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Scott Denning

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A. Scott Denning
Alma materUniversity of Maine, Colorado State University
Children2[2]
AwardsMonfort Professor Award from Colorado State University, 2002[1]
Scientific career
FieldsAtmospheric science
InstitutionsUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, Colorado State University
ThesisA study of the transport, sources, and sinks of atmospheric CO₂ using a general circulation model (1994)
Websitewww.atmos.colostate.edu/faculty/denning.php

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, the global carbon cycle, and atmospheric carbon dioxide.[3] He firmly supports action to avoid climate change.[4] He has also argued that, if no action is taken on the matter, global warming could make the climate of Colorado resemble that of southern New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.[5]

Education and scientific career

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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.[3] 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.[3] 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.[3] Denning also worked on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory's scientific team.[6][7]

Debates

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Denning has appeared twice at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change. In 2011, Denning debated skeptical climatologist Roy Spencer at the 6th International Conference on Climate Change.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Talk on climatology". Bangor Daily News. 14 February 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  2. ^ Scott Denning
  3. ^ a b c d "A. Scott Denning – Professor – Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University". Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  4. ^ Finding Common Ground with Climate-Change Contrarians
  5. ^ Brown, Eric (11 June 2014). "Recent Greeley talks on ag, climate simultaneously bring out optimism, concern". Greeley Tribune. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  6. ^ Morello, Lauren (25 February 2009). "Scientists Mull Future After Carbon Satellite Crash". New York Times. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  7. ^ Llanos, Miguel (25 February 2009). "Satellite failure delays case of the missing CO2". NBC News. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  8. ^ Zwick, Steve (30 April 2012). "Heartland Channels Alfred E. Newman And Emily Litella In Climate Debate". Forbes. Retrieved 15 September 2014.