- Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president.
- James Hansen
James E. Hansen (born March 29, 1941 in Denison, Iowa), heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a part of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Earth Sciences Division. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at Columbia University.
- Vicky Pope
Vicky Pope is head of the climate predictions programme at the Hadley Centre. She spent 6 years as manager of atmospheric climate model development and evaluation. For the last 2½ years she has been a programme manager. Since October 2004 she has been Head of the Climate Prediction Programme which provides independent scientific advice on climate change. Her research interests include developing and validating climate models.
- John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. His first two studio albums, "Room for Squares" and "Heavier Things", both did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status.
- Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is a writer and activist on global warming, alternative energy, and the need to reshape our economy and our communities. His first book, The End of Nature , was the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change.
- 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.
- Richard Lindzen
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his research in dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves. He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the political pressures surrounding climate scientists. He wrote an op-ed for the "Wall Street Journal" in April, 2006, …
- Ross McKitrick
Ross McKitrick is a Canadian environmental economist and global warming skeptic, best known for his statistical reviews of temperature record reconstructions that purport to show dramatic recent global warming relative to history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario (since 2001) and, since 2002, Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, a Canadian free-market policy think tank that opposes the Kyoto Protocol.
- 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.
- Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann (b. May 7, 1951) is an American broadcaster, three-time Project Censored Award Winning New York Times bestselling author, and former psychotherapist. He is a lay scholar of the history and textual analysis of the United States Constitution, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), electronic voting fraud, and environmental issues such as global warming.
- Luboš Motl
Lubos Motl, in Czech Luboš Motl is a Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity. Motl was born in Plzeň. He received his master degree from the Charles University in Prague, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Rutgers University and has been a Harvard Junior Fellow (2001-2004) and assistant professor (2004-2007) at Harvard University.
- Ross Gelbspan
Ross Gelbspan is an American writer and activist. He has written two books relating to global warming-- "The Heat Is On" (1997) and "Boiling Point" (2004). "The Heat Is On" received national attention when President Clinton told the press he was reading it. "Boiling Point" was the subject of the lead review in the Sunday "New York Times" Book Review. That review was written by former Vice President Al Gore.
- Roy Spencer
Roy Spencer is a principal research scientist for University of Alabama in Huntsville. In the past, he served as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Spencer is the recipient of NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He is principally known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work, for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society's Special Award.
- Tim Flannery
Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and presently an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal burning for electricity in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.
- 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, …
- Tom Harris
Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project. He is prominent as a global warming skeptic. Until September 2006, he was Ottawa operations director of the High Park Group, a public relations and lobbying company active in the debate over global warming. The Natural Resources Stewardship Project has also been accused of being an Astroturfing organization, set up by High Park Group to promote the interests of its clients, …
- 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, …
- Steven Milloy
Steven J. Milloy is the "Junk Science" commentator for FoxNews.com and runs the website Junkscience.com, which is dedicated to debunking what Milloy labels "faulty scientific data and analysis." Among the topics Milloy has addressed are what he believes to be false claims regarding DDT, global warming, Alar, breast implants, secondhand smoke, ozone depletion, and mad cow disease.
- Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert (b.1961) is a journalist and author best known for her book on global warming titled "Field Notes from a Catastrophe". Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx, then her family relocated to Larchmont, New York, where she remained until 1979. After graduating high school, Kolbert spent four years studying literature at Yale University. In 1983, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Universitat-Hamburg, in Germany.
- Alan Caruba
Alan Caruba is a public relations counselor and a free-lance writer who is a frequent critic of environmentalism and Islam and a global warming skeptic. In the late 1970s Caruba founded his public relations firm, The Caruba Organization, and in 1990, the National Anxiety Center, a "clearinghouse" whose "original purpose was to debunk the many claims made by environmental and consumer organizations ... engaged in deliberately false, …
- Robert Watson
Dr Robert T. Watson is a British-born U.S. scientist who has worked on atmospheric pollution issues since the 1980s (including ozone depletion, global warming) and paleoclimatology.
- 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", …
- 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.
- Maurice Strong
Maurice F. Strong, (his first name is pronounced "Morris"), PC, CC, OM (born April 29, 1929, in Oak Lake, Manitoba) is an industrialist and public servant who was the Secretary-General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the Earth Summit. Maurice Strong is currently in the People's Republic of China. Together with George Soros he is attempting to organize export of the Chery automobile.
- Roger Revelle
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. The six-foot-four Revelle was often referred to as a "scientific giant," both literally and figuratively. UC San Diego's first college was named Roger Revelle College in his honor.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Jeremy Leggett
Jeremy Leggett is a former geologist, turned environmentalist, turned social entrepreneur and author. He has written several books including Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis (Portobello, 2005: also published in the US as The Empty Tank) and The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era (Penguin, 1999). These books examined the issues of oil depletion and global warming.
- Reid Bryson
Reid Bryson is an American atmospheric scientist, geologist and meteorologist. He was born in Michigan in 1920. In 1948, he became chairman of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin. He became the first director of the Institute for Environmental Studies in 1970. He has written more than 230 articles and five books, including "Climates of Hunger", which won the Banta Medal for Literary Achievement.
- Frederick Seitz
Seitz received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1932, and then a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1934. During World War II, he worked on military applications of research, including the atomic bomb. His 1940 textbook, The Modern Theory of Solids, was very important to the development of solid-state physics and of transistors. He had taught at several universities.
- 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, …
- David Bellamy
David J. Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English botanist, author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner, and a global warming sceptic.
- Nigel Calder
Nigel Calder (born December 2 1931) is a British science writer. Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine "New Scientist", serving as editor from 1962 to 1966. Since that time, he has worked as an independent author and TV screenwriter. He has conceived and scripted thirteen major documentaries and series on popular science subjects broadcast by the BBC and Channel 4 (London), with accompanying books.
- Betsy Hart
Betsy Hart is a syndicated columnist and conservative commentator who is a frequent contributor to CNN and the Fox News Channel. She also appeared frequently on ABC's show Politically Incorrect. Mrs. Hart is the mother of four children and author of the book "It Takes a Parent: How the Culture of Pushover Parenting is Hurting Our Kids... and What to Do About It".
- Richard Alley
Dr. Richard B. Alley (1957-present) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 170 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryosphere and global climate change and is recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as a "highly cited researcher." In 1999, Dr. Alley was invited to testify about climate change by Vice President Al Gore, …
- Fred L. Smith
Fred L. Smith, Jr. is the President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank dedicated to the principles of free markets and limited government. He has long been a prominent writer and commentator on such controversial topics as antitrust law, environmental regulation, and the economic impacts of global warming.
- Mark Begich
Mark Begich served as a University of Alaska regent from 2001-2002. The following is his biography from the Office of the Mayor Web site. Since his election on April 1, 2003, Mayor Mark Begich has focused on the three priorities Anchorage residents tell him are most important: improving public safety, creating jobs and economic opportunities, and relieving traffic congestion.
- Rajendra K. Pachauri
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born August 20, 1940, Nainital, India) is an economist and environmental scientist who has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002. Pachauri is also the director general of the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, an institution devoted to researching and promoting sustainable development.
- Tim Wirth
Timothy E. Wirth (b. September 22, 1939) is a former United States Senator from Colorado. Wirth, a Democrat, was a member of the House from 1975 to 1987 and was elected to the Senate in 1986, serving one term there before stepping down. He was Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs during the Clinton Administration. In the State Department, he worked with Vice President Al Gore on global environmental and population issues, …
- Peter Oborne
Peter Alan Oborne (born July 11 1957) is a journalist, commentator, and author. He was educated at Sherborne School, and is particularly known for his commentaries on the apparent hypocrisy of today's politicians. He is the author of a highly-critical biography of Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell and, in a different vein, …