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 Chancellorย Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating what it describes as โ€œextremely damaging and harmful policiesโ€ designed to mitigate climate change.ย The group was established on November 22, 2009, just three days after the first […]

David Whitehouse

David (Robert)ย 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 โ€œevangelicalโ€ and โ€œinconsistent,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.ย  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 โ€œscientistsโ€ skeptical of climate change. Stance on Climate Change โ€œIt 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 โ€œScience 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, […]

Chris Landsea

Chris Landsea Credentials Background Christopher Landsea is the Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center, a part of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Documents released by the Government Oversight Committee 1โ€œRep. Waxman Releases Internal Commerce Department E-Mails on Climate Change,โ€ Committee on Oversight and Government […]

Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg E. Easterbrook Credentials Background Gregg Easterbrook is a writer, lecturer, and a senior editor of The New Republic. He was a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Gregg Easterbrook is no longer a skeptic of man-made climate change. In 2006, Easterbrook changed […]

Anthony Lupo

Anthony Lupo Credentials Background Anthony Lupo is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has also been a speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s International Conference on Climate (ICCC). According to leaked documents Anthony Lupo receives $750 per month from the Heartland Institute. Stance on Climate Change Lupo agrees that temperatures have […]