American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Background The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), or American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, is one of the richest and most influential think tanks in the U.S. having received significant funding from conservative foundations and large corporations. AEI’s areas of concern include foreign and domestic policy which includes the issue of […]
Roger Tattersall
Roger Tattersall Credentials Background Roger Tattersall, also known by his online persona โTallbloke,โ runs Tallbloke’s Talkshop, a skeptical blog set up in November 2009, around the time of the first release of hacked e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.1โThe Talkshop: second anniversary,โ Tallbloke’s Talkshop, November 29, 2011. Archived […]
Steve McIntyre
Stephen (Steve) George McIntyre Credentials Background Stephen McIntyre has been a long-time mining industry executive, mostly working on the โstock market sideโ of mining exploration deals. He published a blog called Climate Audit where he attempts to analyse in sometimes long and extensive detail the work of climate change scientists where he documents โstatistical mistakesโ […]
Global Warming Policy Foundation
Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Background The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a UK-based think tank founded by former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating what it describes as โextremely damaging and harmful policiesโ designed to mitigate climate change. The group was established on November 22, 2009, just three days after the first […]
David Whitehouse
David (Robert) Whitehouse Credentials Background David Robert Whitehouse is a scientist, writer, and broadcaster. He was BBC‘s Science correspondent from 1988 until 2006, and also served as the Science Editor for BBC News Online. Whitehouse has since criticized the BBC‘s climate change reporting as โevangelicalโ and โinconsistent,โ […]
American Tradition Institute
American Tradition Institute (ATI) Background **Note: The American Tradition Institute (ATI) has been renamed the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal). The American Tradition Institute was launched in Colorado in February 2009 as the nonprofit Western Tradition Institute, later changing its name to ATI. WTI, in turn, was a spinoff of the Western Tradition […]
Jan Veizer
Jan Veizer Credentials Background Jan Veizer is an emeritus professor of Geology at the University of Ottawa (Emeritus since April 2004) where he held the NSERC/Noranda/CIAR Research Chair in Earth Systems. From 1992 to 2004 he also served as the Director of the ‘Earth System Evolution Program’ of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). […]
Augusto Mangini
Augusto Mangini Background Augusto Mangini is a paleoclimatologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg in Germany where he also directs the Research Centre of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Mangini is one of the scientists listed in Senator James Inhofe’s list of โscientistsโ skeptical of climate change. Stance on Climate Change โIt is still […]
Arun Ahluwalia
Arun Ahluwalia Credentials Background Arun (Arundeep) Ahluwali is a professor in the geology department of Punjab University in Chandigarh, India. His areas include mining geology, hydrogeology, field geology, stratigraphy, remote sensing, sedimentology, and petroleum geology. According to his archived biography at an event […]
Nigel Calder
Nigel Calder (Deceased) Credentials Although Calder has been employed as a โScience Writer,โ he did not appear to have credentials as a scientist. Background Nigel Calder passed away in 2014. Calder served his apprenticeship as a science writer (not a scientist) on the original staff of the magazine New Scientist, […]
