84 of Inhofe's Global Warming Deniers Have Taken Industry Money

Sen. James M. Inhofe's list of 400+ supposedly prominent climate scientists who doubt global warming is full of names that should raise big question marks, including economists and other social scientists, mathematicians, TV weathermen, retired scientists and amateurs. Also included are these 84 names of scientists who have received support for their work from fossil fuel industries. Read here about why that could be an issue of concern.

Here are the names below. View the full list here.

1. Professor Tom Addiscott of the University of East London SA.
http://consultancy.ukf.net
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Addiscott

2. David Archibald, Australia. Geologist with Summa Development Limited. Associated with Australia's Lavoisier Group, which was established specifically to be skeptical of climate change. The group receives funding from the coal and oil industry.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lavoisier_Group
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/articles/Archibald.pdf

3. Dr. August H. Auer (Deceased), co-founder of New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. Heavily involved with industry-funded groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augie_Auer
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Zealand_Climate_Science_Coalition

4. Dennis Avery. Not a scientist...he is director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute, which receives funding from Exxon, Dupont, Monsanto and so on.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dennis_Avery

5. Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics and geodynamics, Stockholm University, Sweden. Strong ties to the oil industry, and claims to be an expert in "dowsing." Connected to the anti-global warming group Natural Resources Stewardship Project.
http://www.desmogblog.com/nils-axel-morner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Axel_M%C3%B6rner

6. Donald G. Baker of the University of Minnesota. Heavily involved with industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=904

7. Dr. Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist and climate researcher, Boston, Mass. Heavily connected to many industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=3
http://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas

8. Dr. Robert Balling, heavily involved with industry-funded groups. Has received money from Exxon for studies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Balling
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=5

9. Timothy F. Ball, PhD, environmental consultant, former climatology professor, University of Winnipeg, Canada. Founder of many industry groups.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Ball

10. Dr. Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College London, U.K. Heavily connected to the oil and mining industry
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1100

11. Gary S. Becker, Nobel Prize-winning economist who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. Not a natural scientist.
http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbecker/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Becker

12. Sonja A. Boehmer-Christiansen, PhD, Reader, Dept. of Geography, Hull University, UK; Editor, Energy & Environment journal. Member of the "Scientific Alliance," which has many industry-funded scientists involved with it.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1281
http://www.hull.ac.uk/geog/staff/Boehmer.htm

13. Dr. Robert. M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Paleoclimate scientist. Member of the institute of public affairs. a Industry funded think tank that takes money from places like Monsanto, Big Tobacco and so on.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Carter
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs
http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/

14. Dr. Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax. Connected to the Fraser Institute, which is an industry-funded group, and works at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=8959
http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/people/PChylek/PChylek.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Chylek

15. Ian D. Clark, PhD, Professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada. Heavily connected to -industry-funded groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Clark
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project

16. W. Dennis Clark, Department of Plant Biology at Arizona State University. Involved with industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=905

17. Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont. Now tied to the oil industry, and connected to the Natural Resource Stewardship Project.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1227

18. Richard S. Courtney, PhD, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC 4 Industry funded, with no education, but likes to say he has one
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_S._Courtney
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1095

19. Joseph D'Aleo, served as the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and was the Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation. Served as chairman of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Involved with industry-funded groups such as the Fraser Institute, and he the website icecap.us
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1276
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joseph_D'Aleo

20. Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany. Electrical engineer who has connections to industry-funded groups.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Dietze
http://www.desmogblog.com/peter-dietze

21. Dr. Michael J. Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cullen College of Engineering at University of Houston. Petroleum Engineer with deep ties to the oil industry.
http://www.chee.uh.edu/faculty/economides/

22. Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif.; atmospheric consultant. Heavily connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1040

23. Dr. Cal Evans, geochemist and a prominent researcher who has advised the Alberta Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and who is affiliated with the Calgary-based, industry-funded group Friends of Science.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science

24. Ray Evans, engineer and founding member of the Australia-based Lavoisier Group, which was set up to deny global warming. The group receives funding from the coal and oil industries.

25. Bob Foster, geologist and director of the Australia-based, global warming-denying Lavoisier Group (which is heavily funded by the oil and coal industries). Ex-General Manager Marketing with BHP Petroleum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavoisier_Group
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lavoisier_Group

26. Lee C. Gerhard, PhD, senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas; former director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey. Retired geologist who is involved with industry-funded groups.
http://www.desmogblog.com/lee-c-gerhard

27. Indur M Goklany, Ph.D, who has represented the United States at the International Panel on Climate Change and in the negotiations leading to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Affiliated with the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, which takes money from ExxonMobil and other big corps.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st278/st278f.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute

28. Vincent Gray, PhD, expert reviewer for the IPCC and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001,' Wellington, New Zealand. Associated with coal research, has not published any peer-reviewed work in regards to climate. Hasn't published anything in over 17 years. Also a member of the NRSP, which gets funding from energy companies such as Exxon.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1215
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Gray_(scientist)

29. Robert W. Hahn, economist who is heavily involved in industry-funded groups (EPW report lists him as a chemical engineer).
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=44

30. Howard Hayden, PhD, emeritus professor of physics, University of Connecticut, U.S. Retired, takes money from Exxon, and has never published anything peer reviewed relating to climate.
http://www.desmogblog.com/denier_database

31. David Henderson, a professor at the Westminster Business School and former chief economist for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Has no discernable formal education in science and is associated with the right-leaning Hoover Institution, which receives funding from ExxonMobil, Arco, big tobacco and similar interests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Henderson_(economist)
http://www.hoover.org/bios/henderson.html

32. Dr. Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow for the Independent Institute who has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Stanford University, and a fellow for the National Science Foundation. Economist with no discernable scientific background. Higgs is also a Senior Fellow with the Libertarian Independent Institute, which is industry funded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Higgs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Institute

33. Craig D. Idso, PhD, Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Arizona, U.S. Received direct funding from Exxon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_D._Idso

34. Keith Idso, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Arizona.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_E._Idso

35. Sherwood B. Idso, PhD, President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, AZ, USA. Industry funded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_B._Idso

36. Andrei Illarionov, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, U.S.; founder and director of the Institute of Economic Analysis, Russia. Involved with industry funded groups.
http://www.cato.org/people/illarionov.html

37. Albert F. Jacobs, co-founder and spokesperson of the Canadian group Friends of Science, which was established to challenge the Kyoto Protocol. The group is known for close ties to the fossil fuels industry, though its actual funding sources are not well known.

38. Dr. Kelvin Kemm, formerly a scientist at South Africa's Atomic Energy Corporation. Connected to the industry-funded group The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, he is a nuclear physicist and mathematician turned consultant/lobbyist.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/1999/kemmbio.htm
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=25

39. Madhav Khandekar, PhD, former research scientist with Environment Canada; Editor of "Climate Research" (03-05); Editorial Board Member "Natural Hazards," IPCC Expert Reviewer 2007. Connected to multiple industry-funded groups.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1358

40. William Kininmonth, M.Sc., M.Admin., former head of Australia's National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological organization's Commission for Climatology. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1277

41. Dr. Arnold Kling, economist with no discernable climate or natural science background. Sssociated with CATO, which receives Exxon funding.
http://www.cato.org/people/kling.html
http://arnoldkling.com/

42. Paul C. Knappenberger, previously involved with a now-closed branch of the George C. Marshall Institute, which according to Newsweek is a "central cog in the denial machine." The institute has received funding from ExxonMobil.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=13

43. Hans H.J. Labohm, PhD, economist, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute, who was an IPCC reviewer. No degrees in or peer-reviewed articles in natural sciences. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1522

44. Douglas Leahey, PhD, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary, Canada. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.berchagroup.com/about_us/about_us-team.htm
http://www.desmogblog.com/dr-doug-leahy-do-any-of-the-friends-of-science-not-lead-back-to-oil-and-gas

45. David R. Legates, PhD, Director, Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware, U.S. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=18

46. Bryan Leyland, electrical and mechanical engineer, International Climate Science Coalition, consultant, Auckland, New Zealand.
http://homepage.mac.com/bryanleyland/Menu4.html

47. Richard S. Lindzen, PhD, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Former IPCC reviewer who is connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=17
http://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/person.asp?position=Faculty&who=lindzen

48. Martin Livermore, chemist, director of the Scientific Alliance. Connected to industry-funded group.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1066

49. Anthony R. Lupo, PhD, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Dept. of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, U.S. Connected to industry-funded groups and scientists.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php
http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=152

50. Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, a field biologist who has worked in remote parts of Africa and published in international and Australian scientific journals. Affiliated with the Institute of Public Affairs, where she is the Director of the Environment. The group receives funding from the oil, coal and tobacco industries.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jennifer_Marohasy

51. Ross McKitrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Guelph, Canada. Economist with heavy connections to industry-funded groups.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ross_McKitrick
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/ross.html
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1313

52. Stephen McIntyre of ClimateAudit.org, mathematics, philosophy, politics and economics. No discernable climate science experience. He is the guy who found the slight error in NASA's hockey stick data. He is also heavily involved in the mining industry, and even founded his own mining corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_McIntyre
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephen_McIntyre

53. John McLean, climate data analyst, computer scientist, Melbourne, Australia. Climate-related work was published by the Science and Public Policy Institute, which receives funding from ExxonMobil.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/press/ipccprocessillusion.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute

54. Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia. Admits he is industry funded.
http://www.cato.org/people/michaels.html
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=4
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_J._Michaels

55. Professor Vivian Moses of King's College and University College in London. Leader of CropGen. industry-funded group.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/people/vivian.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vivian_Moses
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CropGen

56. Alan Moghissi of the Institute for Regulatory Science. connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=A._Alan_Moghissi

Economist and political commentator. not a natural scientist. Director of the Institute for Private Enterprise. which receives industry funding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moore
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Des_Moore

57. Alan Moran, PhD, energy economist, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit, Australia, which is industry funded.
http://www.ipa.org.au/people/bio.asp?peopleid=58

58. Dr. Thomas Gale Moore is a former professor at Michigan State University, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, which receives funding from corps like Exxon.
http://www.stanford.edu/~moore/
http://www.hoover.org/bios/moore.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Gale_Moore

59. James J. O'Brien, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Meteorology and Oceanography, Florida State University. Connected to the George C. Marshall Institute and the Fraser Institute, both of which receive money from ExxonMobil and other corporate interests.
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/bios/obrien.html
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1133
http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=134

60. Garth W. Paltridge, PhD, atmospheric physicist, Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Is associated with Big Oil via the industry-funded nonprofit The Natural Resources Stewardship Project.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project

61. R. Timothy Patterson, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Canada. Connected to Friends of Science and the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, which is industry funded.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Patterson

62. Harry N.A. Priem, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Planetary Geology and Isotope Geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences. Retired, with connections to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=256
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=25
http://www.desmogblog.com/harry-n-a-priem

63. Dr. Tom Quirk, a former University lecturer, fellow of three Oxford Colleges, and a board member of the Australia-based Institute of Public Affairs. Former mining consultant, corporate mining executive. No discernable climate experience.
http://www.science.unimelb.edu.au/research/iag/index.php#quirk

64. William E. Reifsnyder, meteorologist. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=910

65. Dr. Paul Reiter, professor, Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious Diseases, Paris, France. Expert reviewer, IPCC Working group II, chapter 8 (human health). Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1279

66. Dr. Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Ore. Industry backer who has no discernable experience in climate scientist and whose Oregon Petition against global warming was condemned by the National Academy of Science.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1067

67. Alex Robson, PhD, Economics, Australian National University. Economist who is connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1104

68. Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, B.C., Canada. connected with the Natural Resources Stewardship Project which is an industry group.
http://www.nrsp.com/scientists.html

69. Joel Schwartz, who holds a master's degree in planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. Associated with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=276
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/joel-schwartz/

70. Gary D. Sharp, PhD, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, CA, U.S. marine biologist and connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_D._Sharp

71. Clinton H. Sheehan of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=911

72. C. Robert Shoup, petroleum geologist, authored a summer 2007 scientific study for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Works directly for Shell(which the EPW left out).
http://www.winona.edu/geology/alumni.html

73. Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ont. Retired, connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1083

74. S. Fred Singer, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia and former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service. connected to several industry-funded groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=S._Fred_Singer

75. Dr. Willie Soon, Astrophysicist with Harvard-Smithsonian Center. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Willie_Soon

76. Roy W. Spencer, PhD, climatologist, Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Meteorologist, creationist and has many industry-funded connections.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=19
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Spencer

77. Dr. Walter Starck, Australian marine scientist. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.goldendolphin.com/wstarck.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_Starck

78. Dr. Elwynn Taylor, Professor of Meteorology at Iowa State University and a former project scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/agrisk/module/taylorbio.htm
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=912

79. Hendrik Tennekes, PhD, former Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. Retired, hasn't done anything peer reviewed in over 17 years.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1278
Connected to Fred Singer via SEPP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_%26_Environmental_Policy_Project

80. Professor Anthony Trewavas of the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Involved with many scientists who are industry funded or run industry groups.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anthony_Trewavas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trewavas

81. Kenneth E. F. Watt, zoologist. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=913

82. Dr. Richard C. Willson of Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research. Can't find much on him other than the fact he is connected to a bunch of industry-funded scientists via icecap.us.
http://www.chee.uh.edu/faculty/willson/

83. Sylvan H. Wittwer of Michigan State University. Connected to industry-funded groups.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=914

84. David E. Wojick, PhD, P.Eng., UN IPCC Expert Reviewer, energy consultant, Virginia. Is involved in industry-funded groups backed by coal and oil corporations.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Wojick
http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html

Mark V. Johnson, who works for AOL's Propeller.com, helped research and prepare this information.