Skeptical Authors on Climate Science

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This table lists the 17 people who appeared in the UK television deocumentary The Great Global Warming Swindle by Martin Durkin, tagged as TGGWS; this including those who objected to the way their views were presented - tagged as (TGGWS) in parentheses. Combined with this are the 37 names who signed a letter of complaint about scientific inaccuracies in the film, tagged as noSw07

Next to each person's name is their standing in the overall list of climate authors, in the same sort order as this table.

Notes column tinted this colour for signers of these 'activist' statements:
SCS03: 2003 'State of Climate Science' letter from 1011 scientists to U.S. congress (81 tagged)
CMOS06: 2006 statement from 120 scientists at the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (all tagged)
CMOS08: 2008 statement from 130 scientists at the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (all tagged)
RealClimate 'activist' website by ten climate scientists, founded 2004
noSw07: April 2007 letter from 37 scientists to Martin Durkin protesting inaccurate portrayal of climate science in his film The Great Global Warming Swindle (all tagged)
Bali07: 2007 appeal letter by 212 scientists from 25 countries, to delegates at the Bali climate talks (all tagged)
CCSP08: 2008 Assessment Report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program [10 authors tagged so far; not a petition/declaration]
UCS08: 2008 Union of Concerned Scientists' declaration from 1700 U.S. scientists and economists (165 tagged)
Monaco09: Jan. 2009 Monaco Declaration on ocean acidification from 155 ocean scientists from 26 countries (152 tagged)
CLI09June 2009 Open letter to Obama and Congress calling for agressive action on climate change; signed by 20 scientists (all listed)
UKsc09: Dec. 2009 'Statement from the UK science community' re-affirming climate change science and data after East Anglia email break-in, signed by 1700 UK scientists from 67 universities and 55 other institutions (106 listed, 2010-1-17).

Notes column tinted this colour for signers of these 'skeptic' statements
SEPP92 1992 'Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming' from the 'Science and Environment Policy Project', 46 signers
LZ95: 1995 'Leipzig Declaration' organized by Fred Singer, signed by 80 scientists and 25 weathermen
CA02: 2002 skeptics letter to Canadian P.M. Jean Chretien
CA03: 2003 skeptics letter to Canadian P.M. Paul Martin
CA06: 2006 skeptics letter to Canadian P.M. Stephen Harper
UN07: 2007 skeptics letter to U.N. Sec. General Ban Ki-Moon
TGGWS: 2007 TV film The Great Global Warming Swindle interviewees
NIPCC: 2008 Heartland Inst. document Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate, ed. S. Fred Singer, 24 listed contributors
MHND: 2008 'Manhattan Declaration' from skeptics' conference in NYC
Cato09: 2009 newspaper ad by the Cato Institute challenging President Obama's stance on climate change; 115 signers
APS09: 2009 Petition to the American Physical Society to amend their statement on climage change
CCC09: 2009 'Copenhagen Climate Challenge' 158 signers

LISTS column tinted this colour for names who did not sign any skeptic declarations, yet are included on a list of 'skeptic' names by someone else:
JIMM08: Named on 2008 list from U.S. Sen. James Inhofe's staffer Marc Morano
LSDeniers: Profiled in Lawrence Solomons's 2006-7 'The Deniers' column series in Canada's National Post

LISTS column tinted this colour for someone who did sign one of the above skeptic statements, and is also included on a list of 'skeptic' names by someone else.

Some major compilations

I've also tagged authors included in a few major compilations of climate science articles. These are not petitions or calls for action, but further illustrate the author's standing in the literature.

SotP09: Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2008-2009 collection of articles from the journal plus added analysis; covers recent climate change research published in Science
CVX: Climate Variability and Extremes
C&O: Climate Change: Critical Concepts in the Environment and Physical Geography, Frank Chambers and Michael Ogle, eds. [Routledge, 2002; 4 vols.; ISBN-13 978-0415276603] This extensive collection covers much of the early history of climate science, as well as selected highlights of more recent work.

For details on these declarations and how I've annotated for them, see notes on open letters

Names are sorted in descending order of citation count, on their #4 most cited work. This somewhat idiosyncratic choice of sort key stresses depth against any potential "one big paper" effect. This does seem to make a reasonable proxy for prominence in their field. (Note that citation stats were collected by hand, over a few months, so exact order might vary slightly as papers continue to gain citations as time passes.)

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Rank here	Notes	Lists	Name (homepage)	PhD year	IPCC	GS queries	most cites	2nd most	3rd most	4th most	Climate total	Wikipedia?	Areas of research	Affiliation
1	Bali07		2: Sir John Sulston, FRS, HonFRSC	1966		All PAPS CLIM	6468	3631	1490	1294	0	WP? W.P?	genomics (not climate related)	Chair, ISEI, Manchester U; ex Dir., Sanger Ctr
2	UCS08 CLI09	h-index=33	9: Robert Costanza	1979		All PAPS CLIM	3514	977	786	648	152	WP? W.P?	env economics, ecosystem services	U Vermont, Burlington, VT
3			21: David W Pearce, OBE	1963	AR2 wg3 lead	All PAPS CLIM	2332	1479	651	531	86	WP? W.P?	biodiversity, green economy	deceased 2005, late of University College, London
4	CCSP04	ESI06#12	32: Gerald A Meehl	1987	AR4 wg1 CLA ch.10	All PAPS CLIM	1223	629	568	460	583	WP? W.P?	extremes, cyclic effects, models	NCAR, Boulder
5			72: Frank J Millero	1965		All PAPS CLIM	558	410	357	345	62	WP? W.P?	ocean CO2 sink	U Miami, FL
6	Bali07		116: Philippe Bousquet	1997	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	521	389	348	288	64	WP? W.P?	methane, plant feedbacks	Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l.Environnement, France
7			125: Mojib Latif	1987	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	590	527	345	284	359	WP? W.P?	ENSO, snow cover, THC	Leibniz Institut fur Meereswissenschaften, IFM-GEOMAR, Germany
8			132: Thomas M Smith	PhD		All PAPS CLIM	1662	592	418	276	84	WP? W.P?	global sea surface temperature data	NOAA NCDC, Asheville, NC
9	SEPP92 LZ95 CA02 CA03 CA06 TGGWS UN07 Cato09 CCC09	LSDeniers JIMM08	136: Richard Lindzen, FAGU	1964		All PAPS CLIM	372	335	295	274	140	WP? W.P?	QBO, maritime clouds, iris effect?	M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
10	APS09		153: John E Rhoads	__		All PAPS CLIM	785	752	529	256	0	WP? W.P?	astrophysics, gamma ray bursts	retired, ex of Midwestern State U
11	Cato09 APS09 CCC09	JIMM08	157: William Happer, MNAS	1964		All PAPS CLIM	541	421	327	255	1	WP? W.P?	particle physics (not climate related)	Princeton U
12	Bali07 UCS08		166: Ray F Weiss, FAGU, FAAAS	1970	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	437	434	242	247	63	WP? W.P?	ocean tracers, biogeochem	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
13			188: Tony J Pitcher	1971		All PAPS CLIM	659	526	295	232	33	WP? W.P?	sustainability of fisheries	Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver, BC
14		NPFhost	259: Geoffrey A Blake	1986		All PAPS CLIM	464	323	245	198	51	WP? W.P?	atm chem, BGC cycles	DGPS, Calif Inst of Tech, Pasadena, CA
15	CCSP08		311: RA Birdsey	1989		All PAPS CLIM	343	290	204	178	80	WP? W.P?	forest carbon sinks	US Forest Service
16			322: Billie L Turner	1974		All PAPS CLIM	334	293	183	173	113	WP? W.P?	land use impacts	Arizona State U
17	aseachange.net		352: Christopher L Sabine	1992	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	277	260	175	165	82	WP? W.P?	ocean CO2 sink, CaCO3 acidification	NOAA PMEL
18			444: Hans E Suess	1935		All PAPS CLIM	260	207	197	135	25	WP? W.P?	atomic theory, radioisotope tracers	late of U Chicago Physics
19	SCS03 CA06 TGGWS	LSDeniers JIMM08	485: Paul Reiter	no cv	AR3 wg2 (resigned)	All PAPS CLIM	323	138	130	126	37	WP? W.P?	medical entomology, disease vectors, malaria	Pasteur Inst., Paris
20	CA03 CCSP04 CA06 TGGWS UN07 MHND Cato09 CCC09	JIMM08	500: Roy W Spencer	1981		All PAPS CLIM	212	178	133	124	92	WP? W.P?	MSU satellite temp measurement	U Alabama, Huntsville
21			540: Julia E Cole	1992	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	135	129	123	117	81	WP? W.P?	ENSO, paleo	University of Arizona, USA
22			654: Andrew Staniforth	PhD	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	478	307	108	98	53	WP? W.P?	modeling, advection	Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, UK
23	CMOS06 CMOS08		719: Thomas F Pedersen, FAGU	1979		All PAPS CLIM	258	190	123	91	112	WP? W.P?	oceanic nutrients, oxygenation, paleo	U Victoria, BC
24	CCSP04 TGGWS	JIMM08	747: John R Christy	1987	AR4 wg1 lead	All PAPS CLIM	133	124	107	88	186	WP? W.P?	MSU satellite temp measurement	U Alabama, Huntsville
25	(TGGWS) ?	(LSDeniers) (JIMM08)	763: Eigil Friis-Christensen, FAGU	1971		All PAPS CLIM	426	390	88	87	43	WP? W.P?	GCRs, solar cycle effect on climate	Director, Danish Space Research Inst
26	CMOS06		834: Terry Prowse	1981	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	247	121	99	79	176	WP? W.P?	ice, snow cover, river ice	Environment Canada , University of Victoria, Canada
27		C&O	863: Christopher A Shuman	1992		All PAPS CLIM	451	142	97	76	58	WP? W.P?	isotopes, sea-bed cores	NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD
28			872: Richard H Moss, FAAAS	1987		All PAPS CLIM	480	377	113	75	136	WP? W.P?	land cover, impacts and risks	WWF
29		C&O	1079: HT Waterbolk	__		All PAPS CLIM	176	169	89	58	13	WP? W.P?	radiocarbon dating
30			1081: Aaron Boone	2000	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	124	103	75	58	73	WP? W.P?	PILPS, parameterization	CNRS CNRM at Meteo France, France, USA
31			1085: William C Conant	2000		All PAPS CLIM	356	183	65	58	46	WP? W.P?	Asian dust, clouds	CalTech, Pasadena
32			1220: H Damon Matthews	2004	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	166	124	52	48	48	WP? W.P?	radiative forcing, modeling	University of Calgary and Concordia University, Canada
33	TGGWS	LSDeniers JIMM08	1328: Nir Shaviv	1996		All PAPS CLIM	198	62	58	42	32	WP? W.P?	GCRs	Hebrew University, Jerusalem
34	NZCSC UN07 MHND CCC09		1362: William P de Lange	PhD		All PAPS CLIM	52	45	42	40	9	WP? W.P?	tsunamis, coastal climate hazards	Earth and Ocean Sci, Waikato U
35	MHND Cato09 CCC09		1375: Goesta Walin	1972		All PAPS CLIM	89	48	44	39	11	WP? W.P?	THC, ocean heat transport	Goteborg U
36	SEPP92 LZ95 CA02 CA03 CA06 TGGWS Cato09	JIMM08	1410: Patrick J Michaels	1979		All PAPS CLIM	73	43	40	37	149	WP? W.P?	heat-related mortality, temp. records	U Virginia
37			1436: Daithi A Stone	Dphil	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	357	227	81	35	313	WP? W.P?	attribution	U Cape Town
38	SEPP92 LZ95 CA02 CA03 CA06 TGGWS UN07 MHND NIPCC08 APS09	JIMM08	1503: S Frederick Singer, FAGU	1948		All PAPS CLIM	56	34	33	31	110	WP? W.P?	Skeptic of: AGW, CFC-ozone link, 2nd-hand smoke	former director, US NWS, emeritus prof. U Virginia
39	CA03 CA06 TGGWS UN07 MHND Cato09 CCC09	JIMM08	1517: Ian D Clark	1987		All PAPS CLIM	693	38	38	30	32	WP? W.P?	isotope hydrogeology, paleo	U Ottawa, Ontario
40	TGGWS	JIMM08	1561: Philip Stott	__		All PAPS CLIM	37	35	30	29	23	WP? W.P?	biogeography	SOAS, U London (emeritus)
41	UCS08		1592: Clark C Abt	PhD		All PAPS CLIM	74	27	26	28	17	WP? W.P?	economics of forestry management	Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
42			1657: Jay Glascoe	__		All PAPS CLIM	311	78	38	24	9	WP? W.P?	model validation	NASA GISS, New York, NY
43			1685: Melchor Gonzalez-Davila	PhD	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	46	37	32	23	17	WP? W.P?	ocean chem seasonal variation	University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
44			1760: Jorge Carrasco	1994	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	37	25	26	19	55	WP? W.P?	atm chemistry	Direccion Meteorologica de Chile and Centro de Estudios Cientifi cos, Chile
45	TGGWS	JIMM08	1799: Nigel Calder	no		All PAPS CLIM	55	43	21	17	23	WP? W.P?	ice ages, solar influence	author, screenwriter, former editor of New Scientist (no academic career)
46			1834: Nikolay A Diansky	Cphys	AR4 wg1	All PAPS CLIM	45	18	17	15	27	WP? W.P?	modeling	Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
47			1863: Miguel AM Maqueda	__		All PAPS CLIM	116	23	21	13	35	WP? W.P?	snow-ice modeling	Proudman Oceanographic Lab., Liverpool
48	CA02 CA03 CA06 TGGWS UN07 MHND CCC09	JIMM08	1969: Timothy Ball	PhD		All PAPS CLIM	13	10	9	8	10	WP? W.P?	historical record, northern Canada	Nat. Resources Stewardship Project (think tank)
49	TGGWS		2128: Paul K Driessen	JD		All PAPS CLIM	11	4	3	1	1	WP? W.P?	criticism of environmental action groups	author and columnist, former Senate staffer (no academic career)
50	TGGWS MHND Cato09 NIPCC09 CCC09	JIMM08	2178: Piers Corbyn	MSc		All PAPS CLIM	2	1	0	0	1	WP? W.P?	meteorology	indep. Weather forecaster (no academic career)
51	TGGWS UN07	JIMM08	2203: Lord Nigel Lawson	no		All PAPS CLIM	0	0	0	0	0	WP? W.P?	criticism of IPCC and Stern Review	(no academic/research career)
52	TGGWS	JIMM08	2204: Patrick Moore	1972		All PAPS CLIM	0	0	0	0	0	WP? W.P?	ecology; co-founder of Greenpeace	environmental activist (no academic/research career)
53	MHND		2208: Josef Zboril	MSc		All PAPS CLIM	1	0	0	0	0	WP? W.P?	mettalurgy	Confederation of Industry, Prague

Compiled by Jim Prall, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 2008 - present