Sallie Baliunas
Sallie Baliunas is at the in the and formerly Deputy Director of the .
Research
Baliunas is primarily an astrophysicist and this is where the bulk of her research has been done (e.g. ). 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.
The work of Soon and Baliunas has received little mention in the popular press or in IPCC reports on the global warming theory although she has been trumpeted by the Marshall Institute , Tech central station and SEPP . Yet their research indicates that solar variability is more strongly correlated with variations with air temperature than any other factor, even carbon dioxide levels.
Positions and awards
Dr. Baliunas serves as Senior Scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, DC, and chairs the Institute's Science Advisory Board. She is also Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University, Adjunct Professor at Tennessee State University and past contributing editor to the World Climate Report. Her awards include the Newton Lacey Pierce Prize by the American Astronomical Society, the Petr Beckmann 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.
Links
- 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 .
- 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
