Re: When London is submerged and New York is awash...

From: Guy Macon (_see.web.page__at__www.guymacon.com_)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:52:04 +0000

Jim Thompson wrote:

>How about citing some scientists with high reputations and
>exemplary standing in the scientific community... not those with a
>political ax to grind?

I suggest Richard S. Lindzen and S. Fred Singer

S. Fred Singer is a Distinguished Research Professor at George
Mason University and professor emeritus of environmental science
at the University of Virginia. His previous government and academic
positions include Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation
(1987- 89); Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (1970-71); Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Water Quality and Research, U.S. Department of the
Interior (1967- 70); founding Dean of the School of Environmental
and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964-67); first
Director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962-64); and
Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University
of Maryland (1953-62).

Singer has received numerous awards for his research, including a
Special Commendation from the White House for achievements in
artificial earth satellites, a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold
Medal Award for the development and management of the U.S. weather
satellite program, and the first Science Medal from the British
Interplanetary Society. He has served on state and federal advisory
panels, including five years as vice chairman of the National
Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres. He frequently
testifies before Congress.

Richard S. Lindzen is a Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT.
Professor Lindzen is a recipient of the AMS's Meisinger, and
Charney Awards, and AGU's Macelwane Medal. He is a corresponding
member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, a member of the NRC
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and a Fellow of the
AAAS1. He is a consultant to the Global Modeling and Simulation
Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished
Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.

Search on eather name along with "global warming."