Dr. Thorpe Watson was raised in Rouyn-Noranda, a mining and smelting city in northeastern Quebec. After his graduation from Noranda High School, he relocated to Kingston, Ontario, to pursue his higher education at Queen's University, where he was awarded a BSc and an MSc in Metallurgical Engineering. During his summer breaks, he gained experience working at Noranda Mines, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, and at the Dofasco steel company.

In 1963, Dr. Watson joined Cominco's product research team in Trail, British Columbia, Canada. The team relocated to Ontario in 1964, after which he took a three-year leave to advance his studies in England. Upon his return to Canada, Dr. Watson rejoined Cominco's Ontario research team for a period of seven years and during this time was named as a co-inventor on five patents and as a co-author of one publication.

He then served three years as the Technical Director for Cominco's die casting and plating subsidiary in Ontario before returning to Trail in 1977 to accept the position of Patents & Licensing Manager.

In his role as the manager of intellectual property, he was tasked with evaluating and securing patent protection for a broad spectrum of scientific innovations, ranging from mining techniques to solid state physics. Additionally, he was charged with the assessment of external technologies.

In tandem with his primary role, he also managed the Analytical Services laboratory for the decade leading up to his retirement in 1998.

Following his retirement, Dr. Watson developed an interest in climate change when told of the climate-alarmist message contained in Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Having experienced temperatures as low as -47 degrees Celsius, his curiosity was aroused by the hysteria over an increase of a few degrees. In Canada, this would be welcomed news! Dr. Watson became truly fascinated with the story when he learned that the culprit was carbon dioxide ("CO2").

As a youth, Dr. Watson had learned from a Scout Master that all life on Earth owed its very existence to this trace gas, CO2. Consequently, it was very perplexing that this essential trace gas could exert such dangerous power over the Earth's climate. This motivated Dr. Watson to start an investigation to gather evidence supporting the anthropogenic, global-warming hypothesis.

Alas, it did not take much time to discover that CO2 climate control exists only in the mythical computer world of fatally-flawed climate models. Furthermore, it soon became obvious that something was truly amiss when anyone challenging the hypothesis was subjected to ad hominem attacks. This tactic is contrary to the scientific method where one attacks the message, never the messenger. As a result, Dr. Watson embarked on nearly two decades of exposing what has become a very destructive hoax and scam.

Regarding his community activities, Dr. Watson has served on the boards of the Rotary Club of Trail, Trail's United Way, seniors' residences (KIRO, Jubilee Place), Red Mountain Ski Club Society, and Kootenay Savings Credit Union.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

BSc, MSc - Metallurgical Engineering (Science 1961) - Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1957 - 1963)

PhD - Metallurgy & Materials Science, The University of Birmingham, UK (1964 – 1967)

University Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Grant from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (1966 - 1967)

The Queen's course subjects encompassed both extractive and physical metallurgy, including solid state physics.
The research in England was focused on metal deformation and contributed to projects within the steel and nuclear industries. Dr. Watson's research provided the subject matter for one patent and six publications.

UK Athlone Fellowship 1964 - 1966
Professional Engineer, Ontario (expired)
Affiliate of Patents and Trademark Institute of Canada