Vincent Richard Gray (24 March 1922 – 14 June 2018) was a

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, and a founder of the

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Career

Born in

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on 24 March 1922, Gray was awarded a PhD in physical chemistry by the

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after studies on

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fluids made from aluminium soaps. He moved to New Zealand in 1970 to become the first Director of the Building Research Association (BRANZ) and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association. He also published many articles and reports, seven in peer-reviewed journals.

Views on climate change

After retirement, he had four and a half years in China and when he returned became a critic of the claim that climate was harmed by human emissions of greenhouse gases. He commented on every publication of the

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, with 1,898 comments on the 2007 Report. He published critical studies on all of the reports, including a 2002 book ''The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001. He published his autobiography ''Confessions of a Climate Sceptic'' in 2010 He was dismissive of anthropogenic

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. Gray called for the

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to be abolished, claiming it was “fundamentally corrupt” and that significant parts of the work of the IPCC, the data collection and scientific methods employed, were unsound. Gray was featured on the

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program

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in a debate entitled "Nine Lies about Global Warming", and was interviewed in a featured story in ''

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'' as a "prominent" global warming nay-sayer. In his book ''The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001"'', Gray argued "that the quality and reliability of the IPCC's measurements are poor, the system of determining how much weight should be attributed to different influences on the earth's temperature is faulty, and the validity of evidence derived from computer modeling is questionable." Gray died in

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on 14 June 2018, aged 96.

Publications

* ''The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "climate Change 2001" '' (2002), * ''The Global Warming Scam'' (2015),

References

External links

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20100611050451/http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=1 Support for call for review of UN IPCC {{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Vincent 1922 births 2018 deaths British emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand chemists New Zealand scientists Scientists from London Alumni of the University of Cambridge

Career

Views on climate change

Publications

See also

References

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