Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer (born June 3, 1955 ) is an American climatologist who works at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . His specialty is the statistical analysis of climatological data and the investigation of climatologically effective factors. Santer is one of the most respected scientists in the world. In 2002 he was the twelfth most cited author on global warming. He was the coordinating lead author of the 8th chapter of the first part of the second IPCC assessment report from 1995.
Life and career
Santer grew up in the state of Maryland and moved with his parents to Germany at the age of 11, where he attended the Cornwall School in Dortmund run by the British Army for eight years . He received his BSc in environmental science. His Ph.D. received his Climatology degree from the University of East Anglia in 1987 . He then worked for five years at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, where he developed and applied statistical methods for evaluating climate data in collaboration with Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann .
Awards
In 1998, Santer was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship for his research into the human contribution to global warming . He also received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award ; he was honored with the "Distinguished Scientist Fellowship" by the United States Department of Energy and received the Norbert Gerbier-MUMM Award from the World Meteorological Organization . In 2011 he became an AGU Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Benjamin D. Santer's homepage at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Benjamin D. Santer . Profile on Google Scholar . Retrieved February 19, 2019.
- Publications by Santer on Separation of Signal and Noise in Atmospheric Temperature Datasets , American Geophysical Union
- Benjamin D. Santer in dialogue with Patrick J. Michaels as part of a “congressional hearings” on climate change in 2010, excerpt from the hearing on YouTube
- Interview with Ben Santer as part of the University of Queensland's online course "Denial 101" on "Climate Change Denial"
literature
- Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway , Merchants of Doubt. How a handful of Scientists obsured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to Global Warming . Bloomsbury Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-140-882483-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway , The Machiavellis of Science. The network of denial. Wiley-VCH , Weinheim 2014, p. XV.
- ↑ Global Warming Top 25 Overall Ranked by total cites, 1991-August 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Second status report of the IPCC - Report of Working Group I (English; PDF; 53.6 MB)
- ^ Benjamin Santer: Ultima Thule, the Cold War and Trump's Wall . In: Scientific American , January 11, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
- ↑ a b Dr. Ben Santer . In: Moving By Degrees . American Public Media. Archived from the original on June 26, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ^ Stark, Anne M .: Ben Santer elected AGU fellow . In: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory website . April 8, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ↑ Benjamin D. Santer . In: Membership Directory . National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Santer, Benjamin D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American climatologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1955 |