Complaint to Ofcom Regarding The Great Global Warming Swindle

Appendix J: Backgrounds of the Peer Reviewers of this Complaint

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Professor McCarthy reviewed those sections of this complaint that relate to IPCC Working Group II and to the epidemiology and entomology content of the IPCC WG2 reports.

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Professor Tony McMichael

Professor McMichael is Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, in The Australian National University, Canberra. Previously he was Professor of Environmental Health at Adelaide University (1986-93) and Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1994-2001) – see http://tinyurl.com/bnhbt, He was a Convening Lead Author for the IPCC Working Group II chapter on Health, in the Second and Third Assessments, and Review Editor for that chapter in the Fourth Assessment (see http://tinyurl.com/34y7tg and http://tinyurl.com/2jq8od.

Professor McMichael reviewed those sections of this complaint that relate to IPCC Working Group II and to the epidemiology and entomology content of the IPCC WG2 reports.

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Dr Chris Curtis

[Note: Chris Curtis passed away on 13 May 2008 after a brief and unexpected illness. He made a major contribution to this complaint, and struck its authors as being an exceptionally compassionate person, and a down to earth but rigorous scientist. One of his colleagues at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine wrote to us: He is sorely missed at the School where he was greatly respected and liked by staff and students.

There is an obituary at http://tinyurl.com/6gct6f.]

Dr Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Medical Entomology with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research interests include insects, malaria and health inequalities, and especially the control of malaria mosquitoes, particularly by use of pyrethroid treated bednets. He has also published a number of papers on the role of DDT in malaria control. See also http://tinyurl.com/22vn83.

Professor Curtis reviewed those sections of this complaint that relate to the epidemiology and entomology content of the IPCC Working Group II reports.

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Dr Jim Watson

Jim Watson is Co-Deputy Leader of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Researchs Energy Programme (see: http://tinyurl.com/375gel), specifically researching carbon lock-in. He is also Senior Lecturer and Senior Fellow in the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit at Sussex University (see: http://tinyurl.com/2o89k3. His research interests include carbon lock-in, and the development and deployment of small-scale distributed energy sources.

Dr Watson reviewed those sections of this complaint that relate to alternative energy and development economics.

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Dr Joe Smith

Dr Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Environment at The Open University. He has written books on the green movement (2006) climate change (2003) and the media and global environmental issues (2000). He is currently developing an edited volume Do good lives have to cost the Earth?. Two current research projects explore the politics of consumption, and the medias role in shaping public debate about complex issues.

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