FACTSHEET: Chris DeFreitas
DETAILS
Associate Professor at the School of Georgraphy and Environmental Science, University of Auckland.
Deputy Dean of Science, Aukland
Head of Science and Technology, Aukland
Pro Vice Chancellor , Aukland
Vice President of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand
founding member of the Australia-New Zealand Climate Forum
Executive Board of the International Society of Biometeorology from 1999-2001.
During his time at the University of Auckland, de Freitas has served as Deputy Dean of Science, Head of Science and Technology and four years as Pro Vice Chancellor. He has been Vice President of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand and is a founding member of the Australia New Zealand Climate Forum. Formerly an editor of the international journal Climate Research. From 1999-2001, he served on the Executive Board of the International Society of Biometeorology.
Formerly one of the editors of a journal called "Climate Research," de Freitas was involved in a controversy surrounding a research article co-authored by Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon. The article reviewed previous scientific papers and came to the conclusion that climate hasn't changed in the last 2000 years. But 13 of the authors of the papers Baliunas and Soon cited refuted her interpretation of their work, and several editors of Climate Research resigned in protest at a flawed peer review process which allowed the publication.
De Freitas received both his Bachelors and his Masters at the University of Toronto, Canada, after which he earned his Ph.D. as a Commonwealth Scholar from the University of Queensland, Australia. During his time at the University of Auckland, he has served as Deputy Dean of Science, Head of Science and Technology, and for four years as Pro Vice Chancellor. He is Vice President of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand and is a founding member of the Australia-New Zealand Climate Forum as well as serving on the Executive Board of the International Society of Biometeorology from 1999-2001. He has written extensively in popular media on an array of environmental and climate-related issues. The New Zealand Association of Scientists has made him a four-time recipient of their Science Communicator Award
KEY QUOTES
There is no hard evidence that increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere put there by human activities are causing or will cause dangerous change to global climate.
Source: Carbon Hoax
Seldom if ever is the question asked: Where is the evidence for catastrophic climate change from human action?
Source: Carbon Hoax
QUOTES
Rather than search for the evidence, groups like Greenpeace defer to authorities, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a political entity which appears to have a monopoly on wisdom in global warming matters.
Source: Carbon Hoax
The fanatical name calling and personal attacks expose the strong ideological elements that drive global warming alarmist thinking. It's as if the depth of passion is overcompensation for doubt and uncertainty.
Source: Carbon Hoax
The climate facts are well established and well recorded, but often ignored when it comes to global warming catastrophism:
* There have been four periods of global warming in the past 1500 years.
* Data clearly show the Earth cooled during a recent 35-year period despite the continuing rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
* In recent times, global temperature has been steady since 1998, despite the continuing rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
* Average global sea level rise has shown no acceleration over the past 300 years.
And it is an uncontroversial fact that all climate models are unreliable, so their output is not evidence of anything.
Source: Carbon Hoax
Political action on climate change is not a game to be played and won or lost, and Greenpeace does us a disservice by encouraging that view
Source: Carbon Hoax
KEY DEEDS
In early 2003, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas submitted a controversial paper to de Freitas for publication in the journal Climate Research. His decision to publish the article sparked heated debate and controversy, resulting in the resignation of half of the journal's editors.
Source: Scientific American (2006)
In early 2003, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas submitted a controversial paper to de Freitas for publication in the journal Climate Research. His decision to publish the article sparked heated debate and controversy, resulting in the resignation of half of the journal's editors.
Source: Scientific American (2006)
DEEDS
25 October, 2006
One of several scientists submiting amicus brief organized by Competitive Enterprise Institute on Carbon Dioxide pollution case before Supreme Court
Source: Amici Curiae Brief on CO2 case
ORGANIZATIONS
Climate Research Journal
Source: University of Auckland Bio (2006)
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: Amicus brief written by Competitive Enterprise Institute
Heartland Institute
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Source: NZ Climate Science Coalition website
International Climate Science Coalition
Source: ICSC list of who's who
SOURCES
University of Auckland Bio (2006)
http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/the_school/our_people/staff_url/cdefreitas/index.htm
University of Auckland Bio (2006)
http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/the_school/our_people/staff_url/cdefreitas/index.htm
Scientific American (2006)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000A0746-83A1-1EF7-A6B8809EC588EEDF
Scientific American (2006)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000A0746-83A1-1EF7-A6B8809EC588EEDF
Amici Curiae Brief on CO2 case
Amici Curiae Brief of Climatologists and Scientists Sallie Baliunas, John R. Christy, Chris De Freitas, David Legates, Anthony Lupo, Patrick Michaels, Joel Schwartz, and Roy W. Spencer in Support of Respondents.
by CEI Staff
October 24, 2006
http://www.cei.org/gencon/030,05572.cfm
Amicus brief written by Competitive Enterprise Institute
IN THE
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, et al.,
Petitioners,
v.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, et al.,
Respondents.
On Writ of Certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
AMICI CURIAE BRIEF OF CLIMATOLOGISTS
AND SCIENTISTS SALLIE BALIUNAS, JOHN R.
CHRISTY, CHRIS DE FREITAS, DAVID LEGATES,
ANTHONY LUPO, PATRICK MICHAELS, JOEL
SCHWARTZ, AND ROY W. SPENCER IN SUPPORT
OF RESPONDENTS
SAM KAZMAN*
HANS BADER
CHRISTOPHER C. HORNER
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
1001 Connecticut Ave., NW, #1250
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 331-2265
*Counsel of Record
http://www.cei.org/pdf/5572.pdf
Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/
NZ Climate Science Coalition website
List of founders, co-founders and advisors.
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=12&Itemid=45
ICSC list of who's who
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=28
Carbon Hoax
A website and blog arguing against the human role in global warming
http://carbonhoax.planetinaction.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=2