Vincent R. Gray
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Vincent R. Gray is a New Zealand
-based chemist, and a founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
. He has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiaty bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps, He has had a long scientific career in the UK, France, Canada,and China working on petroleum, plastics, gelatin, timber, paint, adhesives and adhesion, coal, and building materials with well over 100 scientific and technical articles, patents and Chapters in books. In New Zealand he was the first Director of Building Research and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association. After retirement he had four and a half years in China and when he returned became a climate specialist who rapidly became a critic of the claim that climate was harmed by human emissions of greenhouse gases. He has been an Expert Reviewer of every publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climnate Change, with 1,898 comments on the 2007 Report. He has published critical studies on all of the Reports including a book "The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001'". He has also published many articles and reports, seven in peer-reviewed journals. He has published "Confessions of a Climate Sceptic"
He is sceptical of the anthropogenic global warming
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Gray has called for the IPCC
to be abolished, claiming it is “fundamentally corrupt” due to his conclusion that for significant parts of the work of the IPCC, the data collection and scientific methods employed are unsound and that the IPCC resists all efforts to try to discuss or rectify these problems.
Gray was featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
program Counterpoint
in a debate entitled "Nine Lies about Global Warming", and was interviewed in a featured story in the New Zealand Herald as a "prominent" climate skeptic.
In 2004, Gray also published a book, The Greenhouse Delusion : A Critique of "Climate Change 2001". In it, Gray argues "that the quality and reliability of the IPCC's measurements are poor, the system of determining how much weight should be attributed to different influences on the earth's temperature is faulty, and the validity of evidence derived from computer modeling is questionable."
Gray has never been published in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject of climate change.
New Zealand
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-based chemist, and a founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition is an organisation based in New Zealand which has the aim of refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about anthropogenic global warming.-Beginnings:...
. He has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiaty bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps, He has had a long scientific career in the UK, France, Canada,and China working on petroleum, plastics, gelatin, timber, paint, adhesives and adhesion, coal, and building materials with well over 100 scientific and technical articles, patents and Chapters in books. In New Zealand he was the first Director of Building Research and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association. After retirement he had four and a half years in China and when he returned became a climate specialist who rapidly became a critic of the claim that climate was harmed by human emissions of greenhouse gases. He has been an Expert Reviewer of every publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climnate Change, with 1,898 comments on the 2007 Report. He has published critical studies on all of the Reports including a book "The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001'". He has also published many articles and reports, seven in peer-reviewed journals. He has published "Confessions of a Climate Sceptic"
He is sceptical of the anthropogenic global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
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- "The two main "scientific" claims of the IPCC are the claim that "the globe is warming" and "Increases in carbon dioxide emissions are responsible". Evidence for both of these claims is fatally flawed."
Gray has called for the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
to be abolished, claiming it is “fundamentally corrupt” due to his conclusion that for significant parts of the work of the IPCC, the data collection and scientific methods employed are unsound and that the IPCC resists all efforts to try to discuss or rectify these problems.
Gray was featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
program Counterpoint
Counterpoint (Radio National)
Counterpoint is an Australian weekly radio program, presented by Michael Duffy and Paul Comrie-Thomson and broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National.-Programming:...
in a debate entitled "Nine Lies about Global Warming", and was interviewed in a featured story in the New Zealand Herald as a "prominent" climate skeptic.
In 2004, Gray also published a book, The Greenhouse Delusion : A Critique of "Climate Change 2001". In it, Gray argues "that the quality and reliability of the IPCC's measurements are poor, the system of determining how much weight should be attributed to different influences on the earth's temperature is faulty, and the validity of evidence derived from computer modeling is questionable."
Dispute over credentials
He has been an "Expert Reviewer for the IPCC" since 1990, although this consideration has been challenged and considered misleading since it does not require any expertise at all, but only that "he asked to see the draft report" and signed an agreement not to publicly comment on the draft report. .Gray has never been published in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject of climate change.