FACTSHEET: William Kininmonth
DETAILS
Director, Australasian Climate Research Institute
Contributing Author, Fraser Institute
Contributing Author, Fraser Institute 2007 Independent Summary for Policymakers
Signatory to the anti-climate-change petition sent in April, '06 to Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper
According to DeSmogBlog.com: Kinimonth is a frequent writer for a climate change skeptic organization called the "Lavoisier Group," and in Nov. 2004, the Lavoisier Group helped launch Kilimonth's book Climate Change; a natural hazard. According to Nov. 27, '04 news article , the Lavoisier Group was founded by Hugh Morgan the former CEO of Western Mining Corporation, a uranium mining company recently taken over by BHP Billiton. Lavoisier founders, "... are of the view that the science behind global warming policy is far less certain than its protagonists claim, and we also believe that the economic damage which Australia would suffer, if a carbon tax of the magnitude canvassed in AGO [Australia's Greenhouse Office] documents were imposed."
No published peer-reviewed research on climate change
According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Kininmonth has not published any research in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject of climate change. There is one study published in 1972 by "Kininmon, WR" on the subject of Rain-grown rice in Northern Australia. Kininmonth is a retired meteorologist and headed Australia's national climate centre for 12 years.
ORGANIZATIONS
Fraser Institute
Source: DeSmogBlog.com (2007)
Heartland Institute
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
International Climate Science Coalition
Source: ICSC list of who's who
SOURCES
DeSmogBlog.com (2007)
DeSmog Leaks Advance Copy of Think Tank's IPCC Attack
http://www.desmogblog.com/fraser-institute-ipcc-london-report
Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/
ICSC list of who's who
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=28