Anthony Lupo

Credentials  

• PhD, Atmospheric Science, Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN, 1995.
• MS, Atmospheric Science, Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN, 1991.
• BS, Meteorology, State University of New York at Oswego - Oswego, NY, 1988.
• AS, Mathematics/Science, Cayuga County Community College - Auburn, NY, 1986.

Source: [1]

 Background

Anthony Lupo is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's  International Conference on Climate Change (2009) in New York City from March 8-10th.

According to leaked documents Anthony Lupo will receives $750 per month from the Heartland Institute, an organization at the forefront of climate change skepticism.

Stance on Climate Change

Lupo agrees that temperatures have been rising over the past thirty years, stating that "anyone who denies this [climate change] isn’t a very good scientist."

But he has also said that "The Earth goes through phases of warming and cooling, and though all the computer models we have show that we are in a warming phase, there is no way to differentiate between a natural warming and one that is human-caused." [2]

As an "expert reviewer" [3] of the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Lupo disputed the report's consensus that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." [4]

Key Quotes

"'In my mind, I hope that I'm keeping those two things separate,' he says. 'But I'm a person like anyone else, and I think I wouldn't be surprised if my thoughts are a little bit colored. But, you know, I try to keep my science independent of my politics as much as possible'" [4]

Key Deeds

June, 2009

Lupo was a contributing author (chapter six) to the Heartland Institute's report, "Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)." The report was edited by fellow skeptics Craig Idso and S. Fred Singer.

According to a description of the book at Amazon, "Chapter 6 investigates and debunks the widespread fears that global warming might cause more extreme weather.

2005

Sent a letter to the The Kansas City Star in 2005 allowed that the "the climate is warming." But Lupo went on to say that the warm and dry conditions the region was experiencing were "not unprecedented." [4]

March, 2000

Lupo was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. [5]

2000

Lupo sent a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, noting that oceanographer Roger Reville was urging that we study the impacts of global warming before making drastic measures to counter it.  [4]

Don Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois, pointed out in a rebuttal letter that Reville wasn't in a position to make "recent statements" on climate change, having died in 1991.

1998

Back in 1998, he wrote a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that claimed: "There is no scientific consensus whether global warming is a fact and is occurring."

In another 1998 letter, this one to the Columbia Daily Tribune, he wrote that skeptics outnumbered believers of man-made climate change. Lupo says today that the numbers have shifted, but that in 1998 the statement was "probably true." But this wasn't the case, as by 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had concluded that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." [4]

Nov 16, 2004

Lupo was a signatory to a letter to senator John McCain (R-AZ).

According to the press release, "The signers of the letter point out that sediment and ice core samples show that the arctic has experienced past warming that can not be attributed to greenhouse gas concentrations." [6]

Affiliations  

• The Heartland Institute — "Expert." [7]

 Publications

The following is a sample of Lupo's publications relating to cliamte. His full CV is available on his website.

• Lupo, A.R.(Contributing Author Ch 6 only), 2009: Heartland Institute, 2009: Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), edited by Craig Idso and S. Fred Singer.

• Lupo, A.R., 2008. "Reply to: 'In Defense of a Theory of Anthropogenic Global warming.' Journal of Missouri Medicine, 105:3, 186.

• Lupo, A.R., 2008. "Anthropogenic Global Warming: A Skeptical point of view." Journal of Missouri Medicine, 105:2, 22-26.

• J.C. Hagen, and A.R. Lupo, 2008. "Rebuttal Global Warming Landers." American Medical News, in press.

• Hussain, A., and A.R. Lupo, 2009: Scale and Stability Analysis of Selected Atmospheric Blocking Events. The 21st Conference on Global Climate Change. 89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. 14 – 19 January, 2009, Phoenix, AZ.

• Limpert, G.L., B.L. Perrin, and A.R. Lupo, 2009. "Simulating the effects of climate change on parameters for tropical cyclone development in the Atlantic basin." The 21st Conference on Global Climate Change. 89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. 14 – 19 January, 2009, Phoenix, AZ

 Resources

1. "Anthony R. Lupo" (PDF), CV at the University of Missouri.

2. Michael Amantea, "Effects of Climate Change in Missouri Take Root," Missourian Online, March 9, 2009.

3. "Annex III: Reviewers of the IPCC WGI Fourth Assessment Report," Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Accessed January, 2012.

4. "Sure, global warming has skeptics. But how many teach science at Mizzou?", The Pitch: Kansas City News, March 18, 2008.

5. "2009 International Conference on Climate Change," The Heartland Institute, February 1, 2009. Republished by Instituto Liberdade.

6. "Climate Experts Respond to Arctic Climate Impact Assessment," PR Newswire, November 16, 2004. Republished by the Frontier Center for Public Policy, November 20, 2004.

7. "Heartland Experts: Mr. Anthony R. Lupo," The Heartland Institute. Accessed January, 2012.

8. "Anthony Lupo," SourceWatch profile.

9. "Anthony Lupo, PhD," ExxonSecrets.