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Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen claims<ref>"[http://thedogatemydata.blogspot.com/2009/12/dr-sonja-boehmer-christensen-addressing.html]"
</ref> 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<ref> "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10370955.stm]"</ref> 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" [http://www.hull.ac.uk/geog/html/boehmer.html]
*Member of [[Scientific Alliance]] Advisory Board
*ReaderEmeritus, Department of Geography and Earth Resources, University of Hull
*Critic of the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] [http://www.john-daly.com/sonja-bc.htm]
==References==
*Letter to the BBC 24th December 2009 "[http://thedogatemydata.blogspot.com/2009/12/dr-sonja-boehmer-christensen-addressing.html]"
*Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, "[http://www.john-daly.com/sonja-bc.htm 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
*[http://www.hull.ac.uk/geog/html/boehmer.html Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen biography], Hull University website, accessed December 2003
*Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, "[http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/z011.htm 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, "[http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/aug/policy/pt_skeptics.html 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.