Spouse Yes Children 2 | Name Scott Denning Fields Atmospheric sciences | |
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Thesis A study of the transport, sources, and sinks of atmospheric CO₂ using a general circulation model (1994) Institution University of California, Santa Barbara, Colorado State University | ||
Scott denning v roy spencer debate iccc6
A. Scott Denning is a climate scientist and professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, whose faculty he joined in 1998. He is known for his research into atmosphere-biosphere interactions and atmospheric carbon dioxide. He firmly supports action to avoid dangerous climate change and has said that the science behind it is "settled". He has also argued that, if no action is taken on the matter, global warming could cause the climate of Colorado to resemble the current climate of its neighbors to the south, such as southern New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.
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- Scott denning v roy spencer debate iccc6
- Scott denning into the heartland of climate science denial
- Education and scientific career
- Debates
- References
Scott denning into the heartland of climate science denial
Education and scientific career
Denning received his BA in geology from the University of Maine and his MS and PhD in atmospheric science from Colorado State University in 1993 and 1994, respectively. He then spent two years as an assistant professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined the faculty of Colorado State University in 1998, and become the director of education for the Center for Multi-Scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes in 2006. Denning also worked on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory's scientific team, and planned to analyze its data prior to its crash in 2009.
Debates
Denning has appeared twice at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change, and is the only non-skeptical scientist to have done so. In 2011, for instance, Denning debated skeptical climatologist Roy Spencer at the 6th International Conference on Climate Change.