Peter Dietze

Peter Dietze Credentials Background Peter Dietze is an independent energy advisor from Bavaria, Germany. He is an electrical engineer. According to one profile, Dietze studied electrical and control engineering and his professional work was in “software development for power system control.” His interest in natural sciences, energy and energy politics “led to over ten years […]

Jack Barrett

Jack Barrett Credentials Background Barrett is a former chemistry researcher at King’s College in London. According to Barrett Bellamy Climate, his interest in climate change developed with the 1992 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]. “He became sceptical about climate modeling and what seemed to him the exaggerated claims emerging from the […]

Richard S. Courtney

Richard S. Courtney Credentials According to SourceWatch there has been some confusion as to whether Richard S. Courtney holds an academic degree. In some cases he is referred to without any academic degree 2“The threat of climate change,” […]

Paavo Siitam

Paavo Siitam Credentials Background Paavo Siitam is a plant scientist and has been a teacher and chemist for the sugar industry. One profile lists him as a Marine Biology and Chemistry teacher in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. An archived profile with the NRSP lists him as an Agronomist with experience in soil chemistry, fertility, and microbiology. […]

Douglas Leahey

Douglas Leahey Credentials Background Douglas Leahey is an environmental consultant in Calgary. Leahey’s main focus has been in the area of gas flaring in the oil and gas sector. According to his resume, Leahey has been an expert witness for numerous oil companies such as Syncrude Canada Ltd, and Petro Canada on air quality issues […]

Art Robinson

Arthur (Art) B. Robinson Credentials Background Art Robinson is the founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM), which markets, among other things, a home-schooling kit for “parents concerned about socialism in the public schools” and books on how to survive nuclear war.1“Arthur B. Robinson: Professor of Chemistry,” Oregon Institute of Science and […]

George Taylor

George H. Taylor Credentials Background George Taylor is a past faculty member at Oregon State University. He has become a controversial figure in Oregon, where he previously used the title of “State Climatologist.” Although some profiles list Taylor as faculty member at Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, a list of COAS […]

Benny Peiser

Benny Josef Peiser Credentials Background Benny Peiser is a sports anthropologist/historian, and past Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology & Sport Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University.1 “Staff Profiles: Dr Benny Peiser – Senior Lecturer,” Liverpool John Moores University. Archived July 17, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/1dfhH Peiser describes himself as a “historian and anthropologist with particular research interest […]

Al Pekarek

Alfred (Al) Pekarek Credentials Background Alfred (Al) Pekarek is a former associate professor of geology at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesotta, and is a consulting geologist in the petroleum industry. According to a 2011 biographical note contained in a American Liberty Petroleum Corporation report, Pekarek had […]

Hugh W. Ellsaesser

Hugh W. Ellsaesser Credentials Background Hugh W. Ellsaesser, born in 1920, is a meteorologist by training and retired “guest scientist” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ellsaesser previously served for twenty-one years as a weather officer in the US Air Force. He is […]