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Alexandre Aguiar

Alexandre Amaral de Aguiar Credentials Background Alexandre Aguiar is the Meteorologist and forecaster for the MetSul Weather Center of Ulbra TV in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is a contributor to the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP), a website promoting climate change skepticism. Aguair has quoted fellow climate change skeptic Victor Manuel Velasco […]

Gerhard Gerlich

Gerhard Gerlich Credentials Background Gerhard Gerlich teaches Mathematical Physics at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina (Institut für Mathematische Physik) in Braunschweig, Germany. Gerlich co-wrote a 2007 paper titled “Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within […]

Robert (Bob) C. Shoup

Robert (Bob) C. Shoup Credentials Background Bob Shoup is a Petroleum Geologist and consultant for the oil and gas industry. Shoup worked for Shell Oil for over eighteen years, and has discovered or helped to discover more than 100 million barrels equivalent (MMBeq) over his career.1“A review and technical summary of the AAPG Hedberg Research […]

Bruno Wiskel

Bruno Wiskel Credentials Background Bruno Wiskel, better known as “The Prosperous Farmer,” is a public speaker with a background in geology. He hosts speeches, workshops, and seminars on farming, woodlot management, negotiating pipeline construction on private land, and global warming. From “The Sky Is Not Falling” pamphlet (PDF): “Bruno Wiskel Graduated from University of Alberta […]

Brian Sussman

Brian Sussman Credentials *The AMS Seal of Approval is a discontinued credential that does not require a bachelor’s or higher degree in atmospheric science or meteorology to attain it. **Note that while Sussman states that he attended the […]

Bob Foster

Bob Foster Credentials Background Bob Foster is a founding director and board member of the Lavosier Group in Australia. Foster is a “Adelaide University engineer by qualification, a geoscientist with the Shell Group by experience, and latterly was GM Marketing at BHP Petroleum.1“IPCC’s Third Assessment Report: Too Much ‘Imagination Block’” (PDF), The Lavosier Group, April, […]

Barry Brill

Barry Brill Credentials Background Barry Brill is a New Zealand barrister and solicitor and the former NZ Minister of Science & Technology and Minister of Energy. He is currently chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition is a group founded by a group of climate skeptics including Vincent […]

Ken Haapala

Ken Haapala Credentials Background Ken Haapala is the President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and an expert at The Heartland Institute. He has also been a regular contributor to the Heartland Institute’s Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) reports.1“The Week That Was: 2016-05-14 (May 14, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP […]

Nicola Scafetta

Nicola Scafetta Credentials Background Nicola Scafetta is a research scientist at Duke University Physics Department. He is known for proposing a phenomenological theory of climate change, claiming that oscillations induced by solar changes and other astronomical influences can affect climate. According to his theory, which he presented to the EPA in a presentation titled “Climate […]

John Nothdurft

Profile image of John Nothdurft speaking at the Heartland Institute’s 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC12), screenshot via YouTube. John Nothdurft Credentials Background John Nothdurft is the Heartland Institute‘s Government Relations Director, and previously served as a legislative specialist on budget, tax, and tobacco policy. Prior to joining Heartland John was the National Press […]