Madhav Khandekar

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Madhav Khandekar is a former environmental and climate scientist , who is best known for the man-made global warming to deny . He maintains close ties to various organizations in the organized climate change denial scene .

Life

Khandekar studied statistics at the University of Pune and then meteorology at Florida State University . He has worked in the field of weather and climate for almost 50 years, including at Environment and Climate Change Canada , and edited a number of publications and books. He is one of the external reviewers of the fourth IPCC assessment report , AR4. After retiring, he continues to work on the editorial staff of the Journal of Natural Hazards ( Kluwer , Netherlands ).

He is a member of the American Meteorological Society , the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and the American Geophysical Union .

Denial of man-made global warming

Khandekar is connected to a number of climate denial organizations, he is sometimes referred to as a climate skeptic. From Khandekar's point of view, global warming does not pose a threat to humanity. In 2013, he prepared a report on global warming and weather extremes on behalf of the British think tank Global Warming Policy Foundation (whose aim is to avoid alleged overreactions to global warming). According to his assessment, an increase in extreme weather conditions has not yet been proven, it is a matter of " media hype ". Khandekar is also listed as an expert by the Heartland Institute , which is at the forefront of the climate denial scene, and receives from him a monthly payment of $ 1,000. He is also a member of the Science Advisory Board of the International Climate Science Coalition .

Publications (excerpt)

  • with TN Chase, JA Knaff, RA Pielke Sr. and E. Kalnay: Changes in global monsoon circulations since 1950. Natural Hazards, 29, 2, 229-254, 2003
  • RH Kripalani, A. Kulkarni, SS Sabade and ML Khandekar: Indian monsoon variability in a global warming scenario. Natural Hazards, 29, 2, 189-206, 2003
  • Roop Kumar, K. Kumar and GB Pant: Diurnal asymmetry of surface temperature trends over India. Geophy. Res. Letters, 21, 677-680, 1994
  • R. Selvaraju: Impact of El-Nino-Southern Oscillation on Indian food grain production. 2003

Web links

Madhav Khandekar dossier at Desmog.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Madhav Khandekar . Desmog. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: The Truth About Errors of the Climate Council.Retrieved April 28, 2020
  3. ^ The Global Warming Policy Foundation: Madhav Khandekar: 'Global Warming Is Modest And No Threat To Humanity' ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ Madhav Khandekar et al .: The Global Warming-Extreme Weather Link. A Review of the State of Science. The Global Warming Policy Foundation Report 11, November 27, 2013, ISBN 978-0-9573880-1-7 .
  5. ^ The Heartland Institute: Madhav Khandekar ( Memento December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  6. ↑ Who we are . International Climate Science Coalition website . Retrieved December 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Khandekar, Madhav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-Canadian environmental and climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1994