A Who's Who of global warming skeptics (A-C)

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List of "global warming skeptics" in Wikipedia, with their qualifications (through letter "C"). The majority of skeptics fall into the following four categories:

1) Education in geology/geophysics (ties to oil industry), often from an "oil state".
2) Conservative politician with no science background
3) Conservative commentator with no science background
4) "Free marketer" who believes government should stay out of everyone's lives, regardless the consequences (no science background)

A few exceptions -- see:
Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatov
Sallie Baliunas
John Christy (believer; only disagrees with the seriousness of the problem)
Piers Corbyn

* Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatov
Russian Academy of Sciences
Abdusamatov has made statements that contradict basic principles of atmospheric physics that are widely accepted by other scientists
* Syun-Ichi Akasofu
professor of geophysics at University of Alaska, Fairbanks
* Claude Allègre
French politician and geochemist.
* American Association of Petroleum Geologists
* Bruce Anderson
United Kingdom conservative political columnist.
* Sallie Baliunas
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Published 2003 paper claiming warming was the result of solar activity
13 of the authors of the papers Baliunas and Soon cited refuted her interpretation of their work.
Half of the editorial board of Climate Research, the journal that published the paper, resigned in protest against what they felt was a failure of the peer review process on the part of the journal.
* Timothy F. Ball
In the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle the film credited Ball as attached to the University of Winnipeg's Department of Climatology. Blogger Kevin Grandia points out that the university has no such department. :rofl:
* Robert Balling
Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oklahoma in 1979.
* Fred Barnes (journalist)
Conservative commentator
* Joe Barton
Consultant for Atlantic Richfield Oil and Gas Co. before being elected to Congress in 1984.
* Glenn Beck
Conservative commentator
* Bruno Behrend
Conservative commentator
* David Bellamy
Hon. Prof. University of Central Queensland, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Systems
* Tom Bethell
Senior editor of the The American Spectator
Denies that HIV causes AIDS. :crazy:
* Roy Blunt
Republican politician from Missouri
* Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
Reader in Geography at the University of Hull
* Nigel Calder
British science writer
* Robert M. Carter
Former Director of Australia's Secretariat for the Ocean Drilling Program.
* Alan Caruba
public relations advisor, best known as a critic of environmentalism and Islam
* Ian Castles
Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics.
* Cato Institute
advocates policies that advance "individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.
* Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
ExxonMobil has contributed $90,000 to The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change since 1998.
* George V. Chilingar
Professor of civil and petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California
* John Christy
professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
convinced that human activities are a cause of the global warming that has been measured, he is "still a strong critic of scientists who make catastrophic predictions of huge increases in global temperatures and tremendous rises in sea levels."
* Ian Clark
professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa
* Climate Audit
Blog by Stephen McIntyre, former mining executive
* Competitive Enterprise Institute
CEI's stated belief is that consumers are best helped not by government regulation of commercial interests
* Cooler Heads Coalition
Updates to the Cooler Heads Coalition's website were done by the Competitive Enterprise Institute
* Philip Cooney
former energy industry lobbyist
* Piers Corbyn
British meteorologist. He is best known for his controversial claims of an ability to predict the weather up to one year in advance through the study of solar activity, specifically sunspots.
* Michael Crichton
In September 2005 Crichton testified at a Congressional hearing on climate change, having been called by Senator James Inhofe, a well-known disbeliever in global climate change (he's called global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people") to advise the Environment and Public Works Committee, despite Crichton having no professional expertise in the subject in question.

[Mabus]

1. This should go in the Research Forum too

K&R

[roguevalley]

2. The loser list. :)

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. David Bellamy is not an Australian engineering professor

He's a British (retired) botany professor, who used to broadcast nature programmes. He has been shown to be hopelessly misinformed about global warming, though (George Monbiot handed him his ass so effectively that I actually wondered if Bellamy isn't suffering from the early stages of dementia).

If I find the Wikipedia article, I'll correct it.

On edit: it does appear Central Queensland gave him an honorary professorship, but that's pretty misleading as to who he is, and what he did. He lectured in botany, principally at the University of Durham, and was a broadcaster.

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4. With all the references

I tried to give the skeptic the benefit of the doubt. I assumed someone with a degree in physical systems might have some knowledge of fluid dynamics and climatology, but apparently not any more than a nutty botanist with a big mouth.