Robert Balling
Robert C. Balling, Jr. is the former director of the Office of Climatology and is a professor of geography at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oklahoma in 1979.
Balling is a declared "global warming skeptic." However, in Balling and Sen Roy (2005) he writes: "There is substantial evidence that a non-solar control has become dominant in recent decades. The buildup of greenhouse gases and/or some other global-scale feedback, such as widespread changes in atmospheric water vapor, emerge as potential explanations for the recent residual warming found in all latitudinal bands."
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Funding
"[H]as received more than $400,000 from the coal and oil industries, according to the Center for Media and Democracy. [1]
Books
- Robert C. Balling, The Heated Debate: greenhouse predictions versus climate reality, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, April 1992, ISBN 0-936488-47-6
- Robert C. Balling, and Martin A. J. Williams, Interactions of Desertification & Climate, Oxford University Press, October 1995, ISBN 0-340-63217-8
- Patrick Michaels and Robert C. Balling, The Satanic Gases: clearing the air about global warming, National Book Network, 2000 ASIN: 1882577914
References
- Balling, R.C. and Sen Roy, S. (2005), Analysis of spatial patterns underlying the linkage between solar irradiance and near-surface air temperatures, Geophysical Research Letters 32 (11): art. no. L11702 June 8 2005
External links
- Balling's homepage.
- Testimony Prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science March 6, 1996
- Sourcewatch entry on Robert C. Balling
- Short biography with photograph
- Rebuttal to Balling critique of An Inconvenient Truth
- Further Rebuttal to Balling critique of An Inconvenient Truth regarding the Gore-Revelle issue.
Categories
Climatologists | American geographers | Arizona State University professors | Global warming skeptics | Living people