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Kininmonth, W

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Dr. William Kininmonth

Day Job: Retired Australian meteorologist, runs the Australasian Climate Research Institute, which is based out of Kininmonth's home.

Industry Ties: Multiple: Business Council of Australia, Heartland Institute, Fraser Institute, International Climate Science Coalition, Science and Public Policy Institute.

Climate Expertise: He has no published peer-reviewed research on climate change, aside from Energy & Environment, a journal designed to house the pseudo-academic work of climate skeptics.

He said it: "Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow

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science Adviser: William Kininmonth - B.Sc (UWA), M.Sc (Colo State U), M.Admin (Monash U). William Kininmonth is a consulting climatologist who: worked with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for 38 years in weather forecaster, research and applied studies. For 12 years until 1998 he was head of its National Climate Centre; Project Manager of an Australian Government project of assistance to the Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah (1982-85); Australian delegate to the World Meteorological Organization’s Commission for Climatology (1982-1998) and served two periods on its Advisory Working Group (1985-89 and 1993-97). He participated in Expert Working Groups of the Commission and carried out regional training activities in relation to climate data management and climate monitoring; Between 1998 and 2002, consulted to the World Meteorological Organization, including coordinating an international review of the 1997-98 El Niño event and preparation of a WMO publication, Climate into the 21st Century (Cambridge); was a member of Australia’s delegations to the preparatory meetings for the Ministerial Declaration of the Second World Climate Conference (1990) and to the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change (1991-92). William Kininmonth is author of the book, Climate Change: A Natural Hazard (Multi-Science Publishing Co, UK – 2004)