The Global Warming Naysayers, Part 2

This is a continuation of a previous post on the credentials of Delaware's "experts" who have signed the Oregon Petition denouncing the Kyoto treaty and denying the existence of global warming. Looking back on the research I did on that post, it's obvious that many of these folks seem to have ties to one another, making it look rather as if somebody printed out a bunch of these petitions and brought them to meetings or passed them out to their friends. Or just signed 'em all up without asking. The main groups represented are UD's Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) dept. and DuPont chemists, as well as a smattering of folks who seem to work together at smaller firms. In the first part of the list, there are also a couple of women who share a last name with a man on the list but have no credentials of their own anywhere, which leads me to believe they signed because their husbands did, but have no particular expertise of their own except for the ability to join the Junior League, play contract bridge and make donations to Republican candidates, since those were the only kinds of records I was able to find for them.

Since there seemed to be an overabundance of old guys in the "A though G" section of the list, I decided to track their ages for this post. I was able to find the ages of 27 of the 30 individual signers listed here; wonder of wonders, I found that the average signer researched in this section is 73 years old! Now, obviously these folks are intelligent and undoubtedly know a lot about their chosen fields, but I somehow doubt that all of these retired DuPont chemists and engineers have devoted their golden years to keeping up with the latest cutting-edge studies of climate change.

That said, we pick up our list with the H's:

• Chin-Pao Huang, PhD - Dr. Huang teaches in the Civil and Environmental Engineering dept. at UD and lists his interests as "Industrial wastewater management; aquatic chemistry;soil and groundwater remediation; environmental nanomaterials and processes."Age 67.
• Robert G. Hunsperger, PhD - with UD's electrical and computer engineering dept. researching photonic and microwave devices and circuits. Has also collaborated with UDs CEE dept, which is the field many other DE signers specialize in. 64 years old.
• Mir Nazrul Islam, PhD - cites a permanent address in Newark but currently lives in Panama, where he is President of Mir Agro-Industriales, S.A. Panama, a company devoted to the development of food and pharmaceutical industries geared to aging and degenerative disease. Age 50
• Harold Leonard Jackson, PhD - Dupont chemist with patents as early as 1975 and late as 1992. Age 86
• Vladislav J. Jandasek - DelDot engineer, retired. Age 69
• Paul R. Jann - Air Quality Consultant, DuPont Engineering and Technology Section. There is at least one letter from Mr. Jann to DNREC's Air Quality Management section  objecting to a proposed regulation, saying "this regulation will cause financial hardship on small businesses, commercial and institutional facilities, as well as R&D facilities that operate electrical generators and, by this regulation, are required to burn more expensive low-sulfur fuels, install high cost emissions controls that may or may not be able to achieve the proposed emission limits, perform expensive source emission testing, and comply with extensive record-keeping and reporting requirements." I'm sure he's completely impartial on the question of global warming, though.. Age 65
• George K. Janney - only record is a listing of his address in Newark that lists his job as "Dog Gone Geese," and a lawsuit where he sued a property management company for mismanaging a rental property. No professional references anywhere. No age.
• Charles S. Joanedis - retired vice president of Getty Refining & Marketing Co. Hmm, don't suppose there's a bit of bias there, do you? Also made donations to UD's chemical engineering program. 83 years old.
• John Eric Jolley, PhD - another retired DuPont chemical engineer, 80 years old
• Louise Hinrichsen Jones, PhD - another (probably former) UD computing department member. Published a paper on microcomputing in 1973. There's also a Louise Hinrichsen Jones who's received $126,000 worth of federal subsidies in the last 15 years for raising corn and soybeans in Ohio, so I'm confused unless she retired and literally "bought the farm." Age 80.
• Robert John Kallal, PhD - there's a Robert Kallal in his 80's living in Hockessin who's received USDA farm subsidies, and there's a Robert Kallal who wrote about computer languages in the mid-90's. Age 88.
• Robert James Kassal, PhD - another DuPont chemist, age 73
• John T. Kephart - another DuPont engineer, age 84
• Charles A Kettner, PhD - another DuPont chemist, pharmaceuticals this time, age 63
• Charles O. King, PhD - the only Dr. Charles O. King I was able to find is a wealthy dermatologist in Alabama who makes a lot of donations.
• Joseph Jack Kirkland, PhD - another DuPont chemist, age 84
• Henry Kobsa, PhD - another DuPont engineer, age 79
• Theodore Augur Koch, PhD - another DuPont chemist, age 84.
• Robert F. Kock - no record of a Robert F. Kock in Delaware except as a petition signer
• Bruce David Korant, PhD  -- another Dupont employee, a biochemist this time, age 65
• Carl George Krespan, PhD -- another DuPont chemist, age 83
• Palaniappa Krishnan, PhD -- an associate professor in the University of DE's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Seems to specialize in computer modeling. A youngster at 56.
• Wo Kong Kwok, PhD - another DuPont employee, possibly specializing in contamination control, age 73
• Douglas R. Leach, PhD - another DuPont chemist, the baby on the list at age 54
• Bernard Albert Link, PhD - currently vice-president of Leads & Libraries at Athena Biotechnologies, a Newark firm that "provides chemicals and enzymes for pharmaceuticals, agrichemicals, and industrial and therapeutic enzyme markets." According to his bio, he "spent 26 years with DuPont in research, marketing and management positions."Age 69.
• Royce Zeno Lockart, PhD - another DuPont biochemist, age 81.
• Francis M. Logullo, PhD - in a 1996 bulletin board posting, he describes himself as a "Retired DuPont Regulatory Affairs Consultant." 70 years old.
• H. Y. Loken, PhD -- another Dupont employee, probably an engineer. Age 64.
• Rosario Joseph Lombardo, PhD -- only info I was able to find is that he graduated from Penn State in 1951, there's a Rosario J. Lombardo Scholarship in Engineering, and he's 87 years old.
• Ruskin Longworth, PhD - another Dupont chemist, age 82.

To be continued...