S. Fred Singer
Dr. S. Fred Singer (19242020) was a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. Dr. Singer served as Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres; Chief Scientist for the U. S. Department of Transportation; Deputy Assistant Administrator at the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U. S. Department of the Interior; Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami; (First) Director of the U. S. Weather Satellite Center; Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland; and Research Physicist, Upper Atmospheric Rocket Program, Johns Hopkins University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; National Air and Space Museum; Lyndon Baines Johnson School for Public Affairs, University of Texas; and the Soviet Academy of Sciences Institute for Physics of the Earth. He is the recipient of the White House Special Commendation, Gold Medal Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce, (First) Science Award from the British Interplanetary Society, and Honorary Doctorate from Ohio State University. Dr. Singer is the author or editor of fourteen books on climate science, energy, and environmental issues as well as the author of over 400 articles in scientific and public policy journals plus over 200 articles in popular publications, Dr. Singer was featured in articles in Time, Life, and U. S. News & World Report, and he wasn interviewed on Nightline, Today Show, News Hour, Nightwatch, and other national and international television programs. He co-authored the New York Times bestseller, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), and he was also the organizer of NIPCC (Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change) and lead author in 2008 of its summary report, Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate.
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Books | |
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021) | 2021 |
Hot Talk, Cold Science | 1999 |
Video | ||
S. Fred Singer Interviewed on KUSI San Diego on Global Warming | February 14, 2012 | |
Hot Talk and Cold Science of Global Warming | July 14, 2011 | |
Fred Singer on Climate Change Data | November 23, 2009 | |
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Events | |
Hot Talk and Cold Science of Global Warming: After Kyoto, Climategate and the Hockey Stick | July 14, 2011 |
Global Warming: Scientific Fact or Fiction? | February 15, 2000 |
Commentary Articles | |
The Question of Sea Level Rise | February 12, 2019 |
Push-pull: A Decent Explanation for How We Got the Moon | October 22, 2018 |
Trump and the End of the Oil Crisis | September 1, 2018 |
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Research Articles | |
Disparity of Tropospheric and Surface Temperature Trends: New Evidence | May 17, 2017 |
A Comparison of Tropical Temperature Trends with Model Predictions | May 15, 2017 |
Lack of Consistency Between Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends | June 1, 2011 |
Policy Report | |
New Perspectives in Climate Change | July 28, 2003 |
Interview | |
Interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer by Nova on the Issue of Global Warming | March 12, 2000 |