Fred Singer

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Fred Singer is an Austrian-born American physicist (Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University), established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center, founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, ex deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, ex chief scientist for the Department of Transportation, and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia and George Mason University. Author/editor of a dozen+ books, and published more than 200 technical papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Books

  • Global Effects of Environmental Pollution (Reidel, 1970)
  • Is There an Optimum Level of Population? (McGraw-Hill, 1971)
  • Free Market Energy (Universe Books, 1984)
  • Global Climate Change (Paragon House, 1989)
  • The Ocean in Human Affairs (1989)
  • The Greenhouse Debate Continued: An Analysis and Critique of the IPCC Climate Assessment (ICS Press, 1992)
  • Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (Independent Institute, 1997, 1999)
  • Climate Policy: From Rio to Kyoto (Hoover Institution, 2000)
  • Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007,revised ed. 2008)
  • Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate: The Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (Heartland Institute, 2008)
  • Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
  • Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report; Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science (2013)
  • Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts (2014)

Accolades

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Geophysical Union, American Physical Society, and American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was elected to the AAAS Council and served on the Committee on Council Affairs, and as Section Secretary. In 1997, NASA presented Dr. Singer with a commendation and cash award "for important contributions to space research

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