Tim Patterson

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R. Timothy Patterson is a geologist , climate researcher and climate skeptic . He is Professor in the Faculty of Earth Sciences at Carleton University and Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center in Ottawa , Canada . He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow of the School of Geography at Queen's University in Belfast , Northern Ireland and holds a B.Sc. in Biology, a BA in Geology, both from Dalhousie University , Halifax, and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA).

Life

Patterson is Canadian director of Project 495 of the UNESCO Program for International Geosciences (IGCP) entitled "Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions". Its purpose is to study changes in sea levels in the past and make predictions for the future. Patterson was also Principal Investigator on projects of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS). In this research, high-precision climate data were obtained from sea basins west of Canada.

He was the founding editor of the journal Palaeontologia Electronica (1998-2000) and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Foraminiferal Research , a journal of micropalaeontology .

research

By 2007 Patterson had published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research emphasizes the dynamics of climate and sea level changes over the last millennia, and he also explores the environmental impact of land use in agricultural and urban environments.

In recognition of his research achievement , Patterson received the 2002–2003 Carleton University Research Achievement Award for "Outstanding Research".

Position on climate change

Patterson is a "climate skeptic" and opposes the scientific consensus on man-made global warming as summarized by the IPCC . In a study published in 2004, Patterson wrote that abrupt climate changes and long-term climatic fluctuations of the late Holocene can be well correlated with external factors such as changes in solar and cosmic radiation.

In Canada in particular, the handling of climate change is the subject of controversy, Patterson's statements were heard at parliamentary hearings and, among other things, at lectures at the Canadian chapter of the Club of Rome .

In June 2007, Patterson published an article predicting that the climate would cool as the sun entered sunspot cycle 25 in 2018 . He based his prediction on the close correlation between solar and climatic cycles in stratigraphic and palaeoclimatic analyzes of various sediment cores. Solar cycle 25 would be about as weak as solar cycles at the beginning of the 19th century, i.e. towards the end of the cold period of the so-called Little Ice Age .

In June 2007, Patterson said that "the cooling associated with solar cycle 25 is affecting Canada's agricultural sector. ... A cooling that will occur from around 2018 would be an agricultural and national catastrophe. "

Patterson refers in his statements to his own geological research, such as investigations on drill cores in land-sea border areas in the Holocene and their climatic cyclicity. According to the work, they are in accordance with the course of cosmic radiation. He has carried out regional studies for Ontario, British Columbia and the Northeast Pacific, among others. Patterson also derives statements and the like from his research. a. on the productivity of commercially important fish stocks as a function of solar activity.

The results clearly contradict the IPCC consensus that solar activity has a lower impact on greenhouse gases. Patterson is referring to work that sees temperature and carbon dioxide clearly decoupled from one another throughout the Phanerozoic . However, he does not go into the causes for the paradox of the weak young sun, which are discussed in science .

Selected publications

  • R. Timothy Patterson, Andreas Prokoph, Eduard Reinhardt, Helen M. Roe: Climate cyclicity in late Holocene anoxic marine sediments from the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex, British Columbia. In: Marine geology , Volume 242, 2007, No. 1-3, pp. 123-140
  • RT Patterson, AP Dalby, HM Roe, J.-P. Guilbault, I. Hutchinson, JJ Clague: Relative utility of foraminifera, diatoms and macrophytes as high resolution indicators of paleo-sea level. In: Quaternary Science Reviews , Volume 24, 2005, pp. 2002-2014
  • AS Chang, RT Patterson: Climate shift at 4400 years BP: Evidence from high-resolution diatom stratigraphy, Effingham Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , Volume 226, 2005, pp. 72-92
  • RT Patterson, A. Prokoph, AS Chang: Late Holocene sedimentary response to solar and cosmic ray activity influenced climate variability in the NE Pacific. In: Sedimentary Geology , Volume 172, 2004, pp. 67-84
  • A. Prokoph, RT Patterson: Application of wavelet and discontinuity analysis to trace temperature changes: Eastern Ontario as a case study . In: Atmosphere Ocean. Volume 42, 2004, pp. 201-212.
  • RT Patterson, AD Fowler, B. Huber: Evidence of Hierarchical Organization in the Planktic Foraminiferal Evolutionary Record. In: Journal of Foraminiferal Research , Volume 34, 2004, No. 2, pp. 85-95.
  • RT Patterson, A. Prokoph, C. Wright, AS Chang, RE Thomson, DM Ware: Holocene Solar Variability and Pelagic Fish Productivity in the NE Pacific. (PDF; 1.03 MB) In: Palaeontologia Electronica , Volume 6, 2004, No. 1, 17 pages
  • WR Gehrels, GA Milne, Jason R. Kirby, RT Patterson, DF Belknap: Late Holocene sea-level changes and isostatic crustal movements in Atlantic Canada. Quaternary International, Volume 120, 2004, pp. 79-89.
  • Martin Durkin: The Great Global Warming Swindle , DVD, WAG TV 2007. A complete seminar lecture by Tim Patterson, who presents and justifies his climate-skeptical theses, can be seen in the extras under Some real science .

Academic memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b R.T. Patterson, A. Prokoph, AS Chang: Late Holocene sedimentary response to solar and cosmic ray activity influenced climate variability in the NE Pacific . In: Sedimentary Geology , Volume 172, 2004, pp. 67-84
  2. ↑ a b R.T. Patterson, A. Prokoph, C. Wright, AS Chang, RE Thomson, DM Ware: Holocene Solar Variability and Pelagic Fish Productivity in the NE Pacific. (PDF; 1.0 MB) In: Palaeontologia Electronica , Volume 6, 2004, No. 1, 17 pages, ( doi: 10.1016 / j.sedgeo.2004.07.007 , short version)
  3. ↑ A massive development of the extensive oil sands deposits in the province of Alberta would be difficult to bring in line with the country's obligations under the Kyoto Agreement. Canada would also benefit from global warming by further opening the Northwest Passage to shipping, as well as possible expanded agricultural uses
  4. ↑ a b c d Newspaper report on this: R. Timothy Patterson: Read the sunspots. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2007 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. In: Financial Post , June 20, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.canada.com
  5. ^ A. Prokoph, RT Patterson: Application of wavelet and discontinuity analysis to trace temperature changes: Eastern Ontario as a case study. In: Atmosphere Ocean , Volume 42, pp. 201-212, 2004
  6. ^ R. Timothy Patterson, Andreas Prokoph, Eduard Reinhardt, Helen M. Roe: Climate cyclicity in late Holocene anoxic marine sediments from the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex, British Columbia. In: Marine geology , Vol. 242, No. 1-3, pp. 123-140, 2007
  7. ^ AS Chang, RT Patterson: Climate shift at 4400 years BP: Evidence from high-resolution diatom stratigraphy, Effingham Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , Volume 226, pp. 72-92, 2005
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SURNAME Patterson, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patterson, R. Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geologist and climate researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century