Sallie Baliunas Research Positions And Awards Links

Baliunas is primarily an astrophysicist and this is where the bulk of her research has been done (e.g. [1]). She studies visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars; structure, variations, and activity in cool stars; evolution of stellar angular momentum; solar variability and global change; adaptive optics; exoplanets of Sun-like stars. More recently she has moved into the global warming area as a skeptic.

With Willie Soon, Dr. Baliunas investigated the correlation between solar variation and temperatures of the earth's atmosphere. When there are more sunspots, the total solar output increases, and when there are fewer sunspots, it decreases. Soon and Baliunas attribute the Medieval warm period to such an increase in solar output, and believe that decreases in solar output led to the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling from which the earth has been recovering since 1890.

Although the work of Soon and Baliunas is trumpeted by the Marshall Institute, Tech central station [2] and SEPP [3] [4] and mentioned in the popular press [5] and in IPCC reports [6] on global warming her viewpoint - that solar variation accounts for most of the recent climate change - is not widely accepted. They believe that solar variability is more strongly correlated with variations with air temperature than any other factor, even carbon dioxideCarbon dioxide is an atmospheric gas composed of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. One of the best known of chemical compounds, it is frequently called by its formula: :CO (pronunciation: "see oh two") Carbon dioxide results from the combustion of organic levels.

Baliunas is a strong disbeliever in a connection between CO2 rise and climate change, saying:

However, her main argument for this is ...measurements of atmospheric temperatures made by instruments lofted in satellites and balloons show that no warming has occurred in the atmosphere in the last 50 years. This was either untrue or misleading (see [8]) at the time, and is even less true now.

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Dr. Baliunas serves as Senior Scientist at the George C. Marshall InstituteThe George C. Marshall Institute says it was established in 1984 to conduct technical assessments of scientific issues with an impact on public policy. On the issue of climate change it is generally regarded as skeptic, and two noted skeptics ( Sallie Bal in Washington, DC, and chairs the Institute's Science Advisory Board. She is also Visiting Professor at Brigham Young UniversityBrigham Young University BYU or simply The Y was founded as Brigham Young Academy in 1875 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; see also Mormon). It has grown to become the largest private university in the United States and one, Adjunct Professor at Tennessee State UniversityTennessee State University (TSU is a comprehensive, urban, coeducational land-grant university founded in 1912. The 450 acre (1. 8 km²) main campus has more than 65 buildings and is located in a residential setting at 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd in Nashvill and past contributing editor to the World Climate ReportWorld Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels, was produced by the Greening Earth Society. Early editions were paper based; it then transferrred to web-only. It appears to have ceased publication with volume 8 in 2002. It presents a skepti. Her awards include the Newton Lacey Pierce Prize in Astronomy by the American Astronomical SocietyThe American Astronomical Society ( AAS) is a US society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The main aim of the AAS is provide a political voice for its members and organise their lobbying. The g, the Petr BeckmannPetr Beckmann ( 1924- 1993) was a physicist who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1963 and became a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. He was also a prolific scientific author who had published The Health Hazards of Not Going Award for Scientific Freedom and the Bok Prize from Harvard University. In 1991 Discover magazine profiled her as one of America's outstanding women scientists. She received her M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in Astrophysics from Harvard University.

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http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/Testimony-baliunas.htm - Testimony of March 13, 2002 by Dr Sallie Baliunas provided to the Senate, from the SEPP site, or direct.
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Sallie_L._Baliunas - Disinfopedia article
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=3
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_n5_v30/ai_21141905
work bio
Lecture on solar variability vs. carbon dioxide as a source of "global warming"
links to select works - compiled by the Marshall Institute

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