Botkin, D

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.BotkinDaniel B. Botkin is an emeritus professor of ecology at UC Santa Barbara whose 2007-2009 writings express doubt about the future severity of climate change. He was listed among the December 2007 "Inhofe 400".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 12px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Affiliations</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#Climate_writings" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 Climate writings</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Articles and Resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#Related_SourceWatch_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.1 Related SourceWatch Articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.2 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.3 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.4 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Affiliations</h2>Botkin is a former board member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Environmental_Literacy_Council" title="Environmental Literacy Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Environmental Literacy Council</a>, where he was described as president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Study_of_the_Environment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for the Study of the Environment (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Center for the Study of the Environment</a> and the author of numerous books. Earlier in his career, he did research at<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brookhaven_National_Laboratory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brookhaven National Laboratory (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Brookhaven National Laboratory</a>.Botkin has taught at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George Mason University</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> and also at Yale's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=School_of_Forestry_and_Environmental_Studies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">School of Forestry and Environmental Studies</a> according to his Speakers Bureau page.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>In 2005, his Center for the Study of the Environment was appointed by the U.S. Department of State to serve on the United States National Commission for UNESCO.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate writings</h2><ul style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A 2007-10-17 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wall Street Journal</a> op-ed, "Global Warming Delusions"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>("...contrary to the latest news, the evidence that global warming will have serious effects on life is thin. Most evidence suggests the contrary."), criticized in Real Climate post "Global Warming Delusions at the Wall Street Journal"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a>("Botkin argues for clear-thinking rationality in the discussion about anthropogenic climate change, against twisting the truth, as it were. We couldn’t agree more. Doctor, heal thyself.").</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A 2007-12-28 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Herald_Tribune&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Herald Tribune (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">International Herald Tribune</a> op-ed, "Science and Soothsaying"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>("...climate scientists have warned us again about the dire predictions of their climate models, a question remains: Will their forecasts come true?")</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A 2009-06-30 New York Times letter to the editor<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>("I am shocked and affronted by Paul Krugman’s column 'Betraying the Planet.'...Contrary to Mr. Krugman’s claim that 'the fact is that the planet is changing faster than even pessimists expected,' most of the dire pronouncements are computer forecasts, not empirical facts.")</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Articles and Resources</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related SourceWatch Articles</h3><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3><div class="references-small" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> ? (2007-12-20). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Sen.Inhofe%27s_400_Scientists" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Sen. Inhofe's 400 Scientists</a>. ExxonSecrets. Retrieved on 2009-12-29.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> No byline (Undated). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmu.edu/academics/catalog/9798/adminb.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">GMU Faculty B [1997-1998</a>]. George Mason University. Retrieved on 2011-03-07. “Botkin, Daniel B., Professor of Biology.”</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> No byline (Undated). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arnettandassociates.com/SpeakerDetails/27711/Daniel-Botkin.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Daniel Botkin -</a>. Arnett & Associates. Retrieved on 2011-03-07. “Professor Botkin has been on the faculty of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies”</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Leslie Dinaberg (2005-03-10). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lesliedinaberg.com/Articles.php?choice=Environmental+center+named+to+UN+commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Leslie Dinaberg's Articles</a>. ?. Retrieved on 2011-03-07. “Center for the Study of the Environment was recently appointed by the U.S. Department of State to serve on the United States National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)”</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> No byline (Undated). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/members/49200.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Daniel B. Botkin</a>. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved on 2011-03-07. “Daniel B. Botkin, President of CSE, is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara...”</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Botkin, Daniel (2007-10-17). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119258265537661384.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Global Warming Delusions</a>. WSJ.com. Retrieved on 2009-12-28.</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> David Archer (2007-10-18). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/global-warming-delusions-at-the-wall-street-journal/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Global Warming Delusions at the Wall Street Journal</a>. RealClimate. Retrieved on 2009-12-28.</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Daniel B. Botkin (2007-12-28). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.danielbbotkin.com/2007/12/31/science-and-soothsaying/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Science and soothsaying</a>. International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on 2009-12-29.</li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_B.Botkin#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Daniel B. Botkin (2009-07-03). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/opinion/l03climate.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Letters - Taking Steps to Fight Global Warming (the final letter)</a>. NYTimes.com. Retrieved on 2009-12-29.</li></ol></div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">External resources</h3><ul style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.danielbbotkin.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[1]</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">External articles</h3>personal webpage:<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel Botkin is a scientist who studies life from a planetary perspective, a biologist who has helped solve major environmental issues, and a writer about nature. A frequent public speaker, Botkin brings an unusual perspective to his subject. Well-known for his scientific contributions in ecology and environment, he has also worked as a professional journalist and has degrees in physics, biology, and literature. His books and lectures show how our cultural legacy often dominates what we believe to be scientific solutions. He discusses the roles of scientists, businessmen, stakeholders, and government agencies in new approaches to environmental issues. He uses historical accounts by Lewis and Clark and Henry David Thoreau to discuss the character of nature and the relationship between people and nature.<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You can reach Dr. Botkin at <a href="mailto:dan@danielbbotkin.com" style="color: rgb(39, 128, 199); text-decoration: none;">dan@danielbbotkin.com</a>.<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Extensive Experience Dealing with Major Environmental Problems <ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">Conservation of African elephants, bowhead whales, and salmon;</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">Forest ecosystems;</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">Global environmental issues, including satellite remote sensing, biodiversity;</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">Environmentally sound energy sources;</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">Ecological and environmental computer modeling.</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Faculty Positions<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">University of California, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology; Chairman, Environmental Studies Program</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">George Mason University, Director of Program on Global Change. does not seem to exist ever?</li><li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Research scientist, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.</li></ul>=<h2 class="date-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; min-height: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014</h2><div class="date-posts" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="position: relative; min-height: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a name="5724521720785078842" /><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Rock Salt', 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel Botkin obediently tells denier Republicans what they want to hear, but who is he?</h3><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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There's not much at WUWT the past couple of days.

In the USA one of the House Committees had another hearing. The Republicans wanted to get a few deniers on record trashing climate science. This time they were wanting to try to discredit the IPCC so they got three people they thought would do the job for them and allowed one person to be nominated by the Democrats. The four people were:

<ul style="padding: 0px 2.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Dr. Richard S.J. Tol, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex</li><li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Dr. Daniel Botkin, Professor Emeritus, Department of  Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara</li><li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., Senior Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University</li></ul>
If you know anything about the parlous state of the Republican Party these days then you should be able to guess which was the Democrats' nominee.

The one name you might not know is Daniel Botkin. These days he's a writer, book reviewer and goes on the public speaking circuit when he's not running eco-tours. Although he's not a climate scientist he has done research on the effects of climate change. Not as much as he would have you think, though.

Anthony Watts didn't think enough of Richard Tol or Roger Pielke Snr to give them any cyberspace. And needless to say he wouldn't grant the most renowned of the witnesses, <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/step/people/faculty/michael-oppenheimer/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">Dr Michael Oppenheimer</a> from Princeton any room at WUWT.  However he must have rather liked Daniel Botkin, who's another professor who's "gone emeritus<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2009/06/04/on-being-ripped-off-part-ii/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">™</a>". Anthony Watts leads in with a glowing bio (<a href="https://archive.today/WuelP" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">archived here</a>):
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px;">Daniel B. Botkin, a world-renowned ecologist, is Professor (Emeritus), Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara, and President of The Center for The Study of The Environment, which provides independent, science-based analyses of complex environmental issues. The New York Times said his book, Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st Century is considered by many ecologists to be the classic text of the [environmental] movement.” His Environmental Science, now in its Sixth Edition, was named 2004′s best textbook by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.”</blockquote>
"The Center for the Study of The Environment" is probably Daniel's own business, as he's the President - and it doesn't appear in Google anywhere. On one of the few papers he's had published in the last decade or so, Daniel <a href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/7.full" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">lists that as his affiliation</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5724521720785078842" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13px; width: 570px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative;">[<h1 id="article-title-1" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-size: 1.8em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clouds among the Ecological Visions</h1><div class="contributors" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="contributor-list" id="contrib-group-1" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li class="contributor" id="contrib-1" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;"><span class="name" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="name-search" href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/search?author1=Daniel+B.+Botkin&sortspec=date&submit=Submit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">Daniel B. Botkin</a><a id="xref-fn-1-1" class="xref-fn" href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/7.full#fn-1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none;"><sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.83em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 0.5em; text-align: inherit; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">1</a> and </li><li class="last" id="contrib-2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;"><span class="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="name-search" href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/search?author1=Kenneth+W.+Cummins&sortspec=date&submit=Submit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">Kenneth W. Cummins</a><a id="xref-fn-2-1" class="xref-fn" href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/7.full#fn-2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none;"><sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.83em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 0.5em; text-align: inherit; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">2</a></li></ol><ul class="author-notes" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li class="fn-current-aff" id="fn-1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p id="p-1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><a class="rev-xref" href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/7.full#xref-fn-1-1" style="margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px 2px; border: 1px solid silver; outline-style: none; font-weight: bolder; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">↵</a><span class="fn-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.85em; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: super;">1 Daniel B. Botkin (e-mail: <a href="mailto:danielbotkin@rcn.com" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none;">danielbotkin@rcn.com</a>) is president of the Center for the Study of the Environment, 245 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10011.</li><li class="fn-current-aff" id="fn-2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p id="p-2" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><a class="rev-xref" href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/7.full#xref-fn-2-1" style="margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px 2px; border: 1px solid silver; outline-style: none; font-weight: bolder; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">↵</a><span class="fn-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.85em; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: super;">2 Kenneth W. Cummins holds the title of Distinguished Scientist at the Ecosystem Research and Implementation Department, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL 33416. oxford pubs?  http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/7.full]</li></ul></div>
<h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel Botkin's contribution to a "political and ideological debate"</h3>
Opening his <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY-WState-DBotkin-20140529.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">written statement</a> to the US House Committee, <a href="https://archive.today/2MwhG#selection-587.0-587.402" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel claims</a>:
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since 1968 I have published research on theoretical global warming, its potential ecological effects, and the implications for people and biodiversity. I have spent my career trying to help conserve our environment and its great diversity of species. In doing so I have always attempted to maintain an objective, intellectually honest, scientific approach in the best tradition of scientific endeavor. I have, accordingly, been dismayed and disappointed in recent years that this subject has been converted into a political and ideological debate. </blockquote>And then proceeds to help the GOP with their political and ideological debate. He even puts in one of John Christy's fudged charts, in which he makes out the models diverge a lot more than they do in reality. Talk about political.  Most of Daniel's written submission though is nothing more than sound bites for the politicians to use. For example, in his very first point he writes:
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I want to state up front that we have been living through a warming trend driven by a variety of influences. However, it is my view that this is not unusual, and contrary to the characterizations by the IPCC and the National Climate Assessment, these environmental changes are not apocalyptic nor irreversible.</blockquote>
In his view this global warming is "not unusual". And a search of the IPCC report I don't find the word "apocalyptic" used once.  Recent studies have found some of the changes we're seeing effectively "irreversible". And I'm not at all sure how Daniel proposes to get atmospheric CO2 back to pre-industrial levels. Maybe his next career move is going to be geoengineering.

Anyway, I bet that the deniers on the Committee breathed a sigh of relief. Their pet "world renowned ecologist" told them that global warming isn't unusual. They'll be able to conclude that therefore we don't need to do anything to stop it. And they've got a New York Times "classic text" writer to prove it, which is better than an also-ran like Roy Spencer or a rather ratty and unreliable economist who isn't even an American, so he wouldn't count for much in the USA, even if he did complain that the IPCC report was "too alarmist".

<h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel has an impression</h3>
Daniel gives us a glimpse of his "world view" in his written testimony when he writes, about the IPCC reports:
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I regret to say that I was left with the impression that the reports overestimate the danger from human-induced climate change and do not contribute to our ability to solve major environmental problems. I am afraid that an “agenda” permeates the reports, an implication that humans and our activity are necessarily bad and ought to be curtailed</blockquote>That's not the impression that I took away after reading the reports. On the contrary. If anything the scientific reports downplayed the danger. WGII contributed a great deal to our ability to solve major environmental problems - or the ones that are caused by greenhouse gases at least. As for humans being bad - no. Nowhere in any of the reports that I read was there a hint that humans are essentially bad. The message I got was that we need to act to protect our natural resources and we need to shift from fossil fuels to renewable alternatives.

I reckon Daniel suffered a lot of confirmation bias when he read the report. He's been out of circulation too long. In Daniel's testimony he provides a clue as to why he left academia. It's on the last page of his written testimony. He wrote in response to the point: "Among the approaches that would improve climate science":
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Return to the former reliance on science done by individuals and small groups with a common specific interest and focus.</blockquote>I might be reading too much into this but at a guess I'd say that Daniel couldn't cope with the large-scale collaborations and mega-projects that are more common in science today.  He would have quit around the time that collaborations were becoming more commonplace - in lots of different fields, not just climate science. Daniel's examples support my hypothesis. He listed the following as examples of the work that should replace things like, presumably, Antarctic expeditions and global climate modeling collaborations and even literature reviews of science like those done by the IPCC and global change programs in different parts of the world. This is what he listed - I've added links:
<ol type="a" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) - (see <a href="http://carbon.nasa.gov/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">here</a>)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study - (see <a href="http://www.hubbardbrook.org/overview/overview.shtml" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">here</a>)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Whooping Crane monitoring, e.g. of an endangered species - (see <a href="http://www.fws.gov/refuge/aransas/science/whooping_crane_activity_report.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">here</a>)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">In-place monitoring on carbon flux, being done by the USGS in the Great Cypress Swamp, Florida. (see <a href="http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/workplans12/cflux_ghousegas.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">here</a>) </li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Many others. (see <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">here</a>?)</li></ol>All of those projects are of value - but they are an odd selection given the subject is climate science.  I can understand, given his research interest is primarily ecology, why he picked those particular projects. It's a rather eclectic mix that he proposes and in the main the projects are small scale environmental monitoring rather than climate science as such. I find it strange that he would see these as a replacement for all the scientific work around the world that goes into monitoring and reporting on oceans, ice, land and atmosphere. What about paleo studies? And is he suggesting that agencies quit the international collaborations that allow satellite monitoring?

<h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"As theory they are fundamentally scientifically unproven" - huh?</h3>
I have to say that his testimony is not up to the standard of other writing that is attributed to him. It's weak nitpickery at best and all over the place. In some places it can only be described as gobbledegook. Take his point 12 for example:
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The two reports assume and/or argue that the climate warming forecast by the global climate models is happening and will continue to happen and grow worse. Currently these predictions are way off the reality (Figure 1). Models, like all scientific theory, have to be tested against real-world observations. Experts in model validation say that the climate models frequently cited in the IPCC report are little if any validated. This means that as theory they are fundamentally scientifically unproven.</blockquote>First of all there have been three reports, not two. So we have to guess to which two of the three Daniel is referring. He puts up one of John Christy's fudged charts (not the exact one<a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/05/roy-spencer-grows-even-wearier.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;"> I've discussed here</a>, but one like it), rather than a chart from the IPCC report itself as his "evidence" - of being "way off of the reality" (gulp - he claims to be a writer?).  Then he writes a very awkward sentence about models being "little if any validated" and says "this means that as theory they are fundamentally scientifically unproven" - what the heck does he mean by that? It's the sort of stuff you'd expect a nong like John Christy to come out with. Daniel, though, lays claim to literary skills. His editor must have been on vacation when he wrote that bit of nonsense.

I doubt the Republicans would have cared much. They would have been happy enough if he'd just kept repeating the mantra to dump the IPCC and get scientists to stop telling politicians and the general public about what we're doing to our world.

<h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who is Daniel Botkin?</h3>
Daniel claims to have published research on "theoretical global warming" since 1968. On his twitter feed he <a href="https://twitter.com/danielbotkin/status/464024977151234051" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">claims to have "45 years of research on climate change"</a>.  In other <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/ecological_restoration/v031/31.1.botkin.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">various places</a>he also makes the claim that he began "research on possible ecological effects of global warming in 1968."

In finding out what Daniel has published I went to Google. There I discovered he has his very own, very <a href="http://www.danielbbotkin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">slick-looking website</a>. Oh good, I thought. He's bound to have a CV and a list of publications. But he didn't have either. All I found was a list of books he's written and various tours he leads. These days he earns a crust by book-writing, public speaking and eco-tourism.

On his website, Daniel lists his faculty positions as follows, I've indicated the approximate dates myself - taken from his published papers and Googling various bits and pieces, so it might not be 100% accurate:
<ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding: 0px 2.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (circa 1968 to 1978)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">University of California, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology; Chairman, Environmental Studies Program (circa 1978-1992)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">George Mason University, Director of Program on Global Change (circa 2000-01)</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Research scientist, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (circa 1976).</li></ul>
I located Daniel at the University of California Santa Barbara where he is <a href="http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">listed as a Professor Emeritus</a> - but his current web page listed <a href="http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/emeriti/daniel-b-botkin" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">very few publications</a> for someone who's been publishing research on "theoretical global warming" since 1968.

I was beginning to think that Daniel B Botkin was a self-invented man who has a good PR company on his payroll. Then I tried Google Scholar. I found quite a few papers. He's not the most prolific academic, publishing maybe two or three papers a year while he was active. Some years none at all and a few years three or four. Maybe he put more effort into writing his textbooks.

<h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since 1968 you say?</h3>
As for his claim about "since 1968", well I didn't find any paper by him in 1968 about "theoretical global warming". The only 1968 paper of his on Google Scholar was<a href="http://hmf.rutgers.edu/Pubs%20up%20to%201982/Botkin%20and%20Malone%201968.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> this one</a>:
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, Daniel B., and Charles R. Malone. "Efficiency of net primary production based on light intercepted during the growing season." Ecology 49, no. 3 (1968): 438-444.</blockquote>
At that time Daniel was with the School of Forestry, Yale University. I'm not saying that Daniel didn't publish any research on global warming in 1968 and since he claims to have "always attempted to maintain an objective, intellectually honest, scientific approach" then maybe he did and it's just that Google Scholar hasn't listed it. 1968 was a long time ago. That was three years after the <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:vj9a8jaGflQJ:dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%2520downloads/PSAC,%25201965,%2520Restoring%2520the%2520Quality%2520of%2520Our%2520Environment.pdf+President%27s+Science+Advisory+Committee+%281965%29.+Restoring+the+Quality+of+Our+Environment.+Report+of+the+Environmental+Pollution+Panel&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShNgnhRuTN5AUUfyWP3zRrs4adZH9aawx8wqPmeHL8dD0QPCxhSNeEWpUQb8i1k4-6_83DV1ArB8KrzfRbsRwdFS6Uxkw-YaFPAHWdMNlipI-GtjwnegLOpXUIpMI3BzWOKcQsr&sig=AHIEtbR_rrQirRnigyoKBsT2aAxodW2H9w" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Roger Revelle report</a> warning President Lyndon B Johnson about global warming, and seven years before <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:z75YSQHD0wIJ:blogs.ei.columbia.edu/climate/files/2009/10/broeckerglobalwarming75.pdf+broeckerglobalwarming75.pdf&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShzZKUX1QlHo_UGyBmNlAe65AouTbc3CSwxhVaFIvah1JVbzPjEw16Aml0Cr5GAI69LpsuTomtjbSR6ql3Ueg3YePoiMNkjcAdSyhlWU37VE3ARN409qso3o794e2cdo1TITbj6&sig=AHIEtbT4ZvtMbw6YeubwQ_CbbKI38zS_hA&pli=1" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wallace S Broecker's paper in Science</a>.

In 1973 Daniel was writing about the <a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=author%3ADaniel+author%3ABotkin&hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_vis=1&as_ylo=1973&as_yhi=1973" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">nutrient requirements and grazing habits of moose</a>. The<a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=author%3ADaniel+author%3ABotkin&hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_vis=1&as_ylo=1974&as_yhi=1974" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">following year</a> it was the Whooping Crane and photosynthesis in larch. In 1975 it was<a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=author%3ADaniel+author%3ABotkin&hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_vis=1&as_ylo=1975&as_yhi=1975" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">phytoplankton and ecosystems</a>. And in 1976 I <a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=author%3ADaniel+author%3ABotkin&hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_vis=1&as_ylo=1976&as_yhi=1976" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">drew a blank</a>.

The earliest Botkin paper relating to global warming that I found was nine years after 1968, <a href="http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/5/325.short" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">published in 1977</a>, when he was shown as being with the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543:
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, Daniel B. "Forests, lakes, and the anthropogenic production of carbon dioxide." BioScience 27, no. 5 (1977): 325-331.</blockquote>
I somehow missed all the global warming work he did in the nine years prior. The next paper that had any bearing on global warming that I could see was <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0033589485900390" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">this one published in 1985</a>, which was cited in the third IPCC report. In the years that he published anything from 1986 onwards (some years drew a blank), he did have one or two papers relating to one or other aspect of global warming. So to my mind it would be more "intellectually honest" to claim to have published on "theoretical global warming" since 1977 (one paper, then a lull till 1985) rather than since 1968.

<h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Small signs of early-stage "emeritus"</h3>
In 1990 he published <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kg192ns" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">a paper about global warming</a> in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, writing that in considering what to do we need to consider it in terms of risk. He cited the Montreal Protocol as a good example of what can be done at the international level and in his conclusion wrote:
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px;">If global warming occurs, many environmental laws will have to be rewritten, and it is only prudent that those interested in this process begin now to consider what is wise and useful to do.</blockquote>So it looks as if he had a change of heart between 1990 and now.  Oh there were signs of early-stage "emeritus" in the 1990 paper. He wrote of clouds and stuff and thought there was a chance they might pop up all over the place and save us from global warming. Still, back in 1990 he favoured acting or at least preparing for action. His change of heart came a few years ago.

Back seven years ago he penned something "political" for the Wall St Journal that earned him <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/global-warming-delusions-at-the-wall-street-journal/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">an article at realclimate.org</a>. That time he was spouting a lot of denier crap. Quite unbecoming for a "world renowned ecologist".

<h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel's current scientific work</h3>From what I can make out, Daniel's been out of academia for quite a long time, probably since 1992. He is on the wayback machine at the University of California Santa Barbara on a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030101063959/http://www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/botkin.php" target="blank" style="color: rgb(17, 119, 204); text-decoration: none;">January 2003 web page</a>, as on the Emeritus Faculty and:
<ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding: 0px 2.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Professor of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies Program (1978 - 1992) </li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;">Chairman, Environmental Studies Program, 1979-1985</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That's a fair while ago. He was also <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98533.x/abstract;jsessionid=3DFB32509FAA22287DC8DD3A61988CB6.f03t01?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">affiliated with George Mason University</a> around the turn of this century, but I don't know in what capacity. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ul style="padding: 0px 2.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 1.4;" /></div>Daniel has published a few papers since his retirement from university life, which looks like it was way back in 1992. He's also written a number of book reviews as well as editing and publishing books himself.

<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;">Daniel Botkin and the IPCC</h3>
</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How about Daniel's expertise in the IPCC? Well, he's not listed in any capacity in the working group 1 reports from AR5 (2014), or AR4 (2007). Two papers of his were referenced a few times in TAR as well as a book he edited. Not in WG1 but in WG2 and WG3. However he wasn't an author of any of the chapters in any TAR reports. The papers were:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Davis, Margaret Bryan, and Daniel B. Botkin. "<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0033589485900390" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">Sensitivity of cool-temperate forests and their fossil pollen record to rapid temperature change</a>." Quaternary Research 23, no. 3 (1985): 327-340.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sedjo, Roger A., and Daniel Botkin. "<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00139159709604776#.U4rC5vmSySo" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">Using Forest Plantations to Spare Natural Forests</a>." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 39, no. 10 (1997): 14-30.</blockquote><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Going back to the second assessment report, SAR (1995), Daniel got another two papers cited, the Davis and Botkin (1985) paper referenced above and another paper:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, Daniel B., James F. Janak, and James R. Wallis. "<a href="http://disi.unal.edu.co/_{gjhernandezp/sim/JABOWA.pdf}" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 119, 204);">Some ecological consequences of a computer model of forest growth</a>." The Journal of Ecology (1972): 849-872.</blockquote>
This last paper has been cited 1355 times and the 1985 paper was cited 252 times according to Google Scholar. So what happened, from the look of it, was that at one stage in Daniel's career he published some papers with moderate to good acclaim. In more recent years he's been writing books and book reviews.

Anyway, for all his "world renown" it looks as if Daniel Botkin isn't quite as renowned in climate science as he made out. I can see that years ago he did produce some good work. It's a shame he's chosen to go all out political in a field that isn't his own. I hope for his sake he's remembered more for his science than his political activities. That'll be his choice.

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NO MAN'S GARDEN: Thoreau and A New Vision for Civilization and Nature. Shearwater Books/Island Press, 2000.<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Skinner, B., S. Porter, and D.B. Botkin. The Blue Planet. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D. B. Our Natural History: Lessons From Lewis and Clark. Putnam, N.Y., 1995.<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D. B. and E. A.. Keller. Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet. John Wiley, N. Y., 1995 (1st edition), 1997 (2nd edition).<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D. B., contributing editor to Art, H. W. The Dictionary of Ecology and Environmental Science. Henry Holt and Company, N.Y., 1993.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D. B. JABOWA-II: A Computer Model of Forest Growth. Oxford University Press, N.Y.(Software and manual), 1993.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D.B. Forest Dynamics: An Ecological Model. Oxford University Press, 1993.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D.B. Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 1990.<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D.B., M. Caswell, J.E. Estes, and A. Orio, (Eds.). Changing the Global Environment: Perspectives on Human Involvement. Academic Press, N.Y, 1989.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Botkin, D.B. and E.A. Keller. Environmental Studies: Earth as a Living Planet. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, Pub. Co., 1982 (1st edition), 1987 (2nd edition).<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.36000001430511475px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">West, D.C., H.H. Shugart and D.B. Botkin (eds.), Forest Succession: Concepts and Applications, Springer. - Verlag, NY., 1981. 517 pp

Website: www.danielbbotkin.comProfessor of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies Program (1978 - 1992)Chairman, Environmental Studies Program, 1979-1985Education:  Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1968 (Biology: Plant Ecology) M.A. University of Wisconsin, 1962 (Major: English Literature, Minor: Scientific Journalism) B.A. University of Rochester, 1959 (Physics)Current Appointments: Research Professor (1999-Present) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara Santa BarbaraPresident (1991 - Present) The Center For The Study Of The Environment, Santa Barbara, CA Private not-for-profit organization, providing information, identification, analysis and optimal solutions to environmental problems. CSE projects are conducted on global, regional and local scales.redirects to http://www.danielbbotkin.com/Professor of Biology (1992 - Present) George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.  Honors & Awards: 1995 Elected to Environmental Hall of Fame, at California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, CA.1995 Fernow Award for Outstanding Contributions in International Forestry, given by American Forests and the German Forestry AssociationMitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development, 1st prize, 1991Sigma Xi National Lecturer, 1981 - 82; 1982 - 83---book rev on extrnction: More important, contrary to the editor’s assertion, Saving a Million Species does not synthesize all of the scientific literature on these methods. It focuses instead on a subset limited primarily to publications since 2002 by scientists who agreed that anthropogenically induced global warming is unquestionably real and will cause major biodiversity disasters, rather than considering the full range of scientific possibilities for climate in the future.=The who-led-whom question — carbon dioxide or temperature — became widely discussed after several scientific papers, including a 2003 paper in the journal Science, showed that for the past 800,000 years, temperature change preceded carbon dioxide changes in the Antarctic ice cores by an average of 800 years.  (For those who are interested, one of the key scientific papers is Caillon, et al, “Timing of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature Changes Across Termination Ill.” Science, 2003. 299: 1728–1731.)This was a striking and surprising finding, for which there are two possible explanations:  Either the lag is the result of natural physical and chemical processes, or there is a measurement or scientific error in interpretation of the data. Natural causes of a CO2 lag include the long time it takes ocean waters around the world to warm up following an atmospheric warming; a warmer ocean stores less carbon dioxide than a cooler one. It could also result from a lag in the way that forest trees responded to warming climates, or the way sea ice responded.The new paper just published in Science shows that much of the lag could be the result of a problem in analyzing the ice cores from Antarctic. (For those interested, the paper is: Parrenin, et. al., “Synchronous Change of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature During the Last Deglacial Warming,” Science, 2013. 339: p. 1060.)  The chemistry is complicated, highly sophisticated, and indirect.  You don’t just stick a thermometer into the ice core to determine what the atmospheric temperature was 800,000 years ago.Who appears to have lagged whom depends on assumptions about the timing of carbon dioxide storage in air pockets in ice cores compared to the timing of factors used to reconstruct temperature. The new paper in Science presents new ways of analyzing those events, yielding results that greatly reduce the time gap between rising temperature and rising carbon dioxide.  The lag could still be there but much shorter — perhaps only as long as 130 years.  Or it might not exist at all.The new Science  paper is objective and open, and very careful, allowing for a variety of interpretations, even the previous much longer lags. This is the way that the entire discussion of climate change should be going on.What, then, should an ordinary citizen who doesn’t have the training to evaluate these complex methods do?  As I said in The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, the key is to take actions that help solve here-and-now environmental problems and are at the same time either also beneficial to reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere or neutral.  Examples include:continuing to move away from fossil fuels — such as shale gas, so popular now — and moving to alternative energy;stopping deforestation, which is happening widely around the world, and improving forest management, not just abroad but in the United States;helping to conserve biological diversity by direct actions, such as halting the illegal killing of African elephants for their ivory;reducing the release of toxic chemicals into our air and waters;conserving the world’s supply of fresh water.Then stay tuned as the scientists doing excellent research continue, and let them do so independent of the blame game fashioned by the climate-change morality play.---http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6123/1060.abstractScience 1 March 2013:  Vol. 339 no. 6123 pp. 1060-1063  DOI: 10.1126/science.1226368REPORTSynchronous Change of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature During the Last Deglacial WarmingF. Parrenin1,*, V. Masson-Delmotte2, P. Köhler3, D. Raynaud1, D. Paillard2, J. Schwander4, C. Barbante5,6,A. Landais2, A. Wegner3,†, J. Jouzel2+Author Affiliations 1Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (CNRS/UJF), Grenoble, France. 2Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ-IPSL), Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 3Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener_Institute_for_Polar_and_Marine_Research 4Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. ---=...I have spent my career trying to help conserve our environment and its great diversity of species.Some examples: When the Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed in 1973, the Commission asked me toanalyze the law and explain its key concepts both ecologically and legally; I served on a California StateCommittee to advise what to do about the then 22 condors remaining in the wild; Under a special bill passedby the Oregon State Legislature, I directed a five year study of the relative effects of forest practices onsalmon; Under a special bill passed by the California State Legislature, I directed a study concerning MonoLake, whose supply of fresh water had been completely diverted to Los Angeles: at the request of the city ofLos Angeles, I wrote a report concerning the use of trees, shrubs and other vegetation in a city in a semi-aridenvironment; I have advised the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission; served as theU. S. representative of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. I have published 14 booksabout nature and people including one of the leading environmental science textbook..."agenda" then uses christy graph15. Some of the reports’ conclusions are the opposite of those given in articles cited indefense of those conclusions. For example, the IPCC 2014 Terrestrial Ecosystem Report statesthat “there is medium confidence that rapid change in the Arctic is affecting its animals. Forexample, seven of 19 subpopulations of the polar bear are declining in number” citing insupport of this an article by Vongraven and Richardson, 2011. That report states the contrary,that the “‘decline’ is an illusion.In addition, I have sought the available counts of the 19 subpopulations. Of these, only three havebeen counted twice; the rest have been counted once. Thus no rate of changes in the populations canbe determined. The first count was done in 1986 for one subpopulation.1On May 22, Vongraven, a member of the international team that created these estimates, statedthat the polar bear population size, “never has been an estimate of total abundance in a scientificsense, but simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand…the range given for total globalpopulation should be viewed with great caution as it cannot be used to assess population trend overthe long term.” The U. S. Marine Mammal Commission, charged with the conservation of thisspecies, acknowledges “Accurate estimates of the current and historic sizes of polar bear stocks areAccording to Dr. Susan Crockford, “out of the 13 populations for which some kind of data exist,five populations are now classified by the PBSG [IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group] as ‘stable’(two more than 2009), one is still increasing, and three have been upgraded from ‘declining’ to ‘datadeficient’. . . . That leaves four that are still considered ‘declining’- two of those judgments are basedprimarily on concerns of overhunting, and one is based on a statistically insignificant decline that maynot be valid and is being reassessed (and really should have been upgraded to ‘data deficient’). Thatleaves only one population – Western Hudson Bay – where PBSG biologists tenaciously blame globalwarming for all changes to polar bear biology, and even then, the data supporting that conclusion isstill not available.”3orig study: There are still seven sub-populations showing a declining trend, and it is expected that, if sea ice conditions continue to degrade across the Arctic, several other sub-populations may be threatened as a result of habitat loss and decreased access to prey, i.e., ice-associated seals. There have been criticisms that, except for the long data series on body condition related to sea ice break-up in spring in Western Hudson Bay, there have been little hard data to support any effect of climate warming on polar bears. This is clearly changing, and at this point in time two of these sub-populations are believed to be in decline (western Hudson Bay and southern Beaufort Sea) as a result of climate-mediated changes in the availability of sea ice. Specifically, changes in the seasonal availability of sea ice have been shown to influence polar bear survival in western Hudson Bay (Regehr et al. 2007) and survival and breeding rates in the southern Beaufort Sea (Regehr et al. 2010).There is still little or no knowledge on status and trends for the East Greenland sub-population or the two sub-populations under exclusive Russian jurisdiction (Laptev Sea and Kara Sea).http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/report11/biodiv_polar_bears.html=http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/conclusion.htmlMeanwhile, troubling new findings from independent scientists, academics and concerned citizens shed light on many negative impacts of unconventional gas drilling that were previously unaccounted for. Lawmakers and oversight agencies should take into consideration the warnings from experts highlighted throughout this report—from Dr. Daniel Botkin, Dr. Theo Colborn, Dr. Ronald Bishop, the Cornell team of Dr. Robert Howarth and Dr. Anthony Ingraffea—and others. What these experts caution against is the threat of irreparable harm that the unconventional gas boom poses to water and air quality, human health and a rapidly destabilizing global climate.Acknowledgements Lead author: Carol Linnitt Editor: Brendan DeMelle Research, writing and editing assistant: Emma Pullman Report Design: Tunaheart Creative  DeSmogBlog is thankful for the generous time, input and feedback provided by Dr. Daniel Botkin, Dr. Ronald Bishop, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Dr. Robert Howarth, Renee Santoro and Dr. Maurice Dusseault

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Heartland Payments to University of Victoria Professor Susan Crockford Probed

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University of Victoria adjunct professor Susan Crockford doesn't seem interested in discussing the monthly payments she appears to receive from the climate denying Heartland Spinstitute.

“Crockford would not respond to emails, and refused to speak with the Martlet,” reports a UVic student newspaper attempting to probe the payments.

The Heartland Institute's Denialgate documents indicate that the spinstitute gives Crockford $750 per month. She is one of three Canadian university professors on the denier dole at Heartland, along with Madhav Knandekar and Mitch Taylor.

Greenpeace contacted the University of Victoria to raise conflict of interest questions relating to Heartland's payments to Crockford, who has a history of denying climate science as a speaker for its anti-science International Climate Science Coalition. See Greenpeace's letter to the University of Victoria.

But apparently the University isn't interested in investigating the matter, stating that, because Crockford is “not a member of regular faculty,” it won't probe allegations of conflict of interest.

“She is a member as a non-remunerated appointment as an adjunct, a professional zooarcheologist associate,” a university spokesperson told The Martlet correspondent Mark Worthing.

But one of Crockford's colleagues at UVic had plenty to say about the disconnect between the university's science-based position and the spin emanating from the Heartland Institute.

“It is regrettable that anyone affiliated with the University of Victoria participated in the activities of an organization like the Heartland Institute,” says Dr. Thomas F. Pederson, Executive Director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) at UVic. “The University prides itself on being an institution of higher learning that deals with facts and that is nowhere more true than in the field of science. Those who deny that the planet is warming as a direct result of human activity are denying facts.

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“The Heartland Institute is one of a collection of so-called think tanks that have been extensively supported by elements within the American fossil fuel industry,” says Pederson. “Their mission is quite clearly not to think, but instead to sow confusion with respect to the global warming issue.”

Susan Crockford's actual expertise is far removed from climate science, but that's never proven to be an obstacle to receiving invitations to speak at Heartland Institute events.

According to a description of her work by The Martlet, Crockford is

“a sessional adjunct professor in Archaeozoology in the Pacific Rim with research focuses on the domestication and breed development, evolutionary theory and the evolution and history of the domestic dog.”

What the what? An expert in canine evolution - already tricky territory for certain science deniers - knows what exactly about climate change science?

What does Heartland's Denial-a-Palooza audience see in Crockford's dogged ability to provide $750 per month woof - ehem, worth - of climate confusion?

Is anyone else doggone confused here? Canine get an explanation? (Sorry, it's Friday, brain is mush!)

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