Scientists questioning the accuracy of IPCC
climate projections
These scientists have
said that it is not possible to project global climate accurately enough to
justify the ranges projected for temperature and sea-level rise over the next
century. They may not conclude specifically that the current IPCC projections
are either too high or too low, but that the projections are likely to be
inaccurate due to inadequacies of current global climate modeling.
·
Judith Curry, Professor and former chair of the School of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia
Institute of Technology.[24][25][26][27]
·
Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus of the School of Natural
Sciences, Institute for Advanced
Study; Fellow of the Royal
Society.[28][29]
·
Steven E. Koonin, theoretical physicist and director of the
Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University.[30][31]
·
Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan emeritus professor of
atmospheric science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and member of the National
Academy of Sciences.[32][33][34][35]
·
Craig Loehle, ecologist and chief scientist at the National Council for Air
and Stream Improvement.[36][37][38][39][40][41][42]
·
Ross McKitrick, Professor of Economics and CBE Chair in
Sustainable Commerce, University of Guelph.[43][44]
·
Nils-Axel Mörner, retired head of the Paleogeophysics and
Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University, former chairman of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and
Coastal Evolution (1999–2003).[48][49]
·
Garth Paltridge, retired chief research scientist, CSIRO
Division of Atmospheric Research and retired director of the Institute of the
Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, visiting fellow Australian
National University.[50][51]
·
Roger A. Pielke, Jr., professor of environmental studies at the
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University
of Colorado at Boulder.[52][53]
·
Tom Quirk, corporate director of biotech companies and former board
member of the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian conservative
think-tank.[54]
·
Denis Rancourt, former professor of physics at University of Ottawa, research scientist in condensed matter
physics, and in environmental and soil science.[55][56][57][58]
·
Peter Stilbs, professor of physical chemistry at Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm.[60][61]
·
Hendrik Tennekes, retired director of research, Royal
Netherlands Meteorological Institute.[64][65]
Scientists arguing that global warming is
primarily caused by natural processes
Graph showing the
ability with which a global climate model is able to reconstruct the historical
temperature record,
and the degree to which those temperature changes can be decomposed into
various forcing factors. It shows the effects of five forcing factors: greenhouse gases, man-made sulfate emissions, solar variability, ozone changes, and volcanic emissions.[71]
These scientists have
said that the observed warming is more likely to be attributable to natural
causes than to human activities. Their views on climate change are usually
described in more detail in their biographical articles.
·
Khabibullo Abdusamatov, astrophysicist at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of
Sciences[72][73]
·
Timothy Ball, historical climatologist, and retired professor of geography
at the University of Winnipeg[77][78][79]
·
Chris de Freitas, associate professor, School of Geography,
Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland[82][83]
·
David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester[84][85]
·
William Happer, physicist specializing in optics and
spectroscopy; emeritus professor, Princeton University[88][89]
·
Wibjörn Karlén, professor emeritus of geography and geology
at the University of Stockholm.[92][93]
·
William
Kininmonth, meteorologist,
former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for
Climatology[94][95]
·
David Legates, associate professor of geography and
director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware[96][97]
·
Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil
Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa[100][101]
·
Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology
at Carleton University in Canada.[102][103]
·
Arthur B. Robinson, American politician, biochemist and former
faculty member at the University
of California, San Diego[106][107]
·
Murry Salby, atmospheric scientist, former professor at Macquarie University and University of Colorado[108][109]
·
Nir Shaviv, professor of physics focusing on astrophysics and climate
science at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem[115][116]
·
Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia[117][118][119][120]
·
Roy Spencer, meteorologist; principal research
scientist, University
of Alabama in Huntsville[123][124]
·
George H. Taylor, retired director of the Oregon Climate
Service at Oregon State University[127][128]
Scientists arguing that the cause of global
warming is unknown - These scientists have
said that no principal cause can be ascribed to the observed rising
temperatures, whether man-made or natural.
·
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding
director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of
Alaska Fairbanks.[131][132]
·
Claude Allègre, French politician; geochemist, emeritus
professor at Institute of Geophysics (Paris).[133][134]
·
John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth
System Science Center at the University
of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to severalIPCC reports.[139][140][141]
·
Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los
Alamos National Laboratory.[142][143]
·
Keith E. Idso, botanist, former adjunct professor of
biology at Maricopa
County Community College District and the vice president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global
Change[148][149]
·
Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at
the University of Bologna and president of the World
Federation of Scientists.[150][151]
Scientists arguing that global warming will have
few negative consequences - These
scientists have said that projected rising temperatures will be of little
impact or a net positive for society or the environment.
·
Indur M. Goklany, science and technology policy analyst for
the United States Department of the
Interior[152][153][154]
·
Craig D. Idso, faculty researcher, Office of
Climatology, Arizona State
University and founder of
the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global
Change[155][156]
·
Sherwood B. Idso, former research physicist, USDA Water Conservation Laboratory, and
adjunct professor, Arizona State
University[157][158]
·
Patrick Michaels, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and retired research professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia[159][160]
Deceased scientists - This section includes deceased scientists who
would otherwise be listed in the prior sections.
·
August H.
"Augie" Auer Jr. (1940–2007), retired New
Zealand MetService meteorologist
and past professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wyoming[161]
·
Reid Bryson (1920–2008), emeritus professor of atmospheric and oceanic
sciences, University
of Wisconsin-Madison.[162]
·
Robert M. Carter (1942–2016), former head of the School
of Earth Sciences at James Cook University[163][164]
·
William M. Gray (1929–2016), professor emeritus and head
of the Tropical Meteorology
Project, Department of
Atmospheric Science, Colorado State
University[165][166]
·
Robert Jastrow (1925–2008), American astronomer, physicist, cosmologist and leading NASA scientist who, together with Fred Seitz and William Nierenberg, established the George C. Marshall
Institute[167][168][169]
·
Harold ("Hal") Warren Lewis (1923–2011), emeritus professor of physics and former department chairman at
the University
of California, Santa Barbara.[170]
·
Frederick Seitz (1911–2008), solid-state physicist, former president of the National
Academy of Sciences and
co-founder of the George C. Marshall
Institute in 1984.[162][171]
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