Boris Winterhalter

Boris “Boba” Winterhalter Credentials Background Dr. Boris Winterhalter is a retired marine researcher of the Geological Survey of Finland, and former professor of marine geology at University of Helsinki. He operates three blogs (in Finnish). The first, Ilmasto on luonnostaan muuttuva (roughly translating […]

William Kininmonth

William Kininmonth Credentials Background William Kininmonth is a retired meteorologist and headed the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s national climate center for 12 years, although the bureau has pointed out that the center did not actually research climate change during his tenure. He is an adviser to several climate science denial groups. Kininmonth is the director […]

Howard Hayden

Howard Hayden Credentials Background Howard C. Hayden is a retired professor of physics at the University of Connecticut. He is the editor of The Energy Advocate, a monthly newsletter promoting energy and technology. According to […]

Gerrit van der Lingen

Gerrit van der Lingen Credentials Background Van der Lingen describes himself as a geologist/paleoclimatologist and climate change consultant. He is a founding member of The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, an organization of climate change skeptics. […]

David Wojick

David E. Wojick Credentials Background Wojick is a journalist and policy analyst. He holds a doctorate in epistemology, specializing in the field of Mathematical Logic and Conceptual Analysis. Wojick was a “scientific advisor” for a now-defunct Greening Earth Society (GES), a group […]

Peter Dietze

Peter Dietze Credentials Background Peter Dietze is an independent energy advisor from Bavaria, Germany. He is an electrical engineer. According to one profile, Dietze studied electrical and control engineering and his professional work was in “software development for power system control.” His interest in natural sciences, energy and energy politics “led to over ten years […]

Jack Barrett

Jack Barrett Credentials Background Barrett is a former chemistry researcher at King’s College in London. According to Barrett Bellamy Climate, his interest in climate change developed with the 1992 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]. “He became sceptical about climate modeling and what seemed to him the exaggerated claims emerging from the […]

Richard S. Courtney (deceased)

Richard S. Courtney Credentials According to SourceWatch there has been some confusion as to whether Richard S. Courtney holds an academic degree. In some cases he is referred to without any academic degree 2“The threat of climate change,” […]

Paavo Siitam

Paavo Siitam Credentials Background Paavo Siitam is a plant scientist and has been a teacher and chemist for the sugar industry. One profile lists him as a Marine Biology and Chemistry teacher in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. An archived profile with the NRSP lists him as an Agronomist with experience in soil chemistry, fertility, and microbiology. […]

Douglas Leahey

Douglas Leahey Credentials Background Douglas Leahey is an environmental consultant in Calgary. Leahey’s main focus has been in the area of gas flaring in the oil and gas sector. According to his resume, Leahey has been an expert witness for numerous oil companies such as Syncrude Canada Ltd, and Petro Canada on air quality issues […]