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Ross McKitrick
Professor of Economics, University of Guelph
Ross R. McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. Heis the author of Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy published by the University of Toronto Press in 2010. He has been actively studying climate change, climate policy and environmental economics since the mid-1990s. He built and published one of the first national-scale Computable General Equilibrium models for analysing the effect of carbon taxes on the Canadian economy in the 1990s. His academic publications have appeared in many top journals including the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Journal of Geophysical Research, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Energy Economics, Journal of Forecasting, Climatic Change, Climate Change Economics and Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. He has also written policy analyses for numerous Canadian and international think tanks. Professor McKitrick appears frequently in Canadian and international media and is a regular contributor to the Financial Post Comment page. In addition to his economics research his background in applied statistics has led him to collaborative work across a wide range of topics in the physical sciences including paleoclimate reconstruction, malaria transmission, surface temperature measurement and climate model evaluation. Professor McKitrick has made many invited academic presentations around the world, and has testified before the US Congress and committees of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. Professor McKitrick is widely-cited in Canada and around the world as an expert on global warming and environmental policy issues. He has been interviewed by Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, the CBC, BBC, ITV, Fox News, Bloomberg, Global TV, CTV, and others. His research has been discussed in such places as Nature, Science, The Economist, the MIT Technology Review, The National Post, The Globe and Mail and in a front page article in the The Wall Street Journal (Feb 14 2005).… Read more -
Ian Clark
Ian Clark holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo and a doctorate inEarth Sciences from the Université de Paris-Sud. Dr. Clark is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He conducts research on past climates and environmental change in the Arctic. His current programs involve field work with students in the Yukon Territory and on the Mars environment analogue site on Devon Island in Nunavut, which is supported by the Canadian Space Agency. Dr. Clark teaches courses on Quaternary Geology and Climate Change and on Groundwater Geochemistry. Further, he is director of the G.G. Hatch Isotope Laboratory, an internationally renowned facility supporting research in Earth and environmental science.… Read more -
Joseph D'Aleo
Joseph D'Aleo has over three decades of experience as a meteorologist and climatologist. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees inMeteorology from the University of Wisconsin and was in the doctoral program at New York University. Mr. D'Aleo was a Professor of Meteorology at the college level for over eight years (six years at Lyndon State College in Vermont) and was a cofounder and the first Director of Meteorology at the cable TV Weather Channel. From 1989-2004, Mr. D'Aleo was Chief Meteorologist at WSI and Senior Editor for WSI's popular Intellicast.com web site. Mr. D'Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow and Councilor of the American Meteorological Society. He has served as member and Chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. He has authored and/or presented numerous papers focused on advanced applications enabled by new technologies and the role of natural solar and ocean cycles on weather and climate. His published works include a resource guide for Greenwood Publishing on El Niño and La Niña. Mr. D'Aleo is currently Executive Director for ICECAP, an organization and international web site that will bring together the world's best climate scientists to shed light on the true, complex nature of climate change. He was also a contributing author to the Non-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) Report.… Read more -
Chris Essex
Christopher Essex is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. In 2003, he was invited to teachon the thermodynamics of photon and neutrino radiation at the UNESCO advanced school in Udine, Italy. He is also known for work on anomalous diffusion, especially on superdiffusion and extraordinary differential equations. In connection with that, he is codiscoverer with K.H. Hoffmann of the superdiffusion entropy production paradox. He has also worked on applications of dynamical systems theory, such as chaos cryptography, and recently the limits of computation, among other applications of mathematics. By invitation, he has been organizing annual sessions for the World Federation of Scientists in Erice, Sicily on different aspects of the limits of climate forecasting. He has cochaired those sessions with Antonino Zichichi of CERN and Nobel Laureate T.D. Lee. He held an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship in the Canadian Climate Centre's general circulation modelling group (1982-84). He also held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in Frankfurt, Germany (1986-87). In 2002-03 he was a sabbaticant at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, supported by a Danish National Bank foreign academic's program. He is an award-winning teacher and a recipient, with Ross McKitrick, of the $10,000 Donner Prize for 2002, for the book Taken by Storm: the Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming-now in its second edition. That book was also a finalist for the 2002 Canadian Science Writers' Book Award. In November 2007 he was a panelist and featured speaker at the Chicago Humanities Festival on the theme of climate angst. He is also coauthor with Robert Adams of Calculus: A Complete Course, 7th edition. In December 2007 he was a guest of the Vatican. In 2007 he was commissioned by the Queen to serve on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.… Read more -
Craig Idso
Craig D. Idso is the founder and former President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and GlobalChange and currently serves as Chairman of the Center's board of directors. Dr. Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, where he studied as one of a small group of University Graduate Scholars. Dr. Idso has been involved in the global warming debate for many years and has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. Since 1998, he has been the editor and a chief contributor to the online magazine CO2 Science < www.co2science.org >. Dr Idso has also produced three documentaries, Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Crisis: Reality or Illusion?, Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Crisis: Avoiding Plant and Animal Extinctions, and Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Crisis: Doing the Right Thing , and he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges. Dr. Idso is a former Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.… Read more -
Madhav Khandekar
Madhav Khandekar holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, an M.Sc. in Statistics from Pune University, India, and both M.S.and Ph.D. degrees in Meteorology from Florida State University. Dr. Khandekar has worked in the fields of climatology, meteorology, and oceanography for more than 51 years and has published well over 125 papers, reports, book reviews, and scientific commentaries as well as a book on Ocean Surface Wave Analysis and Modeling, published in 1989. Dr. Khandekar spent about 20 years as a Research Scientist with Environment Canada (now retired) and has previously taught meteorology and related subjects at the University of Alberta in Edmonton (1971-74) and for two United Nations training programs: Barbados, West Indies (1975-77, World Meteorological Organization lecturer in meteorology) and Qatar, Arabian Gulf (1980-82, ICAO expert in aeronautical meteorology). He has published research on surface waves, Arctic sea ice, ENSO/monsoon and global weather, numerical weather prediction, boundary-layer meteorology, and tropical cyclones. He presently serves on the editorial board of the international journal Natural Hazards (Kluwer, Netherlands) and was an editor of Climate Research (Germany) from 2003-05. Dr. Khandekar acted as a guest editor for a special issue of the journal Natural Hazards on global warming and extreme weather, published in June 2003. He has been a member of the American Meteorological Society since 1966, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society since 1970, and the American Geophysical Union since 1986.… Read more -
William Kininmonth
William Kininmonth has a B.Sc. from the University of Western Australia, an M.Sc. from Colorado State University, and an M.Admin.from Monash University. He is a consulting climatologist who worked with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for 38 years in weather forecasting, research, and applied studies. For 12 years until 1998 he was head of its National Climate Centre. Mr. Kininmonth was Project Manager of an Australian government project of assistance to the Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah (1982-85). Mr. Kininmonth was Australian delegate to the World Meteorological Organization's Commission for Climatology (1982-98) and served two periods on its Advisory Working Group (1985-89 and 1993-97). He participated in Expert Working Groups of the Commission and carried out regional training activities in relation to climate data management and climate monitoring. Between 1998 and 2002 he consulted to the Commission, including coordinating an international review of the 1997-98 El Niño event and preparation of a WMO publication, Climate into the 21st Century . He was a member of Australia's delegations to the preparatory meetings for the Ministerial Declaration of the Second World Climate Conference (1990) and to the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change (1991-92). Mr. Kininmonth is author of the book Climate Change: A Natural Hazard (2004).… Read more -
Richard Willson
Richard C. Willson holds a doctoral degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of California-Los Angeles and B.S. and M.S.degrees in Physics from the University of Colorado. He is a Senior Research Scientist in the employ of Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research. His work in this field, which began at the University of Colorado and continued at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Columbia University, has been in the area of development of state-of-the-art solar irradiance measurement techniques for both total and spectral irradiance. He developed prism, grating, and interference spectroscopy instrumentation for spectral observations in both laboratory and flight environments. He developed the Active Cavity Radiometer instrumentation for total irradiance observations and has conducted flight 15 experiments on balloons, sounding rockets, the Space Shuttle, and satellite platforms. He has served as the Principal Investigator for the Solar Maximum Mission ACRIM I, Space Shuttle Spacelab I and Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS) ACRIM's, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) ACRIM II and EOS/ACRIM III experiments.… Read more