Talk:John Christy

message: I have read that he shares a (half) Nobel Prize with Al Gore:
"I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I don't think I will add "0.0001 Nobel Laureate" to my resume."
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.224.233 (talk) 01:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Err? No. He wasn't part of the AR4. He was lead author on the TAR though. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 20:20, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobel Prize ? 

message: The UAH website describes Dr. Christy as "the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science" Is there any objection to including this language in his Biography? Showman60 (talk) 20:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like puffery, and needs a reference William M. Connolley (talk) 21:02, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Honorific titles are generally not permitted on Wikipedia (except in specific discussion of a person's titles), per the Manual of Style for biographies. Kaldari (talk) 21:26, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

text:  The correct title is: "is the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville". They may not be "generally" permitted, but it is OK in this case.Gabriel Tuttle (talk) 21:40, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not a title, it's a description of two positions he holds. The title is "Professor". --Stephan Schulz (talk) 21:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. We needed the correct description of those positions, and now we have it.Gabriel Tuttle (talk) 23:09, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Professor or Distinguished Professor..

message: This text needs a citation or it probably will need to be deleted. Cla68 (talk) 07:48, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation needed

message: Does William "Danny" Blaswell work with Roy Spencer (scientist) and John Christy of University of Alabama in Huntsville? Christy is on Talk:Richard A. Muller, saw this on Talk:Global warming.  64.27.194.74 (talk) 20:56, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Is Blaswell a misspelling of Braswell, per Talk:Roy Spencer (scientist)?  97.87.29.188 (talk) 20:50, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does William "Danny" Blaswell work with Roy Spencer and John Christy of University of Alabama in Huntsville? 

message: The current information claiming a "mistake" by Judge Sessions is not accurate....
In a 2007 ruling in a trial relating to automobile emission regulation in Vermont, U.S. District Court Chief Judge William K. Sessions mistakenly wrote, "Plaintiffs’ own expert, Dr. Christy, agrees with the IPCC’s assessment that in the light of new evidence and taking into account remaining uncertainties, most of the observed warming over the last fifty years is likely to have been due to the increase in GHG concentrations."  What Christy said in his testimony was, "You know, it's a statement that has lots of qualifications in it, so it's hard to disagree with." and "You saw me pause a long time because — this was six years ago. And the question was about what I thought six years ago." 
I attempeted a correction here but was reverted with the edit summary explanation:That is not a correction, that is deleting what Christy said.
As cited by Judge Sessions in the references above, here is what Christy said during cross examination...
Plaintiffs’ own expert, Dr. Christy, agrees with the IPCC’s assessment that in the light of new evidence and taking into account remaining uncertainties, most of the observed warming over the last fifty years is likely to have been due to the increase in GHG concentrations. Tr. vol. 14-A, 145:18-148:7 (Christy, May 4, 2007).
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Christy agrees that the increase in carbon dioxide is real and primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, which changes the radiated balance of the atmosphere and has an impact on the planet’s surface temperature toward a warming rate. Id. at 168:11-169:10.
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Christy also agreed that climate is a nonlinear system, that is, that its responses to forcings may be disproportionate, and rapid changes would be more difficult for human beings and other species to adapt to than more gradual changes. Id. at 175:2-174:11.
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He further agreed with Hansen that the regulation’s effect on radiative forcing will be proportional to the amount of emissions reductions, and that any level of emissions reductions will have at least some effect on the radiative forcing of the climate. Id. at 174:16-23.
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I don't see any "mistakes" on Judge Sessions' part that support the current revision. What am I missing?  ArtifexMayhem (talk) 22:57, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a BLP about Judge Sessions. Presenting the views of someone based on someone else's "interpretation" is misleading. It is clear what Christy's views are on climate change and all you are attempting to do is distort his position on the issue through someone else's words.--JournalScholar (talk) 23:57, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: BLP applies in every article, of course. You cannot claim that someone was mistaken without very good sources attesting that. But what are Christy's views on climate change? I would very much like to know them... --Stephan Schulz (talk) 00:02, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed mistaken and added the year for proper context. He states his views, "I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see."--JournalScholar (talk) 00:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judge William K. Sessions mistakenly wrote... 

message: Section = 109 BLP articles labelled "Climate Change Deniers" all at once. This article was placed in a "climate change deniers" category. After discussion on WP:BLPN and WP:CFD the category was deleted. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 16:16, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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message: The publisher is Dow Jones & Company, now a division of News Corp., per its wp article ... on August 1, 2007, News Corp and Dow Jones entered into a definitive merger agreement; transaction was completed on December 13, 2007.  Before and after 2007 DJ & Co. was/is publisher.  That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. 
,  Any responses/comments?  X1\ (talk) 20:08, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right at least in part - in November 2007, News Corps was not yet in charge - I got my history upside down. Sorry. After 2007, the situation is more complicated. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 20:09, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
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