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Joanne Nova

Joanne Nova Credentials Background Joanne Nova (real name Joanne Codling) has been described as “one of Australia’s more prominent ‘climate change sceptics’.” She believes that carbon may have “little effect” on the atmosphere. 2“JO NOVA’S BIG CLAIM: HASN’T ANYONE CONSIDERED IF CO2’S EFFECT IS LIMITED?” WatchingtheDeniers, March […]

Nir Shaviv

Nir J. Shaviv Credentials Background Nir J. Shaviv is an associate professor of Physics at the Racah Institute at the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He contends that the sun’s rays are the primary driver of climate change. […]

Harrison Schmitt

Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt Credentials Background Dr. Harrison Hagan “Jack” Schmitt is a geologist who worked as a scientist-astronaut with NASA from 1965 to 1975. He is noted as being the last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon.1“Biographical Data: Harrison H. Schmitt (Ph.D.),” Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Archived […]

Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen (Deceased) Credentials Background Roger W. Cohen was a former Manager of Strategic Planning and Programs at ExxonMobil Corporation, where he retired in 2003. Cohen passed away in September 2016. 2“Vale Roger Cohen PhD (updated),” The Climate Skeptics Party, September 13, 2016. Archived March […]

Jan Breslow

Jan L. Breslow Credentials Background Jan L. Breslow is a physician and professor at Rockefeller University, specializing in cardiovascular disease. He is a former president of the American Heart Association. Breslow was one of 16 scientists to sign a January 2012 Op-Ed […]

Antonino Zichichi

Antonino Zichichi Credentials Background Antonino Zichichi is an Italian physicist who specializes in the area of nuclear physics. He was president of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare from 1977 up to 1982 and is currently an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Bologna.1“Professor Antonino Zichichi’s Short Biography,” Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for […]

Claude Allègre

Claude J. Allègre Credentials Background Claude Allègre, 75 years old, is a French geochemist and politician. He is a former minister of the French Socialist Party, and does academic work at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) — Institute […]

Michael Kelly

Michael Joseph Kelly Credentials Ph.D., solid state physics, Cambridge (1974). M.Sc., Mathematics and Physics, University of Wellington, New Zealand. FR.Eng.3“Board of Trustees,” Global Warming Policy Foundation. Archived October […]

Burt Rutan

Elbert Leander “Burt” Rutan Credentials Rutan describes his work with climate science as one of his “Hobbies.” Background Burt Rutan is an American aerospace engineer who became famous for designing the Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around […]

Rodney Nichols

Rodney W. Nichols (Deceased) Credentials Background Rodney W. Nichols was an applied physicist. He was past President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 2001. He passed away on August 30, 2018 at 80 years old.1Matt Schudel. “Rodney W. Nichols, who led N.Y. Academy of Sciences during difficult time, dies […]