Rio Grande Foundation and CARE to Host Environmental Scientist and Climate Change “Skeptic” Fred Singer

(Albuquerque) The Rio Grande Foundation and the Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) will host S. Fred Singer for a lecture and discussion of climate change and climate change policies. Singer is one of the most articulate and best-known “skeptics” regarding the supposed “consensus” on climate change.

The discussion will be held on Wednesday, February 15, from 6pm to 8pm in Room 2401 at the UNM Law School. Admission is $10, payable at the door, and includes light beverages and snacks. The Law School is located at: 1117 Stanford Drive Northeast, Albuquerque, NM 87106-3700.

Singer is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Member of the International Academy ofAstronautics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University.

Dr. Singer is the author or editor of fourteen books on climate science, energy, and environmental issues as well as the author of over 400 articles in scientific and public policy journals plus over 200 articles in popular publications, Dr. Singer has been featured in articles in Time, Life, and U. S. News & World Report, and he has been interviewed on Nightline, Today Show, News Hour, Nightwatch, and other national and international television programs.

More recently, he co-authored the New York Times bestseller, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), and he was also the organizer of NIPCC (Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change) and lead author in 2008 of its summary report, Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate.

The event is sure to be a lively and engaging one.