Not Spaghetti

In my lists of climate scientists, skeptics and signers of declarations, I've set up a listing of all signers of any of a dozen climate denial/skeptic petitions or open letters. Recently I added in the 61 physicists who wrote to the APS about their position on climate change. I use the tag "APS09" to annotate the signers, here:

http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~prall/climate/skeptic_authors_table_by_clim...

The only two with a substantial number of published works on climate are Sultan Hameed and S. Fred Singer (though the latter is no climatologist, just really prolific in publishing climate denial claims.) Scafetta and West come next, the Robert S. Knox who has written on solar-climate links. David Douglass of Rochester U has also written on that, though he's not at all widely cited. After that, it's all people involved in other areas of physics not related to climate science.

I believe Dyson came on after the original letter was put together; he wasn't on the list of 61 that I found on the letter at http://www.climatephysics.com/GlobalWarming/APS.htm Anyway Dyson is also on my skeptic authors page, above, as he signed a couple of other statements.

You'd think anyone with a degree in physics should be better equipped to sort through science vs. spin on such a topic, but the incentive to avoid such bad news in any way possible is quite strong. I've been blogging on recent work about the psychology of climate denial, here: http://birdbrainscan.blogspot.com

- Jim Prall
Toronto, Canada