Leadership
Leadership
CO2 Coalition Founders
Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen
About The Founder
Co-Founder of the CO2 Coalition, Roger W. Cohen was a highly regarded physicist with major contributions to materials science and industrial management. He passed away on September 10, 2016.
After receiving his B.S. in Physics from MIT, Roger Cohen obtained MS and PhD in Physics from Rutgers and completed the Executive Program at the Harvard Business School.
Dr. Cohen spent 16 years at GE (originally the RCA) Laboratories in Princeton where he successfully demonstrated the first germanium-silicon thermoelectric power generator. This technology subsequently powered a series of outer solar system exploration spacecraft: Voyager (launched 1977), Galileo (launched 1989), Cassini (launched 1999), and New Horizons Pluto Mission (launched 2006). The oldest power units in these spacecraft are approaching their 40th year of service. He was a member of the team that successfully developed and commercialized the world’s first commercial 100,000+ Gauss superconducting magnet, a major breakthrough in the industrial application of superconductivity. Collaborating with Dr. Curtis R. Carlson, he developed an information theoretic description of the human visual system and associated software that simulates the human ability to perceive differences in displayed images. This work led to many commercial pattern recognition and image quality applications, and several awards, including the first Otto Schade Prize for an outstanding scientific achievement in the advancement of functional performance and image quality of information displays, and a special Emmy award for improved high definition television.
Moving to Exxon Corporate Research Laboratories in 1978, Dr. Cohen organized and built the first research laboratory in theory and modeling at Exxon Corporation. He became Laboratory Director and then Senior Director of Exxon Corporate Research in 1984, with responsibility for half of the basic research activities in the corporation.
In the late 1980s Dr. Cohen turned to technology development. He formed and led an Innovation Group to develop and commercialize technology ideas for retail marketing. His team demonstrated the world’s first vehicle recognition/payment technology in a retail fuel setting, evolving into the current SpeedPass® system. Becoming Manager of Research Planning and Programs, Dr. Cohen initiated and deployed new strategies for key technology assets in energy, leading to the development of new high strength steels for gas pipelines, inter-corporate partnerships to advance fuel cells for transportation applications, novel technologies to find and produce hydrocarbon resources, and technologies for environmental bioremediation. He established and led the first-in-industry competitive technology intelligence function and developed and implemented program-planning systems for new science knowledge assets. While at Exxon, Dr. Cohen initiated and led the only industrial research activity in basic research on climate change. His Exxon team participated in the worldwide scientific efforts to understand climate better, and they were lead authors of key chapters of major IPCC reports. Having more time to study details of climate science after retirement, he became increasingly skeptical that increasing CO2 levels from human activities would be harmful. In the last few years of his life Dr. Cohen was convinced that more CO2 would benefit the Earth. He was a founding member of the CO2 Coalition and served on its Board.
Dr. Cohen was a founding member of the APS Topical Group on the Physics of Climate (GPC). His work, as a member of GPC, demonstrated that he was a force for getting at the truth. A source of tremendous integrity, he was an uncompromising believer in the principle that “Honesty must be regarded as the cornerstone of ethics in science.” http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/02_2.cfm)
Dr. Cohen had approximately 50 publications and five US patents in the areas of materials, electronic devices, energy, the human visual system, and technology management. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served on Visiting Committees in the physics departments at the University of California at San Diego and the University of Texas at Austin.
William Happer
William Happer
About The Director/Member/Founder
Co-Founder and Chair of the CO2 Coalition, Dr. William Happer, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, is a specialist in modern optics, optical and radiofrequency spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, radiation propagation in the atmosphere, and spin-polarized atoms and nuclei.
Dr. Happer received a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of North Carolina in l960 and the PhD degree in Physics from Princeton University in l964. He began his academic career in 1964 at Columbia University as a member of the research and teaching staff of the Physics Department. While serving as a Professor of Physics he also served as Co-Director of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory from 1971 to 1976, and Director from 1976 to 1979. In l980 he joined the faculty at Princeton University. On August 5, 1991 he was appointed Director of Energy Research in the Department of Energy by President George Bush. While serving in that capacity under Secretary of Energy James Watkins, he oversaw a basic research budget of some $3 billion, which included much of the federal funding for high energy and nuclear physics, materials science, magnetic confinement fusion, environmental and climate science, the human genome project, and other areas.
He remained at the DOE until May 31, 1993 to help the Clinton Administration during the transition period. He was reappointed Professor of Physics at Princeton University on June 1, 1993, and named Eugene Higgens Professor of Physics and Chair of the University Research Board from 1995 to 2005. From 2003 until his retirement in 2014, he held the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Chair of Physics.
From 1987 to 1990 he served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of JASON, a group of scientists and engineers who advise agencies of the Federal Government on matters of defense, intelligence, energy policy and other technical problems. He was a trustee of the MITRE Corporation from 1993 to 2011, he is the Chair of the Board of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the Chair of the Board of the Marshall Institute. From 2002 to 2006 he chaired of the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Improvised Explosive Devices that supported the Joint Improvised Explosive Devices Defeat Organization of the Department of Defense. He was a co-founder in 1994 of Magnetic Imaging Technologies Incorporated (MITI), a small company specializing in the use of laser polarized noble gases for magnetic resonance imaging. He invented the sodium guidestar that is used in astronomical adaptive optics to correct for the degrading effects of atmospheric turbulence.
From September 2018 to September 2019, Dr. Happer served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council.
He has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1966, an Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1976, the 1997 Broida Prize and the 1999 Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, and the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in 2000.
Rodney W. Nichols
Rodney W. Nichols
About The Founder
Former Vice President and co-founder of the CO2 Coalition, Rodney W. Nichols was President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences (1992 to 2001), Scholar-in-Residence at the Carnegie Corporation of New York (1990-1992), and Vice President and Executive Vice President of The Rockefeller University (1970-1990), with physicist Frederick Seitz and geneticist Joshua Lederberg. Earlier he was an R&D manager in the aerospace industry and a special assistant in Office of the Secretary of Defense. He was appointed in 2013 to the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University.
A Harvard graduate and physicist, he was co-author of two books and many papers. He has written on: research strategy; national security; international scientific cooperation; K-12 education; economic development; philanthropy for S&T; and ethical issues in R&D. He spoke at the U.S.-Japan “Innovation Summit” (Nogoya 10/05), at India’s “R&D-Summit” (New Delhi 11/05), on “China, India, and US Science and Technology” (Bangalore 2008), and “Environment for Innovation” (Morocco 7/11). A National Sigma Xi Lecturer, he spoke at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Duke, and Rockefeller Universities, and in Bangalore, Beijing, Delhi, Chennai, Shanghai, Lima, Rabat, and Osaka, among others, and interviewed by CBS, Fox, Time, NPR, and NY Times.
Mr. Nichols led activities conducted in China, Japan, India, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. He was on the Board of Advisors to Foreign Affairs, and co-chaired the Japan-U.S. Cooperative Science Program of the National Science Foundation. Mr. Nichols served on U.S. government delegations for negotiations on nuclear and chemical arms control, on technology transfer, and on capacity building in developing countries.
Appointed to the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government (1989-1994), Mr. Nichols was principal author of the Commission’s January 1992 report entitled Science and Technology in U.S. International Affairs. He was vice chair and co-principal author for the Commission’s December 1992 report on Partnerships for Global Development. He co-authored chapters on “Science and Technology in North America” for UNESCO’s biennial World Science Report (1994, 1996, and 1998), prepared the entry on “Science and Technology” for Oxford’s Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (1997), and chaired a project of the Council on Foreign Relations on Technology Policy in Managing Global Warming (2001). He co-edited, and wrote the closing analysis for Technology in Society on “S&T in China, India, and the US” (Aug 2008). He contributed chapters on S&T in Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy, Wiley, 2007, and co-authored “OSTP 2.0,” a study of the White House Science Office, Woodrow Wilson Center, Nov 2008.
Mr. Nichols has advised the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; State, Defense, and Energy Departments; NIH; NSF; Peace Corps; UN; Congressional Office of Technology Assessment; and the National Academies of Science and Engineering. He has given Congressional testimony on both civilian and defense R&D.
His private sector consulting included the research laboratory of GTE, Shell Technology Ventures, and Gotham Orient LLC.
He most recently served on The Rockefeller University Council, and on the boards of the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, CRDF Global, Manhattan Institute, Federation of American Scientists, and the Alliance For Global Good. Mr. Nichols gave invited testimony in 2007 to the bi-partisan HELP Commission recommending reforms for US foreign assistance. He was a founding judge on the selection panel for the Weizmann Institute’s Women in Science Award and served on the 2005-07 National Innovation Initiative of the Council on Competitiveness. Earlier he served on the boards of the American University of Beirut, Christopher Reeve Foundation, the Critical Technologies Institute (RAND), and ALS Association. He has been an advisor to the Lounsbery Foundation, Simons Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Woodrow Wilson Center, among others.
Elected a Fellow of the AAAS and of the New York Academy of Sciences, Mr. Nichols was a member of the American Physical Society. He was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, Sigma Xi, and World Innovation Foundation. He was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Distinguished and Meritorious Civilian Service (1970), the Distinguished Patriot Award of the Sons of the Revolution (1996), and an honorary Doctor of Science by Cedar Crest College (2001). He was a member of the Harvard Club, Century Association, and Cosmos Club.
Mr. Nichols passed away in New York City on August 30, 2018.
CO2 Coalition Board of Directors
Jan Breslow
Jan Breslow
About This Director
Fredrick Henry Leonhardt Professor Rockefeller University; Head Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism; Senior Physician Rockefeller Hospital.
Dr. Breslow has done pioneering work on the genetics of heart disease. He has served as President of the American Heart Association and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
John Clauser
John Clauser
Dr. John F. Clauser is the recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. He received the award, along with two others, for work done in the 1970s that showed “quantum entanglement” allowed particles such as photons, effectively, to interact at great distances, seemingly to require communication exceeding the speed of light.
Speculating doubtfully on the “entanglement" phenomenon 40 years before Dr. Clauser’s seminal 1972 experiment, Albert Einstein referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.” The late distinguished physicist Dr. Edwin Jaynes said Dr. Clauser’s work “will surely go down as one of the most incredible intellectual achievements in the history of science.”
Dr. Clauser has criticized the awarding of the 2021 Nobel Prize for work in the development of computer models predicting global warming and told President Biden that he disagreed with his climate policies. Dr. Clauser has developed a climate model that adds a new significant dominant process to existing models. The process involves the visible light reflected by cumulus clouds that cover, on average, half of the Earth. Existing models greatly underestimate this cloud feedback, which provides a very powerful, dominant thermostatic control of the Earth’s temperature.
Dr. Clauser received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1964 from Caltech. In 1966, he earned a Master of Arts in physics as well as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1969 from Columbia University. From 1969 to 1996 he worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2010. Additional details can be found at https://www.johnclauser.com/.
Bruce Everett
Bruce Everett
About The Director
Bruce M. Everett, PhD, is a specialist in global oil markets and international energy and environmental policy. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and an MA, MALD and PhD from The Fletcher School. After starting his career in the International Affairs Office of the U.S. Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies between 1974 and 1980, he worked as an Executive for the ExxonMobil Corporation. His energy industry experience includes strategic planning, industry analysis, and forecasting; marketing; government relations; coal mining; energy supply management; electric power operations in Hong Kong; business development in China; natural gas project development in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America; as well as commercialization of advanced gas to liquids technology. He retired from ExxonMobil in 2002 and has taught courses in the international petroleum market at the Fletcher School and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
Education
- PhD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- MALD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- MA, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- AB, Princeton University
Gordon Fulks
Gordon Fulks
About This Director
He received a BS in Physics in 1967 and went on to get an MS and PhD in Physics, all from the University of Chicago. He worked initially for the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago Laboratory for Astrophysics; Mission Research Corporation, Corbett, Oregon studying the solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays, using a large charged-particle spectrometer flown in the Arctic.
More recently, he has consulted for business and government clients seeking to better understand electromagnetic phenomena, related scientific scares, and the concept of ‘acceptable risk.’
William Happer
William Happer
About The Director/Member/Founder
Co-Founder and Chair of the CO2 Coalition, Dr. William Happer, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, is a specialist in modern optics, optical and radiofrequency spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, radiation propagation in the atmosphere, and spin-polarized atoms and nuclei.
Dr. Happer received a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of North Carolina in l960 and the PhD degree in Physics from Princeton University in l964. He began his academic career in 1964 at Columbia University as a member of the research and teaching staff of the Physics Department. While serving as a Professor of Physics he also served as Co-Director of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory from 1971 to 1976, and Director from 1976 to 1979. In l980 he joined the faculty at Princeton University. On August 5, 1991 he was appointed Director of Energy Research in the Department of Energy by President George Bush. While serving in that capacity under Secretary of Energy James Watkins, he oversaw a basic research budget of some $3 billion, which included much of the federal funding for high energy and nuclear physics, materials science, magnetic confinement fusion, environmental and climate science, the human genome project, and other areas.
He remained at the DOE until May 31, 1993 to help the Clinton Administration during the transition period. He was reappointed Professor of Physics at Princeton University on June 1, 1993, and named Eugene Higgens Professor of Physics and Chair of the University Research Board from 1995 to 2005. From 2003 until his retirement in 2014, he held the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Chair of Physics.
From 1987 to 1990 he served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of JASON, a group of scientists and engineers who advise agencies of the Federal Government on matters of defense, intelligence, energy policy and other technical problems. He was a trustee of the MITRE Corporation from 1993 to 2011, he is the Chair of the Board of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the Chair of the Board of the Marshall Institute. From 2002 to 2006 he chaired of the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Improvised Explosive Devices that supported the Joint Improvised Explosive Devices Defeat Organization of the Department of Defense. He was a co-founder in 1994 of Magnetic Imaging Technologies Incorporated (MITI), a small company specializing in the use of laser polarized noble gases for magnetic resonance imaging. He invented the sodium guidestar that is used in astronomical adaptive optics to correct for the degrading effects of atmospheric turbulence.
From September 2018 to September 2019, Dr. Happer served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council.
He has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1966, an Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1976, the 1997 Broida Prize and the 1999 Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, and the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in 2000.
Hugh Kendrick
Hugh Kendrick
About The Director
Dr. Kendrick has degrees in mechanical and nuclear engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Michigan. Later, he qualified as a Professional Engineer in the State of California.
His career included conducting and managing research programs in pure and applied sciences in academia, the private sector, and during his service in the US Department of Energy. For example, research in condensed matter physics led to the co-discovery of the first order magnetic phase change in chromium.
As senior manager at SAIC and while Director of Plans and Analysis in DOE’s Nuclear Reactor Research Programs, he developed innovative methods applied to nuclear materials safeguards and nuclear non- and counter-proliferation. He acted as point in USG for assessment of proliferation resistance of alternative nuclear fuel cycles, both in international meetings, and in the US. In the 10-volume report that he managed, pulling together results from research programs at 35 institutions including the National Laboratories and private companies, he wrote the volumes dealing with proliferation resistance and counter proliferation assessments. For example, one of his programs at Lawrence Livermore laboratory resulted in the conclusion that “there is no non weapons-usable plutonium.”
His multi-disciplinary teams at SAIC conducted environmental impact, economic and cost-risk benefit analyses for many USG Agencies, including some that involved nuclear materials safeguards and proliferation risk assessment. For example, his team’s assessment of the DOE’s Light Water Breeder Program was published as Volume IV of ERDA-1541. He was a member of the Atomic Industrial Forum’s Safeguards Policy Committee.
After his service in USG, he returned to SAIC, by then a multi-billion dollar corporation, as a member of the Executive Management team, where he held various positions, including Deputy Chief Operating Officer, that focussed generally on all aspects of risk management. In addition, he managed the selection and conduct of a portfolio typically of 30-50 annual internal research programs in applied sciences.
At Imperial College in London, he was awarded a First Class Honours degree, the Associateship of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and the Henrici Medal for mathematics.
He won scholarships and fellowships throughout his academic career, and outstanding achievement awards and certificates during his USG service.
He was a member of the Nuclear Safety Committee of the National Research Council, and of the Selection Committee for DOE’s Ernest O. Lawrence Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS),and the American Chemical Society (ACS), a past member of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) and of the American Society for the Advancement of Science.
He has authored and co-authored papers in refereed journals that include Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, Journal of Applied Physics, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, and publications of ANS and INMM. He has been an invited author, speaker, and panelist before public, professional, industry, and academic audiences. His subjects included energy alternatives and energy policy, the prospects for nuclear energy, US energy programs, the relationship between nuclear energy and international security, nuclear safety research, and nuclear non- and counter-proliferation.
Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore
About The Director
Patrick Moore, Ph.D. served as Chair of the CO2 Coalition in 2019 and 2020. He is co-founder and 15-year leader of Greenpeace (1971-1986). Chairman and Chief Scientist, Ecosense Environmental. Leader, Campaign to Allow Golden Rice Now.
Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 40 years. He is a co-founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction for 15 years while Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization.
In recent years, Dr. Moore has been focused on the promotion of sustainability and consensus building among competing concerns. He was a member of British Columbia government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and Economy from 1990 – 1994. In 1990, Dr. Moore founded and chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to develop a common understanding of climate change.
Dr. Moore served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, a manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy. He also served as Vice-President, Industry and Government Affairs for NextEnergy Geothermal, the largest distributor of geothermal systems in Canada.
As Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest Alliance of BC from 1991 – 2002, he led the process of developing the “Principles of Sustainable Forestry” which were adopted by a majority of the industry.
In 2010, Dr. Moore published Trees are the Answer, a photo-book that provides a new insight into how forests work and how they can play a powerful role in solving many of our current environmental problems. In 2013 he published Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout – The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist, which documents his 15 years with Greenpeace and outlines his vision for a sustainable future.
From 2000-2012 he served as Chair and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies, a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communications in forestry, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, mining, biodiversity, energy and climate change.
From 2006-2012 he served as co-Chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a US-based advocacy mission to build public support for more nuclear energy plants to provide electricity.
In 2013 Dr. Moore, with his brother Michael and other family members, founded the Allow Golden Rice Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to seeing Golden Rice approved for commercial agriculture. 250 million children, mainly in the tropical countries, are deficient in vitamin A and as a result 2 million die each year. The Allow Golden Rice Now! Campaign demands that Greenpeace and their allies discontinue their campaign of opposition to Golden Rice, which could eliminate vitamin A deficiency if cultivated and consumed.
In 2014 Dr. Moore was appointed Chair of Environmental Studies at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Dr. Moore is an independent ecologist/environmentalist with Ecosense Environmental Inc.
“Speaking Truth to Power Award”, Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, 2014
National Award for Nuclear Science and History, Albequerque, New Mexico, 2009
Honorary Doctorate of Science, North Carolina State University, 2005
Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, 1974
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1969-1972
Honours B.Sc. in Forest Biology, University of British Columbia
Rafaella Nascimento
Rafaella Nascimento
Rafaella Nascimento, PhD (Chemistry) performed postdoctoral training at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and University of Montreal. She contributed to the development of nanosensors and nanomaterials suitable to environmental decontamination, bio-imaging and additive manufacturing.
Author of scientific articles, book chapters, and inventor of numerous intellectual properties. Dr. Nascimento is the president and founder of C-Intelligence, a company specialized in developing nanomaterials in various scientific fields for high-tech companies. She is the founder and president of Brazilian Association CARAVEL, an institution dedicated to creating educational content for Brazilians.
Norman Rogers
Norman Rogers
About This Director
Founder of Rabbit Semiconductor company; policy advisor to The Heartland Institute; member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.
Jeffrey Salmon
Jeffrey Salmon
About The Director
Jeffrey Salmon held senior positions within the Department of Energy from 2001 – 2018, including Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary, Chief of Staff in the Office of Science, Associate Under Secretary for Science, and Director of Resource Management in the Office of Science. He received his Ph.D. in World Politics from The Catholic University of America, his M.A. in Political Philosophy from Northern Illinois University, and his B.A. in Politics from Furman University. Dr. Salmon served as Senior Speechwriter to Secretaries of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Frank Carlucci, and Dick Cheney and was a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He was on the staff of two members of Congress and was a Research Assistant at SRI International where he also served as Managing Editor of the journal Comparative Strategy. After serving in the Department of Defense, Dr. Salmon was Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Institute until he moved to the Department of Energy in 2001. He has published in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Comparative Strategy, the Journal of Environmental Education, and for the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Since his retirement from federal service, Dr. Salmon served as acting Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition and is working closely with the Senior Executive Association on issues related to civil service modernization.
Leighton Steward (1934 – 2022)
Leighton Steward (1934 – 2022)
Leighton Steward: A Champion of CO2’s Benefits and Much Else
by Dr. William Happer, Chairman, CO2 Coalition
Leighton Steward, who died December 16 at the age of 88, is remembered for many qualities, among them a tenacity for delivering the message of carbon dioxide’s benefits.
A director emeritus of the CO2 Coalition, Leighton had a profound – and correct – understanding of CO2. Many times he would say, “If only plants could talk, they would beg for more carbon dioxide.”
Leighton spread the good news about CO2 on radio talk shows, in op-eds and in private conversations. He buttonholed U.S. senators, particularly those from his home states of Texas and Wyoming, to educate them about the greening of Earth from the modern increase of CO2. His stature was such that he could, and did, carry the same message to captains of industry.
Leighton was a respected businessman, geologist and author with a wide range of interests and knowledge. He served as chairman and CEO of the Louisiana Land and Exploration Co., becoming vice chairman when that company merged with Burlington Resources, and as chief of exploration operations, worldwide, Shell Oil Co.
He served as chairman of the US Oil & Gas Association and on the boards of directors of numerous other organizations, including EOG Resources, Inc.; M.D. Anderson Cancer Board of Visitors; Tulane University; Institute for the Study of Earth and Man; and Buffalo Bill Center of the West. He represented the independent sector of the energy industry on Presidential Missions to the USSR, Turkey and Pakistan.
Leighton had interests in nutrition and environmental matters, including the area of coastal and wetland protection. He wrote books on climate change and on the Mississippi River Delta and coauthored the best-seller “Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat.”
We have lost a powerful and effective friend in Leighton’s passing. It was our privilege to know him. His obituary is linked here.
CO2 Coalition Executive Director
Gregory Wrightstone – Executive Director
Gregory Wrightstone – Executive Director
Executive Director
Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist (BS and MS in Geology), bestselling author (Inconvenient Facts), and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6).
CO2 Coalition Members
Peter Adam
Peter Adam
About The Member
Peter S. Adam is an international business development and strategic planning expert and financier. He is involved primarily in energy and infrastructure-related activities and US Government contracting in the Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Adam spent his formative years in Cairo, Egypt where his father worked for the US government and his mother worked for the United States Information Agency. He was an Arabic Linguist in the US Army and has held management positions with international major oil companies, Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco, in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, East Africa, etc. He has also helped start and worked for various smaller companies and merchant and investment banking concerns in the US.
Mr. Adam has worked in Saudi Arabia for many years. He was an Associate Professor of Finance at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and a Research Economist with the KFUPM Research Institute (KFUPM RI) in Dhahran, KSA. While in Saudi, he performed various consulting assignments for the Ministries of Petroleum, Interior and Planning under the aegis of Prince Abdul-Aziz Bin Salman Al Saud, presently Saudi State Minister for Energy Affairs, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulaziz_bin_Salman_Al_Saud).
Mr. Adam’s most recent noteworthy accomplishments include:
- Co-founding International Resources Group (IRG), a USAID and DOD contractor – now a subsidiary of RTI, (www.rti.org). IRG is involved in agriculture and food security, climate resilience, water, energy and infrastructure development, natural resource management, conflict resolution and disaster preparedness and recovery in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
- Provision of significant volumes of fuel (approx. $.4B worth) to US military forces in Africa through Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contracts performed in collaboration with Translux Energy, Dubai, (www.txdubai.com). Translux’s late chairman and CEO, John Samuels, is the principal founder or the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) and Koch Industries’ Agent for the Middle East and India. Messrs. Adam and Samuels have also been involved in various oil and gas exploration and energy provision activities in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
D. Weston Allen
D. Weston Allen
About The Member
Wes obtained a medical degree at the University of Queensland in 1969, his FRACGP in 1975 and a Graduate Diploma in Physical Medicine at Sydney University in 1998. He pioneered preventive and predictive medicine in 1976-79, transdermal nicotine for smokers in 1987-88 and novel blood spatter studies in 1989-90, publishing a number of papers in medical journals.
Since 2006, Wes has taken a keen interest in climate, contributing letters and opinion articles for Australian Doctor and Medical Observer and publishing a 12-page booklet, Climate Change: the Science, Spin and Politics, which influenced the Liberal Party leadership spill in 2009. In 2011, Wes wrote The Weather Makers Re-Examined, a comprehensive critique of Tim Flannery’s alarming best seller, before critiquing Slaying the Sky Dragon, a book denying any greenhouse effect or human influence on climate. He found both books do science a grave disservice. His review of The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change is published on the Australian Sceptics and Jo Nova websites.
Wes is a full-time family physician at Kingscliff on the southern Gold Coast, where he lives with his wife Lois. He cycles to work but has no illusions about thereby saving the planet. Nor does he have any vested interests in fossil fuels.
Jeffery Allen
Jeffery Allen
Currently President of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES).
Jeff Allen has over ten years of experience as a petroleum geologist and entrepreneur. Mr. Allen has worked as a consultant evaluating investment opportunities for multiple companies including; Alta Mesa Services, Weiser-Brown Oil Company, Allen-Hoffman Exploration, Charger Exploration, Trek Resources, Wapiti Energy, Exceller Hunt, among others. Mr. Allen worked alongside Professor Emeritus Dr. Spencer Wood of Boise State University to make Idaho the 35th oil and gas producing state in North America.
Mr. Allen independently raised $6MM while oil was only $23/bbl to manage and execute an exploration project covering 155 km2. Mr. Allen coordinated with multiple investors, vendors, contractors, and employees. Mr. Allen brought a geologic idea to fruition resulting in multiple oil and gas wells and commercial success.
Mr. Allen has been an influential member and leader of various boards in Houston, TX including The Petroleum Club of Houston, The Houston Geological Society, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and The Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.
Mr. Allen maintains a passion for education and continues to volunteer time with local schools to influence children toward an academic career in Math, Science, and Engineering. Currently, he works with the Real Men Read program through HISD.
Mr. Allen holds a B.S. in Geology from the University of Texas at San Antonio as well as many professional certifications.
David Archibald
David Archibald
David Archibald graduated in geology from the University of Queensland in 1979. He first worked in coal exploration before joining Esso as an oil exploration geologist.
David then joined the stockbroking industry as an analyst, ultimately becoming a steel specialist. In 1998 he was hired as an expert witness in two cases before the Supreme Court of New South Wales: One as a petroleum geologist and the other in steel rolling mill design.
He became involved in cancer research, culminating in patent application as a co-author with two professors from Purdue University. After this, he went back to oil exploration and mining roles. He became interested in climate science in 2006 which led to him giving lectures on the subject in Senate and House hearing rooms in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He then became a visiting fellow at the Institute for World Politics in Washington D.C., a graduate school for the Department of Defense, State Department and US intelligence agencies.
In 2012, he edited and published a book on the role of phytoestrogens in modulating the human female hormone system. In 2018, he returned to performing cancer research. David gives lectures on climate, cancer science, COVID science and fighter aircraft design.
Books published by David Archibald include:
Solar Cycle 24
The Past and Future of Climate
Hormones with Harmony
Twilight of Abundance
Australia’s Defence
American Gripen: The Solution to the F-35 Nightmare
The Anticancer Garden in Australia
Ronald Barmby
Ronald Barmby
Ron Barmby is a Professional Engineer with both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees. His career has taken him to over 40 countries on five continents investigating geosciences and working with local cultures. He is the author of Sunlight on Climate Change: A Heretic’s Guide to Global Climate Hysteria; which explains in understandable terms the science of climate change to the non-scientist. It has been highly recommended for younger, open-minded readers concerned about climate change. Ron has also written dozens of other articles and explaining the disconnect between classical science and politicized climate science for the average voter seeking a better understanding.
Charles Battig
Charles Battig
About The Member
Dr. Charles Battig, is a retired physician and electrical engineer. In the 1960s he served as “principal scientist in bio-medical monitoring systems” at North American Aviation Los Angeles in support of the Apollo Moon Mission. Later he served in the U.S. Public Health Service at NIH, Bethesda MD, in the biomedical engineering branch. Following teaching appointments in anesthesiology at UCLA and Mt. Sinai, NYC, he entered the private practice of anesthesiology until retirement.
An engineer by training with a M.S. in Electrical Engineering; a physician by training with an M.D. degree and Board Certified in Anesthesia, in the 1960s, Dr. Battig worked in support of the Apollo Lunar mission. Later, he served at the National Institutes of Health in the Biomedical Engineering Branch. He is now retired after spending the major portion of his working career as an anesthesiologist in both academic and private practice.
After settling near Charlottesville, Virginia about ten years ago, he became aware of the rich heritage of climatologists here, including, Pat Michaels, S. Fred Singer, Michael Mann, and Dennis Avery, as well as Chris Horner.
As there was no active local voice countering the “Al Gore” version of climatology, he decided to become the local a “climate reality” activist. Over the past ten years, his writings have appeared in the local press, in the Wall Street Journal, and in Barron’s. He has been invited to give presentations at various local social groups and appears on the local talk radio shows with some regularity. He spoke as a member of the public at four of ex-governor T. Kaine’s climate change commission hearings, countering the testimony of the commission members.
During the past two years, he attended three of the four Heartland International Climate Change Meetings. In 2009, Prof. S. Fred Singer appointed him president of the Piedmont Chapter (one of five chapters) of the Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment.
Robert Bauman
Robert Bauman
Mr. Bauman earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Wisconsin in 1969 and started with GE as programmer and sales engineer in process computers, eventually specializing in telecommunications and teleprinters. In 1973 he joined Hazeltine, a pioneer in video display terminals. After 8 years in Silicon Valley as their top salesman and regional manager, he left to start a rep and systems integration firm in Phoenix. His business expanded into distributed networks becoming a VAR for Sun Microsystems. In 1986, Mr. Bauman invented the “computer safe” for closed-door operation of online electronic devices. To promote the concept, he founded Trusted Systems, Inc., and in 1992 received the first Government approval for protecting classified networks.
Since then, Mr. Bauman secured several patents while expanding Trusted Systems’ product line to incorporate a defense in-depth strategy to protect against kinetic attack, insider threat, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) intrusion for Military, Intelligence, and Executive branch agencies, especially the Department of Energy. His focus on threats from an EMP attack drew his attention to the vulnerability of the power grid that could damage or destroy all electronics, such as HV transformers and SCADA systems in its path. Mr. Bauman’s response was to expand his company’s product line to include EMP-hardened shelters to shield critical electronics for classified networks or critical infrastructures like the power grid. His collaboration in the industry includes membership in the FBI-sponsored INFRAGARD and its EMP Special Interest Group and the Save-the-Grid Coalition. In addition, he was appointed as a technical advisor to the Congressional EMP Caucus Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
Concurrent with his sense of urgency for protecting the grid from an EMP attack, Mr. Bauman turned his attention to grid resiliency as he recognized an EMP event is not the only threat. A self-inflicted threat exists from the demonization of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions, a naïve overindulgence in wind and solar, and the dismissal of the optimal long-term, base load power alternative, nuclear power. Mr. Bauman entered the arena of the climate debate by participating in the Heartland Institute’s 2011 ICCC-6 Conference, and subsequently, each conference since. In 2012, Mr. Bauman was invited to join The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS), an independent climate research group made up of retired NASA Apollo engineers. He is a strong supporter of the CO2 Coalition, CFACT, and other like organizations, to promote climate realism to counteract the religious fervor and misrepresentation of climate alarmists.
From his early days as a programmer at GE working on process control systems for their Mark 40 nuclear reactor, Mr. Bauman applied his engineering skills and growing knowledge to advocate for advancing the next generation small modular reactors (SMRs) on Capitol Hill. His expertise and solutions-based approach was recognized in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, where he was called on as a Congressional technical advisor to senior leaders from Japan to explore explosion-proof alternatives. Mr. Bauman is a passionate proponent for educating Congress and the public on nuclear power, the fallacies of the climate change agenda, and the threats posed by an EMP attack that warrant a priority focus on grid resiliency.
Larry Bell
Larry Bell
About The Member
Larry Bell is an Endowed Professor of Space Architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and the Graduate Program in Space Architecture. He is also a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute.
Larry has authored hundreds of articles which have been posted in his weekly Forbes and Newsmax columns with a special emphasis upon climate and energy policy issues. He has also authored two books - "Scared Witless: Prophets and Profits of Global Doom" (2015) and "Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax" (2012).
Joseph Bender
Joseph Bender
Dr. Joseph Bender is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Dairy Production Medicine at the Center for Animal Health and Productivity at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Veterinary Medicine – New Bolton Center. Dr. Bender received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Findlay (2003) and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master’s Degree (Preventive Medicine) from Iowa State University (2010).
Since arriving at PennVet in 2013, Dr. Bender’s area of concentration is providing on farm consultation to dairy farmers throughout Pennsylvania to improve production, profitability, and well-being for both dairy cattle and producers. Dr. Bender lectures in several courses focusing on production medicine, animal health economics, and global food security. Primary interests and research areas include dairy farm management, crop yields/strategies, dairy nutrition and reproduction, environmental stewardship, cash flow analysis, and cost of production economics.
Samit Bhattacharyya
Samit Bhattacharyya
About The Member
Dr. Samit K. Bhattacharyya is President of RENMAR Enterprises, Inc, a Technical and Management Consulting Services Company. The company serves a broad portfolio of government and private sector clients in the area of advanced nuclear technology and applications. He has been a long time Advisor to NASA on its Space Nuclear power and propulsion activities, and to the USDOE on several projects.
Bhattacharyya was born in India, where he did his schooling through his undergraduate work, receiving a B. Tech (honors) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. He came to the US for his graduate work and obtained master’s and doctoral degrees in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Bhattacharyya joined Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Argonne, Illinois immediately after completing his Ph.D. work. He research work at ANL focused on advanced nuclear reactor technologies. He rose to the position of senior nuclear engineer and held several executive leadership positions in the Laboratory, including a five-year stint as director of the Technology Development Division. The division was a diversified organization with several technical programs, including advanced reactors, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear fusion and fuel cycle assessments. One of his major accomplishments was the development of several significant new R&D programs for the Laboratory. He achieved international recognition for his technical work in advanced nuclear power systems for terrestrial and space applications. He has published widely (over 200 publications) and participated in national and international conferences as organizer, speaker and keynote presenter. During this period, he also earned a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago as well as the Professional Engineer registration.
Bhattacharyya left ANL in 2003 to operate RENMAR Enterprises, Inc. A highlight of his work was as the nuclear lead and one of the identified Key personnel for the Northrop Grumman team that won the major NASA contract (Project Prometheus) on the development of a nuclear powered probe to the moons of Jupiter. Bhattacharyya was recruited in 2007 to join the Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC team that bid for and won the operating contract for the DOE’s Savannah River Site. Bhattacharyya was one of the two Key personnel required in that proposal, and assumed the directorship of the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) located at the Savannah River Site. SRNL is one of DOE’s twelve National Laboratories, and is the Corporate Laboratory of the DOE’s Environmental Management Office. In this position, Bhattacharyya was responsible for the management, operations and planned growth of the Laboratory. The Laboratory had ~ 1000 employees and conducted R&D on a diversified portfolio of projects in the Environmental Management, National Security and Energy Security areas. Bhattacharyya served as Laboratory Director for two years, after which he returned to running RENMAR Enterprises.
Dr. Bhattacharyya is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society and has won a number of Awards for his work. These include the University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award, the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has served on several Department of Energy, Department of Defense, NASA and University advisory boards. He also serves on a number of technical, corporate and civic boards.
Ken Billman
Ken Billman
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Edward Bohn
Edward Bohn
About The Member
Dr. Bohn’s early interest in science led him to a career first, as a research scientist, and later, as a technology entrepreneur. He attended the University of Illinois 1959-1968 receiving a BS in Engineering Physics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering. He was a member of the Sigma Tau engineering honor society.
For his Ph.D. thesis, Dr. Bohn was the first to make a three parameter measurement of the nuclear fission of Uranium-235 simultaneously recording the mass, energy and charge of the two particles in the splitting of the nucleus. This led to a more complete understanding of the nuclear fission process. Throughout his graduate studies he maintained his qualifications as an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) licensed nuclear reactor operator.
Dr. Bohn began his career as a nuclear reactor research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) where he gained international recognition for his work in reactor physics. He led the group conducting experimental studies of commercial scale, plutonium-fueled breeder reactors at the ANL Chicago site. Dr. Bohn was chosen by the AEC to chair the National Cross Section Working Evaluation Group, 1974-1976. This group, made up of nuclear scientists from the national laboratories and universities, was responsible for reviewing the latest basic nuclear reaction data and certifying its use for the design of both commercial and defense nuclear devices. I this capacity, he delivered the keynote presentation at the International Conference on Nuclear Cross Sections and Technology in Washington, D.C., 1975. He was selected as the outstanding engineering graduate by the University of Illinois Nuclear Engineering Department in 1977.
Dr. Bohn had a keen interest in the field of economics especially as it applied to energy technologies and strategies. He enrolled in the University of Chicago evening program to pursue this interest, earning an MBA with majors in finance and economics in 1976. He qualified for University honors and was named to Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society. While at Chicago, he studied and worked closely with Professor Merton Miller (1990 Nobel Prize winner in Economics) to develop a macroeconomic computer simulation of energy use in the U.S. economy. This interest led to his appointment as Director, Energy Conservation programs at ANL (1977-1979) entailing the development of more efficient energy systems and technologies.
Dr. Bohn followed his entrepreneurial bent when he joined TRW, Inc. in 1979 to participate in the start-up of their energy technology business. He became the Director, Company Planning and Director, New Business Venture for TRW’s $3.5 billion Space and Defense Sector. In this capacity, he supported the Sector’s operating units in the development of strategic business plans.
In 1990, Dr. Bohn was recruited to run QUEST Integrated, Inc. of Kent, Washington, formerly the Flow Research Company. As President, he led the revival of the company, more than doubling its size and returning the company to a healthy, profitable enterprise with the development of advanced, high-pressure waterjet systems and laser-based measurement technologies for the government and commercial markets. In 1996, Dr. Bohn left QUEST to pursue his own interests. He taught a course in Strategic Business Planning to second-year MBA students at the University of Washington while developing plans for a start-up company.
In 1997, with the backing of local investors, Dr. Bohn co-founded Tempress Technologies, Inc. (TTI) and served as its first President. TTI develops and produces high-pressure hydraulic drilling tools for the oil and gas industry. These tools proved to be highly efficient for hydrofracturing in shale formations. TTI was acquired by Oil States International of Houston, Texas, and operates today as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Dr. Bohn was recruited by the venture capital group of Battelle Memorial Institute to turn around Plasma Technology, Inc. (PTI). PTI was engaged in the development of large-scale, induction-coupled plasma reactors for conversion of wastes into clean energy fuels. As CEO, Dr. Bohn relocated the company to Seattle, renamed PTI to Thermal Conversion Corp. (TCC), acquired full-scale demonstration facilities and completed operational testing at which point TCC was acquired by Novatec.
Dr. Bohn served on the Board of Directors for Quest, TTI and TTC.
Matt Boyce
Matt Boyce
PhD in Geology from West Virginia University, BS and MS. from the University of Arkansas in Geology.
Formerly petrophysicist at ExxonMobil. Experienced in basins of the U.S: Permian, Paradox, Appalachia, Gulf Coast, Unita, Piceance, DJ , L.A., Anadarko, Michigan, Williston, and Sacramento basin’s. International work in the Vaca Muerta, La Luna, Bowland, Dadas, McCarther Basin, Cooper Basin, Dnieper-Donets basin, Montney, Posidonia, and Baltic basin.
While at SWN Matt co-discovered a new patent (US 3005657A1) that greatly enhanced determining unconventional porosity using core nuclear magnetic resonance. The patent illustrated that in-place reserve values were two to three times larger than previously calculated.
Matt is currently is a partner in EPOCH Consulting LLC where he applies his extensive background in petrophysics and geology to unconventional problems across industry. Matt is currently a board member of the entrepreneur earth science organization SIPES and is passionate about educating citizens concerning the oil industry and its positive effect on society.
Howard Thomas Brady
Howard Thomas Brady
About The Member
Memberships: Explorers Club New York; Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences
Awards: Distinquished Alumnus Scientist of the Year, Northern Illinois University in 2011, for his contributions to Antarctic science and the community
Dr Howard Thomas Brady has had a diverse career. Apart from his scientific degrees (M.Sc and Ph.D in Antarctic science), Howard has Diplomas in Philosophy and Theology. Howard was a Catholic priest with an interest in science and, after a short teaching career, was involved with the United States Office of Polar Programs as a scientist for two summers as the US Navy Chaplain to McMurdo Station and the South Pole Station. In the 1970s, Howard was on 4 mainland Antarctic expeditions and one short expedition to Macquarie Island. He specialised in using microscopic diatom fossils to trace the climate and geological history of Antarctica. He was involved in the first ever holes drilled: in rock on the Antarctic mainland: off the pack ice into the Ocean Floor of McMurdo Sound (The Dry Valley Drilling Project); and through the Ross Ice Shelf (The Ross Ice Shelf Project).
In 1980, Howard entered ordinary life and the business world. In 1987, he co-founded a listed public oil company called Mosaic Oil. The Company explored for oil and gas in Papua New Guinea and Queensland, Australia. Between 1998 to 2000 Howard also managed a company with contracts from the Sydney City Council to repave the main plazas of Sydney in preparation for the 2000 Olympic Games. Howard returned to Academia in 2005 and was an Honorary Associate of Macquarie University until 2011. During this period he examined coastal processes and sea level rise along the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. This led to his interest in the broader subject of climate change, and in 2016 Howard published a book ‘Mirrors and Mazes: a guide through the climate debate’. The first edition sold out quickly, and in 2017 the 2nd edition was released. The book is available from the website in Australia and overseas through Amazon. The book was written in a popular style, so ordinary people would be given a framework to generally understand the climate debate. The book was also designed to be an introductory climate reader for students.
Hobbies: Howard has had a long-term interests in cryptology and also in understanding human error in major accidents. Other interests include the piano and golf.
Website: http://www.mirrorsandmazes.com.au/
Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan
About The Member
Research Analyst – Piper Jaffray September 2012 – September 2015 (3 years 1 month) Biotech
Associate – JMP Securities December 2010 – September 2012 (1 year 10 months) Biotech Equity Research
Intern – Arcoda Capital Managment September 2010 – November 2010 (3 months) Worked with Analyst David Kim, conducting diligence on companies and disease areas and creating “models” based upon that diligence. Also, conducted some modeling projects for Head Trader Stan Park, looking at various investment strategies in healthcare.
Part-time Intern – Friedenthal Financial January 2010 – August 2010 (8 months) Creating and modifying Excel models for relative-value comparisons and econometric studies.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University Medical Center February 2009 – October 2009 (9 months) molecular/cellular biologist
Columbia University Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University September 2008 – January 2009 (5 months) yeast cell biology/genetics
Jim Buell
Jim Buell
I received my B.A. (Biology) from Occidental College in 1966, and my Ph.D. (Biology; comparative physiology / biochemistry) from the University of Oregon in 1973. I have focused on the biology and ecology of salmonid and other freshwater and estuarine fishes. I worked for a private consulting firm from 1974 to 1977, when I left to start my own environmental consulting business. I am now mostly retired and reside in Portland, Oregon.
Almost all my work has been in western North America: California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia and Alaska. Clients have included large and small projects in the private sector (ports/marinas, small hydro, energy facility siting, timber interests, mills, large pipelines, mines, agricultural interests, permitting, etc.); various state and federal (US and Canadian) agencies; environmental groups and private individuals. For a few years in the mid-‘80s I was heavily involved in Bonneville Power Administration's Fish and Wildlife Program (emphasis on large and small energy development mitigation projects and aquatic habitat rehabilitation and enhancement); between 1995 and 2003 about a third of my time involved the California "water wars" and several other projects in Northern California. Since the early '80s, however, most of my consulting work has been in Alaska, and has mostly involved large projects (mines, ports, mills, pipelines, etc.). As an environmental consultant, I have had extensive (and mostly cordial) interactions with the regulatory world; these have nearly always been constructive and oriented toward problem-solving rather than problem perpetuation.
Having specialized in anadromous fishes, I have long had an interest in climate systems and both shorter- and longer-term variations. When Al Gore first came out with his preposterous book, I immediately knew he had taken a wrong turn, and was engaged in a political, not a scientific campaign. Consequently, when climate hysteria became a very big business, I have found fellowship with the other side... this side.
Naturally, the subject of marine systems' interactions with atmospheric systems is of particular interest to me, including the carbonate cycle and some of the kinetics of carbonate equilibria, and how these factors tend to help explain "rates, routes and reservoirs" of CO2 flux. Paleoclimatology is also of great interest to me. I try to keep up with the technical nature of the "climate debate" to the best of my abilities, but I'm not a physicist, nor a trained meteorologist, so I leave the very technical aspects to those who excel in these areas.
David Burton
David Burton
About The Member
| David A. Burton is the owner of Burton Systems Software, 109 Black Bear Ct, Cary, NC 27513 USA. |
| He has a BS in Systems Science from Michigan State University, and an MA in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. |
| He is a Board Member of NC-20, and one of the organization's Science Advisors. In 2011 he wrote a comprehensive critique of the Coastal Resource Commission's 2010 North Carolina Sea-Level Rise Assessment Report, identifying numerous serious errors in that document, and the following year wrote this paper, in the journal Natural Hazards: doi:10.1007/s11069-012-0159-8. He is or was also a member of the NC Sea Level Rise Impact StudyAdvisory Committee, a member of the NC Portal Project Review Committee, a U.N. IPCC AR5 WG1 Expert Reviewer, and webmaster of the sealevel.info web site. |
Sharon Camp
Sharon Camp
Dr. Camp has a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Georgia Tech. She has worked in industry, for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and as an advanced placement environmental science teacher. Dr. Camp is certified to teach 9-12 science in the state of Georgia and has twenty years' experience as a science teacher. Before her recent retirement she taught high school Advanced Placement (AP) Enviromental Science for fifteen years. She is currently a reader (grader) for the yearly national AP Environmental Science exam. Dr. Camp is the Senior Education Advisor for the CO2 Coalition and creator of CO2 Learning Center lesson plans.
Charles W. Chapman
Charles W. Chapman
Charlie Chapman P.Eng. is a 1971 graduate from the University of Alberta (Edmonton) with a BSc. In Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE).
Mr. Chapman has been engaged in the oil & gas industry for greater than 50 years, initially with major and intermediate oil companies and for the past 39 years as President of Chapman Petroleum Engineering Ltd, overseeing the diversified services of the company domestically and up to 60 countries internationally. He has been exposed to the industry from almost every potential viewpoint, from regular engineering duties to corporate management and various advisory positions.
Over the recent times, Mr. Chapman has developed a concern over the misinformation being perpetrated on the public, regarding the environment. He is well read and knowledgeable on the realities and benefits of CO2 in the atmosphere. He is a strong supporter of the CO2 Coalition movement to re-educate the public worldwide and hopes to contribute to this effort.
Alberto Francisco Chiesara Sanchez
Alberto Francisco Chiesara Sanchez
Born and raised in Venezuela, Alberto is an energy expert and business entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in different areas of energy production, energy distribution, and energy risk management. He is the co-founder of a couple of technology-leading companies in the energy transition sector specializing in transportation and distribution of different types of gases from Hydrogen to Natural Gas.
Alberto earned his bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering in Venezuela, where he initially worked as an Oilfield Engineer. He later obtained his Diplôme d'Ingénieur and Master’s in Petroleum Management from the Institut Français du Pétrole, IFP in France, and a Master of Science (MSc) in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M.
His experience encompasses working for Shell Trading in both Houston and London where he traded crude oil and later for Morgan Stanley in New York where he led the commodities expansion into LNG. He is particularly interested in investing and developing companies optimizing the supply chain for different gases and developing a decentralized, flexible and reliable power grid.
Martin (Marty) Cornell
Martin (Marty) Cornell
In 2000, as the Senior Development Scientist of Dow Chemical’s Automotive Business Unit, Marty Cornell became aware that carbon dioxide was being touted to be a pollutant akin to real tailpipe emissions such as NOx, VOC, and particulate material. This started his journey, upon retirement in 2003, to understand the impact of industrial greenhouse gases on climate and the underlying rational for policy to demonize fossil fuels and the transformation of society to run on “green” energy. Two decades later, it is apparent that the complexity of climate science is but a convenient platform to manipulate for control and power by the elites in government, industry, and academia. The climate crisis exists only in climate models.
In 1967, Marty graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Miami University and joined the Dow Chemical Company where he worked in product research and development for the next 35 years. Much of this time was focused on providing innovative uses of thermosetting polymers for aerospace and transportation applications to satisfy desires for greater fuel economy and enhanced safety. Later work included the development of ceramic filtration devices for trapping and catalytically converting diesel engine exhaust to CO2, water, and nitrogen.
Living south of Houston, Texas, in 2012 Marty joined the newly-formed The Right Climate Stuff Research Team of mostly retired Apollo-era NASA scientists and engineers who shared the same curiosity of anthropogenic impacts on climate. Marty has authored summarized conclusions of this team for distribution to educators, policy makers, and the public. For the last four years he has served as vice-chairman of TRCS, engaging with public officials in Austin and responding to misleading articles and editorials in written media. Marty takes every opportunity to present overviews to groups interested in the reality of an ever-changing climate controlled by natural processes.
Seth Cressey
Seth Cressey
Seth Cressey is a millennial polymer chemist and industrial problem solver with extensive experience in manufacturing, research, and application of Synthetic Polymers. Devoted to Lean 6 sigma (L6σ) and Shainin RedX™ methodology Seth loves data and is always prepared to “question everything” and is always keen to collaborate on measurement system, statistical, and analytical analysis. Seth lives in Beautiful Parkersburg West Virginia with his wife and two sons.
Walter Cunningham (1932 – 2023)
Walter Cunningham (1932 – 2023)
About The Member
Mr. Cunningham has fifty years of diversified management experience accumulated during separate careers in the United States Marine Corps, with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and private industry, including twelve years as a venture capitalist.
Mr. Cunningham is perhaps best known as America’s second civilian Astronaut. During eight years with NASA he contributed to the design, development and testing of all the major operating systems of the Apollo spacecraft. In 1966, he was a member of the prime crew of Apollo 2 and backup crew for Apollo 1. When the Apollo 1 prime crew was killed in a fire on the pad he served on the fire investigation board. In 1968, he orbited the earth 163 times as the pilot of Apollo 7 – the first manned flight of the Apollo Program to land a man on the Moon. Apollo 7 is still the longest, most ambitious and most successful first flight of any manned vehicle. Following the Apollo 7 mission, he became Chief of the Skylab branch of the Astronaut Office.
He is a Marine Corps fighter pilot with the rank of Colonel, USMCR, Retired, with 4,500 hours of flying time, including 263 hours in space. He has a Master’s Degree in Physics from UCLA and is a graduate of the AMP Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
Since 1971, he has been in private business in Houston, Texas. His experience includes the presidency of two engineering companies, with extensive overseas operations, Vice President of Operations for one of the largest commercial property developers in the U. S. and the presidency of an interactive voice response company.
In 1979, he formed The Capital Group to provide investment banking and consulting services to foreign investors. From 1986 to 1998 he was the Managing General Partner of the Genesis Fund, a venture capital pool where he was involved in the start-up and early stage development of 23 companies and financial institutions.
This was followed by four years as host of Lift-off to Logic, a radio call-in talk show. Since 2000, he has been writing and speaking out on the hoax that humans are controlling the temperature of the earth.
Mr. Cunningham has been an organizer, investor and Director of numerous public and private companies and a member of the Advisory Panel for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. He is author of "The All American Boys," considered the best one or two books ever written on the space program and numerous articles, including a regular column for Launch Magazine. He lectures throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, is listed in all major Who’s Whos and is a recipient of numerous national and international honors, including the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and election to the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
He has done professional speaking throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on space flight, the universe, education and the global warming debate.
Additional information can be found at his website: www.waltercunningham.com .
Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall
About The Member
Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant and policy analyst. He read economics and history at Cambridge University and subsequently worked in finance as an investment analyst and in corporate finance before becoming a special adviser to the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has written extensively for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Spectator, Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the books, The Age of Global Warming: A History (2013) and Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex (2017).
Cornelis Andreas “Kees” de Lange
Cornelis Andreas “Kees” de Lange
Dr. C.A. de Lange is a Guest Professor in the Faculty of Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and was a Member of the Senate in The Netherlands from 7 June 2011 until 1 May 2015 as well as the Chairman of The Netherlands Organization for Pensions from 12 May 2009 until 10 January 2011. He has a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Bristol (UK) in June 1969 with a Dissertation on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Oriented Molecules. His CV can be found here, publications list here, and website here.
Donn Dears
Donn Dears
About The Member
Mr. Dears is an engineering graduate, with honors, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and served on active duty in the U.S. Navy during the Korean war.
Mr. Dears worked at General Electric testing large steam turbines and generators used by utilities to generate electricity; followed, by manufacturing and marketing assignments at the Transformer Division. Later he led an organization servicing these and other GE products in the United States and established facilities around the world to service power generation, transmission and other electric equipment.
Mr. Dears has inspected oil producing and shipping facilities in Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries in the Mideast and Northern Europe, as well as examining iron-ore mining locations and major shipping centers in Europe and Asia to assess their need for U.S. technologies and equipment.
Following his retirement as a senior GE Company executive, he continued to study and write about energy issues. Before retiring as president of TSAugust, a 501 (C) 3 think tank comprised entirely of volunteers, he wrote for tsaugust. He has written five books as well as various papers and articles and speaks about energy issues to broad audiences.
David L. Debertin
David L. Debertin
About The Member
Degrees Received:
BS (1969 Ag. Education-Agronomy ), MS (1970 Ag.Economics), North Dakota State University
MS Thesis: Cost-Size-Quality Relationships Affecting North Dakota Schools (Thor Hertsgaard, director), 1970 PhD, Purdue, August, 1973, Ag. Economics
Editor, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 1993-1995 Volumes (with Angelos Pagoulatos and Barry Bobst)
Editor, Review of Agricultural Economics for the 1997 and 1998 volumes. Co-founded the Review of Ag. Economics in the current format under AAEA sponsorship (with Angelos Pagoulatos)
Books:
Agricultural Production Economics (Second Edition, 2012). Agricultural Production Economics (Second Edition, 2012, ISBN ) is a revised edition of the Textbook Agricultural Production Economics published by Macmillan in 1986 (ISBN 0‐02‐328060‐3). This is intended primarily for adoption at the beginning graduate level. Agricultural Production Economics available in paper
copy under ISBN 1469960648 and as a free e‐download at http://purl.umn.edu/158319
Agricultural Production Economics: The Art of Production Theory (2012). A 98 page companion book to Agricultural Production economics available in print as ISBN 1470129264 and as a free e-download at http://purl.umn.edu/158320
Applied Microeconomics: Consumption, Production and Markets (2012). Applied Microeconomics is a concise 250 page text intended for use in upper division undergraduate courses in applied microeconomics. It is available in print as ISBN 1475244347 or as a free e-download at http://purl.umn.edu/158321
Refereed Journal Articles:
Debertin, David L. and John M. Huie. "What Can the Public School Do to Reduce Dropout Numbers." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 6:2, 1974.
Debertin, David L., "Significance Tests of Regression Coefficients: An Additional Reminder," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 57:1, 1975.
Debertin, David L., Gerald A. Harrison, Robert J. Rades and Lawrence P. Bohl, "Estimating the Return to Information: A Gaming Approach," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 57:2, May 1975.
Debertin, David L., and R.J. Freund, "The Deletion of Variables from Regression Models Based on Tests of Significance: A Statistical and Moral Issue," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 7:1, 1975.
Debertin, David L., and John M. Huie, "Projecting Economic Activity Within Individual Towns and Cities: An Exploratory Study," Journal of the Community Development Society 6:1, 1975.
Debertin, D.L. and John M. Huie, "Secondary Education and Its Impact on the Performance of Purdue University Freshmen," Journal of Socioeconomic Planning Sciences, 9:3, 1975, Pergamon Press, Oxford, England.
Debertin, D.L., and John M. Huie, "Factors Influencing the Demand and Supply of Public School Teachers: An Exploratory Analysis," Journal of Socioeconomic Planning Sciences, 9:6, 1975, Pergamon Press, Oxford, England.
Freund, R.J., and D.L. Debertin, "Variable Selection and Statistical Significance," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 57:4, 1975.
Debertin, D.L., and G.L. Bradford, "Conceptualizing and Quantifying Factors Influencing the Growth and Development of Rural Economies," Annals of Regional Sciences 10:1, 1976.
Debertin, D.L., R.J. Rades and G.A. Harrison, "Returns to Information, An Addendum," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 58:2, 1976.
Debertin, David L., "Estimating Education Production Functions in Rural and Urban Areas," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 8:2, 1976.
Debertin, David L., Angelos Pagoulatos and Garnett L. Bradford, "Computer Graphics: An Educational Tool in Production Economics," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 59:4, 1977.
Debertin, David L., "Impacts of Community Characteristics on the Attributes of Public Education," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 9:2, 1977.
Debertin, David L., and John M. Huie, "Impacts of Socioeconomic Characteristics of a Community on the Availability of Resources for Public Education," Annals of Regional Sciences 12:1, 1978.
Infanger, Craig, Lynn Robbins and David L. Debertin, "Interfacing Research and Extension in Information Delivery Systems," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 60:5, 1978.
Pagoulatos, Angelos, David L. Debertin and Emilio Pagoulatos, "Impact of Selected Price Policies on the Demand for Crude Oil," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, July, 1978.
Pagoulatos, Emilio, David L. Debertin and Angelos Pagoulatos, "Effects of EEC Agricultural Policy on European Imports of Meat, Dairy Products and Eggs,"Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 10:l, 1978.
Debertin, David L., Lynn Robbins and Larry Jones, "Kentucky's ANSER, Agricultural Network Serving Extension and Research," American Journal of Agricultural Economics. August, 1979.
Debertin, David L. and Angelos Pagoulatos, "Impacts of Declining Enrollments on Educational Costs in Rural Areas" North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics 2:1, Jan., 1980.
Debertin, David L. and Angelos Pagoulatos, "Energy Alternatives on Agriculture: Implications for the South," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 12:1, July, 1980.
Debertin, David L., Angelos Pagoulatos and Eldon Smith, "Estimating Linear Probability Functions: A Comparison of Approaches," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 12:2, Dec., 1980.
Debertin, David L., Charles L. Moore Sr., Larry D. Jones and Angelos Pagoulatos, "Impacts on Farmers of a Computerized Management Decisionmaking Model," American Journal Agricultural Economics 63:2, May, 1981.
Debertin, David L., Angelos Pagoulatos, and Abdessalem Aoun, "Determinants of Farm Mechanization in Kentucky: An Econometric Analysis." North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics 4:2, July, 1982.
Pagoulatos, Angelos, David L. Debertin, and William Johnson," An Econometric Analysis of Qualitative Choice Among Performance Characteristics of Agricultural Tractors." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 14:2, Dec. 1982.
Luzar, E. Jane, D. L. Debertin and Angelos Pagoulatos, "Revenue Tradeoffs: Implications for State Government Finance." Socioeconomic Planning Sciences 18:1 1983.
Debertin, David L. Review of "Value Judgments in Publicly Supported Research" Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 15:1, 1983.
Debertin, David L., Rodney L. Clouser and Angelos Pagoulatos, "Impacts of Property Tax Relief on Educational Expenditures in Rural Areas. North Central Journ. of Agricultural Economics 6:2, July, 1984.
Debertin, David L. "Developing Realistic Agricultural Production Functions for Use in Undergraduate Classes." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 18:2, Dec. 1985.
Debertin, David L., and Angelos Pagoulatos. "Optimal Management Strategies for Alfalfa Production within A Total Farm Plan." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 18:2 Dec. 1985.
Bradford, Garnett L. and David L. Debertin. "Establishing Linkages between Economic Theory and Enterprise Budgeting for Teaching and Extension Programs." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 18: 2, Dec. 1985.
Pagoulatos, Angelos, Kostas Mattas and David L. Debertin. "A Comparison of Some Alternatives to Input_Output Multipliers" Land Economics 62: 4, Nov. 1986.
Debertin, David L., Rodney L. Clouser, and John M. Huie. "Rural Poverty and Funding for Education." Policy Studies 15:2, Dec., 1986.
Pagoulatos, Angelos, Sylvie Marzin and David L. Debertin "Diversification and Farm Acreage Variation in Kentucky Counties." North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics 9:1 Jan., 1987
David L. and Garnett L. Bradford, "Agricultural Economics Research and the Experiment Station System." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 20:2, Dec. 1987.
Shrestha, C. M., David L. Debertin, and Kurt R. Anschel. "Stochastic Efficiency versus Mean Variance Criteria as Predictors of Adoption of Reduced Tillage: Comment" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 68: 4, 1987.
Debertin, David L. and Craig L. Infanger. "Welfare Programs, Farm Programs, and the Negative Income Tax." Policy Studies Review, 7:4 1988.
Pagoulatos, Angelos, David L. Debertin and Fachurrozi Sjarkowi. "Soil Erosion, Intertemporal Decisionmaking, and the Soil Conservation Decision." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 22:2, 1989.
Debertin, David L., Angelos Pagoulatos and Abdessalem Aoun. " Impacts of Technological Change on Factor Substitution in U.S. Agriculture: 1950-1979." Energy Economics 12:1 1990.
Debertin, David L. and Angelos Pagoulatos. "Categorizing State Economies and Forecasting Differential Economic Growth Rates." Best Papers, Atlantic Economic Society. January, 1991
Debertin, David L., Angelos Pagoulatos and Garnett L. Bradford. "New Applications of Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics in Production Economics." Review of Agricultural Economics 13:1 January, 1991.
Debertin, David L. and Larry D. Jones. "Applications of Computer Graphics to Undergraduate Instruction in Agricultural Economics." American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 73:1. Feb. 1991.
Debertin, David L. and Angelos Pagoulatos. " Research in Agricultural Economics, 1919-1990: Seventy-two Years of Change." Review of Agricultural Economics 14:1 January, 1992.
Goetz, Stephan J. and David L. Debertin, "Rural Areas and Educational Reform in Kentucky: an Early Assessment of Revenue Equalization," Journal of Educational Finance 18:2, Fall, 1992, 163-79.
Debertin, David L. "An Animated Instructional Module for Teaching Production Economics with 3-D Graphics." American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 75:2. May, 1993 485-91.
Goetz, Stephan J. and David L. Debertin. "Estimating County-Level Demands for Educational Attainment." Socioeconomic Planning Sciences Journal. 27: 1993 pp. 25-34.
Debertin, David L. "Rural Development Issues for Agricultural Economists in the Year 2000: Discussion." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75:5 December, 1993.
Gallacher, Marcos, Stephan J Goetz, and David L. Debertin Managerial Form, Ownership and Efficiency: A Case-Study of Argentine Agriculture. Agricultural Economics 11 (1994).
Debertin, David L., E.Jane Luzar and Orlando D. Chambers. "A Protocol or a Set of Standards to Guide Agricultural Economics Research." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 20(1): 82-95 (July, 1995)
Mwana N. Mawampanga and David L. Debertin "Choosing Between Alternative Farming Systems:An Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process." Review of Agricultural Economics 18:3 September, 1996 pp. 385-401.
Goetz, Stephan J. and David L. Debertin., "Rural Population Decline in the 1980s: Impacts of Farm Structure and Federal Farm Programs" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78:3, August, 1996.
Goetz, Stephan J. and David L. Debertin., "Rural-Urban Locational Choices of Medical Doctors:A County-Level Analysis. Review of Agricultural Economics 18:4 October, 1996 pp. 547-63.
Debertin, David L. Review of Allan N. Rae, "Agricultural Management Analysis, Activity Analysis and Decisionmaking, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77:3 (August, 1995) pp. 821-3 (Book Review)
Goetz, S. J., D. Hu and D. L. Debertin, "A Structural Model of Human Capital and Manufacturing Sector Change,"International Advances in Economic Research 2:1996.
Gallacher, Marcos, Stephan J. Goetz and David L. Debertin, “Efficiency Effects of Institutional Factors: Limited Resource Farms in Northeast Argentina,” in R.Ross, M. Bellamy and C. Tanner, eds., Issues in Agricultural Competitiveness: Markets and Policies, International Assoc. of Agricultural Economists, Occasional Paper #7, 1997, pp.68-76.
Goetz, Stephan J. and David L. Debertin, “School Finance Reform”, in J.C. Lindle, J.M. Petrosko, and R.S. Pankratz, eds. 1996 Review of Research on the Kentucky Educational Reform Act.Univ of Ky/Univ. Of Louisville Center for the Study of Educational Policy, Lexington, KY, May, 1997, pp 271-286.
Goetz, Stephan J., David L. Debertin and Angelos Pagoulatos, “Linkages Between Human Capital and the Environment: Implications for Sustainable Economic Development” in R.Ross, M. Bellamy and C. Tanner, eds., Issues in Agricultural Competitiveness: Markets and Policies, International Assoc. of Agricultural Economists, Occasional Paper #7, 1997, pp. 336-43
David L. Debertin and Stephan J. Goetz. “A Comparison of Social Capital in Rural and Urban Settings” in Proceedings: Using Housing Policy to Build Healthy Communities: A Response to Devolution and Welfare Reform, Fannie Mae Foundation, April, 1997 Housing Conference, Washington DC.
Goetz, Stephan J., David L. Debertin and Angelos Pagoulatos, “Human Capital Income, and Environmental Quality: A State-Level Analysis.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 27:2, October, 1998.
Ngarambé, Octavian, Stephan J. Goetz and David L. Debertin, “Regional Economic Growth and Income Distribution: County-Level Evidence from the US South,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 30 (December, 1998) :325-337.
Debertin, David L. Review of Urban-Regional Economics, Social System Accounts and Eco-Behavioral Science: Selected Writings by Karl A. Fox. Ed. James R. Prescott, Paul Van Moeske, ans Jati K. Sengupta. Ames Iowa, Iowa State Univ Press (book review) Growth and Change 31, Summer, 2000, pp. 438-441.
Debertin, David L. Review of Sydney C. James and Phillip R. Eberle, Economic & Business Principles in Farm Planning and Production. NACTA Journal (book review) March 2001. Pp. 57-8
Debertin, David L. “Are American Farmers Better Off as a Result of Technology Gains?” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 33:2 2001 pp. 327-339.
Debertin, David L., Corporate Strategy in the Tobacco Manufacturing Industry: The Case of Philip Morris Review of Agricultural Economics 23(2) Fall/Winter 2001 510-522.
Goetz, Stephan J. and David L. Debertin. “Why Farmers Quit:A County-Level Analysis ” Amer . J. Agr. Econ 83(4) November, 2001 1010-1023.
Debertin, David L. Review of Char Miller ed. Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict Growth and Change 33, 2002. (book review).
Pagoulatos, Angelos, Stephan J. Goetz, David L. Debertin and Tulin Johannson. Interactions Between Economic Growth and Environmental Quality in US Counties. Growth and Change 35(1) Winter, 2004 90-108.
Rupasingha, Anil, Goetz, Stephan J., David L. Debertin and Angelos Pagoulatos. The Environmental Kuznets Curve for US Counties: A Spatial Econometric Analysis With Extensions.” Papers in Regional Science: Journal of the Regional Science Association International 83(2) April, 2004, 407-424
Debertin, David L. and Stephan J Goetz. “Rural Poverty, Amenities and Social Capital” Special issue of the Southern Business and Economics Journal 2005.
Zimmerman, Julie, Stephan J. Goetz and David L. Debertin. “People and Places: Welfare Reform and the Separate Effect of Caseload Characteristics and the Local Conditions ” Sociological Spectrum, 2006.
Recent Teaching
AEC620 - ADVANCED PRODUCTION ECONOMICS I; Credits: 3 An advanced treatment of production economics with emphasis on flexible product and factor price situations, factor demand functions, multiple product production, and poly-periodic production theory. Prereq: ECO 601. (Fall)
Taught each year from1974-2013
AEC 303 Section 001 - MICROECONOMIC CONCEPTS IN AG ECONOMICS Credit: 3.0 Prereq: ECO 201 and MA 113 or 123.
Emphasis on the development of theoretical models of production and consumption economics and application of these models to problems. The importance of concepts of marginality to managers and consumers is emphasized. Role of risk and uncertainty in resource allocation is outlined.
Taught each year from 2004-2013.
Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani
Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani
Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani is a postdoctoral researcher currently based at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He completed his Ph.D. in the Foundations of Physics at Universiteit Utrecht, and works in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity.
Maaneli has published his research in journals such as Physics Letters A, Journal of Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Entropy, and Symmetry, and has served as an anonymous referee for Physical Review A, Foundations of Physics, Fluctuations and Noise Letters, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Cambridge University Press; his work has also been covered in Science, New Scientist, EurekaAlert!, Phys.org, and the Clubhouse show It's About Time!, among other media outlets.
He is a recipient of grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Foundational Questions Institute and received the top prize for the John Templeton Foundation's "Ideas Challenge" in 2020. He is also a member of the Foundational Questions Institute and fellow of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics.
Outside of physics, Maaneli has contributed a philosophical essay, “Another Thing in This Universe that Cannot Be an Illusion,” to the volume, Sam Harris: Critical Responses, and will contribute an essay to the upcoming volume, Steven Pinker: Critical Responses.
Maaneli is also a member of the Manhattan Institute and Adam Smith Society therein, and works with them to advocate for free markets and limited government. His shift to a more sensible view about climate change was initiated by reading Thomas Gale Moore's, Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming, a book enthusiastically endorsed by his favorite economist, Milton Friedman, for making a compelling case that global warming will most likely bring net benefits to the general public.
Douglas Domenech
Douglas Domenech
ASSISTANT SECRETARY INSULAR AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, USDOI
Nominated by President Trump and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. Managed the Office of Insular Affairs, Office of International Affairs, and the Oceans, Great Lakes, and Coastal Programs within the Office of the Secretary. Portfolio included the smaller U.S. territories (Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa), as well as US engagement with three freely associated foreign states (Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands). Oversaw staff in Washington, DC, Hawaii, CNMI, RMI, and FSM.
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION, FUELING FREEDOM PROJECT
Managed the Fueling Freedom Project for the Austin-based TPPF. Publish columns and articles celebrating fossil fuels, organized the annual “At the Crossroads: Energy & Climate Policy Summit” in Austin and Washington, DC.
VIRGINIA SECRETARY OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Legislature. Managed six state environmental, natural and historic resources agencies.
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Member of the senior executive management team at the U.S. Department of the Interior, during the George W. Bush Administration. Positions held at Interior:
- DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO TWO SECRETARIES OF THE INTERIOR
November 2005 to January 2009; Federal Senior Executive Service, Served Secretary Gale Norton and Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.
- ACTING DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY INSULAR AFFAIRS
February 2008 to January 2009; Concurrent Senior Executive Service position.
- WHITE HOUSE LIAISON TO THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
November 2001 to November 2005. Schedule C position; Responsible for administering personnel recruitment and hiring, and facilitating policy coordination with several offices at the White House.
- DEPUTY DIRECTOR EXTERNAL AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
July to November 2001. Schedule C position; Responsible for organizing and managing outreach to Interior constituents, states, and counties.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, National Center for Home Education; November 1995 to July 2001
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Madison Project PAC; January 1994 to May 1995
EDUCATION: 1978 BS - Forestry and Wildlife Management / Industrial Forest Operations Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA
John Droz
John Droz
About The Member
John is an independent physicist and longterm environmental advocate who is very involved with the three E’s: Energy, Environment and Education.
He's put together an informal all-volunteer coalition of some 10,000 individuals, and about 700 of them are PhDs or experts.
A key element of his efforts is to get the public up-to-speed on energy matters, and his website (WiseEnergy.org) is an unparalleled educational resource.
He complements the website with his monthly Energy & Environmental Newsletter.
For more details about his background, see his CV.
John Dale Dunn
John Dale Dunn
John Dale Dunn has been an emergency physician for more than fifty years and an attorney (inactive) for forty years, admitted to the bars of Nebraska, Louisiana and Texas by examination.
For more than thirty years, Dunn has been a student of environmental science, environmental laws, toxicology, epidemiology, and radiation biophysics.
Don Easterbrook
Don Easterbrook
About The Member
Dr. Easterbrook received his PhD in geology from the University of Washington and taught for 40 years at Western Washington University where he has conducted research on global climate change in western North America, New Zealand, Argentina, and various other parts of the world. He has written a dozen books, 185 papers in professional journals, and has presented 30 research papers at international meetings in over 12 countries. He was chairman of the 1977 national meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), was president of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of GSA, was Associate Editor of the GSA Bulletin for 15 years, was U.S. representative to the UN International Geological Correlation Program, and was Director of Field Excursions for the 2003 International Quaternary Congress.
He has received awards for ‘Distinguished service to the Geological Society of America,’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award, ’ and Honorable mention by the American Men of Science in “The Most Influential Scientists in North America.” He has been featured in articles on global warming in the New York Times, and has appeared on national networks shows at MSNBC, CNN, CBS and FOX.
Research Interests
His research activities related to climate change include causes of climate change, correlation of glacial fluctuations, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, climate, and solar variation, temp changes using oxygen isotope data from the Greenland ice core, effect of CO2 on climate change, and geologic history of climate change.
Leslie P. Eastman
Leslie P. Eastman
About The Member
Leslie P. Eastman is a senior consultant for Zoubek Consulting, LLC, a workplace safety solution consulting firm based in San Diego, CA. Leslie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and another in Chemistry from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Additionally, she has a Master of Science Degree in Chemistry (with a biochemistry/physical organic chemistry specialization) from the University of California, San Diego.
She specializes in hazardous materials safety, chemical hazard communication, and laboratory-related environmental health and safety issues. Leslie, who is also a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, has over twenty years of experience in the preparation of safety data sheets, labels, chemical hygiene plans, and other, detailed compliance documentation and permit applications required under safety and environmental health regulations.
She has supported clients as they have conducted remediation projects that had specific Environmental Protection Agency requirements. Leslie overseen the removal of toxic waste materials from research laboratories, monitored employees for potential airborne exposures, and has responded to hazardous materials releases/biohazardous spills.
Additionally, Leslie has given numerous training presentations on a wide array of hazardous materials and environmental compliance topics, including DOT Hazardous Materials Safety, IATA Dangerous Goods Code, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, ISO 14001, and Exposure Control to Bloodborne Pathogens. Her most recent, formal presentation was given at the American Society of Safety Engineers in Atlanta (2016), which dealt with the practical application of the Globally Harmonized System of Chemical Classification rules now being implemented by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Leslie has extensive experience as a journalist, including work as a Science Writer for The South Endwhile she was a student at Wayne State University, and is currently a science and technical writer/contributor for a variety of media outlets. She is an author for Legal Insurrection, a nationally known news analysis site, and reviews climate change coverage as it impacts government policy. She has also provided a platform for whistleblowers, when they reveal data manipulation by bureaucrats and politicians (e.g., Dr. James Enstrom’s case against University of California, Los Angeles). She has been interview on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, KOGO AM 640, and other news and news analysis programs based on the articles she has written.
Leslie is married to Benjamin G. Eastman, Assessment and Remediation Group Leader at AECOM’s San Diego offices. Benjamin has a Master of Science Degree in Geology from San Diego State University. Leslie is the mother of Blake C. Eastman, who is attending Serra High School and has an interest in physics and rocket science, and the step-mother of Michelle Eastman, who is working toward a Master’s Degree in Oriental Studies from University of Cambridge in Great Britain. Leslie, Ben, and Blake live in the small San Diego community of Tierrasanta with two cats, Venus and Jupiter.
Ferdinand Engelbeen
Ferdinand Engelbeen
B. Sc. in process chemistry, Antwerp, Belgium, 1965. Most of his career was dedicated to process engineering, primarily in manufacturing of paints and inks.
In retirement he developed a deep understanding of the carbon cycle. Working independently, he derived the approximate effective residence time for additional CO2 added to the atmosphere and he achieved about the same figure that Dick Lindzen, Roy Spencer and others had calculated (about fifty years).
Ferdinand is one of the top experts on the source of the increase in carbon dioxide over the last century or more. He has conclusively determined via multiple avenues of scientific parameters that our increase of about 140 ppm since the Industrial Revolution (since 1850) is from human sources, primarily the burning of fossil fuels.
James Enstrom
James Enstrom
Dr. James E. Enstrom is a retired Research Professor (Epidemiology) who held faculty positions at the UCLA School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Also, he is President of the Scientific Integrity Institute in Los Angeles. He has a BS in physics from Harvey Mudd College, an MS and PhD in physics from Stanford University, and an MPH and postdoctoral certificate in epidemiology from UCLA. He is a Life Member of the American Physical Society, a Founding Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, a current member of the ACE Ethics Committee, a biographee in Who’s Who in America, and a recipient of the American Freedom Alliance Hero of Conscience Award.
Dr. Enstrom has authored, primarily as first or sole author, about 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on physics, epidemiology, and scientific integrity. He has applied his knowledge of the scientific integrity in the experimental science of physics to increasing the scientific integrity in the observational science of epidemiology. He has published important findings relating healthy lifestyles and good health practices to reduced mortality from cancer, heart disease, and all causes. Also, he has published detailed criticism of weak epidemiologic relationships that should not be used as the basis for public health policy. His Scientific Integrity Institute website contains hundreds of documents on air pollution epidemiology, lifestyle epidemiology, and scientific integrity relevant to his research.
During the past twenty years Dr. Enstrom has focused on environmental epidemiology and has published strong evidence that air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5), is not related to total mortality. This evidence includes the null findings from his independent analyses of the American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study cohorts (CPS I and CPS II). These null findings demonstrate the importance of transparency and reproducibility of research findings and the need for access to underlying data. In addition, these findings challenge the integrity of air pollution epidemiology and the validity of the EPA PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). Finally, these findings are relevant to the scientific efforts of the CO2 Coalition.
James Ferguson
James Ferguson
Professor Emeritus, Professor of Nutrition, Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. MS in biomedical engineering and science (Drexel), VMD University of Pennsylvania, MAR in theology, Trinity School for Ministry. Priest - Anglican church.
Neil Frank
Neil Frank
About The Member
Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. (Meteorology) is a veteran atmospheric scientist of over 50 years’ service.
Atmospheric scientist; Director of the National Hurricane Center (1974–1987) and Chief Meteorologist of KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, TX (1987–2007)
He received a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas, in chemistry and earned his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in meteorology at Florida State University.
Dr. Frank served as Chairman for the World Meteorological Organization's Hurricane Committee for North and Central America (1976-1987). He was the longest-serving Director of the National Hurricane Center (1974–1987) and Chief Meteorologist of KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, TX (1987–2007), and continues his study of climate change in his retirement. He is a Fellow of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.
Patrick Frank
Patrick Frank
Patrick Frank is a physical methods experimental chemist. BS, MS, San Francisco State University; PhD, Stanford University; Bergmann Postdoctoral Fellow at The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Scientific staff at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, with 67 publications in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Research focus included X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy applied to the unusual metal active site in blue copper electron transport proteins, which included falsification of rack-induced bonding theory and overturning 60 years of accepted wisdom about the solvation structure of dissolved cupric ion. Other research resolved the highly unusual and ancient (Cambrian) biological chemistry of vanadium and sulfuric acid in blood cells of the sea squirt Ascidia ceratodes. Further papers published on the noble savage myth, the intelligent design myth, the science is philosophy myth, the Progressivism is ethical myth, and the human-caused global warming myth.
Martin Fricke
Martin Fricke
Martin Fricke is a nuclear physicist and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) which has 50,000 members. He was elected to the 15 member APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) for a 3 year term. He has served both government and R&D industries.
Samuel Furfari
Samuel Furfari
Prof. Samuel Furfari (aka Samuele) is a chemical engineer. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 1982. His thesis was in the field of energy.
Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, where he devoted his entire career to the development of energy technologies and energy policy in practically all areas of energy (strategy, outlook, clean coal technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, environment, climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency) until his final position as Advisor to the Director-General.
He is Professor of Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the ESCP (London campus). He was Professor of Geopolitics of Energy and Energy Policy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for 18 years. He gives seminars at other universities and lectures extensively in various settings. He is the author of numerous articles and 18 books on energy and sustainable development.
He is a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
David Galligan
David Galligan
About The Member
BA (Biology) University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, 1976
VMD (Veterinary Medicine) University of Pennsylvania, 1981
MBA (Business) University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Graduate School, 1985
Select Publications
Dou, Z., J. Toth, D. Galligan, M. Kristula, Y. Hao, Z. Cui Biosafety and sustainability implications of feed produced from consumer food waste via an innovative technology. 8th International conference on engineering for waste and biomass valorization. Guelph, Canada : , 2020.
A Kelly, DT Galligan, M Salman, B Osburn "The epic challenge of global food security: a compelling mission for veterinary medicine" Commentary JAVMA 256: 643-645, 2020.
Task Force Chair Zhengxia Dou Task force Authors Chris Cochran Steven Finn David Galligan Nora Goldstein Tom O'Donnell CAST Issue Paper #62. Sept 2018. “Food loss and waste – a paper in the series on the need for agricultural innovation to sustainably feed the world by 2050”. Role: Task Force chair. CAST Issue Paper : , 2018.
Dou, Z., J. Ferguson, D. Galligan, A. Kelly, S. Finn, R. Giegengack Assessing food loss across U.S. supply chain and opportunities for reduction. Global Food Security 8: 19-26, 2016.
Redding L E, Cubas-Delgado F, Sammel M D, Smith G, Galligan D T, Levy M Z, Hennessy S Comparison of two methods for collecting antibiotic use data on small dairy farms. Preventive veterinary medicine : , 2014.
L.E. Reddingab*, F. Cubas-Delgadoc, M.D. Sammelb, G. Smithab, D.T. Galligana, M.Z. Levyb & S. Hennessyb Antibiotic residues in milk from small dairy farms in rural Peru Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A : , 2014.
Redding L E, Cubas-Delgado F, Sammel M D, Smith G, Galligan D T, Levy M Z, Hennessy S The use of antibiotics on small dairy farms in rural Peru. Preventive veterinary medicine 113: 88-95, 2014.
Redding L E, Barg F K, Smith G, Galligan D T, Levy M Z, Hennessy S The role of veterinarians and feed-store vendors in the prescription and use of antibiotics on small dairy farms in rural Peru. Journal of dairy science 96: 7349-54, 2013.
Kelly Alan M, Ferguson James D, Galligan David T, Salman Mo, Osburn Bennie I One health, food security, and veterinary medicine. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 242: 739-43, 2013.
Baker, L. D., R. J. Munson, Z. Dou, D. T. Galligan, J. D. Ferguson, C. F. Ramberg, D. W. Remsburg, and Z. Wu Compliance of small and medium-sized farms in adopting recommendations for improved farm productivity and nutrient utilization Journal of Dairy Science 95: 280, 2012.
Terry Gannon
Terry Gannon
Terry Gannon earned a PhD in Device Physics and went on to have a good career in technology development and management in the Integrated circuit and systems’ industry. Since retiring he came to realize how the mix of science and management could bridge gaps in the effort to seek good science and reasoning in a number of areas, in order to leave a more free and intelligent society for the children of today.
Climate science is an area which mapped well to how he was trained academically. His studies in Device physics combined optical phenomena, quantum mechanics, computer modelling, multi-variable analysis, and how they integrate into a physical result. His near 30 year career in management gave him skills to build high performance teams, strategies and companies. His entrepreneurial efforts left him with a sense of how to build efforts that are objective driven and yet intensely focused on how to achieve these outcomes.
Since retiring, Dr. Gannon has studied climate science extensively for about the past 10 years, as well as current events in other areas such as current political and healthcare events. He also gained skills in website design and coding while also achieving video creation from scripting, editing and publication in order to understand how these media work well. All of this effort and skill acquisition is intended to provide the ability to see the broader picture while becoming skilled at the details especially of the climate arena. Combined this allows for fast avenues of offense in the current areas of interest. First he has a focus on the closing the gap in improving the understanding between climate science and the various segments including the general public. Secondly the focus on reform of academic freedom in higher education has meaning.
Frank Geisel
Frank Geisel
Frank Geisel – Independent Consulting Engineer
fgeisel@protonmail.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-geisel-4480945
Expert in precision systems; analyst, researcher, focusing on complex multi-disciplinary problems requiring full-spectrum solutions in domains of: Space & Satellite Systems, GEOINT, Marine Systems, Underwater Acoustics/Robotics, Communications.
Extensive experience in Aerospace, Defense, Intelligence, Marine Industry, R&D and Applied Science
- Independent V&V of complex systems
- Geospatial sense-making, OSINT analysis and decision-support.
- Software design, coding, deployment, operations, analysis.
- Modeling & Simulation, Guidance & Navigation: Inertial instrumentation, Robotics applications: airborne, space, terrestrial, marine environments
Most recent Consulting –National Geospatial-intelligence Agency: Evaluation of Adversarial AI/ML & Verification/Validation for risk-reduction; Assessment of commercial capabilities and developments in satellite systems GNC, PNTT, & on-orbit RPO.
Significant experience in design, development, operation of precision instrumentation, data acquisition & processing systems, integrated navigation and tracking, extremely high-accuracy underwater acoustic measurement systems, telerobotic subsea intervention, offshore engineering, underwater archaeology, satellite design & architecture, high-throughput communications and information systems.
BS in Ocean Engineering (MIT); leadership and technical direction of 12 major offshore exploration programs in the Arctic, Antarctic and Great Lakes. Programs developing oil and gas transportation systems in ice covered waters were a collaboration between MARAD, US Coast Guard, and companies of the Alaska Oil & Gas Association. Engineering & environmental work led designs for anticipated major oil & gas developments north of Prudhoe Bay and included Historic expeditions: the first Winter Transit to Point Barrow and the Northwest Passage.
Pioneered the commercialization of high-frequency underwater measurement systems, demonstrated & utilized for precision archaeological measurements, mapping of ship’s hulls and underwater facilities (for mine-detection, security & physical integrity), and telerobotic control of underwater vehicles (for subsea intervention and nuclear powerplant maintenance). This work led to leading development and operations of a deep-water integrated navigation system for search/locate and precision subsea mapping and characterization.
Work with DoD, Space & IC communities has included: Inertial instrumentation, end-to-end satellite systems, design and evaluation of constellations & architecture, modeling & simulation of high-throughput communications networks, protection and security (including applications of resilience, robustness and survivability), autonomy and autonomous operations, design and implementation of systems to transform data-to-decisions in near-real-time. Deeply engaged in open-source, unclassified GEOINT programs, anomaly detection (making sense of disparate and seemingly incoherent data) and researching the current paradigm shift in decision support systems, resulting from unprecedented connections of data & domains.
Lee Gerhard
Lee Gerhard
PhD Geology - Lee Gerhard is senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas, and past director and state geologist of the Kansas Geological Survey. His research interests are in carbonate sedimentology, petroleum geology, and environmental public policy; Founder and Co-Director, Energy Research Center: Univ.
OUTSIDE INTERESTS
Scenic and technical photography, fishing, hunting, golf, water color painting
Honors and Awards
Public Outreach Award, Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geol. 2007
Member, Russian Academy of Natural Science-US Branch 2005
(Kapitsa Medal, 2005, Einstein Medal, 2006, Chilingar-Golomb Giants of Science and Engineering Medal, 2006)
Public Outreach Award, DEG/AAPG, 2003
Kansas Oil and Gas Hall of Fame, 2002
Honorary Membership, Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geol., 1997
Honorary Membership, Div. Env. Geosciences, AAPG, 1998
Honorary Membership, Assoc. of American State Geologists. 1999
Honorary Membership, Kansas Geological Society, 1999
Public Outreach Award, DEG/AAPG, 1999
Journalism Award, Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geol., 1996
Who's Who in America, 1980-pres.
American Men and Women of Science
Past President' s Award, Rocky Mtn. Sect., A.A.P.G.
Nomination for National Treasurer, A.A.P.G., 1986
Distinguished Service Award, A.A.P.G., 1989
Nomination for National President, AAPG, 1999
Nomination for National Vice President, A.A.P.G., 1989
Technical Advisor, Potential Gas Committee (Honorary)
Edward Gerry
Edward Gerry
Dr. Edward Gerry is a Senior Partner with Systems, Technology and Science, LLC (STSLLC), where he serves as subject matter expert to the Missile Defense Agency and the Missile Defense National Team. In Maine, where he lives, he also serves on the board of a nonprofit Physiology First and the board of the MIT Club of Maine.
Until 2007, he served as the System Architect for the Missile Defense National Team. Dr. Gerry had been with the National Team since its formation in January, 2002. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Technologist for the Boeing Missile Defense Systems Division after serving on the leadership team of the National Missile Defense Program for several years.
Before he joined Boeing, Dr. Gerry was President and Chief Operating Officer of Schafer Corporation, a leading consulting and engineering company. Dr. Gerry also served as the Systems Architect for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the first Bush administration and as acting Deputy Director for several months at the start of the Clinton administration.
From 1975 until he joined SDIO, he was President and COO of W.J. Schafer Associates. During this period, in addition to his corporate duties, he served on several high level advisory boards including the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the Army Science Board. He also participated in several Defense Science Board studies.
Following President Reagan’s March 23, 1983 announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative, Dr. Gerry was selected to participate on the Fletcher Panel, which laid the groundwork for the formation of SDIO. For this panel, Dr. Gerry chaired the Boost Phase Intercept Concepts Group. From 1971-1975 Dr. Gerry served as Assistant Director for Technology in the Strategic Technology office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Prior to that, he led the High Energy Laser Group at Avco Everett Research Laboratory in Massachusetts. There he was a co-inventor of the CO2 gas dynamic laser, the first laser type scalable to weapon level powers.
Dr. Gerry received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, his MS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1962, and his BS in Physics from the College of William and Mary in 1959.
Indur Goklany
Indur Goklany
Ph. D. (1973), M.S. (1969), Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, Michigan State University.
Bachelor of Technology (1968, with honors), Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Worked with federal and state agencies, think tanks, and the private sector for over 45 years, including over 30 years working on climate and global change issues.
Long time (29 -year) member of the Federal Senior Executive Service from 1992 to retirement (2021).
Written extensively on the interactions between globalization, economic development, environmental quality, technological change, climate change, and human well-being. Writings include about a 150 papers, books and monographs (see Google Scholar and ResearchGate.)
Books include The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet and The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment.
Involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since before its inception — as an author (First Assessment Report), U.S. delegate to IPCC and various subgroups off and on from (1988 through 2009) Expert Reviewer (Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports). I also helped develop the IPCC WG II’s Preliminary Guidelines for Assessing Impacts of Climate Change which were subsequently incorporated into its methodological guidelines.
Part of the U.S. team that negotiated the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and later a delegate to that organization.
Departmental representative to the interdepartmental Policy Coordinating Committee on Climate Change (chaired by the State Department), 2001-2009, and the US Global Change Research initiative and the Global Change Research Program, 1987-1993.
Developed the emissions trading program in the Environmental Protection Agency before emissions trading became the vogue. Received EPA’s bronze medal for developing the first-ever emission trading scheme (which involved sources subject to new source performance standards).
Received the Julian Simon Prize and Award by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2007.
Gregg A. Goodnight
Gregg A. Goodnight
About The Member
Gregg A. Goodnight is a retired professional chemical engineer with a current focus on climate science and public policy analysis. Prior to retirement, he worked in the chemical industry for over 30 years in production, technical services, and consulting. Beginning in 2000, he was employed in the financial services industry as an equity analyst of US-based chemical companies, with special focus on commodity chemical production and feedstock analysis, and company financial and valuation assessments.
Laurence I. “Larry” Gould
Laurence I. “Larry” Gould
About The Member
Dr. Gould is a professor of Physics at the University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. He received his Bachelor's degree at Carnegie-Mellon University and his Master's and Doctorate degrees at Temple University in Philadelphia. His areas of interest include Connections between Non-Local Dynamical Equations and Conservation Laws, Computational Physics using Symbolic Algebra, Critical Investigations of the Claims about “Global Warming/Climate Change/Global Climate Disruption”, Symmetry in Science Education, History and Philosophy of Science, and Foundations of Quantum Theory. Dr. Gould has lectured and published extensively in many areas, such as the history and philosophy of science and global warming/climate change.
Renee Hannon
Renee Hannon
Geoscience advisor with a MS degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. Member of the CO2 Coalition, Alaska Geologic Society, and AAPG.
Geologist with 40 years experience in the energy sector at Arctic locations.
Expertise in utilizing subsurface datasets to understand paleo depositional settings, tectonic evolution and source rocks on the North Slope of Alaska. Managed multi-discipline teams to develop geoscience earth models, reservoir simulation dynamic models, facility development scenarios and economic evaluations. Interacted with native communities, USACD, DOG, DNR, and AOGCC agencies to obtain appropriate permits for project developments.
Currently applying my geoscience knowledge and data evaluation skillsets to advance Paleoclimate sciences.
Kip Hansen
Kip Hansen
Science research journalist and contributing expert on sea level and sea-level rise. Prolific author of numerous articles on the subjects. WUWT lists 445 commentaries and articles.
List of WUWT publications on sea level: https://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=%22Kip%20Hansen%22%20%20Sea%20Level
He has spent much of his adult life at sea, first as an officer on a merchant ship, and later as a USCG-licensed captain in the Caribbean, where he sailed with his wife while doing humanitarian work (mostly Dominican Republic).
Kathleen Hartnett-White
Kathleen Hartnett-White
About The Member
The Honorable Kathleen Hartnett White joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation in January 2008. She is a Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment.
Prior to joining the Foundation, White served a six-year term as Chairman and Commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). With regulatory jurisdiction over air quality, water quality, water rights & utilities, storage and disposal of waste, TCEQ’s staff of 3,000, annual budget of over $600 million, and 16 regional offices make it the second largest environmental regulatory agency in the world after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Prior to Governor Rick Perry’s appointment of White to the TCEQ in 2001, she served as then Governor George Bush appointee to the Texas Water Development Board where she sat until appointed to TCEQ. She also served on the Texas Economic Development Commission and the Environmental Flows Study Commission. She recently completed her term as an officer and director of the Lower Colorado River Authority. White now sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Regulatory Science, the Texas Emission Reduction Advisory Board, and the Texas Water Foundation. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including National Review, Investors’ Business Daily, Washington Examiner, Forbes, Daily Caller, The Hill, and major Texas newspapers. She most recently testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
A writer and consultant on environmental laws, free market natural resource policy, private property rights, and ranching history, White received her bachelor cum laude and master degrees from Stanford University where for three years she held the Elizabeth Wheeler Lyman Scholarship for an Outstanding Woman in the Humanities. She was also awarded a Danforth National Fellowship for doctoral work at Princeton University in Comparative Religion and there won the Jonathan Edwards Award for Academic Excellence. She also studied law under a Lineberry Foundation Fellowship at Texas Tech University
White was Director of Private Lands and the Environment for the National Cattlemen's Association in Washington, D.C. She has served as director of the Ranching Heritage Association, and was a special assistant in the White House Office of the First Lady Nancy Reagan.
She is a member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattleraisers Association, the Texas Hereford Association, and the American Hereford Association. She is a former commissioner of the Texas Strategic Economic Development Planning Commission, a former board member of the Texas Wildlife Association and the National Cattlemen's Legal Defense Fund.
Howard “Cork” Hayden
Howard “Cork” Hayden
Howard ‘Cork’ Hayden, professor of physics emeritus in the Physics Department of the University of Connecticut, is editor of The Energy Advocate, a monthly newsletter promoting energy and technology.
A Colorado native, Dr. Hayden entered the University of Denver as an engineering major, but soon discovered that he wasn’t temperamentally suited to all that reality. He switched to physics and went on to earn his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at DU.
On receiving his Ph.D., he went to the University of Connecticut where he spent 32 years doing teaching and research. He did accelerator-based atomic physics, including measurements of cross-sections for various processes, measurements of energy loss in atomic collisions and of lifetimes of excited states, beam-foil spectroscopy, and ion implantation. He also performed a Trouton-Noble experiment that was 105 times as sensitive as the original.
Hayden is also editor of The Energy Advocate, a monthly newsletter promoting energy and technology, which in August 2017 begins its 22nd year of publication. He is the author of, among other publications, The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World (Vales Lake Publishing LLC, 2002, 2d edition 2005), A Primer on CO2 and Climate (Vales Lake Publishing LLC, 2007), A Primer on Renewable Energy (Vales Lake Publishing, LLC), and Bass Ackwards: How Climate Alarmists Confuse Cause with Effect (Vales Lake Publishing, LLC).
His research interests include ionic and atomic collisions, charge transfer, ionization, energy loss, energy-level crossings, ion-surface collisions, ion implantation, relativity considerations, and energy for society (fossil fuels, nuclear, hydro, wind, biomass, photovoltaics, solar heating). Upon early retirement in 1999, he returned to Pueblo, Colorado, where he continues to clast icons. He is a Policy Advisor to The Heartland Institute.
Tony Heller
Tony Heller
BS Geology, Arizona State UniversityMasters Electrical Engineering, Rice UniversityBoston University GeologyNorthern Arizona University Computer ScienceColorado State University Computer ScienceUniversity of New Mexico Geochemistry
Lifelong environmentalist.I testified at my first Congressional hearing in support of Wilderness in 1972.I fought for the Clean Air and Water actsWilderness Ranger Cibola National Forest, New MexicoWilderness Ranger Santa Fe National Forest, New MexicoCurrently battling the City of Boulder, Colorado to stop development on the South Boulder WetlandsFull time cyclist for all my local transportation, for the past 40 years
Teacher.Science teacher, Athletic Director and Soccer Coach at Oak Creek Ranch School, ArizonaMath teacher at Phoenix Country Day SchoolSubstitute teacher at Murphy School District, Phoenix ArizonaComputer instructor at Tomball College, Texas
Geologist.Geothermal research at Los Alamos National LabsOil shale research at Los Alamos National LabsThermodynamic research of methane hydrates at Los Alamos National LabsVolcano research at Los Alamos National LabsSafety Analysis Report for the Permian Basin DOE nuclear waste disposal siteVolunteer curator Arizona Mineral Museum
Electrical EngineerCompaq/SGI MIPS consortium design teamPower PC design team IBM/Apple/Motorola (Used in most game consoles over the last three decades, and PowerMacs)Sandia Labs computer architectSandia Labs representative to Al Gore’s Bankers Trust key escrow consortiumCyrix Media GX microprocessor design team managerRaycer Graphics OpenGL graphics processor verification leadDesign manager Hitachi/ST SH5 microprocessorVerification lead MemoryLogix microprocessorFounder, design lead Visual Media video effects/editing softwareOpenGL driver development ATIItanium/i7 design team Intel Sped up Helicos DNA sequencing algorithm by 50XSped up NCAR weather microphysics kernel by 500XPorted NCAR’s radiative transfer model to GPUPorted NCAR’s WRF weather model to WindowsDrone visualization and control software for the US militaryMedical device control systems (under NDA)Virtual reality visualization design (under NDA)Radio control and visualization software (under NDA)
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains a Fellow for Economic and Social Policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
2022 03 22 Mankind Versus Climate
David Hilderman
David Hilderman
David Hilderman is an engineer and former COO of a Victoria based music equipment manufacturer. He obtained a Bachelor of Applied Sciences from the University of Regina in 1988 and has worked in the electronics industry. David is married with two young adult children.
Hilderman grew up in Saskatchewan, the second oldest in a family of six boys. Since 2000 he has lived in beautiful Saanichton British Columbia, raising two great kids with his lovely wife. He went to the Victoria area to combine his engineering experience and love of music production to work for a company that makes products for performing musicians. He worked there for 19 years, five of which were in the role of Chief Operating Officer.
In 2021 he ran against the Green Party incumbent, Elizabeth May, in the federal election and had the opportunity to debate her five times.
He is now doing contract engineering work in the development of pro audio equipment. He enjoys kayaking and hiking, as well as playing guitar and singing.
Charles Hohenberg
Charles Hohenberg
About this Member
Charles Hohenberg has been a Professor of Physics at Washington University for 45 years. He received his BS in Physics from Princeton in 1962 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. He is an experimental physicist who designs and builds his own equipment, utilizing the sensitivity of noble gas mass spectrometry in a number of different fields. During the course of his research he developed new high-precision ion-counting noble gas mass
spectrometer systems, and the associated ultra-low-blank auxiliary systems, capable of measuring noble gas isotope ratios at the thousand atom level. Studying the abundances of now extinct 129 I and 244 Pu, he developed early self-consistent models for galactic nucleosynthesis. Through a large, multi-year effort, he developed 129 I into a refined I-Xe dating method suitable for delineating early Solar System evolution with a resolution of 100,000 years or less. Necessary in his work was development of pulsed and CW laser systems for the extraction of noble gases from individual micron-sized grains. The precision of I-Xe dating and laser excision allows determination of cooling rates of iron meteorites. He discovered the first hard evidence for an early active (T-Tauri) sun by observing quantities of spallation-produced 21 Ne in individual meteoritic olivine grains which contained cosmogenic 21 Ne far in excess of that due to contemporary sources of energetic particles (solar and galactic cosmic rays and secondaries). Measured decay half-lives by the accumulation of heavy noble gas daughter products, including the longest half-life ever experimentally measured (8.0 x 10 24 years for 128 Te, measured in 2 billion year old native Te). He refined the 81 Kr-Kr exposure age dating method and established the ages of many prominent lunar features (Tyco, North Ray crater and South Ray crater to precisions of a few percent), and studied meteorite exposure ages and lunar surface dynamics by the same method. He investigated the ancient natural spontaneous chain reactions in old uranium deposits Oklo (Gabon), a natural reactor) deposits. Recent work for the Stardust Mission led to the documentation of “anomalous adsorption” of heavy noble gases, a new mechanism for incorporation of heavy noble gases onto 2-D surfaces involving chemical rather than Van der Waals bonds. As a member of the Genesis and Stardust mission science teams, much recent activity has been in construction of multiple multiplier noble gas mass spectrometers in house, and collaborative design efforts with two commercial manufacturers: Nu-Instruments and GV Instruments. Results from the Genesis Mission has led to the highest precision determination of Kr and Xe isotope ratios in the solar wind, by inference the Sun, the starting composition of the solar system. He has been fully supported by NASA for all of his research activities.
Dr. Hohenberg remained at Berkeley for two and a half years after receiving his PhD in 1967 to study the Apollo 11 samples. He then joined the Washington University Physics Department as an Assistant Professor in 1970, becoming Full Professor in 1978, where he was an active researcher for all Apollo Missions. However, he but spent much of his time studying noble gases in meteorites, the best preserved samples of the early solar system, where I-Xe dating has helped understand its early evolution. He has published approximately 320 reviewed publications, produced a dozen PhD physicists many are actively pursuing their own exciting work (5 university faculty, 4 national laboratories).
Dr. Hohenberg is married to Victoria Marshall Hohenberg, the father of 4 children, and lives in St. Louis Missouri.
Jim Hollingsworth
Jim Hollingsworth
About The Member
Work History
2013 to Present Retired
1992 to 2013 Building Contractor; Hollingsworth Enterprises
1977 to 1992 Pastor, School Teacher, School Administrator, Private Sch
1968 to 1977 Geological Asst, Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg Idaho
Education
1958 Graduate Pomona High School, Pomona California
1962 AA Degree, Mt Sac Jr. College, General Science.
Ran Weather Station on campus
1967 BA Humboldt State College, Social Science,
Minor in Geology
1989 MA, Pensacola Christian College
I have always had a keen interest in weather and thus was in charge of the weather station on campus in Junior College. We posted our predictions on the campus bulletin board.
Nine years working at the Bunker Hill Mine showed me that geologic processes take a lot of time. The Earth has changed from time to time, but it is still here. I believe it will continue with summer and winter for ages to come.
I have been especially impressed by the work of the Heartland Institute and took one of their seminars. I have continued to study tapes of later seminars. Also, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, of whom Dr. Art Robinson is on the board. I attended one of their seminars and have watched tapes of the conferences since then. I have read many books on climate change since college. I was in a panel discussion with local environmentalists and have written many letters to the editor on the subject.
Edward Hoskins
Edward Hoskins
About the member
In 1969 Ed founded Applied Research of Cambridge Ltd. (ARC) as a commercial offshoot from The Martin Centre the Cambrige university research group associated with the School of Architecture and he headed it thereafter as Managing Director and later Chairman.
Retired to France in 2000 and has maintained a continuing interest and the Climate Change fraud, producing a blog https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/
MA Architecture, University of Cambridge. RIBA Corporate Member, Royal Institute of British Architects
Craig Idso
Craig Idso
About The Member
Craig Idso, PhD is the founder and current chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and disseminating scientific information pertaining to the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment on climate and the biosphere. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society. His research has appeared in Geophysical Research Letters, Energy & Environment, Atmospheric Environment, Technology, The Quarterly Review of Biology, and Journal of Climate, among others, and he is author or co-author of several books, including The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment (2011), CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs(2009) and Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO2-Enriched Warmer World(2003).
Dr. Idso’s research has appeared many times in peer-reviewed journals, including Geophysical Research Letters, Energy & Environment, Atmospheric Environment, Technology, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Journal of Climate, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Physical Geography, and the Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science.
Dr. Idso is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment (Vales Lake Publishing, LLC, 2011), CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs (Vales Lake Publishing, LLC, 2009); Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO2-Enriched Warmer World(Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 2003); and The Specter of Species Extinction: Will Global Warming Decimate Earth’s Biosphere?(George C. Marshall Institute, 2003). He contributed chapters to McKittrick, R. (Ed.), Critical Topics in Global Warming (Fraser Institute, 2009) and Encyclopedia of Soil Science (Marcel Dekker, 2002).
Dr. Idso received a B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, an M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, where he also studied as one of a small group of University Graduate Scholars. He was a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University and has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University.
Dr. Idso is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
Aziz Islam
Aziz Islam
Aziz Islam holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Sheffield, England and undergraduate degrees from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. After a long career in both industry and academia, specializing in palynology, he retired in 2009 and published his first book: New Emperors' Novel Clothes: Climate Change Analysed in 2013.
He was a founding member of the Saltbush Club of western Australia, one of the leading climate realist groups in Australia.
Dan Janzen
Dan Janzen
Dan Janzen received his MA in Agriculture from Oregon State University in 1992.
Since 2013, Dan has worked full-time in international agricultural development in South Sudan (home base since 2016), Colombia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Malawi. He specializes in working in the most challenging environments. Janzen teaches best management practices, as well as instructing how appropriate technology combined with character development will alleviate extreme poverty, drought, and flooding, which commonly occur in conflict zones.
Janzen develops posters and other educational curriculum materials and presents at conferences on climate change. His mission is to counter the threat of extreme environmentalism or deep ecology neo-Malthusians ideology. This is, in part, accomplished by influencing others to focus on climate resilience (best management practices) rather than on reducing CO2. He is convinced that evidence shows that CO2 is a highly beneficial plant “fertilizer”; agricultural productivity today is enhanced by global higher temperatures like those of the Roman and Medieval warm periods; and greenhouse gases assist in preventing the return of cold periods such as the Little Ice Age and associated famines killing tens of millions of people in that period.
Janzen also researches the long-term economic effects of different forms of energy as they relate to human flourishing. He has worked for a Buy Local campaign. He was also employed in the research division of a large liquid fertilizer company, the MSU Extension Service as an agriculture and natural resources extension agent, and in farm management in Oregon (family farm), California, Indiana, Florida, and Michigan. He has eight wonderful children.
Jason Johnston
Jason Johnston
Jason Scott Johnston is an economist and legal scholar, receiving both his J.D. and PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He is currently the Blaine T. Philips Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law and Director of the Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Virginia Law School. Before coming to Virginia, Johnston was the Fuller Professor and Founding Director of the Program on Law, Environment and Economy, the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Johnston’s research has focused on the economic analysis of how alternative legal rules and institutions impact economic behavior, including the behavior of administrative agencies. Since 2007, Johnston has worked on topics related to climate science and policy and regulatory science. Most recently, Johnston authored Climate Rationality: From Bias to Balance (Cambridge University Press, 2021), in which he argues, with voluminous support, that U.S. climate policy has been biased by weighing only the generally exaggerated potential benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions while neglecting the many present and future costs of such reductions as well as the well-established capacity for successful human adaptation to climate change.
Johnston has been awarded a Bosch Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin and a Julian Simon Fellowship at the Property and Environment Research Center. He has served on the Board of the American Law and Economics Association, the Searle Civil Justice Institute, and on the National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Grant Review Panel. Johnston is also a member (inactive) of the Idaho State Bar.
Morten Jødal
Morten Jødal
About the member
Marine biologist, Chair of the Climate Realists of Norway
Positions of trust (latest)
- Head of the board of the Norwegian Biologist Organization (until May 2008)
- Secretary of the European Countries Biologist Organization (ECBA), 2006-2008
- Head of the board of “Stangodden Vel” (www.stangodden.no) – a union of cabin owners in Telemark, 2007 →
- Head of the board of “Krokans venner” (www.krokansvenner.no), 2011 → 2014
- Head of the board of Farmers marked, Oslo, March 2013 ® 2016
- Member of board of Farmers shop, 2013 ® 2016
- Head of board of Climate Realists in Norway, 2018 ®
Work experience
Norwegian Research Council, 1985-1989. Responsible for research in biology, chemistry, environmental research, gene technology, acid rain and fish farming.
University of Oslo, 1989 – 1994. Wrote the report which lead to the raising of the Centre for Development and the Environment (1989), and later worked as head of the administration.
WWF Norway: Wrote the book: Consequences of a EU membership for the nature conservation in Norway (1994). Later headed a school project on nature conservation (1995).
Project manager for a school project in the European Movement in Norway (1998-2000)
Project manager for raising a national park museum in Tinn municipality, opened 2000 (1996-2000)
Owner of the individual enterprise “Soppgleder”, giving public mushroom courses every autumn, plus collection, production and sales of mushroom products. www.soppgleder.no
Running the business “Akerselvavandring” (www.akerselvavandring.no); guiding along the Akerselva river in Oslo, and giving lectures on the same river. 2008 →
In short: Administration and project management, with experience from research, environment, tourism and politics. Author, translator of books and articles, and election observer.
Author
- Book: Consequences of an EU membership for the nature conservation in Norway (1994)
- Book: Boabob – The strangest tree in the world. Omnipax publishing house, 2007.
- Encyclopedia writer in Botany – VSOY publishing house (Finland). Last book published in December 2008
- Book: Akerselva (river in Oslo), Topografisk publishing house, 2005
- Book: Miljømytene. Published 2017
Translator
- From English to Norwegian. Cool it, by Bjørn Lomborg, Kagge publishing house, August 2008.
- From English to Norwegian: Inconvenient Facts, by Gregory Wrightstone. Wigestrand publishing house, 2020
- From English to Norwegian: False Alarm, By Bjørn Lomborg. To be published by Wigestrand publishing house, 2021.
Exhibitions - Video production for the Norwegian Tourist Association (July, 2008), Permanent outdoor exhibition, 2007
Project manager-Several conferences in the Norwegian Biological Association (Environmental pollution and marine life; 2008, Bird flue; 2006, Gene technology – an arena of possibilities; 2004, Science and superstition; 2001)
Lost positions of trust
2008: Head of Norwegian Biologist Organization
2016: Head of board of Farmers marked Oslo
Both positions lost on basis of engagement in the climate debate in Norway – obviously on “wrong side”.
Capt. Todd Kiefer
Capt. Todd Kiefer
About The Member
Captain Todd “Ike” Kiefer, USN (ret.) is director of government relations and economic development for East Mississippi Electric Power Association and president of North Lauderdale Water Association. His career in public utilities follows 25 years as a naval officer and aviator. He has degrees in physics, strategy, and military history, and diverse military experience that spans airborne electronic warfare, nuclear submarines, operational flight test, particle accelerators, Pentagon Joint Staff strategic planning, and war college faculty. Deployed eight times to the Middle East and Southwest Asia, he spent 22 months on the ground in Iraq and Commanded Al Asad Air Base and Training Squadron NINE. Author of several published papers on energy and energy security.
Payne Kilbourn
Payne Kilbourn
Payne Kilbourn is now an independent consultant and writer after 28 years in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service and eight years in business.
From 2004 to 2012 he was the CEO of Unmanned Ocean Vehicles. He started the company, attracted capital investment, and was the co-author of the international patent for the company’s unique autonomous, energy-scavenging, year-long endurance unmanned surface vessel for military applications and oceanographic research. The company demonstrated a fully operational prototype to the US Navy in 2010. The company’s assets were moved to Australia in 2011.
He retired from the Navy as a Captain in 2003. During his career he served on five nuclear attack submarines, the last tour from 1993 to 1995 as Commanding Officer of USS Omaha (SSN 692). While on these submarines he spent more than half his time at sea and made eight 4-6 month deployments to the Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Pacific.
Tours of duty ashore included two years as an instructor at a Navy nuclear power training unit, a two year tour as an analyst and computer modeler of conventional warfare on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and two tours on the Navy staff in the Pentagon. He was the 1997 Navy Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and from 1999 – 2001 he was the US Navy representative to the NATO Naval Board in Brussels, Belgium.
He earned a M.A. in Political Science from George Washington University in 1989, a B.S. in Naval Architecture from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1976 and is Certified in the Operation and Maintenance of Naval Nuclear Power Plants. He was an elected school board member in King George County, Virginia, for three years until 2010.
He is the author of three novels, two screenplays, and two non-fiction books on American government (“Gridlock: Why We Are In It…” and “Modern Common Sense”) and numerous articles and essays.
Intrigued by the movie An Inconvenient Truth, he applied his education in nuclear physics to deeply research the scientific basis of the theory of global warming and then produced a number of papers and videos that describe the physics and chemistry that underlie it. These prompted the Board to invite him to join the CO2 Coalition.
Selected Publications and Interviews:
Crucial Conversations with our Members:
Navy Veteran, CEO, author, and CO2 Coalition Member talks about his time as an officer on attack submarines, his company "Unmanned Ocean Vehicles", electricity generation, climate models, and the problem with using the term "climate science".
David King
David King
After completing an MSc in Geophysics at Imperial College, London, in 1969, David was awarded his Ph.D. in Seismology from the Australian National University in 1974. Following two years post-doctoral research at the NORSAR seismic array, working on deep earth structure, David returned to Australia as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, working on the processing of shallow seismic exploration data. He joined the oil and gas industry in 1980, serving as Exploration Manager and later Managing Director of a number of independent oil and gas companies, before forming with colleagues three new companies developing both conventional and unconventional gas resources in Australia and South East Asia.
Since retiring from executive duties David has served on over twenty public company boards in industries spanning oil and gas, gold, helium, biotech, and litigation funding. He has authored and co-authored over 30 scientific papers, and more recently focused on preparing educational notes on the futility of net zero dogma.
Ernest LaFlure
Ernest LaFlure
About The Member
Mr. Ernest LaFlure graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of New York at Binghamton with a Master of Science Degree in Geology in 1978. He published research at that time on the impact of urbanization on flood magnitudes in Western Pennsylvania. LaFlure subsequently earned an Executive MBA at the University of Houston. He began his energy industry career, with Shell Oil Co., where in 20 years he held various exploration and production management positions throughout the continental United States and Alaska, including both onshore and offshore assignments. He left Shell as Exploration Manager for the Continental US and Alaska.
In 1998, LaFlure went independent, and formed privately held Andex Resources where he was President, and CEO. The principals in the company chose to sell the venture during a downturn in the industry in late 2001.
LaFlure joined EOG Resources management in 2002 and for 10 of those years was the Vice President and General Manager of the Tyler Division, where he had responsibilities for EOG’s exploration and production activities in the southeastern United States, including operations in East Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. EOG is a recognized leader in horizontal drilling in unconventional shale plays. In the East Texas region, LaFlure led EOG’s entry into such programs as the Haynesville Shale, Eagle Ford Shale, Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, and Buda Limestone. After thirteen years at EOG and 37 years in the industry, LaFlure retired at yearend 2015.
LaFlure helped found a new company, Oil Technology Group (OTG) in 2016, where he is a Director. OTG is focused on the development of new enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies for shale reservoirs. He is also currently President for the East Texas Geological Society. Additionally, LaFlure has been a major organizer of the annual NE Texas Energy Summit that explores a wide range of energy policy issues with government, business and political leaders in Texas.
William Lama
William Lama
William Lama was raised in Rochester, New York, and received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rochester. He taught physics in college and was a principal scientist at Xerox Research Labs. He has been granted 35 US patents and has published 36 journal articles. For the last 14 years of his career, he was a Xerox manager, finishing as a manager of electronics and software in El Segundo, California. Retired since 2002, he has served as a Trustee of the Palos Verdes Library District and as a board member of several associations.
John Ledger
John Ledger
With a PhD in Tropical Pathology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, John is a South African who has had several careers in different fields. His first one spanned 18 years at the South African Institute for Medical Research where he became Head of the Department of Medical Entomology. A life-long interest in the environment and conservation was fulfilled when he served as Director of the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) for 17 years. His interest in energy led him towards academia, and he is a past Associate Professor of Energy Studies at the University of Johannesburg, as well as Visiting Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. Here he still teaches a module on Energy and the Environment for the MSC in Environmental Science, which commenced in 2002.
John served as a Consultant to the World Bank on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project for 21 years, and his interest in reconciling conflicts between birds and powerlines resulted in the establishment in 1977 of a strategic partnership between the EWT and Eskom (South Africa's national electrical utility) which endures to the present. He has worked all over southern Africa, including Namibia and Mozambique, and has presented papers at a number of international meetings on wildlife and energy. He has published extensively in his various fields of expertise, and is a writer, editor, teacher and consultant on energy and environmental issue. He is Consulting Editor of African Wildlife & Environment magazine and writes a conservation column for the African Hunting Gazette.
Richard Lindzen
Richard Lindzen
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT. After completing his doctorate at Harvard in 1964 (with a thesis on the interaction of photochemistry, radiation and dynamics in the stratosphere), he did postdoctoral work at the University of Washington and at the University of Oslo before joining the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a staff scientist. At the end of 1967, Dr. Lindzen moved to the University of Chicago as a tenured associate professor, and in 1971 returned to Harvard to assume the Gordon McKay Professorship (and later the Burden Professorship) in Dynamic Meteorology. In 1981 he moved to MIT to assume the Alfred P. Sloan Professorship in Atmospheric Sciences. He has also held visiting professorships at UCLA, Tel Aviv University, and the National Physical Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and the Laboratory for Dynamic Meteorology at the University of Paris.
Dr. Lindzen developed our current understanding of the quasi-biennial oscillation of the tropical stratosphere, the current explanation for dominance of the solar semidiurnal and diurnal tides at various levels of the atmosphere, the role of breaking gravity waves as a major source of friction in the atmosphere, and the role of this friction in reversing the meridional temperature gradient at the tropopause (where the equator is the coldest latitude) and the mesopause (where temperature is a minimum at the summer pole and a maximum at the winter pole). He has also developed the basic description of how surface temperature in the tropics controls the distribution of cumulus convection, and led the group that discovered the iris effect where upper level cirrus contract in response to warmer surface temperatures. He has published approximately 250 papers and books. He is an award recipient of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Lindzen has served as the director of the Center for Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, and on numerous panels of the National Research Council. He was also a lead author on the Third Assessment Report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the report for which the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
William Lynch
William Lynch
William T. Lynch
PhD (Princeton); M.S. (MIT)
Bill has a PhD from Princeton University and an MS From MIT, with emphases on solid state physics and semiconductor devices. He is currently an Independent Research Consultant focused on Integrated Circuits (ICs) and General Optimization Analyses. His personal career-long knowledge and interests in sources of energy are now directed towards rational, reliable global needs of the future
Bill modeled photovoltaic cells as a student in the late ‘50’s and was trained as a nuclear specialist in the US Navy, but the majority of his career was at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he became Head of the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Department. After BTL’s breakup, he served 10 years as a Director of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, a consortium of industry and government to establish roadmaps and to fund PhD research in semiconductors.
He has served and chaired national committees. He has over 60 patents, over 60 peer-reviewed papers and presentations, and has been consistently rated within the top percent of his peers, whether in education or industry. He has authored a book: “Global Warming Temperatures and Projections.”
HONORARIES
Fellow of the IEEE, Certificate of Appreciation from the Department of Defense,
Tau Beta Pi, Adjunct Professor at NCSU, Adjunct Professor at UNC-Charlotte
At Professor Happer’s behest, Bill developed during the 00’s a monster spreadsheet model of the atmosphere with 50 slices of a normalized altitude (Z’) from 0.0 to 1.0 (infinite altitude). No supercomputer apps were used; every step is based on a proper understanding of quantum mechanical absorption and Planck reconstruction for altitudes less than Z’=0.82. There is a formal calibration point and a formal idealized calibration plot against which actual simulations can be compared. There are several aspects of these analyses that do NOT seem to be mentioned in IPCC-accepted models, including a “fail/safe” confirmation of a projected surface temperature. A book was published in 2018, but, almost immediately, new insight produced new introductions into the model.
Digby Macdonald
Digby Macdonald
Digby D. Macdonald is a native of New Zealand, a naturalized US citizen, and is a Professor in Residence (semi-retired) in the Departments of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Auckland and a Ph. D. from the University of Calgary (1969), all in Chemistry.
He specializes in the growth and point defect structures of thin oxide films on metal surfaces under extreme environmental conditions and developed the Point Defect Model for describing the physico-electrochemistry of such systems. He has also developed the modern theory of stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, and pitting corrosion in terms of the deterministic Coupled Environment Models and is a pioneer in the modern form of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy.
One of his major activities has been the modeling of the electrochemical and corrosion properties of structural materials in the coolant circuits of operating, water-cooled nuclear power reactors and recently modeled for DOE the coolant circuit of the ITER that is currently being built in Cadarache, France. ITER is the World’s first fusion technology demonstration reactor. He has also contributed to developing the science base for the disposal of High-Level Nuclear Waste in the US (Yucca Mountain), Belgium, and Sweden.
Recently, he examined the ice-core data from Greenland and Antarctica and concluded that the relationship proposed in the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis that atmospheric CO2 is responsible for global warming violates the Causality Principle and hence lacks a valid scientific basis because the excursion in temperature precedes the excursion in the concentration of CO2.
Prof. Macdonald has published more than 1000 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has published four books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society of New Zealand (the “National Academies” of those countries) and is a Member of the EU Academy of Sciences. He enjoys a H-index of 71 and his papers have been cited over 16,167 times.
Wallace Manheimer
Wallace Manheimer
About The Member
Wallace Manheimer is a life fellow of both American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). His career has been at the US Naval Research Laboratory since 1970, and he served in the small group of ST-16 senior scientists for his last 14 years there. Since retiring in 2004, he has served as a consultant at the lab. At NRL he has worked on inertial fusion, magnetic fusion, a nuclear disturbed upper atmosphere, electron and ion beams, high power microwave and millimeter wave systems, advanced radar systems, and plasma processing. He is the author of over 150 refereed scientific papers.
Since leaving the lab as a full time employee in 2004, he has worked on his own on two other scientific projects. The first is fusion breeding; that is the use of fusion neutrons to breed fuel for thermal nuclear reactors. He has authored an open access review paper in the fusion literature, which has been downloaded and cited many times:
Fusion Breeding for Midcentury Sustainable Power
Wallace Manheimer
Journal of Fusion Energy June 2014 (open access) vol 33, p 199
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10894-014-9690-9
The second project involved examining the data on climate change, in a way that anyone can do, anywhere, any time; and comparing it to the warnings of climate alarmists. The conclusion, from easily available data, simply does not support the claims of imminent gloom and doom. He compared the climate dilemma to various other panics in American history.
Wallace Manheimer
International Journal of Engineering and Applied Science
July 2017 (open access), vol 4, p 66
https://www.ijeas.org/download_data/IJEAS0407025.pdf
Richard Mann
Richard Mann
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Princeton; Research in Solvent Effects on Molecular Vibrations
Post-Doc with Ellis Lippincott at University of Maryland; Normal Coordinate Analysis of Molecular Vibrations. Also taught Quantitative Analysis course, and a section of General Chemistry.
Professor of Chemistry at Boston University, teaching Physical Chemistry, and pioneering courses in Molecular Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry. Very high ratings from students. Research in Molecular Vibrations, including the defining of a Urey-Bradley force field model for mixed halomethanes, still being cited 20+ years later.
Left academia to join a start-up consulting firm, supporting the creation of a management information system for Defense Intelligence Agency, Directorate for Collection. Collaboration with Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis to provide needed computer-based mapping.
Pioneered software for school bus routing and scheduling, and redistricting for racial balance. Oversaw successful projects around the US, supporting some of the largest school districts (Long Beach, CA, Portland, OR, Howard County Maryland, Greensboro NC, Greenville County, SC, Boston, MA, Worcester, MA and Cambridge MA.)
Transferred to a large software firm, became a Developer for the Telon code-generator for mainframe and smaller computers, with largest corporations and governments in the world as customers. At the same time, also co-founded a ministry to families of incarcerated youth, providing free transportation for visitation.
Upon retirement, collaborated with Wind Wise Massachusetts in support of families devastated by near-sited Industrial Wind Turbines. Lobbying legislators, providing support at BOH and BOS meetings, testifying at legislative hearings.
In all of the above, creating educational/training materials, and delivering presentations (e.g. lectures and workshops) as an important aspect of work.
Andy May
Andy May
Andy May is a petrophysicist, paleoclimate expert and author of four books on climate and Kansas history. His latest is The Great Climate Debate: Karoly vs. Happer.
Gene McCall
Gene McCall
About The Member
Dr. McCall completed an assignment as the Chief Scientist with Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado in 2003. He has now retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Laboratory Fellow. As the AFSPC chief scientist, he provided information, advice and guidance on operations research and scientific matters and initiates, prosecutes and evaluates substantive programs on defending America through its space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations – vital force elements in projecting Global Reach and Global Power. The AFSPC mission areas include launching satellites and other high-value payloads into space and operating those satellites; ensuring friendly use of space by conducting counterspace operations encompassing surveillance, negation and protection; providing weather, communications, intelligence, missile warning and navigation, and maintaining and operating a rapid response, land-based ICBM force.
At Los Alamos, he is a Laboratory Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the University of California and is Past Chairman of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He joined the Laboratory as a Staff Member in 1969. At Los Alamos he was one of the founders of the Inertial Fusion Program, and participated in laser and plasma physics research.
He and a small group of collaborators designed and built the first high power Nd:Glass laser to be used for fusion research at Los Alamos. For a time that laser was the world’s highest power laser. From 1980-1982, he was leader of the Laser Division at Los Alamos.
Dr. McCall was awarded the prestigious E. O. Lawrence Award for contributions to National Security in 1988. This award is given annually to five or fewer workers in the field of atomic energy by the U. S. Department of Energy. He has also received Distinguished Performance Awards from the Department of Energy for significant contributions to the Nuclear Weapons Program, and he has received Distinguished Performance awards from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for important technical achievements.
Professional memberships and affiliations of Dr. McCall include:
- Former consultant to the Department of Energy on issues related to Inertial Fusion.
- Former member and chairman of the USAF SAB.
- Consultant to the Defense Science Board.
- Former member of the Senior Review Group to the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO).
- Former chairman of the Technology Assistance Panel for the DARO.
- Member of the American Physical Society.
- Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
- Visiting professor of physics at Imperial College(London)
- Visiting staff member of the UK Atomic Weapon Establishment.
- Associate fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation.
- Member of Sigma Xi, The Institute of Navigation, and the honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Dr. McCall is the author of approximately 100 scientific papers, holds four patents, and he has given invited lectures around the world. In 1995 Dr. McCall directed the New World Vistas study requested by the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. The study has received wide recognition in the defense technology community as a guide for the development of 21st century weapons for the Air Force. In recognition of his work on the study, the Air Force Association has awarded Dr. McCall their highest award for technical achievement, the 1996 Theodore von Karman Award.
In 1997, the Secretary of Defense awarded Dr. McCall the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the department’s highest civilian award.
Dr. McCall is an instrument-rated private pilot who flies for business and pleasure, a SCUBA diver, and a skier.
Francis Menton
Francis Menton
Francis Menton received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics summa cum laude from Yale University in 1972; and his J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1975. In 1975 he joined the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as an associate, becoming a partner in 1984, and retiring after 40 years in 2016.
During his legal career, Mr. Menton specialized in the field of commercial litigation, with a national practice that entailed trying cases in dozens of courthouses around the country. He was best known for cases involving complex and technical subject matters, such as innovative financial and insurance products or the malpractice of actuaries.
In 2012 Mr. Menton launched the Manhattan Contrarian blog (www.manhattancontrarian.com), where over the ensuing nine years he has published well over 1000 articles on issues of public policy. Close to one-third of the posts at Manhattan Contrarian deal with the subject of climate change broadly defined, including such topics as the application of the formal scientific method to what passes for climate “science” in today’s academia, and evaluation of the potential costs and practical difficulties of attempting to replace our current energy systems with intermittent wind and solar electricity generation.
Mr. Menton is a board member and current President of the American Friends of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
David Middleton
David Middleton
David Middleton has been a geologist/geophysicist in the oil & gas industry since 1981. He has spent most of his career working Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene plays in the Gulf of Mexico. David specializes in the integration of geological and geophysical data, focusing on mapping structural geology from 3d seismic data and analyzing direct hydrocarbon indicators (DHI’s or “bright spots”). He also has strong interests in paleoclimatology and Quaternary geology.
He has been a frequent contributor to the Watts Up With That? blog since 2011 and is currently an editor. https://wattsupwiththat.com/author/debunkhouse/
David earned a B.S. degree in earth science (geology concentration), with a minor in mathematics, in 1980 from Southern Connecticut State University. Having attended college in the late 1970’s in New Haven CT, he developed a deep appreciation for the perils of global cooling. He is also a lifelong dog lover and never ceases to be amazed at the fact that only about 40,000 years of evolution separate his Pomeranians from wolves.
David, his wife, Elizabeth, and their 11 dogs live in Dallas TX.
Alex Miller
Alex Miller
Alex Miller is an Engineer in the aerospace thermal management industry, serving as principal investigator, project manager, and/or technical lead on >$1MM/yr in R&D for challenging heat transfer applications.
Previously, he was employed in the design of water treatment systems - focused on fluid dynamics software tools for distributed aeration systems, and predictive modeling for the gas-liquid mass transfer behavior of milli-scale bubbles.
Alex has three master’s degrees - in Materials Science, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering. He spent fifteen semesters teaching physics and engineering coursework (as faculty member and TA combined), in parallel with research in material deposition techniques, thin film devices, electrochromism, photonic/optoelectronic characterization, and fluorescence resonance energy transfer.
Mark Mills
Mark Mills
About The Member
Mr. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He also serves on the Advisory Board, Notre Dame Reilly Center for Science Technology & Values, and is a strategic partner in Cotton Venture Partners, a boutique venture fund. Mills writes the Energy Intelligence column for Forbes.com and is coauthor of the 2005 book The Bottomless Well which rose to #1 in Amazon’s science rankings, and about which Bill Gates said: “This is the only book I’ve ever seen that really explains energy.” He was a staff consultant in the White House Science Office under President Reagan, and earlier in his career was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors, fiber optics, and optical detectors working at Canada’s Bell Labs, and RCA’s Sarnoff Research Center.
John Moore
John Moore
About The Member
Dr. Moore earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He holds a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Virginia. A published author who has written on a variety of subjects, Mr. Moore has held a range of posts, including deputy director of the National Science Foundation under President Reagan.
Peter Morcombe
Peter Morcombe
EDUCATION
Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University, in Electrical Engineering (Honors), and Physics (Class II, Div I). TEMA award 1962. Some French and Spanish. Member of the IEEE & the IEE.
CAREER HISTORY
RETIRED (2018 - Present)
Volunteer work connected with K-12 education.
PLUSCOMM INC. (2003 - 2017)
Delivered fiber optics courses at universities (e.g. UCF and NCSU), community colleges and corporations such as Verizon.
CARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL (2002)
As "Reading Coach" won a $600,000 reading grant based on Science Based Reading Research.
DUKE UNIVERSITY (1990 -2002)
Chief Electrical Engineer at the Duke University Free Electron Laser Laboratory.
FREELANCE CONSULTANT (1987 -1990)
High technology factory reorganizations and start ups in ten states from Maine to California.
ITT CORPORATION (1978 - 1987)
Director of Business Operations, Asia, Pacific, and Latin America. 1982-1987.
General Manager of the Optical Communications Division of STC Ltd. 1978-1982
Actively advocated the reform of through 12 public education at federal, state, and local levels.
Lobbied in support of expanding school choices, including the introduction of charter schools. Presented numerous charter proposals leading to the creation of the six "FREE" schools in North Carolina and one "Virtual School" in Florida while a member of the Central Florida Virtual Charter School Board.
John P. Neafsey
John P. Neafsey
About The Member
John Neafsey is president of JN Associates, an investment consulting firm. He also serves as chairman of Alliance Resources, LLC. Mr. Neafsey previously served as an advisory director of The Beacon Group, and president and CEO of Greenwich Capital Markets. Prior to joining GCM, he was an executive vice president and director of Sun Co. (Sunoco), a diversified energy firm responsible for all Canadian operations (Suncor), Sun Coal Co., and Helios Capital (Leasing). He was also chief financial officer and on the boards of numerous Sun subsidiaries. Institutional Investor named Neafsey the outstanding energy industry CFO on two occasions. He is a trustee emeritus and presidential counselor of Cornell University. He served as a trustee from 1984 to 2000 and was an overseer at Weill-Cornell Medical College. He continues to serve on the advisory council of the Engineering College and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is President and a director of the Cornell Club of New York. Neafsey previously served as Chairman and a director of CONSTAR, Inc. and NES Rentals, and a director of West Pharma, Provident Mutual Life, Olympic Pipeline, Chester Crozer Medical Center, Riddle Memorial Hospital and numerous charitable and civic organizations. He holds B.S. (Engineering) and M.B.A degrees from Cornell.
Daniel Nebert
Daniel Nebert
About The Member
Nebert completed a BA degree at Wesleyan University in 1960. He went on to the five-year program at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland, now named Oregon Health & Science University; he received both an MS in biophysics as well as an MD in 1964. Nebert had a pediatric internship and residency at the University of California, Los Angeles Health Sciences Center from 1964–1966. Following the residency, he served in lieu of military service as a postdoctoral fellow in the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland from 1966 to 1968.
Career
Nebert moved to the NICHD in 1968. He remained there until 1989 and served as section head and the chief of the Laboratory of Developmental Pharmacology. He then moved to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in December 1989, where he was hired as a professor of environmental health. He also had an adjunct professor title in the Human Genetics Division, Department of Pediatrics and Molecular & Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center beginning in 1991. He remained at the University of Cincinnati until retiring as a professor emeritus in 2013. Nebert has published more than 650 papers in several scientific fields. In October 2020, his Google Scholar h-index was 125 with more than 67,000 citations.
Awards and honors
Nebert was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, as a member of the medical sciences section.
References
- “Expert Profile: Daniel W. Nebert”. University of Cincinnati. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
- “About Us | Daniel W. Nebert”. Gene Whisperer. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
- Daniel W. Nebert publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Fellow Entry for Daniel Nebert”. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- “Center Director named AAAS Fellow”. Environmental Health Perspectives (3). National Institutes of Health. 1995. p. 330. doi:10.1289/ehp.103-1519088. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson has an MS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was involved in tech and software for many years. In 2005, as an avid bird-watcher, he became heavily involved in debunking a high-profile, but bogus “Ivory-billed Woodpecker” rediscovery that opened his eyes to the problems with blindly trusting “peer-reviewed science”. Then a meteorologist pointed out lots of parallels between that woodpecker debate and the climate change debate, and Tom has been debunking climate change claims online almost daily since then.
Tom has recently been interviewing many climate skeptics on his highly successful podcast including Richard Lindzen, Will Happer, Cork Hayden and many more.
Trueman Parish
Trueman Parish
About This Member
PhD in Chemical Engineering; retired former Director of Engineering Research, Eastman Chemical Company.
Seok Soon Park
Seok Soon Park
Dr. Seok S. Park is a professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans Unviersity, Seoul, Korea. He translated “Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know” and “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Treats of Doom” into Korean in 2021. After publishing these two translated books, he founded “Korea Climate Change Truth Forum” and “Korea Alliance of Freedom and Environmental Groups” with his colleagues.
Dr. Park has published over 150 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Environmental Engineering Science, Journal of Environmental Management, Ecological Modelling, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Chemosphere, Climatic Change, Ecological Informatics, Journal of Environmental Engineering(ASCE), Journal of American Water Resources Association, Water Resources Research etc. He has written and translated more than 20 books, including “The Invisible Rainbow: a History of Electricity and Life(by Arthur Firstenberg)”, “The Real Environmental Crisis(by Jack Holland)”, and “Systems Ecology: An Introduction(by Howard Odum)” etc.
Dr. Park received his B.S. in Zoology from Seoul National University(Seoul, Korea) in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Rutgers University(New Brunswick, New Jersey) in 1983 and 1985. He severed as the president of National Institute of Environmental Research from 2011 to 2013. He received “Best Scientist and Engineer Award of the Month” from Korea Research Foundation, 2007 and Korea Presidential Award on Green Growth from the President Myung-Bak Lee, 2013.
John Parmentola
John Parmentola
John Parmentola has had a highly distinguished career over four decades as an entrepreneur, inventor, innovator, a pioneer in the founding of new fields of research, and leader of complex research and development organizations with broad experience in the private sector, academia, and high-level positions within the federal government and defense community.
Currently, Dr. Parmentola is a consultant to the RAND Corp., where he works on defense, energy, and science and technology assessment, strategy, and planning issues for government agencies, both domestic and foreign. He also does work for the National Academy of Sciences.
As Senior Vice President at General Atomics, he led the California-based technology company's Energy and Advanced Concepts Group, focusing on energy, defense, advanced computing, and management of DIII-D National Fusion Facility, the largest such facility in the United States (US). The Group's innovations include a revolutionary waste-burning compact advanced reactor, meltdown proof nuclear fuel, setting new land-speed records with maglev systems, and fabricating the world's most powerful superconducting electromagnet for the largest fusion experiment in the world, ITER. While at GA, Dr. Parmentola invented a revolutionary new airship that could provide wireless communications for 1.4 billion people worldwide who need of this capability.
As a distinguished senior executive in the Pentagon, Dr. Parmentola served as Director for Research and Laboratory Management for the US Army, directing lab management policy for 12,000 employees, infrastructure, and security for all 21 Army laboratories and research, development, and engineering centers, and led base realignment and closure efforts for the Army. He was responsible for a $1-billion combined budget for basic and applied research, manufacturing technologies, small business innovative research, and high-performance computing programs.
During his tenure with the Army, Dr. Parmentola led the creation and development of several research centers, among them the Institute of Creative Technologies at USC., which won an Oscar for its technical contributions to cinematography, and the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies at UCSB, which supported the work of Frances Arnold, who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the 5th women in history to receive the prize. He also led the creation of the Institute for Nanotechnologies at MIT. Tasked by General Eric Shinseki, he led the creation of a new "Science Fair for the Nation," eCybermission, which has inspired middle and high school students nationwide (including US territories and possessions) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education for the last two decades. Also, while serving in the Pentagon, Dr. Parmentola conceived and led the development of the world's first robotic dog that could see and sniff explosives. This unique robotic system saved soldiers' lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and is one of the Army's ten greatest inventions.
As a Chief Scientist, Dr. Parmentola served as the science and technology advisor to the chief financial officer of the US Department of Energy (DOE), where he provided technical, budgetary, and programmatic advice to DOE leaders for more than $7B in science and technology investments.
He also co-founded the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to address major national challenges concerning the threat of weapons of mass destruction. His work included a leadership role in conducting two significant studies on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty for President Clinton. He received official confirmation from General John Shalikashvili that these studies contributed to the security of the nation.
He has been on the faculty of MIT, West Virginia University, a Fellow of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Principal Scientist for Strategic Command, Control, and Communications at the MITRE Corporation. While working for these organizations, he contributed to fundamental science in high-energy physics and nuclear physics, strategic nuclear operations and led the creation and development of the world's most sensitive mobile gravity gradiometer for arms control verification applications. This device is used today for oil and mineral exploration and the discovery of diamond deposits.
His work in the private sector includes co-founding Travel Media Corp. (TMC), serving as TMC.'s chief financial officer and chief technology officer for over 20 years. TMC specialized in producing and distributing in-room magazines for leading hotels and resorts, including Marriott, Renaissance, Hyatt, Hilton, Radisson, and Westin throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and Hawaii. TMC. also published a Spanish language version of Departures Magazine, Expressions, for American Express. Other TMC clients included Air Aruba Airlines and Copa Airlines of Panama.
Born in the Bronx, New York, Dr. Parmentola earned a Bachelor of Science in physics cum laude from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and his doctorate in physics from MIT. Dr. Parmentola received the 2007 Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive from President George W. Bush for his service to the nation. He was also an Air Intelligence Agency nominee for the R.V. Jones Central Intelligence Agency award for his work in arms control verification and a recipient of the Outstanding Civilian Service Award and the Superior Civilian Service Award for his contributions to the US Army. Dr. Parmentola is an Honorary Member of the US Army STs. He is a recipient of the Alfred Raymond Prize and the Sigma XI Research Award and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has presented and published more than 500 speeches, papers, and articles in science and technology and is the author of an authoritative book on space defense.
Bob Percopo
Bob Percopo
Bob Percopo is currently retired and a graduate school instructor at Columbia University in addition to providing consulting services in the areas of energy.
Bob has 45 years of experience in infrastructure, energy and power, project finance and structured finance in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. He is a member of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance in conjunction with Harvard and MIT. Since retiring in 2013, he has acted in the capacity of an energy finance consultant, including developing innovative insurance solutions to facilitate financings.
After successful tenures at Manufacturer’s Hanover Trust, Mobil Corp, and Banque Indosuez, he joined the AIG Member Companies in 1998 to oversee the project finance advisory operations of AIU Energy Division. In addition to managing the project finance advisory services, in December of 2000 he was asked to join AIG Highstar Capital, L.P. as a partner. AIG Highstar was a private equity fund managed by AIG with a focus on power generation, transportation and environmental service. Bob moved on to the position of Executive Vice President, Investments – with management responsibility for the Project Finance Advisory unit, providing project finance advisor services to clients worldwide.
Bob received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Economics and Marketing from Rutgers University.
Articles (sampling):
Journal of Structured Finance, “Insurance Solutions for Project Finance,” Summer 1999
Power Magazine, “US Nuclear Power’s Time Has Come – Again,” January 15, 2008
Interviews (sampling):
Platts Energy Economist, “Insure Opts for Nuclear Power,” August 2007
Platts Renewable Newsletter, “Insurance Warns of Pitfalls of Biofuels Use,” July 2007
Presentations (sampling):
Native American Finance Conferences
Pillsbury Winthrop Project Finance Conferences
InfoCast Project Finance Tutorials
Platts Nuclear Conferences
E3 Energy Conferences
Milbank Project Finance Conferences
National Governors’ Association – Energy Independence and Energy Security speech
James Podruski
James Podruski
About The Member
Mr. Podruski has 45 years of experience in petroleum exploration and development; in advisory and research roles in government organizations; in minerals exploration; in project management; as a director of several junior petroleum companies; and as a former CEO and President of an international junior petroleum company. He has spent the last 30 years primarily as an independent petroleum consultant as a geologist for junior, intermediate independent, and multi-national companies evaluating and recommending exploration and development programs; evaluating economic potential, technical, and political risks; and managing field programs and projects in North America, South and Central America, Asia-Pacific, and Eurasia.
He has also published several papers as an officer of the Geological Survey of Canada and the Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea, and as an independent consultant on the geology of Cuba.
He has the broad global geologic perspectives required to assess regional earth history in space and time, having worked in the field mapping surface formations from 3.5 Ga to present and having mapped subsurface petroleum data sets of formations of the Phanerozoic Eon (550Ma to present) for 4D models of geology and petroleum potential. With this experience comes a knowledge of the nature of the powerful forces that have shaped the history of our planet, and how unreasonable it is for mankind to think that emissions of CO2 are about to destroy civilization and the planet, particularly when present CO2 levels and present temperatures are among the lowest in earth’s history.
Mark Ramsay
Mark Ramsay
Mark Ramsay had a career in industry doing engineering and engineering and construction project management. While at Dupont, he innovated a better metal sublimation process and managed engineering and construction of one of the foremost pharmaceutical pilot plants in the world. While at Constellation Energy, he developed an app that used linear algebra and regression to solve a longstanding calibration problem. He was a finalist in a global Johnson Controls innovation competition. While there, he managed engineering, construction, and startup of a unique 3 MW generation project at a wastewater treatment plant which used weak methane as fuel. Its ribbon cutting event was featured on TV news and advertised worldwide. He received a US Patent last year for improving home air conditioning. He is retired from industry and does project management consulting.
Mark received a BSE from Princeton in mechanical and aerospace engineering. He won a research excellence prize and was inducted into Sigma Xi. He received an MS from Johns Hopkins in Technical Management, with honors. He is a professional engineer, emeritus, from Delaware. His reading concentrates on the historical, scientific, and ideological. He has a good knowledge of thermodynamics and heat transfer which has helped his critical thinking about global warming.
Rolf Reitz
Rolf Reitz
Prof. Reitz received his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1978. He joined UW-Madison in 1989 and was named Wisconsin Distinguished Professor in 1999, a position he held until he was awarded Emeritus status in 2015. He is also the former director of the Mechanical Engineering Department's world-renowned Engine Research Center.
Prof. Reitz is a member of the Combustion Institute, and Fellow member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has also had an extensive record of achievement in the private sector as staff at the General Motors Research Laboratories (1982-89) and as co-founder of Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants, LLC 1999-present.
Reitz served as Chair of the Institute of Liquid Atomization and Spraying Systems—(ILASS) North and South America and is co-founder and Editor (Americas) of the International Journal of Engine Research. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Frontiers Journal of Engine and Automotive Engineering.
His publication record includes over 550 journal papers with a Google h-index over 100. He has received numerous professional awards, including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Soichiro Honda Medal and Internal Combustion Engine awards, the U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies R&D Program award, the ETH Zurich Aurel Stodola Medal, the ICLASS Arthur H. Lefebvre Award, plus several prestigious Society of Automotive Engineers awards including the Myers, Johnson, and Horning awards.
A major research focus of Prof. Reitz’ work is the development and application of advanced computer models for the design of fuel injected engines, including diesel and spark-ignited engines. His engine laboratories provide validation data for his computer models, which feature genetic algorithm search techniques to find optimum engine designs. His group has pioneered a high efficiency, low pollutant emissions, dual-fuel engine technology, known as Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI).
Simon Richards
Simon Richards
Simon is a professional engineer in the upstream oil and gas industry. He graduated in 1985 in chemical engineering and has been in the upstream industry for 33 years. He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK.
He spent much of his early career working in the North Sea region for several oil and gas companies, contractors, and consultants. Consequently, he has very broad experience in the oil and gas industry and in-depth knowledge of oil and gas chemical process engineering. He later moved away from the North Sea region and has worked on projects around the world.
He currently works as a consultant in the industry specializing in field development studies in the project feasibility and concept selection stages where he can apply his skills to assist in selecting the most appropriate project for an oil and gas field development. He has excellent analytical skills and can observe the big picture and zoom into the detail at any moment.
He is married with four children and lives with his wife in England.
Peter Ridd
Peter Ridd
Peter Ridd is a geophysicist with over 100 publications, and 35 years’ experience working on the Great Barrier Reef. He works on the physical oceanography of the reef, and also developed a wide range of world-first optical and electronic instruments for measuring environmental conditions near corals and other ecosystems.
He was head of Physics at James Cook University for over a decade before being fired, in 2018, for questioning the quality assurance systems used by reef science institutions. Some of the poor-quality work relates to the affect, or lack of affect, of climate change, and agriculture, on the reef. Ridd now works, unpaid, with agricultural organisations, to improve quality assurance systems of “science” used by Australian governments to make environmental laws and regulations that seriously affect farmers. He has authored the book Reef Heresy? which looks at all the threats to the Great Barrier Reef and discusses the wider problem of abysmal quality assurance systems used in many fields of research.
Gary Ritchie
Gary Ritchie
Gary A. Ritchie earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of Washington, where he majored in forest biology. Following two years active duty in the U.S. Army, he joined the research and development staff of Weyerhaeuser Company, a Tacoma, WA forest products firm, where he served as a research scientist in plant physiology and ecology for 29 years. His research focused on perfecting the practice of conifer reforestation by developing an understanding of the physiology of conifer seeedlings and seed. It spanned the basic sciences of photosynthesis, dormancy and plant-water relations, to the applied practices of seed and seedling production, handling, storage, and planting. He retired in 2001 as Senior Scientist.
During his professional career, Dr. Ritchie published over 150 scientific papers, many in refereed journals. He also published several invited conference papers and book chapters and served as editor or associate editor of two books on plant science. He acted as a referee for six international plant science journals, and was Affiliate Professor of Forest Resources at the University of Washington. From 1976-77, as an AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Congressional Science Fellow, he served as a legislative assistant for scientific matters on the staff of U.S. Senator, Pete V. Domenici (R-NM). In this role he assisted in coordinating Senate hearings on the topics of global cooling, atmospheric ozone depletion and recombinant DNA research, and authored legislation on new agricultural crop development and water resources in the American Southwest.
Following retirement Dr. Ritchie has continued to contribute to the plant science community with the publication of two books: “Inside Plants: A gardeners’ Guide to Plant Anatomy and Physiology” and “The Rose Doctor: A Key to Diagnosing Problems in the Rose Garden” – both available on Amazon.com. He has also developed and presented many PowerPoint programs on various aspects of long term climate change to local audiences.
He and Marilyn, his wife of 45 years, live on beautiful Puget Sound near Olympia, WA.
Fred P. Rumak
Fred P. Rumak
About The Member
Mr. Rumak is a Professional Geologist, registered to practice in both Canada and the USA.
He gained his initial training as a geoscientist at Gulf Canada Resources and eventually worked his way through numerous mid to junior sized energy companies in roles of increasing capacity. He gained international experience having worked for an independent producer in Libya and has done business in the USA, Europe and Russia. He became well rounded in the energy business having run a publically traded, junior oil and gas company as CEO for the past decade.
He is a graduate from the University of Manitoba and received additional post graduate academic training at the University of Calgary. Subsequent, Mr. Rumak has educated and updated himself in the field of Climate Science and coupled with his geoscience background is moving forward to bring awareness to governments, industry and the public at large regarding this popular, highly political issue.
He and his wife Anne currently reside in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Gregory Rummo
Gregory Rummo
Gregory J. Rummo earned a B.S. in chemistry and an M.B.A from Iona College. He also has an M.S. in chemistry from Fordham University.
While a graduate student at Fordham University, Professor Rummo’s research involved the synthesis of penicillin-like molecules to block the activity of beta-lactamase enzymes responsible for antibiotic resistance in bacteria. He also taught several sections of undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory.
After graduation, he taught organic chemistry as an adjunct professor at Nyack College of the Bible in Rockland County, NY. His industrial experience includes working for Dynamit Nobel as an environmental chemist, an organic chemist researching nickel-catalyzed cyanide addition to natural terpenes, and as a technical service representative for oil field chemicals.
He co-authored a patent for a series of titanium and zirconium organometallic compounds used in hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"). In 1987 he became the CEO of New Chemic (US) Inc., which markets active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to the animal health industry. His other passion is writing, and before moving to Florida in 2017, he wrote a regular column and numerous feature-length articles for several North Jersey Media Group publications.
He is currently a regular contributor to Baylor University's Christian Scholar's Review and a contributing writer for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a network of evangelical Christian scholars – mostly natural scientists, economists, policy experts, theologians, philosophers, and religious leaders – dedicated to educating the public and policymakers about biblical earth stewardship. He leads an annual missionary trip to Peru, working together with members of Wycliffe Bible Translators and AWI, an indigenous Quechua evangelical group. Participants spend a week trekking in remote areas of the Andes Mountains, visiting villages where they show "The Jesus Film" and distribute bilingual New Testaments.
Professor Rummo frequently weaves science and scripture together in his classes. In his own words, "It is noteworthy that the father of classical physics, Sir Isaac Newton, and the father of quantum physics, Max Planck, were both able to seamlessly integrate faith and science. Belief in God did not present a contradiction to their understanding of the design and the mechanics governing the respective worlds they studied. They both believed that God is the Ultimate Designer, 'For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible ...He is before all things, and in him all things hold together'" (Colossians 1:16-17). His current research at PBA involves the investigation of natural products in the treatment of diseases in production animals.
Lars Schernikau
Lars Schernikau
Lars is an energy economist, entrepreneur, commodity trader, and book author. He currently lives in Europe and Asia. Previously, Lars worked at the Boston Consulting Group in the US and Germany. He is co-founder, shareholder, and former supervisory board member of two Germany listed commodity companies (www.hms-ag.com) and founded, worked for, and advised number of other companies in the commodity & energy sector worldwide. Educated at New York University and INSEAD in France, he holds a doctoral degree in economics from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Today, next to his operational work in the commodity industry, he regularly speaks at major energy & commodity conferences and workshops around the world. Lars advises selected governments, banks, and conglomerates on energy policy.
As a forward looking and positive thinking macroeconomist with challenging views backed up by science, Lars has a positive approach towards critical thinking and the environment with the long-term survival of our existence in mind. Lars has been studying energy commodities for the energy transition as well as causes and impacts of climate change for almost a decade. His academic research is available at Elsevier’s SSRN and selected videos are at Energeia Publishing or YouTube.
His recent book, co-authored with Prof. William H. Smith, “The Unpopular Truth… about Electricity and the Future of Energy” is available in English and German on Amazon as Kindle and Print version.
John Shanahan
John Shanahan
B.Sc., M.Sc. Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA, 1962, 1964
Dr. of Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, 1969
1970 – 1995: After military service and graduate studies a career in nuclear power and management of environmental cleanup of Department of Defense facilities. Work included research for design of nuclear power plants for extreme events, project management in the USA, and licensing for Swiss nuclear power plants.
1996 – 2012: Investment management for private clients.
1990 – 2021: Research gathering information from scientists, engineers, and policy makers with experience in energy and energy by-products for the modern world.
2010 – 2021: Construction and operation of websites for global public education about the importance of fossil fuels and nuclear power and their many by-products and related services for prosperity and peace in the modern world. This includes extensive information about problems holding fossil fuels and nuclear power back since the 1970s. One of the major topics is the real role of atmospheric carbon dioxide and the false claims of catastrophic man-made global warming.
The website is allaboutenergy.net. The mission is global public education about energy and energy by-products essential for the modern world. It includes information of major topics holding back progress in the modern world, the importance of respect for the environment and wildlife habitat, and the key role of the public and political leaders in sound energy planning. The website has an International Board of Advisors consisting of 48 experts in 21 countries. We strive for representation by women and men, from age 20 through senior retirement. There are over 1,400 contributing authors from around the world. They represent many different points of view on all topics covered on the website. Readership is in 124 countries.
Ganapathy Shanmugam
Ganapathy Shanmugam
Biography
G. Shanmugam is a person of Indian origin. He was born in 1944 in Sirkazhi, Madras Presidency, British
India. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1970 and became a naturalized U. S. citizen in 1990. He has been
married to his American wife, Jean, since 1976. They live in Irving, Texas.
2000-Present: Adjunct Professor: the University of Texas at Arlington
2000-Present: Petroleum Consulting: Reliance, ONGC, China University of Petroleum in Qingdao,
Yangchang Oil Field in Yanan.
1978-2000: Employment with Mobil Research and Development Corporation, Dallas, Texas
2010-2011: Scientific Advisor: Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED)
of PetroChina, Beijing, China
Professional Preparation
1978: Ph.D., Geology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN., U.S.
1972: M.S., Geology, Ohio University, Athens, OH., U.S.
1968: M.Sc., Applied Geology, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT-Bombay, India
1965: B.Sc., Geology and Chemistry, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, South India
Note: He served as a research scholar under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
Government of India, at IIT Bombay during 1968–1970.
Philosophy and Publications
He is a pragmatic and an iconoclastic deep-water process sedimentologist. His primary contributions are
aimed at documenting the volumetric importance of sandy mass-transport deposits and bottom-current
reworked sands in deep-water petroleum reservoirs worldwide and at dispelling the popular myth that
most deep-water sands are turbidites.
Importantly, he debunked the myths of facies models on high-density turbidites (Shanmugam, 1996), tsunamites (Shanmugam, 2006b), landslides (Shanmugam, 2015), seismites (Shanmugam, 2016c), contourites (Shanmugam, 2016b, 2017b), hyperpycnites (Shanmugam, 2018a), and hybridites (Shanmugam, 2021b).
He has over 380 published works, including two volumes of Elsevier’s Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production (Shanmugam, 2006a and2012a) and their Chinese editions. His most recent Elsevier book “Mass Transport, Gravity Flows, and Bottom Currents” contains 540 case studies covering environments on Earth, Mars, and Jupiter, but with a majority on deep-water processes on Earth (Shanmugam, 2021a). His publications cover a wide spectrum of research domains, including:
- deep-water process sedimentology (Shanmugam, 2000, 2019c, 2021c, 2022f),
- submarine fans (Shanmugam, 2016a),
- turbidite myths (Shanmugam, 2002a),
- the Bouma Sequence and the turbidite mind set (Shanmugam, 1997),
- Ouachita flysch (Shanmugam and Moiola. 1995),
- flume experiments on sandy debris flows (Shanmugam, 2000; Marr et al., 2001),
- flume experiments on mud erosion (Karcz and Shanmugam, 1974),
- estuarine facies in Ecuador (Shanmugam et al., 2000),
- fan deltas and braid deltas (McPherson, Shanmugam, and Moiola, 1987),
- coniferous rainforests in New Zealand and source rock geochemistry (Shanmugam, 1985),
- cyclones and tsunamis (Shanmugam, 2008a),
- internal waves and tides (Shanmugam, 2013),
- tidal currents in submarine canyons (Shanmugam, 2003; Shanmugam et al., 2009),
- satellite survey of density plumes at river mouths (Shanmugam, 2018c),
- seismicity and sediment deformation (Shanmugam, 2016c, 2017a,d) ,
- erosional unconformities and porosity development (Shanmugam. 1988; Shanmugam and Higgins, 1988),
- sequence stratigraphy (Shanmugam et al., 1995; Shanmugam, 2007),
- manganese distribution in the carbonate fraction of shallow and deep marine lithofacies (Shanmugam and Benedict, 1983),
- Appalachian foredeep tectonics (Shanmugam and Lash, 1982),
- sedimentation in the Chile Trench (Shanmugam and McPherson, 1987),
- late Holocene Rupture of the Northern San Andreas Fault and Possible Stress Linkage to the Cascadia Subduction Zone (Shanmugam, 2009a),
- eustacy (Shanmugam and Moiola. 1982),
- peer-review problem (Shanmugam, 2022g) , and
- climate change (Shanmugam, 2022h; 2023a, b).
Awards, Recognition, and Nomination
- 1968: IIT Medal for the top-ranking student in Applied Geology, Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), India.
- 1995: Best paper award from NAPE (Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists) for his paper “Deepwater Exploration: Conceptual Models and their Uncertainties”
- 2003: His paper ‘High-density turbidity currents: are they sandy debris flows?’ published in the Journal of Sedimentary Research in 1996, has achieved the status of the single most cited paper in sedimentological research published in three world-renowned periodicals - Journal of Sedimentary Research, Sedimentology, and Sedimentary Geology - during the survey period of 1996-2003 (Source: International Association of Sedimentologists Newsletter, August 2003).
- He was interviewed by the SUN TV, Chennai, India (Televised on December 30th 2003) on his controversial research papers on turbidite sedimentation and their implications for petroleum reservoirs.
- 2018: He was the recipient of the University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences 2018 Professional Achievement Award. Award Date: September 21, 2018. Knoxville, Tennessee. https://artsci.utk.edu/dialogue/honor-college-alumni/
- 2018: He was also the recipient of FeTNA 2018 "Tamil American Pioneer Award" for his extraordinary professional achievements in academia. FeTNA: Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America. Award Date: June 30, 2018. Frisco, Texas. http://tap.fetna.org/category/2018/
- 2020: He is the recipient of Springer Journal of Palaeogeography Special Prize for Excellent papers published during 2012-2018 based on Science Citation Index (SCI).
- 2019-2021: He was nominated for the SEPM 2020 William F. Twenhofel Medal, which is the top
award given every year for contributions in Sedimentary Geology. - 2022: Founding Member of the International Society of Palaeogeography (ISP), Beijing, China
- 2023: CNKI/Thomson Reuters PCSI Stats: Top-1% most-highly cited publications for the period 2012-2022: “Submarine fans: A critical retrospective (1950-2015)”, J. of Palaeogeogr. (2016)
- He is an Emeritus Member of SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); member since 1970.
ResearchGate Stats on April 6, 2023
Reads: 173,853
Citations: 8,314
Recommendations: 438
1997 AAPG Annual Convention Debate Panelist, Dallas, Texas
Topic: Processes of Deep-Water Clastic Sedimentation and Their Reservoir Implications: What Can We
Predict?
Moderator: H. E. Clifton.
Panelists: A.H. Bouma, J.E. Damuth, D.R. Lowe, G. Parker, and G. Shanmugam
He has published 38 discussions and replies.
Organizer of International Deep-Water Sandstone Workshops: 15
Examples:
- the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Scotland (1995 and 1997);
- Petrobras, Mobil, and Unocal in Brazil and in Dallas, Texas (1998 and 1999);
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in India (2002 and 2004);
- Reliance Industries Ltd. in India (2006–09);
- Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), PetroChina in Beijing
(2009–10); - Yanchang Oilfield Exploration and Development, Research Institute of Yan’an Branch (China)
(2014); - China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China (2014).
Organizer of clastic facies field course (3 weeks) for Saudi Aramco, Dhaharan, Saudi Arabia:
1990 (3-21 November), Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia. Field area includes Qassim and vicinity. Modern
and anient deposits were investigated in the field. Seismic profiles, well logs, and cores from petroleumproducing fields were used in class exercises
International invited Lectures delivered (1980-2023): 90
2018-Present: Editorial Board
- Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Palaeogeography (Springer)
- Editorial Board Member of the Petroleum Exploration and Development (Elsevier).
- Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Indian Association of Sedimentologists.
Research
He conducted outcrop studies of deep-water deposits in the Southern Appalachians (Tennessee, United
States), Ouachita Mountains (Arkansas and Oklahoma, United States), and Peira Cava area (French
Maritime Alps, SE France). He described deep-water strata using conventional cores and outcrops (1:20
to 1:50 scale), which include 32 deepwater sandstone petroleum reservoirs worldwide, totaling over
10,000 m in cumulative thickness during 1974–2011.
He also conducted field studies of coal deposits in Victoria (Australia), coniferous rain forests in the
North Island (New Zealand), limestone karst in Guilin (China), fluvial deposits in Gujarat (India), 2004
Indian Ocean Tsunami-related coastal deposits in Tamil Nadu (India), shallow-marine deposits in Qassim
area (Saudi Arabia), and estuarine deposits in the Oriente Basin (Ecuador).
Tom Sheahen
Tom Sheahen
Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen is Chairman of the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP), Director Emeritus of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST), and president/CEO of Western Technology, Inc., an independent consulting firm specializing in energy technology issues with business implications.
From 2005 – 2009, Dr. Sheahen was Senior Analyst in Systems Integration for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. From 1993 - 2002 he was senior scientist in the Energy Systems Group for Science Applications International Corporation, where he led a team of evaluators in selecting renewable energy projects for support by NREL. He previously held positions with Argonne National Laboratory, Energy Research Advisory Board to the Department of Energy, SRI International (Stanford Research Institute), Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, National Bureau of Standards, and Bell Telephone Laboratories. He was awarded a Congressional Science Fellowship in 1977-78 by the American Physical Society, and dealt with energy-related legislation, especially natural gas.
Dr. Sheahen is author of Introduction to High Temperature Superconductivity (Plenum Press: 1994). His research papers have appeared in many peer-reviewed science journals including Physical Review, Applied Optics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Reviews of Modern Physics, Energy the International Journal, Strategic Planning and Energy Management, and The Science Teacher.
Dr. Sheahen has co-authored numerous reports on topics including rocket re-entry instrumentation (Bell Labs), industrial instrumentation and analysis of measurement economics (Industrial Nucleonics), national energy conservation program plans (National Bureau of Standards), industrial energy conservation (Office of Technology Assessment), national energy policy planning (DOE), and renewable energy technology (SAIC).
Dr. Sheahen holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He can be reached via email at tsheahen@alum.mit.com.
John Shewchuk
John Shewchuk
Certified Consulting Meteorologist
John graduated from Penn State University in 1972 with a Bachelors in Meteorology. While at Penn State he also enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program and obtained a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. After 22 years in the Air Force, John retired as an Advanced Weather Officer and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
While in the Air Force, John obtained his Masters in Meteorology from the Naval Post-Graduate School at Monterey, California. There he specialized in Hurricane and Typhoon modeling. Upon graduating, he was assigned to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center at Guam. During his 3-year Guam assignment he issued more than 500 storm warnings for 100 tropical cyclones -- including the world's largest known tropical cyclone -- Typhoon Tip. For recognition of his forecasting and research achievements, he was awarded the Air Force 1979 Forecaster of the Year Award.
After retiring from the Air Force he became a Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) and was board certified by the American Meteorological Society. He also works on a variety of meteorological and climate projects by designing computer programs and videos.
Website: Climate Craze
Recent video: Battle for Climate Earth
David Siegel
David Siegel
David Siegel received a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University and has spent his life as an entrepreneur, author, and professional speaker. He has started more than a dozen startups, sat on many boards, written 5 books, and given over 200 speeches. He writes and speaks about technology, economics, money, governance, and the future. In 2016, he was a candidate to be the dean of Stanford business school.
Creator of Climate Curios blog
Frits Byron Soepyan
Frits Byron Soepyan
Dr. Soepyan graduated from The University of Tulsa in 2009 (Magna Cum Laude) with Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, and in 2015 with a PhD in Chemical Engineering.
As a PhD student at The University of Tulsa, Dr. Soepyan collaborated with Chevron, and provided Chevron with a solution for sand transport in pipelines through the development of the computer program TUSTORM (Tulsa University Sand Transport – Optimization and Ranking Methodology), which has been used by Chevron in major capital projects. Dr. Soepyan has validated and presented the results regarding the performance of TUSTORM in international conferences, including the Offshore Technology Conference and Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, and published these results in peer-reviewed journals, including Computers and Chemical Engineering and the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
Afterwards, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Dr. Soepyan continued to conduct research in the energy sector, where he helped NETL save significant person-hours by integrating a set of complex component models for a direct power extraction system, provided recommendations regarding the best design and operation of a carbon capture plant via optimization under uncertainty, and debugged an open-source, in-house software, improved the software’s documentation, and piqued people’s interest in the software.
Currently, as a Process Systems Engineer at AristoSys, LLC, Dr. Soepyan has contributed to the Flexible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program, sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) (an agency of the U.S. Department of Energy), to reduce the CO2 emission from a natural gas power plant. Dr. Soepyan has also served various clients, including Leonardo Technologies, Inc. (LTI), KeyLogic Systems, LLC, KBC Energy Solutions, LLC, Mote, Inc., and EQT Corporation, where the projects include emission reduction, decarbonization, hydrogen production, and proposal reviews.
Roy Spencer
Roy Spencer
About The Member
Dr. Spencer received his B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1980 and 1982. He then continued at the University of Wisconsin through 1984 in the Space Science and Engineering Center as a research scientist. He joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in 1984, where he later became Senior Scientist for Climate Studies. He resigned from NASA in 2001 and joined the Univeristy of Alabama in Huntsville as a Principal Research Scientist. Dr. Spencer has served as Pricipal Investigator on the Global Precipitation Studies with Nimbus-7 and DMSP SSM/I, and the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer High Altitude Studies of Precipitation Systems. He has been a member of several science teams: the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Space Station Accommodations Analysis Study Team, Science Steering Group for TRMM, TOVS Pathfinder Working Group, NASA Headquarters Earth Science and Applications Advisory Subcommittee, and two National Research Council study panels.
Since 1992 Dr. Spencer has been the U.S. Team Leader for the Multichannel Imaging Microwave Radiometer (MIMR) team and the follow-on AMSR-E team. In 1994 he became the AMSR-E Science Team leader.
He received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1991, the MSFC Center Director’s Commendation in 1989, and the American Meteorological Society’s Special Award in 1996.
John E. R. Staddon
John E. R. Staddon
James E. R. Staddon is James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Biology Emeritus, at Duke University. He obtained his BSc at University College, London, and his PhD in Experimental Psychology at Harvard University where he also did research at the MIT Systems Lab.
He has done research at Oxford University (UK), the University of São Paulo at Riberão Preto, the University of Mexico, the Ruhr Universität, Universität Konstanz and the University of Western Australia. He is a fellow of several scientific organizations and has a Docteur, Honoris Causa, from the Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3, France. He is a past editor of the journals Behavioural Processes and Behavior & Philosophy.
His experimental and theoretical research is on the evolution and mechanisms of learning in humans and animals; he has also written on the history and philosophy of psychology, economics and biology. He has written and lectured on public-policy issues such as education, evolution, traffic control, the science , law and politics of smoking and the effects of social and psychobiological processes on financial markets.
He is the author of more than 200 research papers and ten books, including Scientific Method: How science works, fails to work or pretends to work. Taylor and Francis (2016), Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior, (MIT/Bradford, 2001), Adaptive Behavior and Learning 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The New Behaviorism: Foundations of behavioral science (3rd Edition) Taylor and Francis, 2021 and Science in an age of unreason (Regnery, 2022). He was profiled in the Wall Street Journal in January 2021 as commentator on the current problems of science.
Lt. General Thomas P. Stafford
Lt. General Thomas P. Stafford
Thomas Stafford received a Bachelor of Science degree (with honors) from the United States Naval Academy in 1952. In 1958, he then attended the United States Test Pilot School, graduating in 1959, and was awarded the A.B. Honts Award as the outstanding graduate. In addition, General Stafford is the recipient of many honorary degrees, including doctorate of humane letters, University of Oklahoma; a doctorate of laws from the University of Cordoba, Argentina; doctorate of humane letters, Oklahoma State University; doctorate of communications, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts; a Masters and Doctorate of human letters, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma; a doctorate of laws, Western State University, Los Angeles, California; a doctorate of science from Oklahoma City University; a doctorate of aeronautical engineering, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida; and a doctorate of humanities, Oklahoma Christian College, Edmond, Oklahoma.
General Stafford retired from the Air Force in November 1979. By the end of his military and NASA career, General Stafford would become the first member of his Naval Academy Class of 1952 to pin on the first, second and third stars of a General Officer. He has flown six rendezvous in space; logged 507 hours and 43 minutes in space flight time, and wears the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings. He has flown over 127 different types of aircraft and helicopters, four different types of spacecraft, and rode three different types of boosters into space.
ORGANIZATIONS: Member, National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); Fellow of the American Astronautical Society; the Society of Experimental Test Pilots; and a member of the Masonic Lodge. SPECIAL HONORS: Congressional Space Medal of Honor; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy; Harmon International Aviation Trophy (2x); Federation Aeronautique Internationale Gold Space Medal; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Chanute Flight Award; National Geographic Society’s General Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy; Veterans of Foreign Wars National Space Award; National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Special Trustees “Emmy” Award; Society of Experimental Test Pilots James H. Doolittle Award for Management; Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA); National Aviation Hall of Fame; National Astronaut Hall of Fame; the Aerospace Walk of Honor; the State of Oklahoma Hall of Fame; Oklahoma Commerce and Industry Hall of Honor; and selected as the Oklahoma Aviator of the Century. Awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration include NASA’s Distinguished Service Medals (4x), Exceptional Service Medals (2x), and NASA’s Medal for outstanding leadership (one of the agencies highest awards). He served as the Chairman of the Operations Oversight Committee of the first Hubble Telescope Spacecraft Servicing and Repair Mission that corrected the design and manufacturing defect of the instrument, and he received NASA’s Public Service Award for the Hubble Telescope Service and Repair Mission for his tremendous efforts to help save the orbiting telescope. Military honors include the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Distinguished Service Medal (4x), Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal, the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, the USAF’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and designated as a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
See General Stafford’s complete biography here.
Jim Steele
Jim Steele
About The Member
I earned a BS Biology in 1982 and finalized my MA Biology in 1989, both from San Francisco State University. I was appointed Director of SFSU’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus by the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering in 1984 and retired as Director in 2010. In addition to administrative duties at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus, I taught university level classes in ornithology and botany, as well as serving as the Principal Investigator for the Neotropical Migratory Bird Monitoring of Riparian Habitats on the Tahoe National Forest project sponsored by the US Forest Service from 1991 to 2007.
While serving as director, I concurrently taught science in San Francisco’s underserved schools, first teaching general middle school science and then high school Advanced Placement Biology where I also developed a medical pathways program focused on teaching biotechnology and human physiology. Later I lectured the cell and molecular section of the introductory Biology for Majors course at San Francisco State University.
While serving as the Principal Investigator for the Neotropical Migratory Bird Monitoring of Riparian Habitats, to better understand the causes for a crash in bird populations at a monitored meadow I immersed myself in intensive independent studies of factors affecting landscape changes and regional climate change. This evolved into a deeper understanding of oceanography and the causes and effects of El Ninos/La Ninas and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and their effect on Sierra Nevada temperature, rainfall and snowfall as well as examining the landscape changes and hydrological changes within my research areas. Realizing it was landscape issues and not climate change that had degraded our meadows and reduced wildlife, I initiated a partnership with the EPA and US Forest Service to form the successful Carman Valley Watershed Restoration project for which I coordinated the biological monitoring activities.
The realization that landscape changes and natural ocean cycles could account for most of the observed ecological disruptions, I began intensely investigating the evidence for other claims that disruptions in the ecology of butterflies and pika in our local region, as well as frogs, polar bears and penguins were due to global climate change. Determining that every disruption was more parsimoniously attributed to events other than climate change, I wrote the book Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism, and created the website landscapesandcycles.net and now blogs on A Walk On The Natural Side at https://perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com/describing the natural and anthropogenic factors other than rising CO2 that can account for population changes and ecological disruptions."
Selected Publications and Interviews:
Crucial Conversations with our Members Part 1:
We talk about deforestation, the difference between local and global thinking, the inaccuracy of a global average temperature, and the false demonization of CO2.
Crucial Conversations with our Members Part 2:
We talk about the facilitation of conservation efforts at a local level, wildfires, droughts, rainfall, and the separation of beliefs from the truth.
Crucial Conversations with our Members Part 3:
We talk about education and Jim's philosophy of teaching students not "what" to think, but "how" to think, and the importance of going out into the field.
Charles Steele
Charles Steele
Dr. Charles N. Steele holds the Herman and Suzanne Dettwiler Chair in Economics at Hillsdale College
Dr. Steele has taught economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels in China, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States, and has also worked in private consulting. At Hillsdale College, he teaches a variety of upper division economics courses, among them a two-semester sequence in History of Economic Thought, Environmental and Resource Economics, Mathematical Economics, and Austrian Economics II. His research interests include environmental and resource economics, economics of space development, and economics of institutions and institutional change.
Outside of economics, his interests include trail running and running ultramarathons, mountaineering, and other outdoor activities.
Education
B.A., Montana State University, 1978
M.S., Montana State University, 1990
Ph.D., New York University, 1997
Select Publications
“Why I Won’t Sign Onto Climate Leadership Council’s Plan.” Real Clear Energy, February 6, 2019.
What is something you want remembered about you when you die?
I would want it to be remembered that I ran Le Grizz 20 times and completed it. It’s a 50-mile race in Montana. My last run was number 20 and qualified me to be be inducted into the Le Grizz Chiefs.
William D. Stewart
William D. Stewart
About The Member
William D. Stewart, attended Brown University '68 on a Navy scholarship, receiving his Sc.B. and A.B. degrees in electrical engineering and his commission in the regular Navy.
His first job out of college was in the Navy. He was First Lieutenant and then ASW Officer, with collateral duty of Nuclear Weapons Officer, on USS VOGE (DE-1047) In addition to three years of sea duty, he spent a year on shore duty in the Navy R&D organization. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
He left active duty in 1973, and worked approximately a year with Chas. T. Main, Engineers, Boston, in thermal power plant design, working on the Anclote 1 & 2 plants in Tampa for Florida Power Corp. Life took a turn, and, through a Navy connection, was recruited into the steamship industry, moving to New York City, where he spent the better part of his working career as a charter broker. He co-founded Stewart Alexander & Co., Inc., an independent ship brokerage company in 1983, and led the company for over thirty years. He has been active in the last few years in the fight in Virginia against wind and solar “renewables,” in Virginia, which are disasters for both the environment and the economy.
Mike Thompson
Mike Thompson
Mike studied meteorology in the United States Navy, and after graduation was assigned as a weather observer/forecaster aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, where he worked providing weather information for flight operations until 1979.
Upon his honorable discharge from the NAVY, Mike began his television career in Oklahoma City, at KOKH-TV and KWTV. In 1981, Mike was one of the first three weather forecasters in the United States to utilize Doppler radar on the air for severe weather identification and coverage.
He then moved to WPCQ-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 1983, Mike became the chief meteorologist at KCTV in Kansas City, where he worked for 9 years.
In 1992, he moved to WDAF-TV in Kansas City (now known as FOX4) to replace the legendary Dan Henry, who was retiring. Mike was the chief meteorologist there for 27 years from January 1992 to December 2018, providing weather for the 5, 6, 9, and 10 PM newscasts.
In 1994, Mike was recognized in a national publication, as one of the “top 15 best local weathercasters” in the country. Thompson ranked among other weathercasters from markets as large as Boston, Washington, D.C., Dallas, San Francisco, and Chicago. Mike was a recipient of the Kansas City Media Professional’s “Best TV Reporter-Weather” for 1988, 1991, 1993 and inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994.
In 1997, he was one of 100 meteorologists from across the United States to be personally invited by President Clinton to attend a Global Warming conference in Washington, D.C. At that conference, Vice President Al Gore presented a lecture on the now debunked “hockey stick” graph that attempted to correlate rising atmospheric CO2 levels with rising global temperatures. Mike questioned the voracity of the presentation and it impelled him to embark upon his own research and study of the climate, which continues to this day.
During his tenure as Chief Meteorologist at WDAF-TV (FOX4), Mike originated, organized, wrote, and produced “Weathering the Storm” an educational weather show designed for school children, for 20 years ending in 2018. Hundreds of thousands of children have attended the program, held each year at Kauffman Stadium, in conjunction with the Kansas City Royals.
Between 2006 and 2014, he won six Emmy Awards for his meteorological work on-air and in for his work producing the weather show for School Day at the “K”. Mike also earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for achieving the world’s largest outdoor weather class in 2009, a distinction he holds to this day.
In 2008, Mike was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle at the Mid-America 2008 Emmy Gala in St. Louis. Every year NATAS inducts television professionals with 25 or more years of outstanding service in television into the prestigious Silver Circle.
After retiring from his television career, Mike decided to continue his educational work. To do so, he helped found the Academy for Climate and Energy Analysis (ACEA). Mike currently serves as the Executive Director of the Academy for Climate and Energy Analysis, a 501C3 dedicated to educating people about climate and energy issues.
In 2020 Mike took over the 10th District Senate seat in the State of Kansas from retiring Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook. He successfully ran for re-election to that position in 2020. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Utilities Committee, and also serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Public Health Committee, Local Government Committee, and Transparency and Ethics Committee.
In 2021 Mike co-founded IQ Learning Center, Inc. which writes and produces video-based STEM curriculum for students nation-wide. The organization focuses on teaching general science, meteorology, climatology, and oceanography.
Mike is currently listed as a Policy Advisor for the Heartland Institute.
In his spare time, Mike enjoys speaking, reading, economics, politics, water sports, music, playing the guitar, and BBQ! He has been married to LeAnne for 46 years. They have three children, 9 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Charles Thornton
Charles Thornton
Charles H. Thornton is one of the preeminent structural engineers and educators in the world. He served as co-chairman of Thornton Tomasetti until 2004 and serves as an advisor to the Thornton Tomasetti board of directors. Charlie has been involved in the design, construction and analysis of projects worldwide, including hospitals, arenas, high-rise buildings, airports, transportation facilities and special structures. His award-winning work has set industry standards for innovative thinking and creativity.
Charlie has led the structural design of some of the world’s most significant structures, including two of the tallest: Taipei 101 in Taiwan and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. He is also a recognized expert in collapse and structural failure analysis. His credits include the investigation of the Hartford Coliseum roof collapse in Connecticut and served on the FEMA Building Performance Assessment team for the investigation of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
He is currently chairman of Charles H. Thornton & Company, LLC, a management and strategic consulting firm.
Education
Ph.D., Structural Mechanics, New York University
M.S., Civil Engineering, New York University
B.S., Civil En
Andres A. Trevino
Andres A. Trevino
Dr. Trevino has been involved in mathematical modelling and technology assessment since his graduate work in the 1970s. He is the author of Climate Change – By the Numbers (2022), and co-author of four books: Métodos Numéricos Aplicados a Ingeniería Química (1974), Petrochemical Technology Assessment (1981), The Impact of New Catalytic Developments on the Chemical Industry (1985) and The Microkinetics of Heterogeneous Catalysis (1993). He earned a BS in Chemical and Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, Mexico, an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has been providing international consulting services since 1980.
Dr. Trevino has also been active as an entrepreneur, co-founding several small companies through the years. He is currently the President and owner of Energy Saving Technologies Inc., in Madison, Wisconsin. He became interested in climate change after realizing that many professionals were not well informed, and an assessment of the underlying data from a practical point of view was needed.
His book "Climate Change: By the Numbers" was published in 2022.
Koen Vogel
Koen Vogel
Koen Vogel is a retired Petroleum Industry geologist, who has been active in both exploration and development.
Vogel received his Ph.D. in Geology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1991, where he used numerical models to simulate river sedimentation.
Between 1991-2016 Vogel worked for Shell in a number of geology, IT, and mid-managerial roles. During this time, he developed significant technical expertise in numerical modeling and geostatistics, but also “soft” expertise in project management and review.
Since his retirement Vogel has been pursuing some intellectual interests that he developed as an undergrad, mainly in the geothermal and geomagnetic fields. Recently these interests converged with critical reviews of the IPCC report in general, and the causes of climate change in particular.
William Walters
William Walters
PhD Physical Chemistry - Founding member of the Div of Nuclear and Atmos Chemistry Univ of Md
Frederick W. Ward, Jr.
Frederick W. Ward, Jr.
About The Member
Dr. Frederick W. Ward, Jr. was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 28 February 1930. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received his B.S., M. S. and Ph.D. (1957) in meteorology. In 1952 he joined the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories and worked in the Meteorology Laboratory on problems of the general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere. In 1963 he joined the Space Physics Laboratory to work on the general circulation of the sun’s atmosphere and space environment environmental forecasting. He is Chief of the Space Forecasting Branch of that Laboratory. He has been a forensic consultant specializing in weather since 1967.
Charles Weller
Charles Weller
Charles Weller, Esq., received his B.A. from Yale University (Mathematics) in 1966. He earned his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1973.
Weller has 50 years legal experience which includes antitrust, labor, litigation and health benefit law at Jones Day; Baker & Hostetler and the Antitrust Division, and the Ohio Attorney General's Office, as well as representation of General Motors, Walmart, EDS, Newport News Shipbuilding, and Cleveland Clinic.
Weller was a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching Physics and Math in Malaysia from 1966-1968, and served as the Deputy Director of Peace Corps Recruiting, Southern Region from 1969-1970.
Weller has authored many significant publications and papers. One such paper is “Problem Solving Education for the New Global Knowledge Economy.” His co-author was Peter Staudhammer, TRW Inc's Vice President for Science and Technology and the lead rocket scientist for the Apollo moon landing module's rocket engine. Staudhammer explained his role in the Apollo mission to Cleveland Public School students in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IhhuTlmLM
William van Wijngaarden
William van Wijngaarden
About The Member
William van Wijngaarden chaired the Faculty of Science and Engineering Council (2005-06) and York’s Senate (2010-13) at York University. He has been elected to several leadership positions in the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2002-08) and also held responsible positions in the American Physical Society and the Canadian Association of Physicists.
In 1999, Dr. van Wijngaarden led a successful application for a Network of Centres of Excellence serving as Program Leader of the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (1999-01). CIPI comprised 65 researchers, 25 universities as well as over 40 company and research center participants. The researchers represented a variety of disciplines including biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, engineering and physics. Dr. van Wijngaarden was responsible for managing a budget of over $22 million. In 2001, he chaired the Steering Committee on General Physics, which successfully recommended new initiatives for funding to the NSERC Reallocations Committee. He has also served multiple terms as a member of the Appraisal Panel for the Ontario Council of Universities (2002-07) that approved over 300 graduate programs and served on the NSERC Physics Grant Selection Committee (2007-09).
Dr. van Wijngaarden began research at the University of Windsor studying the electron impact excitation of SO2. He graduated in 1982 with a BSc in Computer Science and a separate Honours BSc in Physics. He went to Princeton University and obtained a MSc in 1984 followed by a PhD in Physics in 1986.
After a year at Yale University as a research associate, Dr. van Wijngaarden joined the faculty at York University in 1988. In 2003, his research group laser cooled Rb atoms to create Canada’s first Bose Einstein Condensate. More recently, he measured the relative nuclear charge radius of 6,7Li with an uncertainty of less than 10-17 meter. He has also studied applied/interdisciplinary topics such as laser isotope separation, electromagnetically induced transparency for use in optical switching, environmental monitoring of pollutants and climate change. Most recently, his group developed an array of microtraps of ultracold atoms. He has 75 refereed publications and given over 200 conference presentations and invited seminars.
Dr. van Wijngaarden has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses to thousands of students. He is known for well organized lucid lectures. His pedagogical innovations have borne results. This past summer 90% of the students passed his challenging introductory physics course taught to nonphysics majors.
Dr. van Wijngaarden received the University of Windsor Board of Governor’s Medal in 1982, the 1967 NSERC graduate scholarship, Princeton University’s Joseph Henry Scholarship and a number of large research grants. He and his wife Theresa are the proud parents of Arie, Alice, Emma, Ellen and Marinus. He is conversant in Dutch and reads French and German.
Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson
Born and raised on a farm in Dundee, Scotland, Ken Wilson began his career working on a dairy farm. After immigrating to Ontario, Canada, he became a registered B.C. Land Surveyor.
As all the principals of the large company where he was employed were civil engineers as well as land surveyors, Wilson entered UBC’s requisite First Year Science course followed by four years of studies in Civil Engineering. As his focus was shifting, he began a new career path in hydraulic studies, receiving a research scholarship from MIT.
In 1971, Wilson graduated with his Master of Science (SM) from MIT. Upon returning to British Columbia, he spent the next 31 years involved in a wide range of drainage, irrigation, water quality, groundwater, and hydrologic studies and projects.
In 2019 he co-founded the group Climate Realists of Victoria with Tim Ball. They are primarily a group of experienced, well-educated and well-informed professionals (now mostly retired) who are deeply dissatisfied with the current hysteria over global warming and the lack of a positive rational response from our political leaders to deal with the downside consequences of the Net Zero CO2 goal by 2050.
Terry Winters
Terry Winters
About The Member
Terry Winters holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wales, U.K in 1967, and did a post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA 1967-8. He was born in the UK and emigrated to the USA in 1967, becoming a US citizen in 1973.
He spent most of his business career as a venture capitalist, from 1977 to 2007, starting with DS ventures, Diamond Shamrock’s corporate venture fund and then becoming a general partner in Columbine Venture Funds in Denver in 1983 and then Valley Ventures in Phoenix in 1996 in funds managing over $150M.
He specialized in University-sourced start-ups and has been a director of over twenty public and private companies including CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, Orthologic Corp and Clinuvel Ltd.
Dr. Winters finished his career as CEO of one of his portfolio companies, Vital Therapies Inc., which developed the first human cell-based bio-artificial liver. He retired from VTL at the end of 2017. He is now retired, invests in the life sciences and is actively involved in science related issues, including global warming.
He has recently published his debut book concerning his fascinating experiences in getting a new pharmaceutical drug with peculiar properties to market. Sex, Diet and Tanning
Lorraine Yapps-Cohen
Lorraine Yapps-Cohen
About This Member
Former communications & marketing manager ExxonMobil, columnist Examiner newspapers.
Bob Zybach
Bob Zybach
About The Member
Writer, researcher, photographer. Born 1948 in Woodland, Washington. Raised family and operated successful reforestation business from Eddyville, Oregon for 20 years. Earned Environmental Sciences PhD from Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, in 2003. Bachelors’ degree in Forest Recreation; Masters’ in oral histories; and PhD as historical ecologist.
Most of his research and writing has focused on the human and landscape history of Oregon over the past 15,000 years, and particularly the past 500. Principal topics are forest and fire history; the Oregon Trail; Indian and Black communities and individuals; endangered species habitat; and reforestation planning.
Corresponding Members
William Hayden Smith
William Hayden Smith
About The Corresponding Member
(Corresponding Members provide scientific and technical commentary on CO2 Coalition publications. They do not take part in advocacy activities or Coalition decisions and are not eligible for reimbursement or compensation of any kind.)
William Hayden Smith, Ph.D. received his doctorate at Princeton University. He is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, His research interests include
- Terrestrial remote sensing using Imaging interferometry and other hyperspectral imaging methods
- Application of radiative transfer theory and modern analysis techniques to the interpretation of data from remote sensing instruments.
- Experimental studies of clouds and aerosols and their roles in the earth's atmosphere and climate: radiative processes in atmosphere and on surface.
- Radiative interaction within leaves.
- Development of radiation remote sensing instruments.
- Optical spectroscopy: methods and instrumentation.
- Chemical kinetics and spectroscopy of gas phase molecular free radicals of atmospheric interest.
- Spectroscopy of molecules of astrophysical interest
Coalition Staff
Sharon Camp – Senior Education Advisor
Sharon Camp – Senior Education Advisor
Sharon Camp is the Senior Education Advisor for the CO2 Coalition and creator of CO2 Learning Center lesson plans. Dr. Camp has a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Georgia Tech. She has worked in industry, for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and as an advanced placement environmental science teacher. Dr. Camp is certified to teach 9-12 science in the state of Georgia and has twenty years' experience as a science teacher. Before her recent retirement she taught high school Advanced Placement (AP) Enviromental Science for fifteen years. She is currently a reader (grader) for the yearly national AP Environmental Science exam.
Thiago Hellinger da Silva – Visual Arts Advisor
Thiago Hellinger da Silva – Visual Arts Advisor
ACADEMIC FORMATION
- Graduated in Arts Degree (Arts Education) at Centro Universitário Claretiano.
- Extension in introduction to philosophy by the Claretian University Center.
- Postgraduate degree in Art History from Centro Universitário Claretiano in 2017.
- Professor of Drawing and Painting, specializing in the realistic and hyper-realist academic style, graduated in 2012 by the Drawing and Painting Studio Professor Francisco Nunes Silva Filho, in Lorena/SP, from 2007 to 2012.
- Realistic Drawing Course in Digital Painting, Escola de Arte Quanta, with Professor Felipe Pagliuso, São Paulo-SP, in January 2017.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Art Education Teacher: Cruzeiro-SP City Hall, Lions School, from 2018 to today.
Art Education Teacher: Art teacher at the Association of Parents and Friends of the exceptional APAE from March 2017 to today.
Art Education Teacher: Hired in the selection process with classes throughout 2016 at Chagas Pereira and Virgulina Marcondes de M Fazzeri schools (Coteca).
Teacher of drawing and painting: Advisor of the painting and illustration course at Espaço Alecrim in Guaratinguetá from 2016 to 2017
Professor of Painting and Drawing: Francisco Nunes Silva Filho Painting Studio, Lorena-SP Internship: 2009 to 2010.
Painting teacher: Circuito das Artes Painting Studio, Guaratinguetá-SP from 03/01/2011 to 11/30/2011.
Vijay Jayaraj – Research Associate
Vijay Jayaraj – Research Associate
Contributing Writer
Vijay Jayaraj holds an MS in Environmental Sciences from University of East Anglia, UK and a BS in Engineering from Anna University, India. He is a prolific contributor, writing about CO2 benefits, energy and climate science, most often from the viewpoint of the developing world. He is based in Bengaluru, India and was most recently with the Cornwall Alliance as Research Associate.
Richard McCarty – Operations Manager
Richard McCarty – Operations Manager
Richard McCarty graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in Government. Over his career, he has worked in both for-profit and nonprofit sectors, with the majority of his career spent at nonprofit organizations. He is happy to now serve as the CO2 Coalition’s Operations Manager. He lives in Northern Virginia.
Patrick J. Michaels – Senior Fellow (1950 – 2022)
Patrick J. Michaels – Senior Fellow (1950 – 2022)
About The Member
Our dear colleague passed away suddenly on July 15, 2022. He was deep into research and writing two papers for the Coalition; one on America's breadbasket and climate change and a second was a planned opus on a re-evaluation of the National Climate Assessment.
Patrick J. Michaels was a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He is the author or editor of nine books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media.
Dr. Michaels was a jovial warrior fighting for the scientific process and truth in the sciences. He will be missed.
Ryan Nichols – Vice President of Operations
Ryan Nichols – Vice President of Operations
Vice President of Operations
Ryan Nichols most recently served in the Trump Administration as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Water & Science, Office of the Secretary at Department of Interior. Before his stint at Interior, he served as the Associate Director, Coalition Relations for the Heritage Foundation, and as Director of Development for Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in civil and environmental engineering.
Gordon Tomb – Senior Advisor
Gordon Tomb – Senior Advisor
Gordon Tomb is an energy and climate writer, communications consultant and primary editor of Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s premier free-market think tank. He has spoken on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency on lessons of the Fukushima and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents and is a winner of the Cicero Speechwriting Awards. Gordon led communications teams in the recovery from the Three Mile Island accident, the development of an electric transmission project and the reorganization of a FORTUNE 500 company. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist and as a consultant with an international management consulting firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and attended Grove City College.
Angela Wheeler – Senior Manager, Multimedia and Outreach
Angela Wheeler – Senior Manager, Multimedia and Outreach
Marketing and communications specialist. Most recently she was the Marketing and Publications Director for the Capital Media Group. Previous to that, she was Marketing and Publications Director for the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation.
Gregory Wrightstone – Executive Director
Gregory Wrightstone – Executive Director
Executive Director
Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist (BS and MS in Geology), bestselling author (Inconvenient Facts), and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6).