO of REpower Systems AG
(wind turbines), Author of the book Die kalte Sonne: warum die
Klimakatastrophe nicht stattfindet (The Cold Sun: Why the Climate
Crisis Isn’t Happening”, Hamburg, Germany
- Michael G. Vershovsky, Ph.D. in meteorology
(macrometeorology, long-term forecasts, climatology), Senior Researcher,
Russian State Hydrometeorological University, works with, as he writes,
“Atmospheric Centers of Action (cyclones and anticyclones, such as
Icelandic depression, the South Pacific subtropical anticyclone, etc.).
Changes in key parameters of these centers strongly indicate that the
global temperature is influenced by these natural factors (not exclusively
but nevertheless)”, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Gösta Walin, PhD and Docent (theoretical
Physics, University of Stockholm), Professor Emeritus in oceanografi,
Earth Science Center, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
- Anthony Watts, ItWorks/IntelliWeather,
Founder, surfacestations.org,
Watts Up With That,
Chico, California, U.S.A.
- Carl Otto Weiss, Direktor und Professor at
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Visiting Professor at
University of Copenhagen, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Coauthor of
”Multiperiodic Climate Dynamics: Spectral Analysis of…“, Braunschweig,
Germany
- Forese-Carlo Wezel, PhD, Emeritus Professor of
Stratigraphy (global and Mediterranean geology, mass biotic extinctions
and paleoclimatology), University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
- Boris Winterhalter, PhD, senior marine
researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in
marine geology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- David E. Wojick, PhD, PE, energy and
environmental consultant, Technical Advisory Board member – Climate
Science Coalition of America, Star Tannery, Virginia, U.S.A.
- George T. Wolff, Ph.D., Principal Atmospheric
Scientist, Air Improvement Resource, Inc., Novi, Michigan, U.S.A.
- Thomas (Tom) Wysmuller –NASA (Ret) ARC, GSFC,
Hdq. - Meteorologist, Ogunquit, ME, U.S.A.
- Bob Zybach, PhD (Environmental Sciences,
Oregon State University), climate-related carbon sequestration research,
MAIS, B.S., Director, Environmental Sciences
Institute Peer review Institute, Cottage Grove, Oregon, U.S.A.
