Andrew J. Weaver

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Andrew J. Weaver

Andrew J. Weaver (* 1961 ) is a Canadian climatologist , professor at the University of Victoria and member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia .

Weaver is internationally recognized as an expert in climate models and is the author or co-author of more than 200 articles in scientific journals. He is a lead author of the Second , Third , Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the IPCC .

Weaver is a member of the Order of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , the American Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia , a CASM from Cambridge University, and a B.Sc. from the University of Victoria.

Shortly after the 2009 hacking incident at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Center , it was revealed that there had been attempts to break into Weaver's office, stealing a computer and messing up documents. Weaver also reported that people tried to intimidate technicians into getting data from his office. This aroused fears that climate change deniers were specifically trying to discredit climate research in the run-up to the upcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen .

In April 2010, Andrew Weaver sued the conservative Canadian newspaper National Post for defamation for having been defamed by their reporting. The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled Weaver on February 5, 2015. He awarded Weaver damages and ordered the National Post to withdraw the items.

In 2011, Weaver also filed a climate suit for defamation against geographer Timothy Ball . Ball had published articles on the right-wing online tabloid magazine Canada Free Press , in which he denied Weaver's competence and attacked him as part of an alleged politically corrupt campaign that exaggerated the dangers of climate change. The Canada Free Press withdrew the offending article. The Supreme Court of the Canadian province of British Columbia finally ruled against Weaver in 2018: He saw Ball's article as full of errors and inaccuracies, poorly written and derogatory but not defamatory. The criticized words are not seriously likely to damage the reputation of Weaver with reasonably thoughtful and informed readers. The British Columbia Court of Appeals upheld Weaver's appeal against the judgment in 2020 and referred the case back to the court.

Weaver has been a member of the British Columbia House of Representatives since 2013 . In the provincial elections in May, he won his constituency as a candidate for the British Columbia Green Party. Andrew J. Weaver is the first representative of the Greens in a legislative assembly of a Canadian province or territory .

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  1. ↑ a b Break-in targets climate scientist , in: The Guardian , December 6, 2009
  2. ↑ Climate scientist sues newspaper for 'poisoning' global warming debate , in: The Guardian, April 22, 2010
  3. ↑ Weaver v. Corcoran, 2015 BCSC 165th Supreme Court of British Columbia, February 5, 2015, accessed February 8, 2015 .
  4. ^ Bernhard Isopp: The Perils, Politics, and Promises of Activist Science . In: Larry Bencze and Steve Alsop (Eds.): Activist Science and Technology Education (=  Cultural Studies of Science Education . Volume 9 ). Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-94-007-4360-1 , pp. 311 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-94-007-4360-1_17 .
  5. ↑ Keith Fraser: BC Green party leader Andrew Weaver has defamation lawsuit against retired prof thrown out. In: Vancouver Sun. February 14, 2018, accessed February 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ In the Supreme Court of British Columbia Weaver v. Ball, 2018 BCSC 205. February 13, 2018, accessed February 16, 2018 (text of the judgment).
  7. ↑ Weaver v. Ball, 2020 BCCA 119th Court of Appeal for British Columbia, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
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SURNAME Weaver, Andrew J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weaver, Andrew John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian climate researcher and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1961