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Principia Scientific International

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Principia Scientific International

Background

Principia Scientific International (PSI) is an organization based in the United Kingdom which promotes fringe views and material to claim that carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas. PSI was formed in 2010 around the time they published their first book, titled Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory. [1]

PSI claims it provides its members with a “reliable port of call to ascertain the facts behind the news stories to better judge whether information being presented by third parties is accurate information and reflects a balanced view of all facets of the subject.” [2]

The PSI website says the organization is “for everyone who supports the traditions [sic] scientific method against the rise of sinister and secretive government funded 'post normal science'.”

As of 2014, PSI described itself as a “not-for-profit community interest subsidiary of PSI Acumen Ltd. That statement has since been removed. [2]

PSI Acumen was registered with Companies House in the UK in March 2013 (see PDF) as a private company, with an address in Battersea Park Road, London. In July 2013, the business address of PSI Acumen was changed (PDF) to an address in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, which is the same as the home address of John O'Sullivan, the organization's founder and chief executive officer. PSI Acument LTD was dissolved (PDF) on October 15, 2014. [3], [4], [5]

The two named directors were John O'Sullivan, of the UK, and a Walter James O'Brien, with a US address listed in Fargo, North Dakota. Emails published by climate skeptic blogger Pete Ridley suggest that Walter James O'Brien no longer has any connection to the PSI Acument company. [3], [6]

Principia Scientific reports that one of their “proudest endeavors is the ongoing support given to world-leading independent climatologist, Dr Tim Ball,” who is also a founding member and former chairman of PCI. [7]

https://www.desmogblog.com/john-o-sullivan

John O'Sullivan

Credentials
Credentials heavily contested. No reliable source available.

Background
John O'Sullivan is a UK-based climate denialist blogger, writer and the sole active director of Principia Scientific International - a membership group promoting fringe views on climate change science and role of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. O'Sullivan, a former school teacher, claims the greenhouse effect caused by carbon dioxide is unproven and that human-caused climate change is a “fraud”.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ball

Timothy Francis Ball is een Canadese klimatoloog en Emeritus Professor, die sceptisch is over de theorie van de opwarming van de aarde door toedoen van de mens. Hij is leider van de Natural Resources Stewardship Project en was hoofd van Friends of Science. Ook is hij adviseur van International Climate Science Coalition.

Ball studeerde aan de University of Winnipeg (B.A.), University of Manitoba (M.A., geografie) en University of London (Ph.D. klimatologie). In zijn proefschrift analyseerde hij historische weergegevens van het noorden van Canada. Van 1973 tot 1996 gaf hij geografie aan de universiteit van Winnipeg. Ball kwam voor in de documentaire The Great Global Warming Swindle van Martin Durkin (2007). Na de hacking en openbaarmaking van e-mails en ander materiaal in de affaire die 'Climategate' ging heten, schreef Ball onder meer, dat het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change en Al Gore hun Nobelprijs voor de Vrede moeten inleveren.[1][2]