Scientists Arguing That The Cause of Global Warming Is Unknown
Scientists in this section have made comments that no principal cause can be ascribed to the observed rising temperatures, whether man-made or natural. Their views on climate change are usually described in more detail in their biographical articles.
- Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Claude Allègre, politician; geochemist, Institute of Geophysics (Paris)
- Robert C. Balling, Jr., a professor of geography at Arizona State University
- John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC
- Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma
- Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bologna and president of the World Federation of Scientists
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