Tad Murty
Tadepalli Satyanarayana Murty | |
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Born | 1937 India |
Died | 2018 (aged 80–81) |
Nationality | Indian-Canadian[citation needed] |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Oceanography |
Institutions | University of Ottawa |
Thesis | Thermal convection in vertical tubes with application to geophysical phenomena (1967) |
Tad S. Murty (or Murthy) is an Indian-Canadian[citation needed] oceanographer and expert on tsunamis. He is the former president of the Tsunami Society. He is an adjunct professor in the departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences[1] at the University of Ottawa.[2] Murty has a PhD degree in oceanography and meteorology from the University of Chicago. He is co-editor of the journal Natural Hazards[3] with Tom Beer of CSIRO and Vladimir Schenk of the Czech Republic.
Climate change
He has taken part in a review of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Murty characterizes himself as a global warming skeptic. In an August 17, 2006 interview, he stated that "I started with a firm belief about global warming, until I started working on it myself...I switched to the other side in the early 1990s when Fisheries and Oceans Canada asked me to prepare a position paper and I started to look into the problem seriously.".[1] Murty has also stated that global warming is "the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities."[4] Murty was among the sixty scientists from climate research and related disciplines who authored a 2006 open letter[5] to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticizing the Kyoto Protocol and the scientific basis of anthropogenic global warming.
References
- ^ a b "U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works". www.epw.senate.gov.
- ^ "Murty, Tad". University of Ottawa. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008.
- ^ "Springer - International Publisher Science, Technology, Medicine". www.springer.com.
- ^ Robinson, Cindy (Spring 2005). "Global warning? - Controversy heats up in the scientific community". Carleton University Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 April 2008.
- ^ "Open Kyoto to debate". ocanada. National Post. April 11, 2006. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012 – via Canada.com.
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