- Nicholas Stern
Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom. After attending Latymer Upper School, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his Doctor of Philosophy in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford.
- Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas (b. 1973) is a British author, journalist and environmental activist focussed on climate change. He is a contributor to New Statesman, Ecologist, Granta and Geographical magazines, and "The Guardian" and "The Observer" newspapers in the UK. He holds a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh.
- Chris Mooney
Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20 1977), better known as Chris Mooney is an American journalist who focuses on science in politics. He is Washington correspondent for "Seed", a senior correspondent for "The American Prospect" and occasional contributor to many other scientific and newsmagazines. He additionally maintains a weblog, "The Intersection", and gives public lectures.
- Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner (born 1961 in Brazil) is a German expert in environmental politics. From 2001 to 2006 he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Since June 2006 he is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Steiner grew up in Brazil. He studied philosophy, political science and economics at the University of Oxford.
- Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA.
- Stephen Schneider
Stephen H. Schneider (born c. 1945) is Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change (and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) at Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has served as a consultant to Federal Agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, …
- Willie Soon
Willie Wei-Hock Soon is an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is known for his views that most global warming is caused by solar variation. In addition to writing a range of technical papers on solar and stellar behavior, the physics of climate change, and an astronomy textbook for students who have no access to telescopes, …
- Tony Juniper
Tony Juniper (born 24 September 1960) is a British environmental campaigner, author and journalist most recognised for his work as Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He is a globally respected expert on environmental matters, most recently ensuring a Climate Change Bill in the Queen's Speech 2006 (15th November). This was supported by his successful "Big Ask" Campaign throughout 2005 & 2006, …
- Jim Inhofe
James Mountain "Jim" Inhofe (born November 17 1934) is a conservative American politician from Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves as the senior Senator from Oklahoma. He is among the most vocal skeptics of climate change (global warming) in Congress. Inhofe often cites the Bible as the source for his stances on various political issues.
- Mark Warner
Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Virginia and a member of the Democratic Party. Warner is the immediate former Governor of Virginia and the Honorary Chairman of the Forward Together PAC. While he was widely expected to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U.S. Presidential elections and took initial steps towards a candidacy, …
- Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf (born February 22, 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He holds a PhD in oceanography from Victoria University of Wellington (1990). His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change. In 1999 Rahmstorf was awarded the $ 1 million Centennial Fellowship Award of the US-based James S. McDonnell foundation.
- Paula Dobriansky
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky (born September 14, 1955) is a neo-conservative politician, pundit, and author, and graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and of Harvard University. She currently is the Under Secretary of State for Democracy & Global Affairs, a position in which she was appointed 1 May 2001 by US President George W. Bush.
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Sheila Watt-Cloutier , a Canadian Inuit activist, delivers a touching and powerful presentation on the impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic . She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national and international levels, most recently as International Chair for Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference).
- Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is also Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
- Henrik Svensmark
Henrik Svensmark is a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen who studies the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen were the first to suggest (in 1997) a link between galactic cosmic rays and global warming. The small-scale processes related to this link were studied in a laboratory experiment done at the Danish National Space Center (paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A", …
- Nir Shaviv
Nir Shaviv is an Israeli associate professor of physics, carrying out research in the fields of astrophysics and climate science. He is currently an associate professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is most well-known for his solar and cosmic rays hypothesis of climate change.
- Andrew Simms
Andrew Simms is Policy Director and head of the Climate Change Programme at nef (the New Economics Foundation). He is a former Youth Speaker of the Green Party An environmentalist, Simms has written a number of reports on climate change, globalisation and localisation, development issues, debt (conventional and ecological debt), corporate accountability, genetic engineering and food security.
- Phil Jones
Philip D. Jones (1952-) is a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, notable for maintaining of the time series of the instrumental temperature record ; this work figured prominently in the IPCC TAR SPM. He is director of the Climatic Research Unit and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. His research interests are instrumental climate change, palaeoclimatology, …
- William Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Nordhaus received his B.A. from Yale in 1963, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967. He has been a member of the faculty at Yale since 1967, and has also served as its Provost from 1986-88 and its Vice President for Finance and Administration from 1992-93. Among myriad honors, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, …
- Philip Cooney
Philip Cooney is the former chief of staff for President George W. Bush's Council on Environmental Quality and a former energy industry lobbyist (American Petroleum Institute). In a position that may be viewed as requiring scientific training, Cooney is a lawyer and holds a bachelors degree in economics. Prior to working for the Bush Administration, Cooney was a lawyer and lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, a petroleum and gas lobbying organization which has, …
- John Ashton
John Ashton (born 7 November, 1956) is the Special Representative for Climate Change, for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Director for Strategic Partnerships at LEAD International and is the founder and CEO of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism).
- Sunita Narain
Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. Ms. Narain has been with the India-based Centre for Science and Environment since 1982. She is currently the director of the Centre and the director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
- Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke (Sr.) is a meteorologist with interests in climate variability and climate change, environmental vulnerability, numerical modeling, atmospheric dynamics, land/ocean - atmosphere interactions, and large eddy/turbulent boundary layer modeling. He particularly focuses on mesoscale weather and climate processes but also investiages on the global, regional, and microscale.
- William H. Calvin
William H. Calvin, Ph.D., (born 30 April 1939) is a Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a well-known popularizer of neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of these two fields, neural Darwinism. He relates abrupt climate change to human evolution and speculates about the future. In his book "How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now", …
- Kevin Wall
Kevin Wall is one of the primary organizers of the Live 8 concerts and the Live Earth concerts. Wall founded SOS (Save Our Selves) to combat climate change. Wall is married to Susan Smalley, a geneticist who currently teaches at UCLA. Together, they have two sons and one daughter. On July 7, 2007, Wall gave a speech at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London.
- Peter Gleick
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- Richard Tol
Richard S.J. Tol (born 1969 in Hoorn, raised in Zwaag, West Friesland (region)) is a Senior Research Officer or the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland; a Principal Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, …
- David Thomas
David S. G. Thomas is a scientist and geographer. He was born in Dover, Kent, UK in 1958. He is Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His research deals with desertification, dryland environments, climate change and other environmental phenomena. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford. Between 1984 and 1998 he taught at the University of Sheffield.
- Donald Kennedy
Donald Kennedy (born 1931) is an American scientist, public administrator and academic. Donald Kennedy was born in New York and educated at Harvard University (A.B.; Ph.D., Biology, 1956). He has spent most of his professional career at Stanford University. He served for 26 months as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration during the Carter Administration. Kennedy served as president of Stanford from 1980 to 1992.
- Robert Henson
Robert Henson is an award winning author and journalist on topics primarily concerned with the weather and climate change. Robert Henson grew up in Oklahoma City, surrounded by the wild weather of the US Great Plains. It was a tornado warning that got him interested in atmospheric science at the age of seven. Henson holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.
- Wallace S. Broecker
Wallace S. Broecker ("Wally") (1931-) is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Broecker's areas of research included Pleistocene geochronology, radiocarbon dating and chemical oceanography, including oceanic mixing based on stable and radioisotope distribution.
- Anders Wijkman
Anders Ivar Sven Wijkman (born 30 September 1944 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Christian Democrats, part of the European People's Party - European Democrats group. He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Development, a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, …
- David Healy
David Healy is an Irish politician, member of the Irish Green Party. He has been Councillor from 1991 to 1999, and again from 2004, working mainly in the Fingal County Council. He grew up in the Cayman Islands. Later, he studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, until 1990 and then Environmental Sciences between 1994 and 1997. He was Green candidate for the Dublin North East constituency in the 2002 Irish General Election, winning 5.65% of the votes, …
- William Kininmonth
William Kininmonth is noted for his views as an opponent of global warming theory and frequently writes on the topic of climate change. He believes that the warming trend of the recent century is not unusual, and he is critical of the simple model of climate systems represented by the IPCC. While Kininmonth believes that anthropogenic sources may make a small contribution to global warming, he believes the natural variability far exceeds that contribution, …
- Ronald Wright
Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller "Stolen Continents", winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the "Independent" and the "Sunday Times". His first novel, "A Scientific Romance", won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the "Globe and Mail", …
- Drew Shindell
Dr. Drew Shindell is an ozone specialist and climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. His research is concerned with global climate change, climate variability, and atmospheric chemistry. He uses climate models to investigate chemical changes such as the depletion of the ozone layer, climate changes such as global warming, and the connections between these two.
- Joseph J. Romm
Books by Romm * (ISBN 0-06117-212-X). * (ISBN 1-55963-703-X). An updated edition was published in 2005 (ISBN 1-55963-704-8). The book has also been translated into German as "Der Wasserstoff-boom". * (ISBN 1-55963-709-9). * (ISBN 1-56836-037-1). * (ISBN 0-87609-135-4). * (ISBN 0-688-11868-2). ;Quote "Global warming is going to transform this country and our transportation and the way we live our lives. If we don't act pretty soon, in an intelligent fashion, …
- Geoff Jenkins
Geoffrey (Geoff) Jenkins is a climatologist and former head of climate change prediction at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, part of the Met Office. In answer to "What makes you believe the recent rise [in temperature] is due to human activity?" he said: : "Feeding in the different agents that cause climate change into our models – like greenhouse gases, output from the Sun, …
- Robert W. Corell
Robert Corell is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society, and he recently completed an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University which began in January 2000. He is currently actively engaged in research concerned with both the science of global change and the interface between science and public policy.
- Jeff Monaghan
Jeffrey Monaghan (born c.1980) is a Canadian arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as a result of an investigation into how confidential government plans for the environment were leaked to environmentalists and the media, specifically the "Canadian Press." The publicity from the leak occurred 10 days before Canada officially announced its intention to abandon international obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.