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Thursday,
February 26
Luncheon Keynote Speaker:
Dr. John Christy - Photo
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science
and Director of the Earth System Science Center
at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
Abstract:
Though global warming has garnered considerable
attention in the political realm as a non-debatable
issue, the notion that scientists can understand
the global climate system with such precision
that they can confidently predict its evolution
is not supported by the evidence, according
to Dr. Christy. He will demonstrate that published,
observational datasets, many of which he and
UAHuntsville colleagues have constructed from
scratch, do not support the hypothesis that
climate change is due to the human-enhanced
greenhouse effect.
Biography:
Dr. John R. Christy is the Distinguished Professor
of Atmospheric Science and Director of the
Earth System Science Center at the University
of Alabama in Huntsville, where he began studying
global climate issues in 1987. Since November
2000, he has been Alabama's state climatologist.
In 1989 Dr. Roy W. Spencer (then a NASA/Marshall
scientist and now a Principal Research Scientist
at UAH) and Christy developed a global temperature
data set from microwave data observed from
satellites beginning in 1979. For this work,
the Spencer-Christy team was awarded NASA's
Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement
in 1991. In 1996, they were selected to receive
a Special Award by the American Meteorological
Society "for developing a global, precise
record of earth's temperature from operational
polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing
our ability to monitor climate." In 2002,
Christy was inducted as a Fellow of the American
Meteorological Society.
Dr. Christy has served as a contributor (1992,
1994, 1996 and 2007) and lead author (2001)
for the U.N. reports by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (the organization
that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), in
which the satellite temperatures were included
as a high-quality data set for studying global
climate change. He has served on five National
Research Council panels or committees, has
performed research funded by NASA, NOAA, DOE,
DOT, and the State of Alabama, and has published
many articles, including studies appearing
in Science, Nature, Journal of Climate, and
The Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Christy
has provided testimony to congressional committees,
has appeared on CNN, CNN-Headline News, ABC
20/20, CNBC, CBS Evening News, and NPR, and
has been quoted in the New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal and many more.
Dr. Christy received M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric sciences
from the University of Illinois (1984, 1987).
He graduated from the California State University
in Fresno (B.A., mathematics, 1973; Distinguished
Alumnus, 2007) and taught physics and chemistry
as a missionary teacher in Nyeri, Kenya,
for two years. He also earned a Master of
Divinity degree from Golden Gate Baptist
Seminary (1978) and served four years as
a bivocational mission-pastor in Vermillion,
South Dakota, where he also taught college
math. He was featured in the February 2001
issue of Discover magazine and in a National
Public Radio profile in 2004.
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