Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen

Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen claims to be "an ‘expert’ on the science and politics of global warming since the late 1980s". This is contrasted by her skeptical contribution to the BBC's report on scientific expertise in climate science by Anderegg & Prall et al where she opines "Who judges expertise and prominence? It looks to me that the authors belong to an IPCC supporting group that must count as believers and belong to the beneficiaries of the man-made warming scare."

"Many of the motives of supporters of 'green' solutions and ideas are suspect and the political ignorance or naivetey of environmentalists are a concern to me" [6]

She has written for Spiked and is a shareholder of the LM Group

She is also associated with the SPRU at Sussex University.

Accusations of Misconduct

Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen has accused climate scientists of misconduct on at least two occasions. She appears as a correspondent in one of the 1073 emails hacked from University of East Anglia in 2009. She is quotes as saying “[t]he hacked emails revealed attempts to manipulate peer review to E&E’s disadvantage, and showed that libel threats were considered against its editorial team. Dr Jones even tried to put pressure on my university department.” But the Muir Russell Report concluded that they “see nothing [in] Boehmer-Christiansen’s evidence that supports any allegation that CRU has directly and improperly attempted to influence the journal that she edits.” Furthermore, the emails actually show that Boehmer-Christiansen had been accusing CRU of scientific fraud, and “Jones’ response to her accusation of scientific fraud was appropriate, measured and restrained.”

On the occasion of the publication of the paper Anderegg et al 2010 she is quoted as saying "It looks to me that the authors belong to an IPCC supporting group that must count as believers and belong to the beneficiaries of the man-made warming scare."

Associates

• Member of Scientific Alliance Advisory Board
• Reader Emeritus, Department of Geography and Earth Resources, University of Hull
• Critic of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [7]
• Editor of the journal Energy and Environment

External Reseources

• Letter to the BBC 24th December 2009 "[8]"
• Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, "Disaster, Failure or Success? - Towards a better interaction between scientists, policy-makers and society groups", keynote speech, RMNO (Advisory Council for Research on Spatial Planning, Nature and the Environment) conference, Netherlands
• Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen biography, Hull University website, accessed December 2003
• Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, "Climate Change: the World Bank, Global Environment Facility and the United Nations - Partners or Competitors in Global Environmental Governance?", from Global Warming, ed. Julian Morris, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997
• Paul D. Thacker, "Skeptics get a journal", Energy & Environment: “We climate skeptics have to look for little journals like mine to even get published,” explains Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, the journal’s editor.
• Memorandum to UK Parliament http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/climatedata/uc2602.htm
• Supplementary memorandum to UK Parliament http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/387b/387we29.htm