Schmidt, Gavin phd

<h3 class="storytitle" id="post-46">Gavin A. Schmidt</h3><div>why a target? not afraid to mix it up eg debate?</div>

=he was also hacked in climategate, and they uploaded the files onto HIS realclimate server?! why?
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy</a>
The incident began when a server used by the Climatic Research Unit was breached in "a sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack",[5] and 160 MB of data[8] were obtained including more than 1,000 emails and 3,000 other documents" [covered their tracks; ]The University of East Anglia stated that the server from which the data were taken was not one that could be accessed easily, and that the data could not have been released inadvertently.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy#cite_note-NEN_1_Dec-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[18]</a> Norfolk Police later added that the offenders used methods that are common in unlawful internet activity, designed to obstruct later enquiries.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy#cite_note-Norfolk_Police-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a> The breach was first discovered on 17 November 2009 after the server of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClimate" title="RealClimate" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">RealClimate</a> website was also hacked and a copy of the stolen data was uploaded there.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy#cite_note-Revkin2009-11-20-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a> RealClimate's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt" title="Gavin Schmidt" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gavin Schmidt</a> said that he had information that the files had been obtained through "a hack into [CRU's] backup mail server".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy#cite_note-Arthur-Hacking_into-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[20]</a> At about the same time, a short comment appeared on Stephen McIntyre's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Audit" title="Climate Audit" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Climate Audit</a> website saying that "A miracle has happened."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy#cite_note-Climate_emails-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[21]</a><div>
</div><h3 class="storytitle" id="post-420" style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Adventures on the East Side</h3><div class="meta" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Filed under: <ul class="post-categories" style="display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="line-height: 13.5px; letter-spacing: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/climate-science/" title="View all posts in Climate Science" rel="category tag" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Climate Science</a></li> <li style="line-height: 13.5px; letter-spacing: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/communicating-climate/reporting-on-climate/" title="View all posts in Reporting on climate" rel="category tag" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Reporting on climate</a></li></ul> — gavin @ 15 March 2007 </div><div class="entry"><div class="kcite-section" kcite-section-id="420"><ul id="sharebar" style="position: absolute; width: 65px; float: left; padding: 0px; text-align: center; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 870px; z-index: 99; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><li style="line-height: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;"><span class="db-body db-medium" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; height: 68px; width: 54px; background: url(http://widgets.digg.com/img/button/diggThisMedium_3.0cab1d23.png) 0px 0px no-repeat transparent;"><a class="db-anchor" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; text-indent: -10000px; overflow: hidden; height: 24px; width: 46px;">digg</a></li></ul>So <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/global-warming-debate/">that</a> was …. interesting.First off, I’d like to thank the commenters for all of the suggestions and ideas to the previous post. They were certainly useful. In particularly, the connection with the difficulties faced by evolutionists in debates vs. creationists proved to be very a propos. Our side played it it pretty straight – the basic IPCC line (Richard Somerville), commentary on the how ‘scientized’ political debates abuse science (me, though without using the word ‘scientized’!) and the projections and potential solutions (Brenda Ekwurzel). Crichton went with the crowd-pleasing condemnation of private jet-flying liberals – very popular, even among the private jet-flying Eastsiders present) and the apparent hypocrisy of people who think that global warming is a problem using any energy at all. Lindzen used his standard presentation – CO2 will be trivial effect, no one knows anything about aerosols, sensitivity from the 20th Century is tiny, and by the way global warming stopped in 1998. Stott is a bit of a force of nature and essentially accused anyone who thinks global warming is a problem of explicitly rooting for misery and poverty in the third world. He also brought up the whole cosmic ray issue as the next big thing in climate science.
Update: The <a href="http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/TranscriptContainer/_GlobalWarming-edited%20version%20031407.pdf">transcript</a> is now available – though be aware that it has not yet been verified for accuracy. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9082151">Audio + Podcast</a>.
The podcast should be available next Wednesday (I’ll link it here once it’s available), and so you can judge for yourselves, but I’m afraid the actual audience (who by temperament I’d say were split roughly half/half on the question) were apparently more convinced by the entertaining narratives from Crichton and Stott (not so sure about Lindzen) than they were by our drier fare. Entertainment-wise it’s hard to blame them. Crichton is extremely polished and Stott has a touch of the revivalist preacher about him. Comparatively, we were pretty dull.I had started off with a thought that Lindzen and Stott, in particular, would avoid the more specious pseudo-scientific claims they’ve used in other fora since there were people who would seriously challenge them at this debate. In the event, they stuck very closely to their standard script. Lindzen used the ‘GW stopped in 1998′ argument which even Crichton acknowledged later was lame. He also used the ‘aerosols are completely uncertain’ but ‘sensitivity to CO2 from the 20th Century is precisely defined’ in adjoining paragraphs without any apparent cognitive dissonance. Stott didn’t use the medieval English vineyards meme (as he did in <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/">TGGWS</a>) – but maybe he read <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/07/medieval-warmth-and-english-wine/">the RC article</a> ahead of time.The Q&A was curious since most questions were very much of the ‘I read the Wall Street Journal editorial page’ style, and I thought we did okay, except possibly when I suggested to the audience that the cosmic ray argument was being used to fool them, which didn’t go over well – no-one likes being told they’re being had (especially when they are). My bad.The organisers asked us afterwards whether we’d have done much different in hindsight. Looking back, the answer is mostly no. We are scientists, and we talk about science and we’re not going start getting into questions of personal morality and wider political agendas – and obviously that put us at a sharp disadvantage (shades of <a href="http://pining.blogspot.com/2006/10/david-mamet-on-winning-through-lying.html">David Mamet</a>?).One minor detail that might be interesting is that the organisers put on luxury SUVs for the participants to get to the restaurant – 5 blocks away. None of our side used them (preferring to walk), but all of the other side did.So are such debates worthwhile? On balance, I’d probably answer no (regardless of the outcome). The time constraints preclude serious examination of any points of controversy and the number of spurious talking points can seriously overwhelm the ability of others to rebut them. Taking a ‘meta’ approach (as I attempted) is certainly not a guaranteed solution. However, this live audience were a rather select bunch, and so maybe this will go over differently on the radio. There it might not matter that Crichton is so tall…</div></div>- See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/adventures-on-the-east-side/#sthash.KWdbmqPZ.dpuf===<h1><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/11/25/205020/competitive-enterprise-institute-to-sue-realclimate-blogger-over-moderation-policy/">Competitive Enterprise Institute to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy</a></h1>

By <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/author/joe/">Joe Romm</a> on Nov 25, 2009 at 12:08 pm

<blockquote>Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/">patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails</a>.

He’s made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice

are without foundation. He must be doing a really good job, because the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> intends to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/competitive-enterprise-institute-sues-nasa-in-wake-of-climategate-scandal/2/">sue him</a>.</blockquote>

That’s computer scientist Tim Lambert aka Deltoid explaining (<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/11/competitive_enterprise_institu.php">here</a>)

the latest tactics the anti-scientific disinformers are pursuing to

stifle real climate scientists from communicating with the public.  The

CEI, of course, runs <a title="Permanent Link: CEI campaigns to destroy the climate for centuries" rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/15/2009/08/31/2008/03/12/cei-campaigns-to-destroy-the-climate-for-centuries/">ad campaigns aimed at destroying the climate for centuries</a>; generally spreads disinformation (see “<a title="Permanent Link to Santer, Jones, and Schneider respond to CEI's phony attack on the temperature record" rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/15/phil-jones-ben-santer-stephen-schneider-respond-to-competitive-enterprise-institute-deniers/">Santer, Jones, and Schneider respond to CEI’s phony attack on the temperature record</a>“) and embraces the efforts of other groups to sow confusion (see “<a title="Permanent Link to Deniers go ape for Scopes climate trial, Inhofe quotes John Stuart Mill " rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/08/31/deniers-chamber-of-commerce-scopes-monkey-trial-global-warming-chris-horner-cei-planet-gore-inhofe/">Deniers go ape for Scopes climate trial</a>“).

But CEI’s current tactics, which they proudly announce <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/competitive-enterprise-institute-sues-nasa-in-wake-of-climategate-scandal/">here</a>, have become truly extemist in nature:

<blockquote>[CEI seeks documents] relating to the content,

importance, or propriety of workday-hour posts or entries by GISS/NASA

employee Gavin A. Schmidt on the weblog or “blog” RealClimate, which is

owned by the advocacy Environmental Media Services and was started as an

effort to defend the debunked “Hockey Stick” that is so central to the

CRU files. RealClimate.org is implicated in the leaked files and

expressly offered as a tool to be used “in any way you think would be

helpful” to a certain advocacy campaign, including an assertion of

Schmidt’s active involvement in, e.g., delaying and/or screening out

unhelpful input by “skeptics” attempting to comment on claims made on

the website.

This, and the related political activism engaged in, are

inappropriate behavior for a taxpayer-funded employee, particularly on

taxpayer time. These documents were requested in January 2007 and

NASA/GISS have refused to date to comply with their legal obligation to

produce responsive documents.</blockquote>

Lambert notes:

<blockquote>Yes they’re planning to sue Schmidt for the

“inappropriate behavior” of moderating comments at RealClimate. Of

course, the point of this vexatious suit isn’t to win — it’s to harass

and distract Schmidt because he is being effective.

It’s not for nothing that I dubbed them the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/01/completely_evil_institute.php">Completely Evil Institute</a>.</blockquote>

I would add that essentially every factual assertion in the above excerpt from the piece by CEI Fellow Chris Horner is false.

The disinformers are obsessed with the Hockey Stick analysis, even

though it is just the tiniest piece of our overall understanding of

climate science, which is getting increasingly dire by the day (see <a title="Permanent Link to Climate science statement from the Met Office, NERC and the Royal Society: It's the hottest decade on record and " for="" rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/11/24/climate-science-statement-from-the-met-office-nerc-and-the-royal-society-its-the-hottest-decade-on-record-and-even-since-the-2007-ipcc-assessment-the-evidence-for-dangerous-long-term-and-poten/">Climate

science statement from the Met Office, NERC and the Royal Society:

“even since the 2007 IPCC Assessment the evidence for dangerous,

long-term and potentially irreversible climate change has strengthened”</a>).

The ‘hockey stick’ was, in fact, essentially vindicated by the National Academy of Sciences (see <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/06/national-academies-synthesis-report/">NAS Report</a> and <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?s=hockey+stick&submit=Search">RealClimate.org</a>).

And more important than the fact that the original analysis was

defensibly correct, is that the conclusions were correct [which could be

true even if the analysis had flaws in it].  Is the planet now as hot

(or hotter) than it has been in a millenium?  Try two millennia (see “<a title="Permanent Link to Sorry deniers, hockey stick gets longer, stronger: Earth hotter now than in past 2,000 years" rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/07/26/2008/09/03/sorry-deniers-hockey-stick-gets-longer-stronger-earth-hotter-now-than-in-past-2000-years/">Sorry deniers, hockey stick gets longer, stronger: Earth hotter now than in past 2,000 years</a>“).  See also “<a title="Permanent Link to Human-caused Arctic warming overtakes 2,000 years of natural cooling, " rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/03/science-study-hockey-stick-human-caused-arctic-warming-overtakes-natural-cooling/">Human-caused Arctic warming overtakes 2,000 years of natural cooling, ‘seminal’ study finds</a>.”  That’s why climatologist and one-time darling of the contrarians Ken Caldeira said last month, <a title="Permanent Link to Must-read AP story: Statisticians reject global cooling; Caldeira " rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/26/global-cooling-myth-statisticians-caldeira-superfreakonomics/">“To

talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet

has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous.”</a>

RealClimate was not started as an effort to defend the Hockey Stick,

but rather to “to provide a quick response to developing stories and

provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary” on

climate science in general (see RC’s <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/about/">About page</a>).  As for being “owned by the advocacy Environmental Media Services,” RealClimate explains patiently in its Disclaimer:

<blockquote>The contributors to this site do so in a personal

capacity during their spare time and their posts do not represent the

views of the organizations for which they work, nor the agencies which

fund them. The contributors are solely responsible for the content of

the site and receive no remuneration for their contributions.

RealClimate is not affiliated with any environmental organisations.

Although our domain is being hosted by Environmental Media Services, and

our initial press release was organised for us by Fenton

Communications, neither organization was in any way involved in the

initial planning for RealClimate, and have never had any editorial or

other control over content. Neither Fenton nor EMS has ever paid any

contributor to RealClimate.org any money for any purpose at any time.

Neither do they pay us expenses, buy our lunch or contract us to do

research. This information has always been made clear to <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol306/issue5705/netwatch.shtml">anyone</a> who asked.</blockquote>

CEI received over $2 million from ExxonMobil from 1998 to 2005, but that is no doubt purely a coincidence.

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Gavin A. Schmidt is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatologist" title="Climatologist" class="mw-redirect">climatologist</a> and climate modeler at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Institute_for_Space_Studies" title="Goddard Institute for Space Studies">Goddard Institute for Space Studies</a> (GISS) in New York. He works on the variability of the ocean circulation and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate" title="Climate">climate</a>, using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_model" title="Climate model">general circulation models</a> (GCMs). He has also worked on ways to reconcile <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology" title="Paleoclimatology">paleo-data</a> with models. He helped develop the GISS <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean" title="Ocean">ocean</a> and coupled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_climate_model" title="Global climate model">GCMs</a> to improve the representation of the present day climate, while investigating their response to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_forcing" title="Climate forcing" class="mw-redirect">climate forcing</a>. The latest GISS GCM is called ModelE.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

He is the co-author, with Joshua Wolfe, of Climate Change: Picturing the Science (2009), which has a foreword by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_D._Sachs" title="Jeffrey D. Sachs" class="mw-redirect">Jeffrey D. Sachs</a>. The book combines images of the effects of climate change with scientific explanations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

In October 2011, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Geophysical_Union" title="American Geophysical Union">American Geophysical Union</a> announced that Schmidt was to be awarded its inaugural Climate Communications Prize for his work on communicating climate-change issues to the public. The award is to be presented at the AGU's Fall Meeting in December. The award news release noted his outreach work including co-founding and contributing to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClimate" title="RealClimate">RealClimate</a> blog.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-agu_prize-2">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-blogs.ei.columbia.edu-3">[4]</a>

<h2>Contents</h2>

</div>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#Education">1 Education</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#Research">2 Research</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#Media_and_outreach">3 Media and outreach</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#Selected_publications">4 Selected publications</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#References">5 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#External_links">6 External links</a></li>

</ul>

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<h2>Education</h2>

He was educated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corsham_School" title="The Corsham School">The Corsham School</a>, earned a BA (Hons) in mathematics at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_College,_Oxford" title="Jesus College, Oxford">Jesus College, Oxford</a>, and a PhD in applied mathematics at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h2>Research</h2>

He has published over 70 refereed articles in journals such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" class="mw-redirect">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%28journal%29" title="Science (journal)">Science</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%28journal%29" title="Nature (journal)">Nature</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-5">[6]</a> and was named In November 2004 as one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American" title="Scientific American">Scientific American</a>'s "Top 50 Research Leaders" of the year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

His main research interest is climate variability, both its internal and the response to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_forcing" title="Climate forcing" class="mw-redirect">climate forcing</a>, investigated via ocean-atmosphere <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_circulation_model" title="General circulation model" class="mw-redirect">general circulation models</a>. He also uses these to study <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years" title="Temperature record of the past 1000 years">palaeoclimate</a> by working on methods to compare palaeo-data with model output. Schmidt helps to develop the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GISS" title="GISS" class="mw-redirect">GISS</a> ocean and coupled GCMs (ModelE). This model has been "isotopically enabled" to carry <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen-18" title="Oxygen-18">oxygen-18</a> tracers, allowing the model to simulate the pattern of δ18O observed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core" title="Ice core">ice cores</a>, cave records and ocean sediments.

<h2>Media and outreach</h2>

Schmidt is a founding member and contributor to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClimate" title="RealClimate">RealClimate</a>, a blog that provides commentary on climate science for the public and journalists.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-7">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-8">[9]</a> Participants on the website state that all posts on the site are internally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_reviewed" title="Peer reviewed" class="mw-redirect">peer reviewed</a>. Many are written by other members, with frequent guest posts from non-member leading scientists. Schmidt's articles and comments on the blog have presented scientific defence against accusations raised in controversies over the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy" title="Hockey stick controversy">"Hockey Stick" graph</a>.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] During the 2009-2010 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy" title="Climatic Research Unit email controversy">Climatic Research Unit email controversy</a> he strongly defended the scientists involved, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E.Mann" title="Michael E. Mann">Michael E. Mann</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Jones%28climatologist%29" title="Phil Jones (climatologist)">Phil Jones</a>. Journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Pearce" title="Fred Pearce">Fred Pearce</a> notes that in a post on the blog, Schmidt wrote that the emails merely showed how scientists interact in private, and that "Gravity isn't a useful theory because Newton was a nice man."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

On 16 October 2011, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Geophysical_Union" title="American Geophysical Union">American Geophysical Union</a> announced that Schmidt was to be awarded its inaugural Climate Communications Prize which "recognizes excellence in climate communication as well as the promotion of scientific literacy, clarity of messaging, and efforts to foster respect and understanding for science-based values related to climate change". It noted his part in co-founding and writing for RealClimate, in working with photographers to produce a popular science book, his work in producing online courses and in preparing museum exhibits. Schmidt was also praised for making numerous appearances as a commentator on TV and radio, and in magazine and newspaper articles, giving a scientist’s perspective on the study of climate and on climate issues. The award, to be presented at the AGU's Fall Meeting in December, is sponsored by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado" title="Boulder, Colorado">Boulder, Colorado</a>, based company <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_Foods" title="Flowers Foods">Nature's Own</a> which sells decorative specimens of stones, minerals and fossils. It includes a $25,000 cash award.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_note-agu_prize-2">[3]</a>

<h2>Selected publications</h2>

<ul>

<li>Schmidt, G. (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2010/2010_Schmidt_2.pdf">"Does science progress? Glibert Plass redux"</a> (PDF). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Scientist" title="American Scientist">American Scientist</a> 98 (1): 64–5. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1511%2F2010.82.58">10.1511/2010.82.58</a>.</li>

<li>Schmidt, G.A., and J. Wolfe (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wv3DNJ4YI7YC&dq=Climate+Change:+Picturing+the+Science">Climate Change: Picturing the Science</a>. W.W. Norton. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-33125-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-33125-7">978-0-393-33125-7</a>.</li>

<li>Benestad, R.E., and G.A. Schmidt (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2009/2009_Benestad_Schmidt.pdf">"Solar trends and global warming"</a> (PDF). J. Geophys. Res. 114: D14101. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode" title="Bibcode">Bibcode</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JGRD..11414101B">2009JGRD..11414101B</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029%2F2008JD011639">10.1029/2008JD011639</a>.</li>

<li>Jones, P.D., K.R. Briffa, T.J. Osborn, J.M. Lough, T.D. van Ommen, B.M. Vinther, J. Luterbacher, E.R. Wahl, F.W. Zwiers, M.E. Mann, G.A. Schmidt, C.M. Ammann, B.M. Buckley, K.M. Cobb, J. Esper, H. Goosse, N. Graham, E. Jansen, T. Kiefer, C. Kull, M. Küttel, E. Mosley-Thompson, J.T. Overpeck, N. Riedwyl, M. Schulz, A.W. Tudhope, R. Villalba, H. Wanner, E. Wolff, and E. Xoplaki (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2009/2009_Jones_etal_2.pdf">"High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: A review of current status and future prospects"</a> (PDF). Holocene 19: 3–49. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F0959683608098952">10.1177/0959683608098952</a>.</li>

<li>Santer, B.D., P.W. Thorne, L. Haimberger, K.E. Taylor, T.M.L. Wigley, J.R. Lanzante, S. Solomon, M. Free, P.J. Gleckler, P.D. Jones, T.R. Karl, S.A. Klein, C. Mears, D. Nychka, G.A. Schmidt, S.C. Sherwood, and F.J. Wentz (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2008/2008_Santer_etal.pdf">"Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere"</a> (PDF). Intl. J. Climatol. 28: 1703–22. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode" title="Bibcode">Bibcode</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008IJCli..28.1703S">2008IJCli..28.1703S</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fjoc.1756">10.1002/joc.1756</a>.</li>

<li>Schmidt, G.A., R. Ruedy, J.E. Hansen, I. Aleinov, N. Bell, M. Bauer, S. Bauer, B. Cairns, V. Canuto, Y. Cheng, A. Del Genio, G. Faluvegi, A.D. Friend, T.M. Hall, Y. Hu, M. Kelley, N.Y. Kiang, D. Koch, A.A. Lacis, J. Lerner, K.K. Lo, R.L. Miller, L. Nazarenko, V. Oinas, Ja. Perlwitz, Ju. Perlwitz, D. Rind, A. Romanou, G.L. Russell, Mki. Sato, D.T. Shindell, P.H. Stone, S. Sun, N. Tausnev, D. Thresher, and M.-S. Yao (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2006/2006_Schmidt_etal_1.pdf">"Present day atmospheric simulations using GISS ModelE: Comparison to in-situ, satellite and reanalysis data"</a> (PDF). J. Climate 19: 153–192. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode" title="Bibcode">Bibcode</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006JCli...19..153S">2006JCli...19..153S</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1175%2FJCLI3612.1">10.1175/JCLI3612.1</a>.</li>

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<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-0">^{</a></span}> Hansen, J., et al. (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2007/Hansen_etal_1.html">"Dangerous human-made interference with climate: A GISS modelE study."</a>. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 7: 2287–2312. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194%2Facp-7-2287-2007">10.5194/acp-7-2287-2007</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Dangerous+human-made+interference+with+climate%3A+A+GISS+modelE+study.&rft.jtitle=Atmos.+Chem.+Phys.&rft.aulast=Hansen%2C+J.%2C+%27%27et+al.%27%27&rft.au=Hansen%2C+J.%2C+%27%27et+al.%27%27&rft.date=2007&rft.volume=7&rft.pages=2287%E2%80%932312&rft_id=info:doi/10.5194%2Facp-7-2287-2007&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpubs.giss.nasa.gov%2Fabstracts%2F2007%2FHansen_etal_1.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Gavin_Schmidt">

Koch, D., G.A. Schmidt, C.V. Field (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2006/Koch_etal.html">"Sulfur, sea salt and radionuclide aerosols in GISS ModelE."</a>. J. Geophys. Res. 111 (D06206). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode" title="Bibcode">Bibcode</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006JGRD..11106206K">2006JGRD..11106206K</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029%2F2004JD005550">10.1029/2004JD005550</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Sulfur%2C+sea+salt+and+radionuclide+aerosols+in+GISS+ModelE.&rft.jtitle=J.+Geophys.+Res.&rft.aulast=Koch%2C+D.%2C+G.A.+Schmidt%2C+C.V.+Field&rft.au=Koch%2C+D.%2C+G.A.+Schmidt%2C+C.V.+Field&rft.date=2006&rft.volume=111&rft.issue=D06206&rft_id=info:bibcode/2006JGRD..11106206K&rft_id=info:doi/10.1029%2F2004JD005550&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpubs.giss.nasa.gov%2Fabstracts%2F2006%2FKoch_etal.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Gavin_Schmidt">

Schmidt, G.A., et al. (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2006/Schmidt_etal_1.html">"Present day atmospheric simulations using GISS ModelE: Comparison to in-situ, satellite and reanalysis data"</a>. J. Climate 19: 153–192. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode" title="Bibcode">Bibcode</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006JCli...19..153S">2006JCli...19..153S</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1175%2FJCLI3612.1">10.1175/JCLI3612.1</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-1">^{</a></span}> Schmidt, G.A., J. Wolfe (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wv3DNJ4YI7YC&dq=Climate+Change:+Picturing+the+Science">Climate Change: Picturing the Science</a>. W.W. Norton. pp. 305. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-33125-3,_9780393331257" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-33125-3, 9780393331257">0-393-33125-3, 9780393331257</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-agu_prize-2">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-agu_prize_2-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-agu_prize_2-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2011/2011-34.shtml">"Inaugural Climate Communications Prize Winner Announced"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Geophysical_Union" title="American Geophysical Union">American Geophysical Union</a>. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 2 December 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-blogs.ei.columbia.edu-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-blogs.ei.columbia.edu_3-0">^{</a></span}> Krajick, Kevin (18 October 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/18/new-public-outreach-prize-goes-to-earth-institute-climatologist/">"New Public Outreach Prize Goes to Earth Institute Climatologist"</a>. State of the Planet blog, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Earth_Institute" title="The Earth Institute">The Earth Institute</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>. Retrieved 2 December 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-4">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=46">"Contributor's Biography page"</a>. RealClimate. Retrieved 2008-03-20.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-5">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/authors/gschmidt.html">"GISS Publications, Gavin A.Schmidt web page"</a>. Retrieved 2008-04-11.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-6">^{</a></span}> Goddard Institute of Space Studies (9 November 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20041109/">"NASA Climatologists Named in Scientific American Top 50 Scientists"</a>. Retrieved 2004-11-09.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-7">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/about/">"RealClimate: About"</a>. 1 December 2004. Retrieved 2009-10-31.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-8">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/gschmidt/index.html#media">http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/gschmidt/index.html#media</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt#cite_ref-9">^{</a></span}> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Pearce" title="Fred Pearce">Pearce, Fred</a>, The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming, (2010) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Books" title="Guardian Books">Guardian Books</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780852652299" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-0-85265-229-9</a>, p. XII, pp. 181–182.</li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/gschmidt/">Gavin Schmidt's homepage</a>, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, accessed 2 August 2010.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.realclimate.org">RealClimate website</a>.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cirs-tm.org/researchers/researchers.php?id=718">CIRS</a> biographical note and publication list.</li>

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— gavin @ 6 December 2004</div>

Gavin Schmidt is a climate modeller at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and is interested in modeling past, present and future climate. He works on developing and improving coupled climate models and, in particular, is interested in how their results can be compared to paleoclimatic proxy data. He has worked on assessing the climate response to multiple forcings, including solar irradiance, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and greenhouse gases.

He received a BA (Hons) in Mathematics from Oxford University, a PhD in Applied Mathematics from University College London and was a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change Research. He is a co-chair of the CLIVAR/PAGES Intersection Panel and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate. He was cited by Scientific American as one of the 50 Research Leaders of 2004, and has worked on Education and Outreach with the American Museum of Natural History, the College de France and the New York Academy of Sciences. He has over 90 peer-reviewed publications and is the co-author with Josh Wolfe of “<a href="http://ghgphotos.com/picturingclimatechange/">Climate Change: Picturing the Science</a>” (W. W. Norton, 2009), a collaboration between climate scientists and photographers. He was awarded the inaugural AGU Climate Communications Prize in 2011.

More information about his research and publication record can be found <a href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/gschmidt">here</a>.

All posts by <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?author_name=gavin">gavin</a>.

<h1 class="title">Climate science attack group turns sights on Texas professors</h1>

The American Tradition Institute, a conservative think tank with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Tradition_Institute#Funding-asserted_v._actual" rel="nofollow">financial ties to fossil fuel interests</a>, made headlines last year for a <a href="http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/10/special-investigation-whos-behind-the-information-attacks-on-climate-scientists.html" rel="nofollow">controversial freedom of information lawsuit</a> against the University of Virginia targeting former UVA professor and leading climate researcher Michael Mann, who's now at Penn State.

Now ATI's campaign to discredit mainstream climate science is targeting professors at two Texas universities -- and it's particularly interested in their communications with journalists.

ATI recently sent requests under the Texas Public Information Act to Texas A&M University seeking all emails to or from a university account used by Andrew Dessler (photo at left), a professor in the school's Department of Atmospheric Sciences whose research focuses on climate systems and climate change policy.  As the Climate Science FOI report blog <a href="http://climscifoi.blogspot.com/2012/07/atihorner-targetting-texas-scientists.html" rel="nofollow">observed</a>, ATI's requests were unrelated to scientific data.

The group's <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/99680945/Ati-Dessler-Txam-Foi-Request-i" rel="nofollow">initial request</a> for Dessler's emails was made on May 1, the day after the New York Times ran a critical <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/earth/clouds-effect-on-climate-change-is-last-bastion-for-dissenters.html" rel="nofollow">story</a> quoting Dessler about MIT meteorology professor Richard Lindzen, who is part of a small minority of climate researchers who argue that mainstream science exaggerates global warming trends. (Lindzen is also a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Lindzen#On_Tobacco" rel="nofollow">skeptic</a> about the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/health_effects/cancer/" rel="nofollow">well-documented link</a> between smoking tobacco and lung cancer.) That request sought emails that mentioned Lindzen and Mann, among other things.

Then earlier this month, ATI sent a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/99680950/Ati-Dessler-Txam-Foi-Request-II" rel="nofollow">second information request</a> to Texas A&M expanding the emails it sought from Dessler's account to include any exchanges with New York Times reporter Justin Gillis, who wrote the Lindzen story, as well as any communications with the PBS investigative journalism show Frontline, Frontline producer Catherine Upin, Associated Press science reporter Seth Borenstein, and Suzanne Goldenberg, U.S. environment correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian. Also covered in that request were any communications Dessler had with the watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists and <a href="http://www.prismpublicaffairs.com/professionals/richard.php" rel="nofollow">Richard Ades</a>, a public affairs professional who directed the Project on Climate Science, which worked to disseminate high-quality scientific climate research to media and lawmakers.

Late last year ATI sent out a similar information request to Texas Tech seeking information on professor Katharine Hayhoe (photo on right), an atmospheric scientist who directs that school's Climate Science Center. Hayhoe wrote a chapter on climate for a book about the environment by former Georgia congressman and GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich only to have him <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/06/climate-scientist-newt-gingrich-book-chapter" rel="nofollow">cut it</a> after criticism from conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/19/quick_hits_page" rel="nofollow">refers</a> to Hayhoe as a "climate babe." Other scientists targeted by ATI include NASA climatologists James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt, co-founder of the <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/" rel="nofollow">RealClimate blog</a> along with Mann.

ATI's initial lawsuit targeting Mann came on the heels of a similar effort by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), a global warming skeptic who sought to investigate whether Mann defrauded taxpayers by using manipulated data to win government funding. That case went all the way to Virginia's Supreme Court, which <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/mar/02/11/va-supreme-court-rules-against-cuccinelli-uva-clim-ar-1735035/" rel="nofollow">ruled against Cuccinelli</a> earlier this year.

attacked by horner ati:

Even more curious is the use by Horner of documents produced by NASA in the CEI case (for which Horner is the lead attorney). These consist of some “Outside activity” forms from Gavin Schmidt, specifically one related to his activity on the RealClimate blog (see the <a href="http://climscifoi.blogspot.com/2010/07/cei-and-nasa-lawsuit-ongoing.html">filings in this case</a> for more details). These forms were released in court filings, not through a FOIA request, and so do not have any relevance for determining whether there is a statutory right to see these forms via FOIA.

The issue in question in the CEI vs NASA case is whether blogging was part of Schmidt’s official duties (NASA says it was not, while CEI is arguing the opposite). However in this case, Horner is arguing that for the period prior to the filing of Schmidt’s “Outside activity” form, Schmidt (and GISS) were out of compliance with ethics rules (which GISS and Schmidt have denied). For this to be the case though, one must at minimum accept that the RealClimate blogging was indeed not part of Schmidt’s official duties (if it was part of his official duties, then obviously he could not be out of compliance with ethics guidelines related to ‘outside activities’!). Thus, should this example be taken as evidence of NASA failing to uphold ethics rules, it would immediately undermine the argument put forward by Horner in the CEI case (that the RealClimate blogging was an official duty)

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