FACTSHEET: Sallie Baliunas
DETAILS
Staff Scientist for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Former Board member, Chair of Science Advisory Board and Senior Scientist, George C Marshall Institute,
Environment/Science Editor, Tech Central Station.
Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University.
Adjunct Professor at Tennessee State University.
Past contributing editor to the World Climate Report, a publication of the Western Fuels Association.
Advisory board, UK Scientific Alliance.
Former expert, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Institute.
National Center or Public Policy Research expert on global warming and the ozone layer (1996)
Robert Wesson Endowment Fund Fellow(1993-4) at Hoover Institution
Marshall Institute Expert bio: http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=38
A darling of the anti-climate movement, Baliunas has been a central scientist in the fight against action on climate change. She is used by virtually all of the Exxon-funded front groups as their scientific expert.
Baliunas' principal areas of interest include solar influence on climate change, the ozone layer and global warming.
Baliunas views sunspots at the cause of climate change rather than carbon dioxide. Her articles are often tagged with the caveat: "[Baliunas''] remarks represent her own opinions and do not necessarily reflect those of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics."
Baliunas wrote "The Ozone Crisis" , "Are Human Activities Causing Global Warming?" and "Ozone and Global Warming, Are the problems Real?" for the George C. Marshall Institute.
In the mid to late 1990 she also worked with the Global Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate change. (NCPPR expert guide, 1996)
Accoding to Baliunas' biography,
"She has written over 200 scientific research articles. In 1991, Discover magazine profiled her as one of America's outstanding women scientists. She was technical consultant for a science-fiction television series, "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict," airing 1997 �2001. She received her M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in Astrophysics from Harvard University." (http://www.cfactcampus.org/site/printspeaker.asp?idspeaker=3)
KEY QUOTES
"No evidence can be found in the temperature measurements to support the theory of catastrophic global warming caused by human activities."
Source: Wall Street Journal Article, 4/3/1995
25 July, 2003
"The scientific history drawn from nature and man's observations over the last millennium suggests that a strong trend of human-induced warming does not exist. "
Source: "Combatting global warming would be a waste" 7/03
"No evidence can be found in the temperature measurements to support the theory of catastrophic global warming caused by human activities."
Source: Wall Street Journal Article, 4/3/1995
25 July, 2003
"The scientific history drawn from nature and man's observations over the last millennium suggests that a strong trend of human-induced warming does not exist. "
Source: "Combatting global warming would be a waste" 7/03
KEY DEEDS
11 June, 2003
Wrote, with Willie Soon, a paper which collated data from a number of scientific papers which came to the conclusion that the climate hasn't changed in the last 2000 years.
The American Petrolem Institute partially funded the paper.
The paper was later refuted by a panel of 13 scientists, the authors of the papers Baliunas and Soon cited. Several editors of "Climate Research", the journal which published the paper, later resigned in protest at a flawed peer review process which allowed the publication.
Source: Jeff Nesmith, Cox News
With the Science & Environmental Policy Project and A Better Earth Project at the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
Source:
11 June, 2003
Wrote, with Willie Soon, a paper which collated data from a number of scientific papers which came to the conclusion that the climate hasn't changed in the last 2000 years.
The American Petrolem Institute partially funded the paper.
The paper was later refuted by a panel of 13 scientists, the authors of the papers Baliunas and Soon cited. Several editors of "Climate Research", the journal which published the paper, later resigned in protest at a flawed peer review process which allowed the publication.
Source: Jeff Nesmith, Cox News
With the Science & Environmental Policy Project and A Better Earth Project at the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
Source:
DEEDS
20 September, 1995
Testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment in an apparent attempt to weaken support for ozone protection laws.
Source: Ties That Blind II
20 September, 1995
Testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment in an apparent attempt to weaken support for ozone protection laws.
Source: Ties That Blind II
KEY EVENTS
Return to Rio: Reexamining Climate Change Science, Economics, and Policy
http://www.aei.org/events/filter.all,eventID.669/event_detail.asp
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: Presenter
CEI Day After Tomorrow
http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,04017.cfm
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: CEI expert on how global warming isn't happening
Briefing on Capitol Hill
http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,02599.cfm
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: main speaker
Return to Rio: Reexamining Climate Change Science, Economics, and Policy
http://www.aei.org/events/filter.all,eventID.669/event_detail.asp
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: Presenter
CEI Day After Tomorrow
http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,04017.cfm
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: CEI expert on how global warming isn't happening
Briefing on Capitol Hill
http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,02599.cfm
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: main speaker
EVENTS
5 September, 2003
Panic Attack: interrogating our obsession with risk
http://www.spiked-online.com/panicattack/strand2b.stm
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: Speaker
Scared Sick? A Conference to Examine Unfounded Fear and its Effects on Health, Science Policies
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: Speaker
5 September, 2003
Panic Attack: interrogating our obsession with risk
http://www.spiked-online.com/panicattack/strand2b.stm
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: Speaker
Scared Sick? A Conference to Examine Unfounded Fear and its Effects on Health, Science Policies
The relationship of Sallie Baliunas to the event: Speaker
ORGANIZATIONS
George C. Marshall Institute
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University
Source: Hoover Institution website 4/04
Global Climate Coalition
Source: Wall Street Journal Article, 4/3/1995
CFACT - Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06
Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)
Source: STATS website 5/04
World Climate Report
Source: World Climate Report website
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Source:
Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy
Source: Annapolis Center website 3/04
Greening Earth Society
Source: "The Greening Continues"
American Council on Science and Health
Source: "Global Climate Change and Human Health," ACSH 10/97
Heritage Foundation
Source: Heritage Foundation "Policy Experts" website
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Source: Manhattan Institute website 4/04
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Baliunas
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: CEI website, various
American Petroleum Institute
Source: "Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
Heartland Institute
Source: Heartland Institute Website (2006)
Climate Research Journal
Source: Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years
SOURCES
Wall Street Journal Article, 4/3/1995
"Waterworld," Bootleg Freon and a Berlin Plot
Wall Street Journal Article, 4/3/1995
"Waterworld," Bootleg Freon and a Berlin Plot
"Combatting global warming would be a waste" 7/03
Published in the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal July 25, 2003
by Sallie Baliunas of the George C. Marshall Institute
http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=149
"Combatting global warming would be a waste" 7/03
Published in the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal July 25, 2003
by Sallie Baliunas of the George C. Marshall Institute
http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=149
Ties That Blind II
Ozone Action Report, 9/13/1996
Ties That Blind II
Ozone Action Report, 9/13/1996
Annapolis Center website 3/04
http://www.annapoliscenter.org
Annapolis Center website 3/04
http://www.annapoliscenter.org
Hoover Institution website 4/04
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu
Hoover Institution website 4/04
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu
Manhattan Institute website 4/04
http://www.manhattan-institute.org
Manhattan Institute website 4/04
http://www.manhattan-institute.org
"Global Climate Change and Human Health," ACSH 10/97
A position paper by the American Council on Science an Health
http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/global.pdf
"Global Climate Change and Human Health," ACSH 10/97
A position paper by the American Council on Science an Health
http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/global.pdf
"Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
article by Chris Mooney
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7603
"Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
article by Chris Mooney
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7603
Heritage Foundation "Policy Experts" website
http://www.policyexperts.org
Heritage Foundation "Policy Experts" website
http://www.policyexperts.org
STATS website 5/04
http://www.stats.org
STATS website 5/04
http://www.stats.org
World Climate Report website
http://www.co2andclimate.org/climate/editors/editors.htm
World Climate Report website
http://www.co2andclimate.org/climate/editors/editors.htm
http://gcep.stanford.edu/sponsors_exxonmobil.html
http://gcep.stanford.edu/sponsors_exxonmobil.html
CEI website, various
http://www.cei.org
CEI website, various
http://www.cei.org
Jeff Nesmith, Cox News
Investigative journalist
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/124642_warming02.html
Jeff Nesmith, Cox News
Investigative journalist
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/124642_warming02.html
Tech Central Station Bio - Baliunas
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobaliunassallie.html
Tech Central Station Bio - Baliunas
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobaliunassallie.html
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06
www.CFACT.org
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06
www.CFACT.org
George Marshall Institute website 5/06
http://www.marshall.org
George Marshall Institute website 5/06
http://www.marshall.org
Heartland Institute Website (2006)
http://www.heartland.org/article.cfm?artId=16208
Heartland Institute Website (2006)
http://www.heartland.org/article.cfm?artId=16208
Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years
http://w3g.gkss.de/G/Mitarbeiter/storch/pdf/soon+baliunas.cr.2003.pdf
Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years
http://w3g.gkss.de/G/Mitarbeiter/storch/pdf/soon+baliunas.cr.2003.pdf
ALEC announces new Ex Dir Jan 2006
http://www.alec.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-2006/january/new-executive-director.html
"The Greening Continues"
documentary by Western Fuels and Greening Earth Society