Deniers:Scientists:James J. O'Brien

 

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Director, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University

Robert 0. Lawton Distinguished Professor, Meteorology & Oceanography, FSUScience Roundtable Member, Tech Central Station

Texas A&M University, Ph.D., Meteorology, 1966
Texas A&M University, M.S., Meteorology, 1964
Rutgers University, B.S., Chemistry, 1957

Bio: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/bios/obrien.html

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(Q): James Glassman: Dr. O’Brien, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina – in fact, within hours after Katrina hit – we heard a good deal of criticism, mostly from supporters of the Kyoto Protocol that the President and others had not done enough to stop global warming and that this hurricane was, in some way, caused by global warming. You are an expert on hurricanes: do you think that global warming has had an affect on the intensity of hurricanes?
(A): Dr. James O’Brien: Absolutely not. All of the people who are hurricane scientists or teach about hurricanes at the graduate level that I’ve talked to agree with me.
O’Brien: With regard to people who work on hurricanes or are knowledgeable about the tropics – I don’t know of anybody who would think that global warming is causing Katrina.
Source:Capitalism Magazine (Sept 2005)

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O'Brien signed an open letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations alleging that that the "UN climate conference is taking the World in entirely the wrong direction." It claimed that the process resulting in the IPCC report was flawed, and that if Global Warming really was human-caused that energy would be better spent trying to mitigate the damage it would do, as opposed to trying to stop it. The letter was signed by 100 so-called "Prominent Scientists."
Source:Open Letter taken from Science and Public Policy website, 12.18.07

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Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Science Roundtable Member
Source:Tech Central Station - Science Roundtable

George C. Marshall Institute
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Source:Marshall Institute Website

Fraser Institute
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Source:Fraser Institute website (2007)

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