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Keith D. Hage

Keith D. Hage Credentials Background Keith D. Hage is a retired professor from the University of Alberta’s department of Earth and Atmospheric Science. Stance on Climate Change Hage is a signatory to an open letter claiming that “’Climate change is real’ is a meaningless phrase used […]

Timothy F. Ball (Tim Ball)

Timothy F. Ball (Tim Ball) Credentials Background Tim Ball was a professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996. He is a prolific speaker and writer in the skeptical science community.1 “CURRICULUM VITAE: Dr Timothy F Ball” (PDF), drtimball.com. Last modified March 8, 2011. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. He […]

Sallie Baliunas

Sallie Baliunas Credentials Background Sallie Baliunas is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division and formerly Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. She is an Adjunct Professor at Tennessee State University and past contributing editor to the World Climate Report. Baliunas is associated with many […]

Paul Copper

Paul Copper Credentials Background Copper is a Professor Emeritus of Paleobiology at the Laurentian University Earth Sciences department. Copper was an Allied Expert to the now-defunct Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP), and the organization described Copper as an “expert on pre-historic global climate patterns.” Stance on […]

Vincent Gray

Vincent Gray (Deceased) Credentials Background Vincent Gray was a chemist based in New Zealand and a retired coal industry researcher, climate author, and founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. Gray passed away in June 2018 at 96 years old.1 “Vale Dr Vincent Gray,” The Australian Climate Sceptics Blog, June 19, 2018. Archived July […]

Boris Winterhalter

Boris “Boba” Winterhalter Credentials Background Dr. Boris Winterhalter is a retired marine researcher of the Geological Survey of Finland, and former professor of marine geology at University of Helsinki. He operates three blogs (in Finnish). The first, Ilmasto on luonnostaan muuttuva (roughly translating […]

William Kininmonth

William Kininmonth Credentials Background William Kininmonth is a retired meteorologist and headed the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s national climate center for 12 years, although the bureau has pointed out that the center did not actually research climate change during his tenure. He is an adviser to several climate science denial groups. Kininmonth is the director […]

Howard Hayden

Howard Hayden Credentials Background Howard C. Hayden is a retired professor of physics at the University of Connecticut. He is the editor of The Energy Advocate, a monthly newsletter promoting energy and technology. According to […]

Gerrit van der Lingen

Gerrit van der Lingen Credentials Background Van der Lingen describes himself as a geologist/paleoclimatologist and climate change consultant. He is a founding member of The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, an organization of climate change skeptics. […]

David Wojick

David E. Wojick Credentials Background Wojick is a journalist and policy analyst. He holds a doctorate in epistemology, specializing in the field of Mathematical Logic and Conceptual Analysis. Wojick was a “scientific advisor” for a now-defunct Greening Earth Society (GES), a group […]