Akasofu, SI

<p><b>
</b></p><p><b>http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu
</b></p><p><b>Syun Akasofu</b> was the founder and director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Arctic_Research_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Arctic Research Center (page does not exist)">International Arctic Research Center</a>

of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, from its establishment in 1998

until January 2007. His areas of expertise are physics and geophysics.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup> He is also a well-known <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_change_skeptic" title="Climate change skeptic" class="mw-redirect">climate change skeptic</a> and a speaker at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change_%282009%29" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a>, organized by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think tank</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup></p>

<h2>Contents</h2>

<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#Akasofu_on_climate_change"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Akasofu on climate change</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#Articles_and_resources"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#References"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#External_resources"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#Presentations_by_Akasofu"><span class="tocnumber">2.3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Presentations by Akasofu</span></a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#External_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></li></ul>

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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Akasofu_on_climate_change">Akasofu on climate change</span></h2>

<p>Akasofu asserts that at least some of the contribution to global <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> comes from the natural effect of "recovery from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Little_Ice_Age&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Little Ice Age (page does not exist)">Little Ice Age</a>," rather than from human activity. <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup> He has criticized the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a>

(IPCC), asserting that they have failed to show "definite scientific

proof that 'most' of the present warming is caused by the greenhouse

effect," as the IPCC's 2007 report states. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup>

He does admit that global warming is occurring, especially in the

Arctic, and that this climate change "consists of both natural change

and the greenhouse effect." <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup> His critics respond that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Little_Ice_Age&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Little Ice Age (page does not exist)">Little Ice Age</a> is somewhat of a climate change myth. The warming after the so-called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Little_Ice_Age&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Little Ice Age (page does not exist)">Little Ice Age</a>

"may reflect both an increase in solar activity and a redistribution of

heat around the planet," but the "continued warming in recent decades,

however, cannot be explained by increases in solar radiation alone." <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup></p>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_and_resources">Articles and resources</span></h2>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles">Related SourceWatch articles</span></h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_warming_skeptics" title="Global warming skeptics">Global warming skeptics</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch:Project:Creating_Articles_on_Sponsors_and_Speakers_at_The_2008_International_Conference_on_Climate_Change" title="SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change">SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change</a></li></ul>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/people/indiv/iarc_all_staff.php?photo=sakasofu">"Staff Profile"</a>, IARC website, accessed February 2009.</span></li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/speakers.html">Speakers</a>," Heartland Institute website, accessed January 2009.</span></li><li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_ref-2">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/climate.php">"Response to Readers: Notes on Climate Change"</a>, April 2007.</span></li><li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_ref-3">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/misleading.php">"Misleading Information on Global Warming"</a>, IARC website, accessed February 2009.</span></li><li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_ref-4">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/news/news_shorts/akasofu_4_26_06/written_testimony.php">"TESTIMONY

OF DR. SYUN-ICHI AKASOFU BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON

COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE ON GLOBAL CLIMATE

CHANGE AND IMPACTS HEARING ON THE PROJECTED AND PAST EFFECTS OF CLIMATE

CHANGE: A FOCUS ON MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS"</a>, IARC website, April 2006.</span></li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11645">"Climate Myths"</a> New Scientists Online, accessed March 2009.</span></li></ol>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources">External resources</span></h3>

<h4> <span class="mw-headline" id="Presentations_by_Akasofu">Presentations by Akasofu</span></h4>

<ul><li>Syun Akasofu, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heartland.org/bin/media/newyork09/PowerPoint/Syun_Akasofu.ppt">"Natural Causes of 20th Century Warming: Recovery from the Little Ice Age and Oscillatory Change"</a>, Presentation to Heartland Institute's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change_%282009%29" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2009)" class="mw-redirect">International Conference on Climate Change (2009)</a>, March 9, 2009. (PowerPoint)</li></ul>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles">External articles</span></h3>

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Credentials </h2>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, 1961.</span></li><li>

M.S. Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1957.</li><li>

B.S. Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1953.</li></ul><p><strong>Source:</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s1">[1]</a></p>

<h2>

Background</h2>

<p>Syun Akasofu was the <a target="blank" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/">founding director </a>of the International Arctic Research Center (<a target="blank" href="http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/about">IARC</a>) of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, from its establishment in 1998 until January 2007.

His areas of expertise are physics and geophysics. Akasofu is a

well-known climate change skeptic and a speaker at the International

Conference on Climate Change (2009), an event organized by the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">Heartland Institute</a>.

Akasofu has been described as "<a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081008024815/http://dwb.adn.com/life/v-printer/story/8756517p-8658008c.html">Alaska's best known climate change </a><a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081008024815/http://dwb.adn.com/life/v-printer/story/8756517p-8658008c.html">skeptic</a>." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s2">[2]</a></p>

<h2>

Stance on Climate Change</h2>

<p>". . . climate change during the last few hundred years may be

interpreted mainly in terms of a combination of the recovery effect and

the multi-decadal oscillation. These are natural changes. Thus, there is

a possibility that only a small fraction of the warming between 1900

and 2000 may be attributable to the greenhouse effect. In this view, the

predicted temperature change in 2100 is about 0.5°C ± 0.2°C." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s3">[3]</a></p>

<h2>

Key Quotes</h2>

<p>"Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to

observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In

order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to

provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s4">[4]</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">  </span></p>

</blockquote>

<p>". . . climate change, or temperature, has been rising. Somehow the

IPCC decided that the increase in the last 100 years is due to the

greenhouse effect; however, a significant part of that would be just due

to natural change. So, even if we spend lots of money on suppressing

CO2 release, it wouldn't do any good, because it's a natural change." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s5">[5]</a></p>

</blockquote>

<h2>

Key Deeds</h2>

<p><strong>March 30, 2009</strong>

Akasofu's signature is <a target="blank" href="http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/alternate_version.html">displayed</a> on a full-page ad funded by the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute">CATO institute</a>. The ad <a target="_blank" href="http://planetsave.com/2009/04/06/cato-institute-ad-calls-climate-change-grossly-overstated/">appeared</a> in numerous newspapers including the <em>Washington Post</em>, the <em>New York Times</em> and the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> in 2009.

The advertisement<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> criticizes President Obama's </span>declaration that "few

challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating

climate change," saying that "with all due respect Mr. President, that

is not true."

It goes on to describe how "there has been no net global warming for

over a decade," and how global warming is "grossly overstated." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s6">[6]</a>

<strong>March 9, 2009 </strong>

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu#Presentations_by_Akasofu">Presented </a>at the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heartland </span>Institute's Second International Conference on Climate Change.

His presentation was titled "Natural Causes of 20th Century Warming: Recovery from the Little Ice Age and Oscillatory Change."

DeSmogBlog <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institutes-2009-climate-conference-new-york-funding-history-sponsors">researched the funding</a>

behind the conference, and found sponsor organizations had received

over $47 million from energy companies and right-wing foundations, with

78% coming from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scaife_Foundations" target="_blank">Scaife Family of foundations</a>.

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong>April, 2006 </strong></span></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

</span><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce,

Science, and Transportation</span> (Subcommittee on Global Climate Change and

Impacts) at a Hearing titled "the Projected and Past Effects of Climate

Change: A Focus on Marine and Terrestrial Systems."

Akasofu stated that ". . . we have at least two firm scientific

indicators that show it is incorrect to conclude that this warming in

the continental Arctic is due entirely to the greenhouse effect caused

by man." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s7">[7]</a></p>

<h2>

Affiliations </h2>

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/"><strong>International Arctic Re</strong></a><strong><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s7">search Center (</a></strong><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s7"><strong>IARC)</strong></a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s7"> — Founding Director & Professor of Physics Emeritus. </a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/syun-ichi-akasofu#s8">[8]</a></li></ul><ul><li>

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.gi.alaska.edu/"><strong>Geophysical Institute</strong></a> — Director (1986-1999).</li></ul><h2>

Publications</h2>

<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/user/41/publications">full list of Akasofu's publications by year</a> is provided by the IARC.

Although Akasofu is listed by the ISI as a <a target="_blank" href="http://hcr3.webofknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Search&link2=Search%20Results&AuthLastName=Akasofu&AuthFirstName=&AuthMiddleName=&AuthMailnstName=&CountryID=-1&DisciplineID=0&id=2301">"highly cited” researcher</a>," his peer-reviewed publications are in the field of Geophysics and he himself has admitted that he is not a climatologist.

Akasofu has published a series called "<a target="_blank" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/climate.php">Notes on Climate Change</a>"

on his personal page at the IARC. He describes the purpose as to "point

out some serious deficiencies in the recent IPCC Report" and states

that "since I am not a climatologist, all the data presented in my Notes

on Climate Change can be found in papers and books published in the

past; that is why I do not want to publish Notes on Climate Change as a

paper in a professional journal."

<strong>Sample Publications:</strong></p>

"<a target="blank" href="http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=3217">On the recovery from the Little Ice </a><a target="blank" href="http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=3217">Age</a>." <em>Natural Science</em>, Vol.2, No.11, November, 2010.</li></ul><ul><li>

Igor Semiletov, Alexander Makshtas, and Syun-Ichi Akasofu. "Atmospheric CO2 balance: The role of Arctic sea ice" (<a target="_blank" href="http://geog.ucsb.edu/%7Ejoel/g280_s09/student_contrib/stubbs/semiletov2003GL017996.pdf">PDF</a>), <em>Geophysical Research Letters</em>, Vol 31, March, 2004.</li></ul><ul><li>

"<a target="blank" href="http://multi-science.metapress.com/content/5172g550r7171432/">Viewpoints and Technical Communications: Aftermath of Global Warming Hysteria</a>,<em>" Energy & Environment</em>, Volume 21, Number 6 (October, 2010).</li></ul><p>Note that <em>Energy & Environment</em> is edited by climate skeptic <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sonja-boehmer-christiansen">Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen</a>, and <a target="blank" href="http://www.realclimate.org/docs/thacker/skeptics.pdf">has been described</a> as a journal skeptics can go to when they are rejected by the mainstream peer-reviewed publications.</p>

<h2>

Resources</h2>

<p><a name="s1" id="s1" />"<a target="blank" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/cv.php">Syun-Ichi</a><a target="blank" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/cv.php"> Akasofu</a>," CV at the IARC.</p>

</li><li>

<p><a name="s2" id="s2" />"<a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081008024815/http://dwb.adn.com/life/v-printer/story/8756517p-8658008c.html">Critic takes longer view of warming</a>," <em>Anchorage Daily News</em>, April 1, 2007. Archived October 8, 2008.</p>

</li><li>

<p><a name="s3" id="s3" />"Natural Components of Climate Change During the Last Few Hundred Years" (<a target="blank" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/pdf/Natural_Components_of_Climate_Change.pdf">PDF</a>), last revised November 17, 2009. Part of Akasofu's series, "notes on climate change," published on <a target="blank" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/index.php">his page at the IARC</a>.</p>

</li><li>

<p><a name="s4" id="s4" />"<a target="_blank" href="http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/%7Esakasofu/climate.php">Response to Readers: Notes on Climate Change</a>," Syun-Ichi Akasofu (Page at the IARC), April 24, 2007.</p>

</li><li>

<p><a name="s5" id="s5" />"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2007/3419dr_akasofu.html">Arctic Climate Expert: Gore's Film Is ‘Science Fiction’</a>," <em>Executive Intelligence Review</em>, Volume 34, Number 19-20, May 11, 2007.</p>

</li><li>

<p><a name="s6" id="s6" />"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/">Climate Change Reality</a>," The Cato Institute.</p>

</li><li>

<p><a name="s7" id="s7" />"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action;jsessionid=C6wjTh1Gph3jvTMhnNnTWwp27QY2RqJC6YwPT2J2Qr63vnlKjSRL%211387961492%21-502325199?st=Dynamic+proxy&bread=true&granuleId=CHRG-109shrg64226&packageId=CHRG-109shrg64226">HEARING

BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPACTS OF THE

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION</a>," U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, Washington, 2011.</p>

</li><li>

<p><a name="s8" id="s8" />"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/people/sakasofu">Syun-Ichi Akasofu</a>," profile at the International Arctic Research Center.</p>

</li><li>

<p>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syun_Akasofu">Syun Akasofu</a>," SourceWatch Profile.</p>

</li><li>

<p>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-109shrg64226/pdf/CHRG-109shrg64226.pdf">Projected and Past Effects of Climate Change, A Focus on Marine and Terrestrial Systems</a>,"

Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Global Climate Change of the

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation," (PDF, p.43), April

26, 2006. Printed by U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011.</p>

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