John Abraham is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at St. Thomas University in Minnesota where he specializes in heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Lord Christopher Monckton is a famous climate change skeptic and frequent witness before political panels. Although he is the Chief Policy Advisor for the
Science and Public Policy Institute, he appears to have no formal background in science.
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The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a United States based organization that describes itself as:
a nonprofit institute of research and education dedicated to sound
public policy based on sound science. Free from affiliation to any
corporation or political party, we support the advancement of sensible
public policies for energy and the environment rooted in rational
science and economics. Only through science and factual information,
separating reality from rhetoric, can legislators develop beneficial
policies without unintended consequences that might threaten the life, liberty, and prosperity of the citizenry.[1]
The organization's Executive Director is Robert "Bob" Ferguson. He is also a former Chief of Staff to Republican Congressmen Jack Fields (1981–1997), John E. Peterson (1997–2002), and Rick Renzi (2002). The chief science adviser to the institute is Willie Soon, PhD an astrophysicist and geoscientist, a skeptic of man made global warming and proponent of the theory that climate change is caused by solar variation. The chief policy adviser is Christopher Monckton, a former special adviser to Margaret Thatcher. Further science advisers include William Kininmonth, Robert M. Carter, David Legates, Craig D. Idso, and James J. O'Brien. Joe D'Aleo is the institute's Meteorology Adviser.
The institute has funded a film "Apocalypse? No!" intended to show the errors of the Al Gore documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. It shows Monckton presenting a slide show to the Cambridge University Union in a vitriolic attack on climate change science.[2].
The University of St. Thomas is a liberal catholic university in Minnesota of 6,500 undergraduate, 4,000 graduate students and plenty of faculty and staff to go around. It was ranked #124 in America's best Universities by US News and World Report.