Roger Cohen

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 40^th 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 — Chair

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 1960 and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Princeton University in 1964. 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 1980 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 guide star 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

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.

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

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 sunlight reflected by clouds that, on average, cover 67% of the Earth and 76% of the oceans (percentages measured by the Terra and Aqua satellites). 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 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

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 — Chair

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 1960 and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Princeton University in 1964. 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 1980 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 guide star 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

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 interest in aircraft and engineering led him to become apprenticed to Vickers-Armstrongs (aircraft) where he helped build Scimitars—single-seat, twin-engine aircraft—for the Royal Navy. He realized a boyhood dream to learn to fly by joining the Royal Air Force (RAF) Volunteer Reserve from which, incidentally, the RAF drew many of its pilots for the Battle of Britain in WWII.

His career later included conducting and managing research programs in pure and applied sciences in academia, the private sector, as well as 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 focused 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, 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.

Rafaella Nascimento – Vice Chair

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

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 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.

Jim Steele

Jim Steele earned a B.S. Biology in 1982 and finalized a M.A. Biology in 1989, both from San Francisco State University. He 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, he 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, Steele concurrently taught science in San Francisco’s underserved schools, first teaching general middle school science and then high school Advanced Placement Biology where he also developed a medical pathways program focused on teaching biotechnology and human physiology. Later he 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, he immersed himself 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, Steele initiated a partnership with the EPA and US Forest Service to form the successful Carman Valley Watershed Restoration project for which he coordinated the biological monitoring activities.

The realization that landscape changes and natural ocean cycles could account for most of the observed ecological disruptions, he began intensely investigating the evidence for other claims that disruptions in the ecology of butterflies and pika in his 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, he wrote the book Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism and created the website landscapesandcycles.net. Steele 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.

Gregory Wrightstone – Executive Director

Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist (BS Waynesburg College and MS West Virginia Univ.), bestselling author of Inconvenient Facts and  A Very Convenient Warming and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6).

Mr. Wrightstone has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers, publications and commentaries concerning climate change and energy. He is a popular guest for media outlets on television, radio and podcasts, having done more than 200 interviews in 2023 alone.

He had a 35-year career in the energy industry, focused primarily on the Appalachian Basin of the eastern United States, culminating in his role as a founding partner and VP of Exploration for Mountaineer Keystone.

• Four-time President of the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists
• President of the Eastern Section AAPG
• Founder and President of the Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government, a state-wide free market advocacy group.
• Co-founder of Pennsylvanians Against Common Core

Executive Director Wrightstone is a strong proponent of the scientific process and often refers to a basic tenet of English law: Audiatur et altera pars or “Let both sides be fairly heard.”

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

Wes Allen 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, he 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

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, and 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. He 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.

Allen has been an influential member and leader of various boards in Houston, Texas including The Petroleum Club of Houston, The Houston Geological Society, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and The Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.

He 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.

He is currently President of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES).

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

Earl Ault

Dr. Ault, an experimentalist, has over 30 years of experience in the development of technologies utilizing high-power lasers for research and industrial applications. Although trained as a Plasma Physicist at University of California Los Angeles, he quickly applied his experience in the field of high-power, gas-laser development. While at Northrop Research and Technology Center in Hawthorne, California, Dr. Ault developed electron-beam-excited, rare-gas, excimer lasers used in industry and defense. He holds an original patent for the krypton fluoride laser that is now used in LASEX eye surgery.

In 1975, Dr. Ault joined the Exxon nuclear team in Richland, Washington, to develop an isotope-enrichment process to make uranium light water reactor fuel from Department of Energy gaseous diffusion plant tailings. After 5 years, the project was canceled because of presidential politics. Dr. Ault returned to California and joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Laser Enrichment Program. This project had the same goal as Exxon: produce light water reactor fuel for power generation using lasers to reduce the otherwise large energy requirements of other methods. Dr. Ault participated in the program for over 20 years and became a noted expert in Laser Isotope Enrichment. Subsequent consulting opportunities broadened his knowledge in this field, both in laser technology and product-enrichment methods. While at LLNL, Dr. Ault had the opportunity to participate in the review of Laboratories Directed Research and Development programs on climate change modeling. That program concentrated on comparing others models to see if they gave the same results. At the time, the models went chaotic after about 100 model years, casting doubt on the reliability of projected results. Comparisons to satellite data over the ensuing decades showed major discrepancies between model predictions and measurement.

In 2003, Dr. Ault retired from LLNL. In the mean time (1990) Dr. Ault and his wife, Linda, started a small business: a boutique winery in the Livermore Valley, East of San Francisco. After 33 years of operating the winery the Aults retired to Walnut Creek, California, to pursue personal interests. Those include the study of climate change and its effect on the economy and politics. Dr. Ault is also an artist specializing in transparent watercolor and black and white photography.

Patrick Baeuerle

Patrick A. Baeuerle studied biology at the universities of Konstanz and Munich (LMU), Germany, and holds a M.Sc. from the University of Konstanz and a Ph.D. summa cum laude from the LMU. He trained at the Max-Planck Institute for Neurochemistry in Martinsried and at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) with Prof. Wieland Huttner. Patrick’s graduate work was on tyrosine sulfation of proteins. From 1987-1989, he performed post-doctoral training with Nobel laureate Dr. David Baltimore at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) where he discovered IkappaB and RelA (p65) subunits of transcription factor NF-kappaB, a key regular of inflammation and immune defense.

Back in Germany, Patrick led an independent research group at the GeneCenter of the LMU in Martinsried (Director: Prof. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker) where he deciphered the canonical pathway of NF-kappaB activation and novel functions of the transcription factor. His habilitation at the LMU was in 1992. At the age of 34, Patrick was called as full Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry to the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, Germany. After less than three years in Freiburg, he moved to California to head up small molecule drug discovery at Tularik, a biopharmaceutical start-up company based in South San Francisco.

From California, Patrick moved back in 1998 to Martinsried, Germany, where he became Chief Scientific Officer of Micromet, a biopharmaceutical company at the Institute for Immunology of the LMU. Over the years, Micromet became a pioneer in the industry in the development of so-called T cell-engaging bispecific (BiTE) antibodies for cancer therapy. Its CD19/CD3-bispecific BiTE antibody blinatumomab and drug pipeline led to the acquisition of Micromet by AMGEN in 2012 for $1.12B. Blinatumomab was approved by the FDA in 2014 in less than three months as Blincyto®, a therapy for treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Patrick served for the following three years as Vice President of Research and General Manager of AMGEN Research Munich GmbH.

In 2015, Patrick joined the Boston-based venture capital firm MPM Capital LLC as an Executive Partner. Since then, Patrick has co-founded at MPM a total of eight biotech companies developing novel cancer therapies: Harpoon, iOmx, Maverick, TCR², Werewolf, Aktis, Cullinan and Crossbow. At Cullinan, he currently serves as Chief Scientific Advisor and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board. Patrick is also a scientific advisor to iOmx, Aktis and Crossbow. Four of Patrick’s companies went public on NASDAQ (TCR², Harpoon, Cullinan and Werewolf), and three companies were acquired (Maverick, TCR² and Harpoon). Two are still private (Aktis and Crossbow).

Patrick is the recipient of Xconomy’s 2019 “Entrepreneur (“X”) of the Year” award, and of EMBL’s 2019 Lennart Philipson Award in recognition of his many contributions to the development of cancer immunotherapies. In 2021, he was elected by Endpoints News to be among the 20 most influential R&D executives in the US. To date, he has published 257 PubMed-listed papers that have been cited more than 87,000 times. He currently has a Hirsh index of 143 and was rated to be among the top 0.01% of most frequently cited scientists (Ioannides et al., 2019). Patrick Baeuerle is a member of the Leopoldina, Germany’s National Academy of Sciences.

Patrick is a passionate scientist, which made him critically look at the current narrative and science behind climate change, the ensuing political actions and the highly biased depiction of climate change in the media.

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

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

Mr. Bauman earned a B.S. 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 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).

David Benard

David J. Benard received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois in 1972. He's published 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has 18 successful patent applications. David has held positions at the John-Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, and Rockwell Scientific.

He has expertise in Chemical Physics, Kinetics, Modeling, Advanced Lighting Systems & Lasers, IR Countermeasures and Electric Power Systems, and Components. He is also the co-inventor of the Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser, and he received a presidential commendation, as well as the USAF Systems Command Award For Technical Achievement.

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.

Guus Berkhout

After a scientific career in the geo-energy industry, Professor Guus Berkhout held a chair in geophysical and acoustical imaging at TU Delft, The Netherlands, from 1976 - 2008. During 1998 - 2001 he was a member of the University Board, being responsible for scientific research and intellectual property. In the past decades, he advised the Dutch government on the environmental problems around Schiphol airport. In 2019 he founded, together with science journalist Marcel Crok, the Climate Intelligence Foundation (Clintel).

Guus Berkhout has written several hundred peer reviewed scientific articles on seismic imaging of the Earth’s upper lithosphere.

Dr. Berkhout is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), senior member of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (AcTI), honorary member of the American Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) as well as honorary member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAEG). He is recipient of the Royal Decoration ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’.

For more information, see www.aj-berkhout.com.

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.

Philip Blakeley

Philip Blakeley began his career in 1978 at The Welding Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom where he stayed until 1984 and developed the welding conditions required for such tasks as attaching the blades of jet engines for Rolls Royce and sealing thick copper containers used to store nuclear waste.

Having enjoyed the application of physics to solve real world problems, Philip then became an independent consultant which led him to work for many companies throughout the world. This included Caterpillar and ALCOA in the United States, which involved the treatment of metal surfaces; Shell, and the detection of corrosion on sub-sea structures and pipelines; Statoil, and the verification of welded structures on offshore platforms; and Anglian Water, and the detection of cryptosporidium in water supplies.

More recently, Philip has assisted in the design of sea wave turbines - which have been successfully deployed for many years - to provide electricity to the Isle of Islay in Scotland, and contributed to the design and operation of equipment used to measure and analyze methane concentrations in sea water as deep as 3 kilometers (9,842 feet).

Along with many other scientists, Philip has become concerned about the current belief amongst many people that CO2 is responsible for global warming, and has attempted to show that this is an inaccurate assumption in his book, CO2 & Net Zero.

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

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

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 2^nd 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/

William (Matt) Briggs

William M. Briggs - the Statistician to the Stars! - has a background in philosophy, meteorology, and cryptography, with a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics and an MS in Atmospheric Physics. He is known for his work in the philosophy of uncertainty and science. He is the author of Uncertainty and The Price of Panic, among others.

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

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.

Frits Buningh

Frits Buningh trained in the 1970s at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to become a mining engineer, specializing in ventilation. After working in a German coal mine in 1974, he worked in a Canadian copper mine in 1976-77—the Kid Creek Mine near Timmins, Ontario, one of the deepest underground mines in the world. Kid Creek’s #2 mine shaft was almost two miles deep (9800 feet = 1.85 Miles), and he experienced going down that deep when it was being developed. These experiences gave him a profound appreciation for geological time scales, something that seems lost amid the climate crisis hysteria of today.

Later in life Mr. Buningh embarked on a successful career in data management for various US publishers, including the Washington Times Corporation, United Communications Group (UCG) and the Military Times Publishing/Gannett Company. Along the way he graduated cum laude with a BS in computer science from the University of Maryland. At Military Times he spent two years overhauling a COBOL program written in the early 1990s for a complicated co-palletization scheme for the four military titles—Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times, and Marine Times—translating it into the then (2009) newer SQL-DTS language. This work gave him the experience in data modeling that is useful for his recent focus on analyzing the Antarctica temperature data presentations—or rather, misrepresentation by the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine.

In the publishing industry, it is common to be subjected to rigorous audits for advertising purposes (conducted by the ABC or BPA audit bureaus) in order to justify ad rates, as well as postal audits to qualify for substantial discounts like second class postage or what is now called magazine rates. None of this auditing is present in the climate data claims realm. To provide accountability to their audiences, the data presented by the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine, the NOAA Models (CFS and others), the UN IPCC, and the Copernicus Institute, ought to be subjected to a similar rigorous auditing procedure by an independent body. Mr. Buningh aims to make a contribution by helping to establish some accountability in this area, which is currently entirely lacking.

Mr. Buningh as of October 2023 became a signatory to the There is No Climate Emergency petition by the Dutch CLINTEL foundation; he is listed under the USA as #56. Frits Buningh, Data Research Specialist.

David Burton

About The Member

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 was certified to teach grade 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) Environmental Science for fifteen years. She was a reader (grader) for the yearly national AP Environmental Science exam for nine years. Dr. Camp is the Senior Education Advisor for the CO2 Coalition and creator of CO2 Learning Center lesson plans.

Craig Cernek

Craig Cernek is an accomplished architect and design/build professional with over 30 years of experience in residential, commercial, and urban development projects. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Illinois School of Architecture at Chicago (1988) and has been a registered professional architect in Illinois (1992–present), Tennessee (2024–present), and previously in Colorado and Wisconsin.

As President of Archi/Build Group, Inc. (1990–present) and Senior Architect at Tigerman McCurry Architects LTD (2017–present), Craig has led diverse projects, from single-family homes to commercial buildings, managing design, construction, and technical execution. His expertise spans structural engineering, building materials science, HVAC systems, and plumbing, bolstered by over 12 hours of annual continuing education through the Association of Licensed Architects and American Institute of Architects since 1999. A hands-on innovator, he has designed and built machines and electronic circuitry, including spark gap generators and combustion-engine models, reflecting his practical approach to technical challenges.

Since 2020, Craig T. Cernek has immersed himself in climate change research, studying the works of Dr. John Clauser, Dr. Judith Curry, Alex Epstein, Dr. William Happer, Dr. Richard Lindzen, Dr. Steven Koonin, Bjorn Lomborg, Dr. Patrick Moore, Gregory Wrightstone, and Dr. Willie Soon. These efforts have equipped him with a rigorous, science-based understanding of climate dynamics and energy policy.

Additionally, since 2020, he has pursued extensive independent studies into Marxism, postmodernism, wokeism, and climatism, engaging deeply with the works of Victor Davis Hanson, Dr. Stephen Hicks, Dr. James Lindsay, Heather Mac Donald, Douglas Murray, George Orwell, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Dr. Thomas Sowell. This intellectual exploration has sharpened his critical perspective on ideological trends and their societal implications.

A respected leader, he serves as President of the Association of Licensed Architects Board of Directors (2025–present) and has held multiple leadership roles within the AIA Chicago Chapter. With a career grounded in precision and enriched by his recent studies, Craig T. Cernek brings a unique blend of technical expertise and informed skepticism to the CO2 Coalition, contributing to its mission of advancing rational discourse on energy and climate issues.

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

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.

Roy Clark

Roy Clark is a retired engineer with over 30 years of experience in new product and process development, including optical and spectroscopic measurements in adverse environments. He has successfully integrated complex laser diagnostics into large-scale hypersonic and high-energy laser test facilities. He has also developed LED and fiber optic illumination systems and sensors for a wide range of applications. His spectroscopic experience extends from 200 nm to 200 cm^-1 including work with circular and linearly-polarized light. His interests also include time-based optical calibration techniques that are directly traceable to the primary atomic clock standard.

He has worked at several large and small companies in Southern California and has provided consulting services for optical systems development. He has 8 U.S. patents. He received his MA in chemistry from the University of Oxford University and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Sussex University (UK; 1976).

He started his own independent research on climate change in 2007. His particular interest is time-dependent or dynamic-surface energy transfer and the calculation of surface temperatures from first principles. He has published several technical articles on climate change and co-wrote the book ‘Finding Simplicity in a Complex World – The Role of the Diurnal Temperature Cycle in Climate Energy Transfer and Climate Change’ with the late Prof. Arthur Rörsch.

Edward C. Clukey

Edward C. Clukey earned his master's and bachelor's degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his doctorate from Cornell University. He is a registered professional engineer in California and Texas, a member of the Society of Underwater Technology and a Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and a Diplomate (retired) in ASCE for both Geotechnical and Ocean Engineering.

For the past 45 years, Dr. Clukey has focused on offshore geotechnical engineering for the development of oil and gas reserves. His research at Cornell and in the early part of his professional career addressed problems on wave-seafloor interaction. He was Geotechnical Advisor at BP America (1998-2015) and worked on deepwater foundations, geotechnical aspects of pipelines and risers, as well as geotechnical problems related to earthquake and arctic engineering.  Previously, he helped initiate the marine geotechnical program for the U. S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park California (1976-78). Prior to his BP experience he worked for McClelland Engineers (1983-1985) and Exxon Production Research (1985-1998). During his time with Exxon, he was involved as a technical analyst during the Exxon Valdez litigation (1994-1995). He won an award for preparing the technical basis for the best cross examination during the trial.

Since 1991 he has been actively involved with the development of suction caisson technology for deepwater applications. This work resulted in over ten publications on the topic and the installation of over hundreds of suction caissons throughout the world for BP. He chaired the API task group which developed industry guidelines for geotechnical aspects of conductors, risers and pipelines (2007-2019), now currently in both in API and ISO design documents. Throughout his career he has championed the use of centrifuge model testing and advanced numerical models to address complex offshore geotechnical technical issues. He managed ten centrifuge programs for problems related to ice gouging of the seafloor, suction caisson technology, piles capacity in Angolan soils, conductor and SCR fatigue, and the seismic response of steel jacket structures and subsea manifolds. Since his retirement from BP he formed his own company (GeoMaxEd), become an active committee member in ASCE’s COPRI division developing a standard practice for renewable energy as well as a member of the ASCE Geo-Institute developing guidelines for the risk and reliability of geotechnical structures and foundations. He was an invited lecturer at MIT from 2016 to 2019. Dr. Clukey is the author of 55 technical publications and his experience covers many regions of the world. He was selected and gave the distinguished fifth McClelland lecture in August 2022.

During the past few years, he has become interested in the science behind climate change and has investigated the potential risks that will impact society regarding policy decisions on this issue. He has compiled a presentation that summarizes the impact of human activity on global warming and climate change, potential outcomes regarding policy decisions and costs for the proposed solutions. He has given this presentation to over 100 individual and several professional societies including C-CORE, SUT and the ASCE leadership committee. Recently he has been invited by the ASCE Energy Division to submit a paper summarizing his views on climate change.

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 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.

Hugh Crowther

• Born and schooled in Zambia Central Africa
• BSc Mech Eng University of Cape Town (1970)
• Engineering, Construction and Operations of process and energy plant in South Africa, India, China, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Bahrain and UAE
• Developed the first CD-based 3,000-page set of Engineering Standards in the Chevron/Texaco group
• Project Management and systems engineering development and deployment, in China and Japan.
• Coaching, certification and auditing of 1,100 R&D project managers in 17 Petrochina universities, including production of their first project management handbook and procedures
• Risk engineering for Chubb Energy Reinsurance, in the Middle East and North Africa region
• Currently working in Portugal, rebuilding and renovating old villa ruins

Raphael D’Alonzo

Raphael (Ray) P. D'Alonzo is retired from the Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) and a former University of Massachusetts Amherst visiting and adjunct professor and former University of Cincinnati Evening College instructor.

Dr. D'Alonzo obtained a B.Sc. in chemistry with honors in 1974 from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science (acquired by St. Joseph's University in 2022) and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he studied and developed a variety of atomic absorption and emission spectroscopic methods for quantifying trace organic compounds in food, pharmaceutical and environmental samples under Prof. Sidney Siggia.

After receiving his Ph.D., he joined P&G's Foods Division where he applied a variety of chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques for the determination of trace organics in food products and packaging materials. In 1982, he was appointed Director of Analytical Chemistry in P&G's Bar Soap & Household Cleaning Products Division and in 1983 was elected Chair of P&G's Worldwide Analytical Coordinating Committee, a body composed of 23 analytical organization leaders from around the world managing more than 200 Ph.D. analytical chemists. In 1984, he was transferred to P&G Pharmaceuticals where he managed the research program that discovered risedronate which successfully progressed to become Actonel®, a 1.7 billion dollar osteoporosis drug. He was appointed Senior Director in 1986 where he managed a variety of clinical research and operational departments for the next 22 years. Under his leadership, P&G Pharmaceuticals received patents for novel potent and broad-spectrum anti-infective compounds, regulatory approval for the first non-steroidal osteoporosis drug in the world (etidronate in France) and became the first pharmaceutical company in the world to implement a system for harvesting and validating clinical data using the Internet as documented in Harvard Business School case study #9-606-033. In 2006, he was appointed Senior Manager in P&G's R&D Administration organization with responsibility for worldwide university technical relations until he retired in 2008.

Dr. D'Alonzo has been active in several professional organizations including the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, and the Chiari & Syringomyelia Patient Education Foundation. He has served as Chair of the ACS Cincinnati Section composed of 1,600 members and as President of the Cincinnati Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

Dr. D'Alonzo's publications are diverse ranging from various topics in analytical chemistry to pharmacoeconomics. He has been invited to speak on various topics of analytical chemistry and drug research and development at over a dozen colleges and universities.

In 1995, Dr. D'Alonzo was honored as the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Distinguished Alumni Award and later in 2000 with the University's highest award, the Chancellor's Medal.

Since retirement, Dr. D'Alonzo has become the owner of several successful small startup businesses and has served on the board of directors of the Northern Cincinnati Community Foundation and the Joint Economic Development District I of Liberty Township, Ohio.

Joseph D’Aleo

Joseph D’Aleo has 5 decades of impactful roles in education and the weather data, media and climate analysis, attribution research and forecasting industries. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin BS, MS Meteorology and an ABD in Atmospheric Chemistry from NYU.

He then was the weather producer for WCBS TV, Radio and Network Weather Center in New York City while he worked on his doctorate at NYU.

He then helped establish and grow the very successful meteorology program at Lyndon State College where he chaired the department. He left to be weather producer for John Coleman at ABC Good Morning America.  John and Joe launched the Weather Channel in 1982 where he was responsible for hiring and directing the 64 meteorologists and broadcasters and designing the award-winning programming.

Mr. D’Aleo transitioned to the partner WSI Corporation, where he focused on visionary product development for media, aviation and energy and later R&D into multivariate statistical modeling for long range forecasting. He was Editor and “Dr. Dewpoint” for WSI’s popular Intellicast.com web site where he did one of the first weather and climate blogs. He authored a Resource Guide on El Nino and La Nina for Greenwood Publishing. Mr. D’Aleo has also authored numerous articles and peer reviewed papers and was a contributing author for Evidence Based Climate Science. He made many presentations and keynote addresses on how sun and ocean cycles have made seasonal climate forecasting skillful and explain changing regimes in climate and associated extremes. Joe was a partner in a successful hedge fund trading energy and agriculture before joining Weatherbell Analytics, LLC as co-chief Meteorologist.

Mr. D’Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He has chaired the American Meteorological Society’ Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting and has co-chaired national conferences for both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. Mr. D’Aleo was elected by his peers as a Councilor for the AMS.

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

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.

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.

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

Tilak K. Doshi

Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is Managing Director at Doshi Consulting. Dr. Doshi is an industry expert with over 30 years of international work experience in leading oil and gas companies and think tanks.

His previous appointments include Visiting Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore; Chief Economist, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore; Senior Fellow and Program Director, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); Executive Director for Energy, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC, UAE); Specialist Consultant, Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Chief Asia Economist, Unocal Corporation (Singapore); Director for Economic and Industry Analysis, Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO, Los Angeles, U.S.).

Dr. Doshi is a Forbes contributor. He is the author of many articles and three books on energy economics, the most recent of which was Singapore Chronicles: Energy (Straits Times Press, 2016). He has published op-eds in the Straits Times (Singapore), Asia Times, The Spectator, South China Morning Post, Jerusalem Post, Business Standard (India), RealClearEnergy and elsewhere.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hawaii on a scholarship provided by the East-West Centre. He was granted the 1984 Robert S. McNamara Research Fellow award by World Bank, Washington, D.C., and he received a Distinction for MA in Economics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

John Droz

About The Member

John is an independent physicist and long-term 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 Media Balance Newsletter.

For more details about his background, see his CV.

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

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

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

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

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.

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Peter Etherington-Smith

Education: Vietnam, Netherlands, UK

BS: Geology and Oceanography, University of Wales (1975)

MS: Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College London (1989)

Career: Global; South-East Asia, China, Japan, Central Asia, Russia, Middle-East and Africa, Europe, North America. Retired UK 2016.

Marine biologist: coral reef field research with expeditions to tropical reefs in the Red Sea (Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan), Arabian Gulf (Bahrain, Abu Dhabi) and the Indian Ocean (Seychelles). Research topics included the Crown-of-Thorns starfish that is one of the main predators of corals and along with cyclones the dominant cause of periodic coral bleaching, part of the routine natural life cycle for shallow, warm water corals.

Oil and Gas industry: field geologist, petroleum engineer, exploration, R&D, operations; manager for design and implementation of major development projects up to $16 billion, leading technical, commercial, and government contractual negotiations, notably, China, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Palestine, Qatar, Russia.

Foreign countries of residence spanning 60 years: Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Singapore, Sudan, USA, Vietnam.

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.

Brian Firth

Brian G. Firth was born and raised in South Africa. He obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB,ChB., or MD equivalent) from the University of Cape Town. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and proceeded to study at Oxford (Exeter College, South-Africa-at-Large, 1972). He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in fluid dynamics/hemodynamics as well as his physician specialist degree (MRCP) in three years and returned to Cape Town where he began his cardiology training at the famed Groote Schuur Hospital. He married his Irish wife Margaret and emigrated to the USA where he served as a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Director of the Coronary Care Unit, Director of the Cardiology Fellowship training program, and Associate Director of the Division of Cardiology at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX. He retired from this position in 1990 as a tenured full Professor of Medicine. During that period, he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a Fellow of the American Heart Association, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and also obtained an MBA. He also served on the National Council of the American Federation for Clinical Research and chaired the Public Policy committee.

From 1990-1992 he was Executive Director for Worldwide Cardiovascular Strategic Product Planning at Bristol Myers Squibb, and from 1992-1995 Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, of GH Besselaar Associates, the largest worldwide Contract Research organization, with 650 employees at 4 locations in the US as well as Sydney, Australia. He joined Johnson and Johnson Interventional Systems in 1995 prior to its merger with Cordis Corporation. During the next 13 years he was directed clinical trials of the original coronary and peripheral arterial Palmaz stents, development and clinical trials of their successors, and ultimately development of the world’s first drug-eluting coronary stent, the CYPHER™ sirolimus eluting-stent. He served successively as Worldwide Vice President of Research and Development, Clinical Research, Health Economics and Reimbursement and played a central role in court over 10 years in defending the stent patents held by Johnson & Johnson (J&J), resulting in $3.6 billion cumulative payments to J&J. The clinical trials performed with these stents dramatically changed the treatment of coronary artery disease, and especially acute myocardial infarction (MI) or “heart attacks”, the leading cause of death in western societies. There are now estimated to be over 50 million people with stents worldwide.

After retiring from J&J in 2008, he spent the next 9 years serving on multiple non-profit Boards, including Heritage Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization in Bucks County, Pennsylvania that specializes in land conservation and natural resource protection. From 2017 until early this year, he served on the Board and as Chief Scientific Officer for Thrombolex Inc. He was the Principal Investigator on an NIH grant that funded the pivotal RESCUE clinical trial for the treatment of patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), using the BASHIR™ Endovascular Catheter. This trial showed best in class efficacy and safety with a device that has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of PE, as happened with coronary stents in the treatment of patients with acute MIs. PE is the third leading cause of cardiovascular death after acute MI and stroke worldwide.

Joseph Fournier

Dr. Fournier is an accomplished executive and senior scientist, with a 15-year track record in the oil sands, power generation and environmental science industries, both in Canada and in United States.

His career has afforded him an exposure to a diverse range of exciting technology development projects, where he enjoyed fulfilling leadership roles with numerous capital projects, each in excess of $100 million.

Dr. Fournier`s formal graduate training was in solid state electrochemistry specific to hydrogen fuel cells and battery technologies and his undergraduate training was in physics and environmental chemistry.

Currently, Dr. Fournier lives 100 km east of Calgary near the village of Rockford, where he and his family own and operate a ranch along Service Berry Creek. Dr. Fournier`s professional engagements include freelance journalism and is actively working to publish on a range of climate science related topics with a group of international researchers.

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.

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

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 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 – 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 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.

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)

Other Interests:

Scenic and technical photography, fishing, hunting, golf, watercolor painting

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.

Peter Gill

Peter Gill is a physicist (BSc Hons. King’s College, University of Durham 1964). During his time at university, he was a member of the University RAF Air Squadron. He went on to fly as a private pilot (gliders and fixed wing powered aircraft). His interest in meteorology necessarily developed as a result.

Peter spent two stints, totaling six years, in industrial physics research. This included work on coal utilization. Through the latter connection, in 1970 he joined WS Atkins & Partners (at the time the world’s largest independent consultancy for the Iron & Steel Industry).

He continued as a techno-economic consultant working for a number of organizations, including one he owned until his retirement in 2010. In all, Peter worked in 40 countries worldwide.

He was briefly Chief Energy Adviser to the Policy Board of the UK Institute of Physics (brief, because the role became that of a committee stuffed with advocates for the use of so-called renewable sources of energy) and Chair of the Energy Group of IOP, amongst many other pro bono positions in that organization from circa 1970. Mr. Gill remains a member of the IOP and a number of its special interest groups (energy, environmental, tribology, plasma, etc.)

He has also been a member of many other professional bodies, including what is now the UK Energy Institute (started life as the Institute of Fuel) of which he was Chair of EI’s main branch in London. Mr. Gill resigned his Fellowship when, in 2018, it became clear that the organization was moving quickly towards becoming the Renewable Energy Institute in all but name, in spite of his attempts to have EI retain interests in fossil fuels and reliable energy conversion processes.

Circa 2012 he was invited by the editor of the academic journal Energy & Environment (Multi-Science Publishing) to join the Editorial Board. Peter did a five-year stint on this pro bono activity until a few years after the publication was sold (to Sage Publications in the USA) at which point he decided to concentrate on his other activities.

Since the disastrous Climate Change Act of 2008, Peter Gill has made many presentations showing that whilst atmospheric carbon dioxide is vital to life, its current atmospheric concentration and that in the foreseeable future is no danger to life. Indeed, it would be beneficial if we had more CO2. He has constantly pointed out that the gas may be better regarded as an indicator of climate change rather than anything like a main driver. Venues for his talks have included Imperial College, London (a hot-bed of AGW advocacy), the Committee Rooms of the UK House of Parliament, and elsewhere.

Albrecht Glatzle

Albrecht Glatzle is a consultant, cattle rancher, and retired Director of Research of INTTAS (Iniciativa para la Investigación y Transferencia de Tecnología Agraria Sostenible), Chaco, Paraguay.

Professional experience:   

27 years of applied research:

Botswana: Rangeland ecology, FAO, 2 years

Morocco: Forage improvement, GTZ, 4 years

Paraguay: Expert for pasture management and improvement at the Central Chaco Research Station (MAG/GTZ) 9 years, plus 12 years leader of the project (later association of the private sector) INTTAS

• 8 years scientific staff member at Hohenheim University, Germany, Institutes of Plant Nutrition and Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics.
• More than 50 missions to more than 25 countries (conferences, consultancies etc.)
• Author of more than 100 publications or reports and two books:

Pasture Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (in German language), Compendium on pasture management in the Chaco (in Spanish language).

• Awards received by two provincial governments of the Paraguayan Chaco for the valuable assistance given to the development of sustainable land use systems.
• Fellow of the Tropical Grassland Society of Australia (2006) http://www.tropicalgrasslands.asn.au/Tropical%20Grasslands%20Journal%20archive/PDFs/Vol_40_2006/Vol_40_01_2006_pp60_61.pdf

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 is a retired professional chemical engineer with a current focus on energy, the electrical grid, and all aspects of climate change as it impacts public policy. 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.

Steve Goreham

Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and researcher on environmental issues, energy, and public policy. He’s a frequently invited guest on radio and television as well as a freelance writer. He is the Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of America.

Steve is the author of four books on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. His latest book, Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure, warns that efforts by wealthy nations to achieve Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 are costly, dangerous, and doomed to fail. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print.

Goreham has been speaking to business, industry, and educational organizations for more than a decade. His past appearances include agriculture, engineering, manufacturing, materials, metals, oil and gas, transportation, and utility groups.  He has spoken at events of the American Foundry Society, the American Galvanizers Association, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the Association of Iron & Steel Technology, Colorado Mesa University, the Hand Tools Institute, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association, the National Association of Small Trucking Companies, the Montana Seed Trade Association, and many other groups.

Steve holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has more than 30 years of experience at Fortune 100 and private companies in engineering and executive roles. Steve is a husband and father of three and resides part of the year in Illinois and part in Virginia.

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.

Kenneth Green

Kenneth P. Green, D.Env. has studied and critiqued public policies and regulations involving environment, health, and safety for over 25 years. He has authored over 800 essays and articles on public policy, published by think tanks, major newspapers, and technical and trade journals in North America. A full listing of his works can be accessed through his website, www.kennethpgreen.com.

Dr. Green holds a doctoral degree in environmental science and engineering from UCLA, a master’s degree in molecular genetics from San Diego State University, and a bachelor's degree in general biology from UCLA.

Dr. Green’s policy analysis has centered on evaluating the pros and cons of government management of environmental, health, and safety risk. More often than not, his research has shown that governments are poor managers of risk, promulgating policies that often do more harm than good both socially and individually, are wasteful of limited regulatory resources, often benefit special interests (in government and industry) at the expense of the general public, and are almost universally violative of individual rights and personal autonomy.  Dr. Green has also focused on government’s misuse of probabilistic risk models in the defining and regulating of EHS risks, ranging from air pollution to chemical exposure, to climate change, and most recently, to biological threats such as COVID-19. His most recent book, The Plague of Models: How Computer Modeling Corrupted Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulations, was described in one review as a “devastating attack on the regulatory state."

Dr. Green has appeared frequently in major media and has testified before legislative bodies in both the United States and Canada.

Ken Gregory

Ken Gregory graduated at the University of British Columbia in 1978 with the degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering. He worked for Schlumberger performing wireline logging in Dawson Creek, BC, Offshore Newfoundland, Beaufort Sea, NWT, and Whitecourt, Alberta from 1978 - 1982. He worked for Dome Petroleum and Amoco from 1982 to 1995, including 1989 to 1995 as an Engineering Supervisor. He worked for Sceptre Resources in 1996, and for GLJ Petroleum Consultants 1996 - 2005 as a Petroleum Engineer and 2006 - 2012 as Manager, Engineering.

Gregory joined the Friends of Science Society in 2005 when he started studying climate science. He became a director of the society and webmaster in 2009. He writes the Climate Science newsletter which is sent to members two times per month, and he also writes the Science News section of the Society’s quarterly newsletter. Both are available on the Friends of Science website.

Gregory was a director of the Seniors Alpine Ski Club of Calgary, Alberta from 2017 to May 2023 assuming the roles of Treasurer and Vice President.

Lawrence Gulberg

1967-1971: Attended Stanford University, B.S. Chemistry

1971-1972: Attended Seattle Pacific University, received Teaching Credential, 1972

1972-1983: Taught chemistry at Inglemoor HS

1976-1980: Graduate school, Univ. of Washington, Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, dissertation:  Continuous and Flow Injection Enzymatic Analysis Using Immobilized Enzymes with Electrochemical Detection

1983-2002: Taught chemistry at Woodinville HS

1986 – 1987: Instrument Specialist (sales) for Fisher Scientific Co.

2002 – 2003: Taught 8^th grade Alternate School science for Northshore School District

2003-2014: Assistant Prof. Chemistry, Seattle Pacific University

2005 – 2019: Graded Advanced Placement Chemistry exams for ETS

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

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

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, 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 22^nd 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.

Dennis Hedke

Dennis Hedke is a Consulting Geophysicist, Principal at Hedke Geoscience Consulting, LLC, based in Wichita, KS. He obtained his B.S. in Geophysics from Kansas State University (1976), and his M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science (1979).

Over the course of his career, he has worked primarily with small to mid-sized Independent Oil and Gas firms, in roles from Staff Geologist/Geophysicist, including a position of Geophysical Manager with Woolsey Operating Company, Wichita. He was also a partner in Hedke-Saenger Geoscience, LTD, Wichita.

Additionally, he held Senior Management positions in a publicly traded company, Trinity Energy Resources, Houston, TX. He has exploration and development experience in multiple U.S. Basins in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions, as well as abroad in the countries of Colombia, South America, and Chad, Africa, Turkey and Azerbaijan.

He was involved, as lead geophysicist, in a research project managed by the Kansas Geological Survey, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, over the course of many years, utilizing both conventional P-wave, as well as Multi-Component seismic, characterizing many significant hydrocarbon accumulations in both clastic and carbonate reservoirs, for purposes of possible CO2 sequestration.

He served in the House of Representatives, commencing in January 2011, where he was then appointed in December 2012 to be Chairman of the House Energy & Environment Committee, a position he held until he retired at the close of the 2016 Session.

Past-President of the Kansas Geological Society

Past-President of the Kansas Geological Foundation

Co-Founder and Past-President of the Geophysical Society of Kansas

Active Member of the AAPG

Active Member of the SEG

Tony Heller

BS Geology, Arizona State University
Masters Electrical Engineering, Rice University
Boston University Geology
Northern Arizona University Computer Science
Colorado State University Computer Science
University 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 acts
Wilderness Ranger Cibola National Forest, New Mexico
Wilderness Ranger Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico
Currently battling the City of Boulder, Colorado to stop development on the South Boulder Wetlands
Full 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, Arizona
Math teacher at Phoenix Country Day School
Substitute teacher at Murphy School District, Phoenix Arizona
Computer instructor at Tomball College, Texas

Geologist.
Geothermal research at Los Alamos National Labs
Oil shale research at Los Alamos National Labs
Thermodynamic research of methane hydrates at Los Alamos National Labs
Volcano research at Los Alamos National Labs
Safety Analysis Report for the Permian Basin DOE nuclear waste disposal site
Volunteer curator Arizona Mineral Museum

Electrical Engineer
Compaq/SGI MIPS consortium design team
Power PC design team IBM/Apple/Motorola  (Used in  most game consoles over the last three decades, and PowerMacs)
Sandia Labs computer architect
Sandia Labs representative to Al Gore’s Bankers Trust key escrow consortium
Cyrix Media GX microprocessor design team manager
Raycer Graphics OpenGL graphics processor verification lead
Design manager Hitachi/ST SH5 microprocessor
Verification lead MemoryLogix microprocessor
Founder, design lead Visual Media video effects/editing software
OpenGL driver development ATI
Itanium/i7 design team Intel  
Sped up Helicos DNA sequencing algorithm by 50X
Sped up NCAR weather microphysics kernel by 500X
Ported NCAR’s radiative transfer model to GPU
Ported NCAR’s WRF weather model to Windows
Drone visualization and control software for the US military
Medical device control systems (under NDA)
Virtual reality visualization design (under NDA)
Radio control and visualization software (under NDA)

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 has a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Electronic Information Systems Engineering from the University of Regina and has worked in the electronics industry since graduation in 1988.

David 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 TC-Helicon, 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.

Early 2020 he became aware of the fact that sea level rise rates were not accelerating.  In Victoria, the rate of rise has not changed over the entire record since 1909 and is only 0.75mm/yr.   This began his research in other climate alarmist claims.  Reality is so counter to the narrative and the consequences of acting on the narrative are so detrimental that he felt he needed to do something about it.

In 2021 he ran in the federal election against the Green Party incumbent, Elizabeth May, and had the opportunity to debate her on the issue of climate five times. He continues to be active in his community, working to educate people on the benefits of increasing atmospheric CO2.

Michael Hogan

C. Michael Hogan is a physicist with a B.S. from Princeton University and Ph.D. from Stanford University. An explorer at heart, he has conducted environmental research in 68 different countries. Hogan held graduate faculty positions at Santa Clara University and UC Davis. Early work at Princeton included the research team that published the first decoding of a Messenger RNA (sea urchin). He founded and led Earth Metrics Inc., a United States-based environmental science think tank that conducted over 3,600 original research studies for the U.S. EPA, FAA, US Army Corps of Engineers, USGS and 17 different State governmental agencies. With the CIA, he led teams for design of hardware and software for satellite foreign surveillance. His research is centered on atmospheric physics and chemistry, including such aspects as the urban heat island, greenhouse gas effects, and ocean dynamics.

Dr. Hogan held a position with the National Academy of Sciences advising the U.S. President and Congress on environmental issues, notably in air and noise pollution, as well as water quality. In Hogan’s early work he led the design team for the NASA Apollo re-entry heat shield, and later focused on ferromagnetic spin-wave quantum mechanics, which is the basis of present day silicon chip manufacture. He also was project manager for the CIA first satellite system to attain high resolution video imagery that could be transmitted back to Earth in real time.

He is currently conducting research on U.S. national energy policy and climate. Recent work includes a series of 90 publications developed in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund on the forests of the world. Previously served a term as Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth, a platform where 554 scientists published peer-reviewed articles on a global perspective. Hogan has served as Chairman and CEO of Earth Metrics Inc., the Humane Society of San Mateo County, and the California Arts and Sciences Institute. He has also served on the Board of the Encyclopedia of Earth, the California Association of Environmental Professionals, and the Monterey Museum of Art. Hogan has authored over 1210 scientific books and peer-reviewed articles in atmospheric physics, historic climate eras (e.g. Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period) terrestrial ecosystems, and U.S. energy policy. Example publications are agriculture environmental impacts in the Cengage Encyclopedia; development of the first line source model for air pollution dispersal (EPA); the first statistical model for meteorological prediction of thermal pollution from nuclear power plants (EPA); acoustical analyses for eight major U.S.A. airports (FAA); all cetacean profiles for the Encyclopedia of Earth (in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund); new over the horizon electromagnetic missile detection hardware system (CIA); and the first pesticide runoff model for the U.S. EPA (Southeast Water Laboratory).

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

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

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

Bob Hoye

Bob Hoye received his B.Sc in Geology, geophysics from the University of British Columbia.

Hoye has enjoyed a career in the markets while becoming a financial historian.  He discovered that there have been three “Tyrannical Centuries”, whereby an experiment in authoritarian government trends to totalitarian, war and rampant inflation. Lasting somewhat more than a hundred years, ours began around 1900 and is culminating with dislocating inflation and political conflict, inspiring reform. The first destroyed the magnificence of Rome in the Third Century. The next ran from about 1500 to the early 1600s.

Hoye has many published articles in the leading media and has addressed investment forums in many countries.

Ole Humlum

Dr. Ole Humlum received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has numerous qualifications from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and was Scientific Director, Arctic Station, Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland for three years. He also was Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Visiting Associate Professor, Faroese Natural Museum, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, and Full Professor, Physical Geography at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Svalbard, Norway, and Full Professor, Physical Geography, at the University of Oslo, Norway.

He continued as Visiting Scholar, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Geosciences, Scotland. After retirement, he is director for the consulting firm Arctic HERO (Arctic Historical Evaluation and Research Organisation; climate, geomorphology and natural hazards). Each month he publishes his http://www.climate4you.com/ updates, summarised annually as a GWPF “State of the Climate” publication.

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.

Semih İşbaş

Semih İşbaş holds a B.Sc. in Biology from Istanbul University and is currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Botany at the same institution. His academic focus spans plant ecophysiology, systematics, and the quantitative analysis of climate-vegetation interactions. Alongside his biological studies, he has developed strong expertise in Python programming for scientific applications, particularly in data-driven modeling and algorithmic analysis.

In 2023, he served as the primary Python developer in a doctoral research project that established a novel, non-invasive system for microcirculatory tissue oxygenation assessment under visible light. This project encompassed calibration-validation routines and in vivo experiments, demonstrating physiological insights beyond the reach of conventional clinical devices and opening avenues for integration into routine medical practice.

Semih is also the author of “Climate Change from the Perspective of Natural Processes,” published in Bilim ve Ütopya, where he critically examines the pitfalls of attributing complex climate dynamics solely to atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. He advocates for multi-factorial, empirically grounded models that integrate biological, geological, and oceanographic processes—emphasizing that CO₂ is not merely a climate variable but a fundamental substrate sustaining carbon-based life on Earth.

Beyond his scientific pursuits, Semih serves as an Education Director at Ataşehir Municipality, leading large-scale academic and community programs that reinforce evidence-based learning. He actively maintains research engagements and shares his scholarly contributions on Academia.edu:
https://independent.academia.edu/semihisbas

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 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.

John W. Jenkins

Texas A & M University 1952-1956 – BS Civil Engineering

United States Air Force – 1956-1959 - Upon graduation from Texas A & M with his lieutenant’s commission, Jenkins entered the U.S. Air Force serving on active duty for three years.  After completing his pilot flight training, Jenkins served at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command 2^nd Air Force.

Harvard Business School 1961-1963 – MBA Finance & Marketing

International Business Machine Corporation – 1963 – 1969 - After graduating from the Harvard Business School, Jenkins joined the IBM company in Dallas.  John’s six years at IBM included a training period on computer systems concepts, programming, business processing, and marketing.  He and his sales team installed the first computers in Dallas area hospitals and was named the outstanding medical sales team in the IBM company.

Information Management Associates, Inc. 1969-1975 - Jenkins and his sales partner from IBM left IBM to establish Information Management Associates, Inc. (IMA).  The company obtained a contract to set up a data center for the over thirty Texas Rural Electric Cooperatives in Austin and set up a second data center in Dallas.  From this base, IMA expanded its business to provide software for clients of a growing international computer company.  For that company, IMA established and managed a programming shop in Paris, France, to modify the software to European Common Market standards and the required language translations.  IMA software was installed in companies on all six continents.

Other Major Activities and Companies

Clini-Therm Corporation, Inc., Dallas, Texas - After a successful sale of IMA, when recommended by a HBS classmate, Jenkins was approached by the Directors of development stage, public, high tech medical equipment company in Dallas to become its president and CEO replacing its founder.  At Clini-Therm Corporation, Inc., Jenkins redesigned and enlarged the product line, obtained FDA approval in record time, completed a private placement of stock with United Kingdom institutional investors, and broadened the use of the technology into new medical uses.

Jumpking Trampolines, Inc. – Dallas, Texas - A former IBM associate of Jenkins headed Jumpking Trampolines, a major Dallas division of Icon Health and Fitness, Inc. of Logan, Utah.  Looking for growth opportunities beyond his U.S. market, he asked John to become Jumpking’s Director of International Sales.  Jenkins established European dealers in Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Scandinavia, and England. He sold their product internationally to big box retailers Walmart, Sam’s Club, and Costco.  Jenkins’ international sales provided Jumpking with 80 percent of its profit with just 20 percent of the company’s total sales volume.

GSM International, Inc. – Dallas, Texas - The above years with Jumpking occurred from 1991 through 2004 when China was being welcomed into the world economy.  China used this opportunity to destroy the profitability of Jumpking’s U.S. sales along with thousands of other American manufacturers.  Icon shut down its Jumpking division in 2004. Following Jumpking’s closure, Jenkins started GSM International, Inc.  For the next eighteen years, Jenkins became intimately involved with numerous Chinese manufacturing companies traveling there during China’s major expansion period.  On various occasions, he represented them, competing against them, and even contracted with them to manufacture a patented, proprietary GSM product designed by Jenkins.

Author – After selling his business operations in 2022, Jenkins finished writing “The Blessed Generation: Fifty Years on the Cutting Edge of Rapid Change”, recently published and now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  His new book, “Looking Through a Class Darkly: Divided America and the Gathering Storm”, should be available in September 2023.

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.

Brian Joondeph

Dr. Joondeph completed his training as a retina surgeon in 1990 and has since worked in private practice and full-time academic ophthalmology. He graduated from Cornell University and Northwestern University Medical School, completed his ophthalmology training at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, and pursued a retina fellowship at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. He has been in Denver since 2003 after returning from an academic position in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a partner in a large national retina-only practice and is based in the Denver area.

Dr. Joondeph has over 90 publications and has been a current and past investigator in multiple clinical trials. He holds a master’s degree in healthcare leadership from the University of Denver. Additionally, he serves as an examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Retina and Macula Societies member. Dr. Joondeph is widowed and has three adult children. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with his family. His hobbies include skiing, golf, fitness, cooking, and travel.

As a writer, Dr. Joondeph has published over 1,100 articles, and he is a regular columnist for American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports. He covers many current events and political issues, including climate change.

Gautam Kalghatgi

Gautam Kalghatgi worked for 31 years at Shell Research in the U.K. followed by 8 years in Saudi Aramco before retiring in June 2018. He has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford University; Imperial College, London; KTH Stockholm; TU Eindhoven; Sheffield University and Shanghai Jiao Tong university.

He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), I.Mech.E. (Institution of Mechanical Engineers), the Combustion Institute and the ISEES (International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability).

He has published around 140 papers and a book, Fuel/Engine Interactions, on combustion, fuels and engine research and on energy. He has also edited two other books on engine research. This work is cited widely with a current H index of 63 on Google Scholar. He has been on the editorial boards of many technical journals and has been active on many industry and academic bodies. He has received many awards for his work including the 2021 ASME Internal Combustion Engines award, Huw Edwards award of the Institute of Physics, SAE Horning Award, and the Sugden award of the Combustion Institute.

He has a B.Tech. from I.I.T. Bombay (1972) and a Ph.D. from Bristol University (1975) in Aeronautical Engineering. His Ph.D. project was on supersonic jet impingement. He did post-doctoral research on turbulent combustion at Southampton University (1975-1979) before joining Shell.

Eric Keyser

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 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 was Certified a Naval Nuclear Engineer in 1980 and Certified for Nuclear Submarine Command in 1994. 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, three non-fiction books on American government (Gridlock: Why We Are In It, Modern Common Sense, Unsanity: Unthinking Acceptance of Assertions), non-fiction book Elements of Climates, 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".

Kevin Kilty

Kevin was raised on his grandfather’s horse ranch in southeastern Wyoming, but from an early age became interested mainly in science and mathematics. He earned an undergraduate degree in physics (1975) from Montana State University. After graduation he caught the earth science bug and attended the University of Utah where he obtained a master’s degree and Ph.D. in geophysics (1978,1982) while also working as a hydrologist for the USGS. Until 2002 he partnered in a number of technology and Ag companies, and developed software, especially for automation of industrial plants.

Serendipity brought him into the academic world, first as a manufacturing engineering professor at Washington State and finally as a mechanical engineering professor at University of Wyoming. He is now retired after having taught some 150 courses.

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.

David Kirkham

David studied Mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge and was awarded an M.A. in 1971. Most of his career has been in the seismic processing industry servicing oil and gas companies. He worked both in research developing new techniques and as a manager.

A program he designed to recover seismic data from old images was particularly successful and formed the basis of his own company for 20 years before retiring. Since then, he has taken a keen interest in building a database of climate-related information in order to derive empirical evidence to explain observed climate changes, unbiased by conventional groupthink.

Robert S. Knox

Professor Knox received his B.S. in engineering physics (1953) at Lehigh University and his Ph.D. in physics and optics (1958) at the University of Rochester. After two postdoctoral years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1960. He became Associate Professor in 1963 and Professor in 1968, remaining in that position until becoming Professor Emeritus in 1997.  He spent sabbatical leaves at Leiden University, Kyoto University, and Imperial College in London, UK.  He was chair of the Department (1969–1973) and Associate Dean for Special Programs in the College (1982–1987). Professor Knox is the author of the book Theory of Excitons and in 1994 was a co-recipient of the Biological Physics Prize of the American Physical Society in connection with his research on photosynthesis.

Professor Knox's research, originally concentrating on the excited states of insulating crystals and molecular solids, moved into the areas of Theoretical biological physics and elementary climate modeling.  His work has focused on the optical properties of biological molecules and energy transfer among them, and most recently on studies of the primary processes of photosynthesis.  Professor Knox directed an experimental program in picosecond fluorescence at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics from 1980 to 1988. A brief CV can be found here. For a detailed CV, see Professor Knox's home page here.

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 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

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.

Denis Lougeay

Denis Lougeay is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer (Retired) in California.  His background includes military weapons manufacturing during the Vietnam War. Subsequently, Denis spent almost 30 years of his professional career in energy and electricity generation.

Denis worked for San Diego Gas & Electric, starting as an Engineer and progressing to Manager of Engineering and Construction Support Services, focused on the construction of an oil/natural gas fueled electricity generating station.  He was an SDG&E representative during the construction of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant.  He provided expert testimony before the California Utility Commission on the cancellation of the Sun Desert Nuclear Plant.

He then worked for Pickard Lowe and Garrick providing consulting services for nuclear generation including safety analysis.  Denis and his family spent a year in Melbourne, Australia under contract to the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, consulting on the Loy Yang Generating Plant Construction.

Denis then founded DHL Associates, Inc. providing consulting services to major Electric Utility Companies throughout the US. Clients included Public Service Electric & Gas, Union Electric, Arizona Public Service, Southern California Edison, Kentucky Utilities, New Orleans Public Service, Cincinnati Gas & Electric, New Hampshire Public Service, Louisiana Power & Light and Allegheny Power.

Denis considers himself a committed environmentalist, who became interested in the climate at a very young age. Growing up in Southern Illinois, Denis had a strong interest in observed weather phenomena such as tornados, droughts, floods, snowstorms, hail, etc.  He has investigated the scientific knowledge about the history of a changing climate change and the basis of the theories.  Denis has a background in computer modeling/simulation, and the limitations thereof, a prime basis for many ‘climate scientists’ and their predictions of the future.  He has made presentations to local groups on Climate Change Facts Versus Fiction.

During his retirement, Denis and his wife have travelled the world extensively. Denis has assisted the University of Illinois Alumni Association by serving on several committees and performing many functions including President of the San Diego Illini Club. Denis has backpacked throughout the Sierras and in the Gila Wilderness, always being careful to leave the area better than before. He also volunteers for a local dog rescue organization.  Denis and his wife have been married for over 58 years.

Rob Louw

Rob graduated at the University of Cape Town, South Africa with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1969. In 1971 he completed an M.Sc. in Engineering at UCT.

Rob worked briefly in a technical capacity in the petrochemical, nuclear and biomedical industries before joining the synthetic fibre industry where he worked for SANS Fibres in South Africa. Here he held senior technical, project and site management positions. He developed very good working relationships with their British and Japanese machinery and technology suppliers. He found great pleasure in learning Japanese culture, and particularly their quality management philosophy much of which he implemented at the SANS production sites.

In 1988 Rob was seconded to Imperial Chemical Industries in London from where he managed the technical interface between ICI and its South African subsidiary AECI. It was in London where he first became aware of the nature of environmental alarmism with the big issue of the time being the impending ban on CFCs. Fortuitously, ICI had a solution to the problem.

After three years in London, Rob returned to South Africa where he joined the titanium dioxide industry as Managing Director of Tioxide SA. In 1995 he transferred to the Tioxide Group in Teesside, NE England in a senior technical capacity. After the company was acquired by Huntsman in 1999, he became Senior Vice President Commercial. In this global role Rob spent much of his time travelling around the world to the nine countries where Huntsman had manufacturing and sales activities. Huntsman Pigments faced severe environmental scrutiny. By introducing detailed life cycle analyses and developing commercial outlets for the factories’ coproducts he was able to successfully defend Huntsman’s manufacturing record and keep the environmental activists at bay.

Managing colleagues from many diverse cultural backgrounds was one of the most enjoyable aspects of working in a global business.

Rob retired in 2005 and now lives in the market town of Stokesley in North Yorkshire, England. He still travels a lot, visiting family and friends around the world.

In his retirement Rob has taken to lecturing physics to several U3A Science Groups in the UK and SA as well as to schools and to the UCT annual Summer School ever January. He is also a keen photographer.

Rob is a sincere environmentalist. His roots keep him keenly interested in the wellbeing of African and other wildlife. He is keenly interested in real climate-related science which he has been studying for the past few years. His plans are to teach/lecture the subject to science groups and to spread the truth about carbon dioxide and its benefits to society as far and wide as he can.

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.

David MacDonald

Education

B.S. Civil Engineering, Merrimack College, Andover, MA, 1966

M.S. Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, 1969

M.B.M. Business Management, Claremont College, Claremont, CA, 1979

Professional Licenses

Civil Engineer CA- C20431

Mechanical Engineer CA- M31023 retired

Chemical Engineer CA- CH6160 retired

Work Experience

1970-1980, Engineering Science Inc. (Ralph M. Parsons)

Pasadena, CA

Design engineer/project manager

Water supply projects, western USA and global

1981-2001, MacDonald–Stephens Inc, Irvine, CA

Vice-president/President

Water reclamation projects, power production projects (digester & natural gas), and air quality control projects in southwest USA

2001-2010 CH2MHill, Santa Ana, CA

Consultant/project manager to Orange County Sanitation District, Huntington Beach, CA; Multimillion-dollar expansion project at Plant No.1, rehabilitation of cogeneration stations at Plants No1 & 2 (30 mW), water reclamation and ocean discharge facilities.

2011-2016 Jacobs Engineering, Irvine, CA

Consultant/project manager for special projects at the Orange County Sanitation District, Huntington Beach, CA

Dan R. Mackie

Dan Mackie was born in Dryden, Ontario, in 1952, and moved to Calgary to go to university in 1969. He graduated from the University of Calgary with an Honours B.Sc. in Computing Science in 1973, and completed the course requirements there for an M.Sc. in Computing in 1974.  Dan was involved in database development and economic-analysis software for three years with Amoco in Calgary starting in 1974, and then moved to work for smaller computer businesses.

Since 1977, Dan has been involved in design, development, sales, support, and field service of embedded-systems software and hardware for real-time applications and automation projects out of Calgary. The spectrum of work has covered building automation, water distribution, electricity distribution, oilfield satellite automation, production accounting, gas measurement, pipeline liquid measurement, pumpjack automation and optimization, and gas production optimization. Dan operates Daniel Computing Systems Inc. of Calgary, and its division called DrSCADA Automation, of which he is the principal shareholder. Dan has travelled for work to Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Yemen.

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

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 is a writer, blogger, member of Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL), and author living in The Woodlands, Texas.  He enjoys golf and traveling in his spare time.  He retired from a 42-year career in petrophysics in 2016.  He is also an editor for the popular climate change blog Wattsupwiththat.com where he has published numerous posts.  He is also the author of five books and the author or co-author of seven peer-reviewed papers on various geological, engineering and petrophysical topics. He writes and speaks about climate change, with an emphasis on paleoclimatology. His latest book, edited with Marcel Crok, is The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC: An Analysis of AR6. His personal blog is andymaypetrophysicist.com.

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.

Mike McMurtry

Mike McMurtry developed an early interest in geology when his father took a job on a diamond mine in East Africa in the 1960’s. His interest deepened when attending a UK boarding school, where weekend visits to local quarries and road outcrops were not only allowed, but encouraged.  There was little doubt that he would become a geologist. He acquired a B.Sc. in Geology & Environment at Oxford Polytechnic (aka Oxford Brookes), followed by a Ph.D. at St Andrews University, studying Lower Paleozoic rocks in the south of Scotland.

He was offered a position in the British Geological Survey, only to find it withdrawn when Mrs. Thatcher became Prime Minister and froze all Civil Service appointments. Instead, he joined Texaco and worked in the North Sea and Angola. He resigned on getting married and took up with a small company (International Energy Development Corporation), who wanted to aid “developing countries” by exploring for and developing their oil & gas. IEDC shareholders included the World Bank, Volvo and various Middle East organizations. One by one, the shareholders slipped away until IEDC became a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC). The subsidiary (KUFPEC) looked for oil & gas anywhere but Kuwait, primarily in Africa and Asia.

He spent over twenty years with KUFPEC in Kuwait (including being trapped there for 5 months under Iraqi occupation in 1990).  Leaving Kuwait in 2010, he set up his own consultancy and has worked for multiple clients including OMV, Hunt Oil & Schlumberger.

McMurtry was fortunate to begin his career before computer automation kicked-in, thus acquiring an understanding of the complexity of the natural world. He developed a natural skepticism that these could be solved through simple programs and algorithms. Upstream oil & gas is an industry where predictions must be made on partial or incomplete data, then tested (usually by the drill-bit), before the process repeats itself. Multiple hypotheses and an open mind are more important than identifying one solution that “fits the data”, as data continuously updates and changes.

Recently, to his annoyance, the burgeoning Green movement (and its increasing politicisation) attacked the fossil fuel industry. This encouraged him to investigate their claims that CO2 was heating the planet. He realized that what was being done in the name of climate science was not science at all – only what-if modeling (altering only one variable from many). Geological history (especially “deep time”), solar system studies and oceanic phenomena were not even considered. More recently, the 21^st century corruption of professional institutions to “consensus science”, led to his resigning from most professional bodies that he had belonged to for over 40 years. He considers “consensus science” to be an oxymoron.

Ian L.K. McNaughton

Ian McNaughton gained an Honors Degree in Physics at the University of Western Australia, which led to his first job as a Cosmic Ray Physicist with the Australian Antarctic Division.  Although the job was based at the University of Tasmania, it involved a total of 18 months in Antarctica, mostly at the Australian Base, Mawson.

After three years, he moved to the United Kingdom to undertake a post-graduate diploma course in nuclear engineering at Imperial College London.  Although he was invited to continue to a PhD, he accepted a position with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) as a Scientific Officer, based near Weymouth, Dorset.

He worked as a mathematician at the UKAEA for five years, then returned to Australia to work at Aeronautical Research Laboratories (ARL) in Melbourne as their Computer Manager/Programmer. Since the job was closely related to aircraft research, he also obtained a pilot’s license with an aerobatic endorsement.

After 14 years at ARL, he was selected to be a participant in a 12-month Federal Government Executive Development Scheme (EDS) held mostly in Canberra.

He later moved to the position of Planning Manager - Information Technology - with the Victorian Police, then to a local Government position with the Monash City Council in Melbourne as their Computer Manager.

He then moved to Sydney for his final work assignment as a Senior Manager with a Federal Government Department known then as the Workplace Authority, retiring in 2007.

During his career, papers published by McNaughton were all internal. However, in 2024, he had a paper on climate change published by the SCC (Science of Climate Change) in Germany and co-authored a couple of articles relating to climate published in magazines such as The Spectator and Quadrant.

Euan Mearns

Euan Mearns has a BSc (hons) in geology (1979) and a Ph.D. in isotope geochemistry (1984) both from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His Ph.D. thesis dealt with the geochronology and crust-forming processes of western Norway, a research theme he pursued for a further 8 years doing post-doctoral research at the Geological Museum, the University of Oslo. One focus was on the origins of high-pressure eclogites and garnet peridotites that are common throughout the Western Gneiss Region of Norway.

In 1991 he returned to native Aberdeen to establish a commercial radiogenic isotope analysis laboratory providing services to the international oil industry. In the period 1991 to 2002 his company worked for 65 oil companies and oil industry service companies, world-wide.

In 2013 he founded a blog called Energy Matters to provide an outlet for his research into the global energy system and related climate issues. His interests in climate are focused on ice cores, climate history, planetary processes that cause climate change such as plate tectonics, ocean currents and factors linked to the cosmogenic isotope records.

In 2018 he was asked to perform a technical and English language edit on the book “New Ways and Needs for Exploiting Nuclear Energy” authored by Sornette. D, Kruger, W. and Wheatley, S. This led to a position at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks, ETH Zurich, that came to an end in 2022. Significant works include a book on earthquake prediction in China, 1966 to 1976, and a paper published in Energy Policy (2023) that provides a critical review of the Swiss net zero CO₂ strategy.

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 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 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

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

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

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.

Read Peter's entire CV here:  CV-PHM 2

Jill Moring

Dr. Moring has a B.A. in biochemistry from Smith College, an M.S. in chemistry from Southern Connecticut State College (now Southern Connecticut State University), and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Connecticut, where she specialized in crystal growth and structure.

She used her x-ray diffraction experience to study the effects of ethanol on natural and model membranes at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, where she was an Assistant Research Professor in the Alcohol Research Group. She returned to the main campus to teach and conduct research at the School of Pharmacy. She is now retired; her interests include silver jewelry making and botanical art.

Yoshihiro Muronaka

Mr. Yoshihiro Muronaka is a Japanese professional engineer specializing in energy systems, environmental technologies, and chemical engineering. He holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Osaka University and studied at MIT’s Center for Advanced Engineering Study.

With over 40 years of experience in the private and public sectors, Mr. Muronaka worked as a chemical engineer in R&D at Chiyoda Corporation, and later led process development and environmental, health, and safety (EHS) initiatives at Applied Materials Japan. He also held managerial roles at other major firms in the energy and environmental sectors.

From 2012, he worked with JCOAL (Japan Coal Energy Center), where he engaged in international field research and policy dialogues related to coal gasification, coal ash utilization, hydrogen energy, and carbon recycling technologies. He collaborated with government officials and corporate leaders across Asia, Europe, and the U.S., contributing to feasibility studies and strategic proposals in the energy transition domain.

Since 2016, he has led his own consulting firm, Muronaka PE Office (MPEO), contributing policy analysis and articles on energy and climate issues. He is also a translator and advisor for climate science media in Japan.

Mr. Muronaka is a signatory of CLINTEL’s World Climate Declaration and collaborated with Prof. Willie Soon on the Japanese translation of Climate: The Movie. He advocates for rational, science-based policies that recognize CO₂ as essential to life and human prosperity.

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

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

1. “Expert Profile: Daniel W. Nebert”. University of Cincinnati. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
2. “About Us | Daniel W. Nebert”. Gene Whisperer. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
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5. “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 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.

Simon NJEUDENG TENKU

Simon NJEUDENG TENKU is a researcher with the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Republic of Cameroon. He works with the Forest and Wood Research Program with over two decades of experience in tree domestication and planting. 

He has knowledge on the utilization and vulgarization of non-timber tree species of high economic value and carrying out research in the field of remote sensing science. He received a degree in Forestry and Water Resources from the Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, University of Dschang, Cameroon, and a Master of Science degree in Botany from the Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, United States.

NJEUDENG TENKU has held two managerial positions in research institutions near the Dja Forest Reserve, which is a UNESCO heritage. During that period, he supervised and assured tree regeneration - forest stewardship operations (from seed acquisition, domestication, hardening of seedlings, and transplanting - which was an accessible and affordable way of sequestrating atmospheric CO2 as an essential nutrient needed by all plants). In addition to various forestry species, he created a 10-hectare permanent sample plot with 13 economical timber tree species.

He has done outreach support on agroforestry training to the communities near agro-industrial plantations, such as rubber for sustainable livelihoods through domestication by cuttings, air layering of important livelihood species, and introducing seasonal tree crops and lianas such as aerial potatoes for sustainable livelihoods.

Trueman Parish

About This Member

PhD in Chemical Engineering; retired former Director of Engineering Research, Eastman Chemical Company.

Seok Soon Park

Dr. Seok S. Park is a professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Ewha Womans University in 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. 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.

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 served 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 in 2007 and Korea Presidential Award on Green Growth from President Myung-Bak Lee, 2013.

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 5^th 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 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

Graeme G. Phipps

Graeme Phipps is an oil and gas executive, director of 2 companies, and a professional geophysicist/geologist with 50 years experience in the international oil and gas industry. He served on 11 different Boards, 7 of which were public with roles on audit, reserves, compensation, corporate governance, EH&S and special committees, and he was chairman of one public company. In 2007, he joined CEP International - later named PetroKamchatka plc, then EastSiberian plc - of which he is presently chairman and president. In 2005, while employed as Executive Vice President of PetroKazakhstan and on his way to becoming the President and CEO, this company was successfully sold for $4.2B. Graeme has spent 15 years as director of various companies, plus the Principal of Phipps and Associates – an oil and gas consulting firm. Prior to these roles, Graeme was Exploration and International Vice President for Petro-Canada for 2 years, and he was both the Vice President of Corporate Planning and Vice President of the Canadian Division for 7 total years while at Nexen. Mr. Phipps spent his first 20 years with Esso Resources and Exxon in various technical, operational and management roles

He has oil and gas experience in the Western Canada Basin, the Beaufort Sea area, the Arctic Islands and off the East Coast in Canada, the Gulf of Mexico (United States), Yemen, North Africa, Gambia, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Nicaragua, the North Sea (United Kingdom), Romania, Kazakhstan and Russia.

Graeme also has consulting and advisory experience as the Principal of Phipps and Associates, an oil and gas executive management consulting company, as well as 5 years experience in corporate planning - including 3 years as Vice President of Corporate Planning and Business Development at Nexen and 2 years in corporate planning at Exxon's New York Head Office.

He is presently a director at Tundra Oil and Gas Ltd (WCB Canada) and Buried Hill Serdar Ltd (Turkmenistan Central Asia). Mr. Phipps recently became a member of the Public Accounts Committee Government of Jersey.

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.

Douglas Pollock

Douglas Pollock is an Industrial Civil Engineer from the University of Chile. For almost a decade, he has studied the science and economics of climate/energy policies. As an energy expert, he has identified the irrationality of “renewable” energies as a means of reducing CO₂ emissions, demonstrating the inevitable increase in electricity costs, determining the maximum renewable penetration into any grid, and the extremely adverse consequences for Western economies, challenging the illusion of net-zero emissions in power generation.

In this field, he has spoken at world-class conferences and presented his findings in more than 25 countries, mainly in Europe and the United States. Several of his articles have been published in U.S. mainstream energy and climate web journals.

Thomas Quirk

Thomas Quirk trained as a nuclear physicist at the University of Melbourne, has attended the Harvard Business School, and has been a Fellow of three Oxford Colleges.

Quirk is a corporate director of biotech companies and former board member of the Institute of Public Affairs for which he has written numerous articles and papers and provided comments to the media. Quirk joined the board of therapeutics company Sementis in 2011 as a non-executive director. He is an occasional speaker on the topic of innovation in Australia and has written extensively on subjects of energy policy and climate change.

Quirk has worked for resources company, CRA (now known as Rio Tinto). He has also worked in the United States at Fermilab, the universities of Chicago and Harvard and at CERN in Europe. He was an early director of Biota, a company which developed an influenza drug. He has held several positions in utilities, electricity and transport industries including a founding directorship of the Victorian Power Exchange. He was Deputy Chairman of VENCorp, which managed the transmission and wholesale natural gas market and system planning for the electricity market in Victoria, Australia. He is also a former Chairman of VicTrack, the owner of the state's railway assets and also worked for James D. Wolfensohn in a venture capital fund based in New York City. Quirk was appointed as a Fellow of the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Victoria, of which he is a benefactor.

Quirk is an advocate for the expansion of Australia's role in the nuclear fuel chain and has expressed support for the development of uranium enrichment capacity, spent fuel reprocessing and future storage of nuclear waste in Australia. Quirk contributed a chapter entitled Opportunities in the nuclear fuel cycle to the 2011 policy perspective publication Australia's nuclear options for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).

Between 2006 and 2011, Quirk wrote numerous articles for the website Online Opinion, including criticisms of wind power and renewable energy and pieces promoting nuclear power. Quirk is also a regular writer for Quadrant online. Quirk co-signed a letter to the UN Secretary General rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.

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

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 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.

Terry Rickard

Dr. Rickard has over 50 years of experience in advanced technology and financial organizations, all of it in management and technology development positions. His engineering technical expertise includes signal processing, optimization, neural networks, fuzzy and expert systems, decision theory, and graphical knowledge representation and inference for computational intelligence.

He has additional expertise in multiple financial engineering disciplines, including transaction systems, market structures, financial analytics, data mining, derivatives pricing, risk analysis and trading strategies. He is an active researcher in the field of fuzzy systems theory and its applications.

He serves as a senior executive for and on the board of directors of several companies, both public and private. He also serves as an expert witness in intellectual property litigation for multiple companies and has consulted for multiple companies in the defense, financial, and mining industries.

He has authored over 80 technical publications in several branches of engineering and in the fields of electronic market structure, financial instruments, matching algorithms, and trading strategies, all of which have appeared in refereed technical journals, books, and conference proceedings. In addition, he has authored 11 issued patents and has several additional patents pending.

He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of California, San Diego, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology

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 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.

Charles Ronald Ross

Born: 8/6/1941, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Education: B.S., economics. University of Tulsa, 1963, Ph.D., economics, 1971

Military: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 1962-1968

Professor of economics, Humboldt State University, 1969-1979

1979-1990, self-employed private wealth manager. 1990-present co-founder and part owner, Premier Financial  Group, Eureka, California. Current assets under management: $600,000,000. Client portfolios consist of asset class, passively-managed mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)

Author: The Unbeatable Market, 2002. Second edition, 2024

Columns: North Coast Journal, American Spectator, American Thinker

Hobbies: jogging, swimming, golf, gardening, writing

Website: rossecon.com

Caleb Rossiter

Caleb S. Rossiter is a climate statistician. He served as executive director of the CO2 Coalition in 2019 and 2020. Rossiter received an M.A. in Mathematics from American University and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis, with a minor in African Studies, from Cornell University. For 20 years he worked in Washington, DC, on U.S. foreign policy, first on the congressional staff and then as the director of the advocacy and research group Demilitarization for Democracy. Then for 15 years Rossiter taught quantitative methods, such as statistics and mathematical modeling, and U.S. African policy at American University. He was the only professor on the faculty of both the School of International Service and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Rossiter is the author of several books on U.S. imperial policy.  He also co-wrote, with the late CO2 Coalition member and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman, Kathleen Hartnett-White, the 2020 Coalition report, “New Tech American Coal-fired Electricity for Africa: Clean Air, Indoors and Out.”

https://co2coalition.org/publications/new-tech-american-coal-fired-electricity-for-africa-clean-air-indoors-and-out/

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 J. Rummo earned a B.S. in chemistry and an M.B.A from Iona College, an M.S. in chemistry from Fordham University, and a DMin in theological apologetics from Knox Theological Seminary.

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.

Claudiu Saftoiu

Claudiu Saftoiu graduated with honors from Brown University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. He works in the private sector, with several years of experience applying artificial intelligence techniques to solve complex business problems.

Claudiu has always valued facts and sensibility above all else, even when they contradict prevailing norms. He was horrified when he learned about Sri Lanka's ban on synthetic fertilizers in 2021—a move praised by climate activists seeking to reduce emissions and promote sustainability, yet which had predictably catastrophic consequences, decimating their economy and nearly leading to mass starvation. This experience led him to question the ostensibly solid scientific foundation behind claims about humanity's impact on the climate, particularly due to the oppressive-feeling atmosphere that appeared to coalesce wherever people of the world voiced their doubts about mainstream climate narratives and policies that seemed likely to harm human prosperity.

Claudiu considers the scientific method of empirical and thorough experimentation to be paramount and believes that any climate policy should be based on solid evidence of this highest standard, which elaborate large-scale computer simulations do not reach. He understands that a theory must be falsifiable to be scientific, and has become highly suspicious of mainstream reporting on climate change, which appears to indicate that any type of weather event, whether hot or cold, rain or drought, snow or lack thereof is further evidence of impending catastrophe.

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.

Robert Seitz

Robert Seitz is an electrical engineer with experience in a broad range of the electrical and electronic disciplines that includes environmental monitoring, power systems, process control systems, hazardous (explosive atmospheres) location evaluation, electrical design and alternate energy system design. Robert is also a very experienced Arctic Engineer with good understanding of the processes and conditions in the Arctic and Subarctic regions of Alaska.

Although he has 56 graduate credits in electrical engineering, oceanography, ocean engineering work and family took priority over completing his thesis, but he has been a registered Professional Electrical Engineer in Alaska since 1978.

Since 2001, Mr. Seitz has been very active with IEEE Electrical Standards both on working groups and balloting of the standards. When the move to permit renewable and alternate energy sources to local grids in Alaska, he became involved with the IEEE 1547 and other groups of standards to help ensure the transitions would be made with good and proper engineering application.  Through this effort he became involved in the climate discussions as they impact energy systems and Alaska, and eventually began submitting opinion articles for print in local news media.

Robert has been very active in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) for the past 25 years and has been Chair of the Alaska Section of the IEEE for a total of 5 years since 2012. He is a lifelong Alaskan and avid cross-country skier.

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).

Bibliography

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

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 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

Roy Spencer

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

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.

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.

Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein, P.E. is an engineer, energy consultant, speaker, author of books and articles on energy literacy, environmental policy, and human rights, and Founder of PTS Advance, a California based company.

Ronald advocates that energy literacy starts with the knowledge that wind and solar do different things than crude oil. Renewables only generate occasional electricity from unreliable breezes and sunshine but cannot manufacture anything for the eight billion on this planet, they just generate electricity.

Crude oil is virtually never used to generate electricity but when manufactured into petrochemicals, is the basis for virtually all the products in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800’s.

From the versatility of more than 6,000 products developed and now made from petroleum derivatives manufactured from crude oil, and the manufactured fuels that supports militaries, space programs, infrastructures that did not exist prior to 1800’s, 50,000 merchant ship, 50,000 jets, and 1.4 billion vehicles worldwide, the world has had more than 200 years to develop a replacement for crude oil, as wind and solar cannot manufacture anything for humanity.

Until a crude oil replacement is identified, the world cannot do without crude oil that is the basis of our materialistic “products” society.

The main aspect of Ron’s publications is spreading awareness among the public about energy-related subjects to increase their energy literacy. Being an energy agnostic, he tries to engage people in conversations about intermittent electricity from renewables, and the products and fuels manufactured from fossil fuels that collectively support lifestyles and economies of humankind worldwide.

Ronald is a co-author of three books that focus on energy literacy, and an internationally published columnist, and speaker. His books are easily available from Amazon:

• The 2021 Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations - Helping citizens
understand the environmental and humanity abuses that support “clean” energy.
• The 2020 book Just GREEN Electricity – Helping Citizens Understand a World without
Fossil Fuels, and
• The 2019 book Energy Made Easy – Helping Citizens become Energy Literate.

John P. Stenbit

John P. Stenbit served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration/Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (2001-2004), Executive Vice President of TRW, and Principal Deputy Director of Telecommunications and Command and Control Systems, Office of the Secretary of Defense (1973-1977).  He was a Fulbright Fellow and Aerospace Corporation Fellow at the Technische Hogeschool in Einhoven, Netherlands.

Currently, Mr. Stenbit is a consultant to, and member of, the Board of Directors of various information technology companies and government agencies. He is also a member of professional and scientific honorary societies, such as the National Academy of Engineering and Tau Beta Pi.

Mr. Stenbit holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He has been awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for both Outstanding and Exceptional Public Service.

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.

Richard F. Storm

Richard F. Storm has been a contributing editor to Power Magazine and an instructor of the short course, Large Electric Utility Boiler Combustion and Performance Improvements, which has been presented a couple times each year since 1992. The course has been improved and developed further by the Storm Technologies team.

Mr. Storm has long supported applying the fundamentals in combustion and performance optimization of large coal fueled utility boilers. Many of the typical improvements have been documented in technical presentations and magazine articles.

Richard currently is participating in education of the general public on energy-related matters and has taught several courses for the OLLI programs at USCB at the Bluffton, Hilton Head, and Beaufort campuses.

Mr. Storm was introduced to international business through involvement with the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA). Richard worked around the world for ALCOA at plants in Jamaica, Spain, Suriname, Brazil, Texas, Australia, New York, and Guinea. After the ALCOA experiences, other international companies - including Freeport McMoran and Southern Company - provided consulting and contracting experiences in the Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Italy, among others.

After working in some developing countries, Mr. Storm witnessed first-hand the correlation between energy and economic prosperity - especially the importance of energy to achieve a high Human Development Index and to advance economic growth.

Richard retired from active participation at Storm Technologies in 2012. He worked in the power industry for over 50 years. Mr. Storm's expertise for decades was centered in clean coal combustion for electric power generation. Experiences include new plant startups, serving as a results engineer, boiler diagnostic and acceptance testing, operations and maintenance, outage planning, boiler renovations for performance and reliability improvements, design of burner and combustion systems, design of airflow measurement systems, and boiler emission reductions improvements and consulting services to the electric power, primary metals, and other heavy industries. Prior to starting Storm Technologies in 1992, Richard was a results engineer for Babcock and Wilcox, field service engineer for Riley Stoker, principal engineer at Carolina Power and Light, and head of the Technical Services Department for Flame Refractories.

Bradley Thomas

Brad Thomas, an 8-year US Army Veteran, holds a B.S. in Mathematics from The Ohio State University, an M.A. in Air Pollution Meteorology from Ohio University, and an M.Min. from Freed-Hardeman University. He has spent the majority of his 30-year professional career specializing in atmospheric pollutant measurement and modeling and using that information to inform regulatory and legislative direction on both the state and federal levels.

Over the last 10 years, his environmental efforts have broadened to include wetlands classifications and values, NEPA analyses, and broader considerations around land uses. Over his entire career, he has participated in administrative and judicial proceedings as they relate to agency environmental decisions and actions.  In his spare time, he enjoys working with people who have lost their way and found themselves incarcerated.

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 10^th 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.

Norman Tolk

Norman Tolk was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  He earned his AB degree in physics from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1960.  In 1966, he received a Ph.D. degree in atomic physics from Columbia University in New York City.  Following post-doctoral research at Columbia, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey where he carried out experimental research on surface and interface physics using directed-energy photon and particle beams.

In 1984, he moved to Vanderbilt University as a full Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.  He also became an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Fisk University.  Early in his career at Vanderbilt, he headed the highly multidisciplinary group representing medicine, engineering biology and physics that wrote the successful proposal to fabricate a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) at Vanderbilt, following which he became acting director of the newly formed FEL center.  This initiative resulted in the construction of a new building on the Vanderbilt campus solely dedicated to FEL research.

In 1987 Dr. Tolk received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, providing the opportunity to perform research at the Free University in Berlin which happened to coincide with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Joined by his wife, Marilyn Neubauer Tolk, who is a Juilliard trained pianist and organist, he, on an annual basis, conducts performances of Handel’s Messiah which is a community event involving many Vanderbilt and community musicians.

Dr. Tolk is a Fellow of The American Physical Society, holds 8 patents, and is the author or co-author of 3 edited books and more than 250 papers. His research involves non-linear laser-surface and laser-interface interactions, ultra-fast vibrational and electronic vibrational processes at surfaces and interfaces, spin dynamics, desorption induced by electronic and vibrational processes, and atomic collision physics.

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 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

PhD Physical Chemistry - Founding member of the Div of Nuclear and Atmos Chemistry Univ of Md

Bill Walton

Bill Walton hosts The Bill Walton Show which focuses on in-depth conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs and thinkers who offer deep insights into money, culture and politics. He also chairs the Resolute Protector Foundation, a 501(c)(3) media production company that creates and produces original, educational and entertainment content.

Bill has an extensive background in multiple leadership roles as an executive, investor and entrepreneur.

He has been involved in launching, leading and financing a wide variety of organizations. This includes established businesses, start-ups, art, music, education and theater organizations, as well as policy and political action groups and feature films.

In 2016 and 2017, Bill led the Agency Action and Landing Teams for all the Federal economic agencies – Treasury and the IRS, Commerce, USTR, SEC, Social Security, FCC and other independent financial agencies – for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Transition Team.

Bill served as chairman of the board and CEO of Allied Capital Corporation (NYSE) from 1997 to 2009, and as chairman until 2010 when the company was successfully merged with Ares Capital. Under his leadership Allied Capital grew from $600 million in managed assets to $9 billion. Its private equity portfolio held a majority interest in over 20 companies with aggregate revenues of over $5 billion.

Bill founded Rush River Entertainment, which was a producer of Max Rose, starring Jerry Lewis, released in August 2016 with an early cut screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2013. A second film, The Ticket, starring Dan Stevens, was selected as one of only 10 films for Tribeca Film Festival’s 2016 U.S. Narrative Competition.

Bill has served as a leader and board member of leading national policy, economics and business organizations: Heritage Foundation, American Conservative Union (CPAC), American Enterprise Institute, Media Research Center, Council for National Policy (President), US Chamber of Commerce, National Venture Capital Association, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the Financial Services Roundtable.

In 2015 he served as Chairman of the Tea Party Patriots.

He has also served as a leader and board member of several of America’s major cultural institutions: The National Symphony Orchestra (President), Kelley School of Business (Chairman), Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts (Executive Committee and Chairman of the Finance Committee) and the National Gallery of Art (Collectors Committee and Trustees Council).

Earlier in his career, Bill worked as a Managing Director of Butler Capital Corporation, a private equity firm; as the personal investment advisor to William S. Paley, founder of CBS; Senior Vice President in Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb’s Merger and Acquisition Group and Vice President of Continental Illinois Bank.

With his wife Sarah, Bill also founded two for-profit education service providers: Language Odyssey which taught Spanish and French to K through 6th grade elementary schools students in 12 states, and SuccessLab which taught reading to inner-city public-school children in Chicago.

Bill earned his BS and MBA degrees (Beta Gamma Sigma) from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He was educated in public schools in Indianapolis. In 1971-1972 he served in the U.S. Army at The Pentagon.

A Life member of NRA and MENSA, he lives with his wife, Sarah and their three terriers in Washington, VA. He is President of the Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company.

Other Allied Capital Highlights:

• Doubled the Company’s market capitalization in 1997 by merging 5 publicly traded Allied Capital affiliates into one entity with a superior balance sheet and diversified income stream.
• Pioneered and partnered with GE Capital in a $3.6 billion SSLP Unitrache Fund (senior/mezzanine debt). The fund was wound down in 2017, earning a gross lifetime IRR of 20%.
• Started the nation’s leading CMBS B piece investor in 1998; anticipating deteriorating mortgage market conditions, exited the business in 2005 generating an IRR of 24% and a $228 million capital gain.
• Led Allied into the private equity buyout business which generated over $1 billion in realized capital gains; partnered with Goldman Sachs in 2007 in a $750 million buyout fund.
• Earned Investment Grade private and public debt ratings from all three major rating agencies.
• Increased annual dividends paid to shareholders from $68 million in 1998 to $417 million by 2007.
• After the 2008-2009 capital markets collapse and a “mark-to-market” portfolio decline, preserved significant shareholder value through the Company’s all-stock merger with Ares Capital in 2010.

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.

Thorpe Watson

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

Chuck Wiese

Chuck Wiese, while at KOIN Radio and Television in Portland, Oregon, prepared and broadcasted daily weather reports and forecasts for the station (both in radio and television) from 1969 to 1981. During this time, he also served as a company pilot to fly news crews and retrieve film coverage for expediency to various places around Oregon when needed in 1973-74. In 1971, Chuck became known as "the nation's youngest television weathercaster" and appeared on the nationally syndicated television show "To Tell The Truth" in December of 1972. The show aired in February of 1973. Mr. Wiese took a leave of absence from this work in September of 1974 to begin an undergraduate program in atmospheric science at Oregon State University. Chuck would resume work at at KOIN-TV in September of 1975 as a part-time employee, but then reverted back to full-time employment in March of 1979 when he was hired by the Lee Enterprise Corporation (which owned KOIN-TV) as a consulting meteorologist for Lee Weather, Inc., which prepared site-specific weather forecasts to its specialized clients. Also, for a brief period of time, Mr. Wiese prepared weather forecasts daily as an on-air meteorologist while working at KXL Radio from 1980 to 1981.

From 1981 to 1983, Chuck served as an operational on and off-air TV meteorologist for WCCO-TV in Minnesota wherein he prepared and delivered daily weather forecasts for public consumption - with an emphasis on severe weather that presented a danger to the public. He was awarded an AMS Television Seal of Approval for his efforts.

Chuck would go on to serve as a television meteorologist for KING-TV in Seattle from 1983 to 1987. In this role, Mr. Wiese prepared and delivered television weathercasts to the public with an emphasis on forecast accuracy for the region that covered the Puget Sound of western Washington. He resigned from this role in August of 1987 to make a career change into commercial aviation. Chuck began his career in commercial aviation at San Juan Airlines in Washington in May of 1988. Mr. Wiese's role was that of a First Officer (co-pilot). He worked on San Juan Airlines' BE-99 airliner that served western Washington as a commuter feeder to United Airlines. The company ceased operations in December of 1988.

After San Juan Airlines, Chuck worked at Horizon Airlines from 1989 to 1997 in Portland, Oregon. He started as a First Officer on an SA-227 turboprop that served every one of the northwestern states in the United States, but he moved up to the role of Captain in 1990 and continued in that position until his time with the airline came to a conclusion. Mr. Wiese obtained type ratings on the SA-227 (Swearingen Metroliner) and DO-328 (Dornier 328 Turboprop). He also served as a Meteorology Ground Instructor. Then, between 1997 and 1998, Chuck was a First Officer at Reno Air in San Jose, California, where he was trained to fly the MD-88 and MD-90 (McDonnel Douglas DC-9 series) aircrafts over the company's passenger routes in California and Nevada.

After his stint at Reno Air, Chuck took up work at Northwest Airlines between 1998 and 2005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chuck flew Northwest's DC-9 series aircraft. His flight paths covered all of the central United States and the East Coast. In 2005, Delta merged with Northwest Airlines. Chuck, however, remained in his position until his retirement in 2016. Upgrades to the role of captain were very difficult to obtain in this company without making domicile sacrifices, so Mr. Wiese resolved to continue as a First Officer in order to stay in Minneapolis, and then move to Seattle in 2013. This decision allowed Chuck to receive Captain Type Ratings Training, permitting him to fly both the Boeing 757 and 767. As a result, he was able to engage in international flights (China, Japan, and Europe; particularly the Netherlands, Ireland, the UK, France, and Italy). Mr. Wiese accumulated upwards of 15,000 flight hours during the course of his career.

Notably, Chuck incorporated Weatherwise in 1992, a business which would be operated as a consultant company in meteorology and used to develop a first-of-its-kind weather instrument - "the Windicator" - which predicts peak wind gusts from an approaching wave cyclone (mid-latitude storm). This instrument measures real-time atmospheric pressure change from such storms when they're approaching and converts the signal to a peak wind gust predictive value through a mathematical algorithm that Mr. Wiese developed. It received a US patent (#5,372,039) in August of 1993 entitled "Apparatus and Method for Determining Geostrophic Wind Velocity". In addition to this, Chuck consults with the legal profession when called upon for analysis and expert testimony in meteorology and has given numerous speeches to political organizations who seek the truth about climate change, the falsification of it, and claims that atmospheric CO2 is causing dangerous warming and severe storms.

Ric Wiesemann

Ric Wiesemann, now retired, was a forty-year carbon dioxide industry entrepreneur and executive. He was the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Epco Carbon Dioxide Products, Inc. He is conversant in the many commercial applications of CO2. During his lengthy career that included the processing, distribution, and marketing of the product, he gained significant knowledge and experience in the energy, fertilizer, food & beverage, metal, chemical, and crop production sectors.

He also oversaw the construction and startup of twenty-two CO2 recovery and liquefaction plants throughout the Central United States. As such, he has been broadly educated on the physical properties of carbon dioxide and the essential benefits carbon dioxide provides for human health and growth.

William van Wijngaarden

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

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

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

About This Member

Former communications & marketing manager ExxonMobil, columnist Examiner newspapers.

Stanley Young

Dr. S. Stanley Young is currently the CEO of CGStat and previously worked at Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences on questions of applied statistics. His current interest is studying methods used in the evaluation of observational studies. He also works on bioinformatics problems.

Dr. Young graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS, MES, and a PhD in Statistics and Genetics. He worked in the pharmaceutical industry on all phases of pre-clinical research. He has authored or co-authored over 70 papers including six “best paper” awards, and a highly cited book, Resampling-Based Multiple Testing. He has three issued patents. He is interested in all aspects of applied statistics. He conducts research in data mining.

Dr. Young is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is an adjunct professor of statistics at North Carolina State University, the University of Waterloo, and the University of British Columbia where he has co-directed thesis work. He is also an adjunct professor of biostatistics at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Young served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2017-2021.

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.

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

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 was certified to teach grade 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) Environmental Science for fifteen years. She was a reader (grader) for the yearly national AP Environmental Science exam for nine years.

Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani – Senior Science Advisor

Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani is a theoretical physicist and philosopher of physics, with a Ph.D in the Foundations of Physics from Utrecht University in 2017. He has previously worked as a postdoc at Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Department of Mathematics) and Utrecht University (Department of Mathematics). He is also currently a Fellow of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics and a Member of the Foundational Questions Institute.

Maaneli has published his research in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physics Letters A, Journal of Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Entropy, Symmetry, and Physics of Life Reviews. His research has been covered in Science, New Scientist, EurekaAlert!, Phys.org, and the Clubhouse show "It's About Time!", among other media outlets. He is also a recipient of grants from the Foundational Questions Institute and John Templeton Foundation, and received the top prize for the John Templeton Foundation's "Ideas Challenge" in 2020.

Outside of physics, Maaneli has contributed an essay, “Another Thing in This Universe that Cannot Be an Illusion,” to the volume, Sam Harris: Critical Responses, and has given two presentations for The Tom Nelson podcast: "Does ENSO Dominate Global Warming?" (Tom Nelson Pod #81) and "ENSO Warming vs. CO2 Warming" (Tom Nelson Pod #89).

Maaneli is also a member of the Manhattan Institute and works with them to promote freer markets and more 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 brings overwhelming net benefits to humanity.

Andy Forbes – Events and Development Associate

Andy Forbes was born and raised in Georgia and North Carolina, graduating from North Tennessee Bible Institute. He has twenty years of experience in campaigns, legislative offices, and nonprofit organizations. Most recently he was the Operations Manager at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. He enjoys historical travel and reading in his spare time.

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 – Science and Research Associate

Vijay Jayaraj holds a postgraduate degree in Energy Management from Robert Gordon Univ., U.K.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.

Ryan Nichols – Senior Vice President

Ryan Nichols most recently served in the Trump Administration as 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.

Ethan Otte – Marketing & Multimedia Associate

Ethan Otte graduated from Liberty University with a B.F.A. in Graphic Design.

Before coming to the CO2 Coalition, Ethan interned in the United States Senate, The Heritage Foundation, and at the Family Research Council.

Frits Byron Soepyan – Science and Research Associate

Frits Byron Soepyan graduated from The University of Tulsa in 2009 with Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, and in 2015 with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.

As a Ph.D. 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.

Afterwards, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at NETL (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Dr. Soepyan continued to conduct research in the energy sector. The projects involved a direct power extraction system, a carbon capture plant, and the improvement of FOQUS (Framework for Optimization, Quantification of Uncertainty, and Surrogates), an open-source, in-house software.

Then, as a Process Systems Engineer at AristoSys, LLC, Dr. Soepyan has contributed to projects that include emission reduction, decarbonization, hydrogen production, and proposal reviews.

After learning about the benefits of CO₂ and the danger of “Net Zero”, Dr. Soepyan joined the CO₂ Coalition as a member. Currently, Dr. Soepyan works as a Research and Science Associate at the CO₂ Coalition.

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.

Charles Weller – Senior Legal Advisor

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

Angela Wheeler – Vice President Marketing and Multimedia

Marketing and communications specialist. Most recently she was the Marketing and Publications Director for the Capitol 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 is a geologist (BS Waynesburg College and MS West Virginia Univ.), bestselling author of Inconvenient Facts and  A Very Convenient Warming and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6).

Mr. Wrightstone has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers, publications and commentaries concerning climate change and energy. He is a popular guest for media outlets on television, radio and podcasts, having done more than 200 interviews in 2023 alone.

He had a 35-year career in the energy industry, focused primarily on the Appalachian Basin of the eastern United States, culminating in his role as a founding partner and VP of Exploration for Mountaineer Keystone.

• Four-time President of the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists
• President of the Eastern Section AAPG
• Founder and President of the Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government, a state-wide free market advocacy group.
• Co-founder of Pennsylvanians Against Common Core

Executive Director Wrightstone is a strong proponent of the scientific process and often refers to a basic tenet of English law: Audiatur et altera pars or “Let both sides be fairly heard.”

Ken Billman

About The Member

Roger Cohen

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 40^th 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.

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 .

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.

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.

Morten Jødal

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”.

Digby Macdonald

We are deeply saddened to report the passing on June 12, 2025, of CO2 Coalition member Digby Macdonald.

He was one of the world’s leading corrosion scientists and Professor in Residence in the Departments of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at University of California at Berkeley. From 2003 to 2012, he was a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director for the Center for Electrochemical Science and Technology at Penn State University. In 2003, Dr. Macdonald received the highest award in the field of corrosion science and engineering – the U.R. Evans Award from the Institute of Corrosion in the United Kingdom. In 2011, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Berkley Materials Science & Engineering announcement of his passing is here https://mse.berkeley.edu/2025/06/passing-of-professor-in-residence-digby-macdonald/

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.

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.

Rodney W. Nichols

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.

Lt. General Thomas P. Stafford

Thomas Stafford received a Bachelor of Science degree (with honors) from the United States Naval Academy in 1952.

After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Stafford was commissioned in the United States Air Force, flying the F-86 Sabre before becoming a test pilot. He was selected to become an astronaut in 1962 and flew aboard Gemini 6A in 1965 and Gemini 9A in 1966. In 1969, Stafford was the commander of Apollo 10, the second crewed mission to orbit the Moon and the first to fly a Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending to an altitude of nine miles.

In 1975, Stafford was the commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) flight, the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission. He was promoted to Lt. General in March 1978, and in May 1978 assumed the duties as the USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, HQ USAF, Washington, D.C.

In addition to the standard duties of his position, in 1979, General Stafford personally initiated the development of the F-117A stealth fighter program. Stafford then wrote the initial design specifications for, and started, the Advanced Technology Bomber development (ATV) Program (later renamed the B-2A Stealth Bomber) even though no statement-of-need or requirements existed. He initiated the Advanced Cruise Missile program, designated as the AGM-129 Stealth Cruise Missile, and started the F-110 Afterburning Turbo-Fan Fighter engine program. He also initiated what would become the roadmap for the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF), which would become the F-22A Stealth Fighter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Thornton

Charles H. Thornton was 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 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 was 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 was 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 Engineering