Shattered Consensus

Four Authors Discuss Their New Book on Climate Science

Shattered Consensus consists of nine expert essays on global warming, covering the earth's temperature history and disparities between what has been predicted about climate change and what has actually been observed. On February 24, 2006, four of the authors discussed their chapters and the meaning of their research for climate science and public policy.

Dr. Oliver W. Frauenfeld is a Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Division of Cryospheric and Polar Processes, University of Colorado, and a Contributing Author to the IPCC Working Group 1 Fourth Assessment Report. Slides from his presentation are found here.

Dr. Pat Michaels is Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and the Virginia State Climatologist. He is the author of four books on climate change, including Meltdown and Satanic Gases. Slides from his presentation are found here.

Dr. David R. Legates is the Director of the Center for Climatic Research and an Associate Professor of Climatology at the University of Delaware. Slides from his presentation are found here.

Dr. Ross McKitrick is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, B.C. Slides from his presentation are found here.

Also contributing to Shattered Consensus are Sallie L. Baliunas, Robert C. Balling Jr., Randall S. Cerveny, John Christy, Robert E. Davis, Eric S. Posmentier and Willie Soon.

From the George C. Marshall Institute.