William Robert Kininmonth is an

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retired

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noted for rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.

Education

Kininmonth has a

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from the

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, a

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from

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...

, and a M.Admin. from

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

Career

Kininmonth headed

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's ''National Climate Centre'' at the ''Bureau of Meteorology'' from 1986 to 1998. He was Australia's delegate to the

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Commission for Climatology, was a member of Australia's delegations to the Second

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(1990) and the subsequent intergovernmental negotiations for the Framework Convention on Climate Change (1991–1992). Kininmonth published a book, ''Climate Change, a Natural Hazard'' in 2004. The book launch for Kininmonth's ''Climate Change: a Natural Hazard'' was organised by the

Lavoisier Group The Lavoisier Group is an Australian organisation formed by politicians and dominated by retired industrial businesspeople and engineers.Ian Plimer Ian Rutherford Plimer (born 12 February 1946) is an Australian geologist and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He has been criticised by climate scientists for misinterp ...

are members, and was chaired by Hugh Morgan, the President of the

Business Council of Australia The Business Council of Australia (BCA) is an industry association that comprises the chief executives of more than 100 of Australia's biggest corporations. It was formed in 1983 by the merger of the Business Roundtable – a spin-off of the Comm ...

. Kininmonth is a science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute. Kininmonth runs the ''Australasian Climate Research Institute'' (trading as ''Australasian Climate Research'') from his home in

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Articles

"Unmasking “An Inconvenient Truth”
William Kininmonth, February 2007, Center for Science and Public Policy

References

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