U.S. Climate Economists Mailing List May 30, 2017 Name Contact Information Email Address Qualifications Anderson, Terry Property and Environment A founder of the Free Market Environmentalism, coauthor (with Leal) of the basic reference on the Research Center subject, head of PERC until just recently. See Anderson, T.L. and McChesney, F.S. 2003. Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law . Princeton, MA: Princeton University Press. Suite A B.S. University of Montana, Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington. Bozeman, MT Phone Ausubel, Jesse The Rockefeller University Director of the Program for the Human Environment and Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller r.edu University in New York City. From 1977-1988 Mr. Ausubel worked for the National Academies complex in Washington DC as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, staff officer of the National Research New York, NY Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and from 1983-1988 Director of Programs for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Mr. Ausubel was a main organizer of the first UN World http://www.rockefeller.edu/ Climate Conference (Geneva, 1979), which substantially elevated the global warming issue on scientific research/faculty/researchaffi and political agendas. During 1979-1981 he led the Climate Task of the Resources and Environment liates/JesseAusubel/#conten Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, near Vienna, Austria, an East-West t think-tank created by the U.S. and Soviet academies of sciences. Mr. Ausubel helped formulate the US and world climate research programs. Ausubel is one of the top two or three authorities on how the environment is getting cleaner and safer overtime. He keeps a relatively low profile on the climate issue, but we’ve talked over the years. See Ausubel, J.H. 1996. Liberation of the environment. Daedalus. 125(3):1-17 “Educated at Harvard and Columbia,” he apparently does not have a Ph.D. Avery, Dennis Institute for 21st Century Dennis Avery is a senior fellow with The Heartland Institute, director of the Center for Global Food Issues, Agriculture and a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute. Retired or emeritus from Hudson, working on a book on the history of climate and civilization. Author of one of the earliest articles expressing skepticism toward Churchville, VA global warming theory, it appeared in Readers Digest. He is retired. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/dennis-avery Bachman, Paul Director of Research at the Beacon Hill Institute. He holds a Master of Science in International Economics degree from Suffolk University and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics) degree from the St. Joseph's University in Boston, MA Philadelphia. Baden, John A. FREE Founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), and Gallatin Writers, Inc. FREE's focus is environmental economics and policy analysis. Gallatin works with Bozeman, MT writers of the West. Both are 501(c)(3) organizations with a shared office in Bozeman, MT. Dr. Baden was a leader in developing the New Resource Economics, an incentive-based approach to environmental and natural resource management. He has held endowed professorships, received teaching awards, and is the author or contributing editor of seven books and numerous articles on energy and natural resources. Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969,and then was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in environmental policy https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/john-a-baden Belzer, Richard Burton From 1988-1998, staff economist at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, From 1998-2001, Mt. Vernon, VA visiting professor of public policy at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the regulatory studies program at the University's Weidenbaum Center. Oversees the Regulatory Checkbook.org website and www.neutalsource.org See: Belzer, R.B. 1994. Is reducing risk the real objective of risk management? Chapter 10 in Finkel, A.M. and Golding, D. (Eds.) Worst Things First? The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. MA in agricultural economics from the University of California (Davis) in 1980, MA in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1982, and Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in 1989. Bezdek, Roger, Management Information Contributor to CCR-IIc, author of Bezdek, R. 2014. The Social Costs of Carbon? No, the Social Benefits Services, Inc. of Carbon. Management Information Services, Inc. Agreed to let us use this as basis for a chapter in CCR- IIc. Quoted in Wash Post on 12/15/14: “CO2 is basically plant food, and the more CO2 in the environment the better plants do,” proclaimed Roger Bezdek, a consultant to energy companies, at an event hosted Oakton, VA Monday by the United States Energy Association, an industry trade group.... The presentation began as a standard recitation of the climate-change denial position, that “there’s been no global warming for almost two decades” and that forecasts are “based on flawed science.” But then Bezdek pivoted into a robust defense of carbon dioxide’s benefits.” (NOAA Letter Signatory) Ph.D. Economics (University of Illinois) Bradley, Robert Founder and chairman of Institute for Energy Research. Houston, TX Author of Oil, Gas, and Government, a massive history in two volumes published by the Cato Institute in 1996, and later books on climate change and energy policy. He received a B.A. in economics from Rollins College, where he was awarded the S. Truman Olin award for the top student in economics. M.A. in economics from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. in political economy from International College, Los Angeles, where the Chair of his dissertation committee was Murray Rothbard. He then spent the summer of 1977 in residence at the Institute for Humane Studies in Menlo Park, California, studying with Austrian-school economists, including Rothbard and Nobel Laureate F. A. Hayek. Bryce, Robert Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is the author of five books on energy. He is also Austin, TX the author of a recent report for the institute on the global coal sector. Had a good piece on coal in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on November 12, 2014 Butos, William N. Professor of Economics George M. Ferris Professor of Corporation Finance & Investments Department of Economics, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Coauthor of “Causes and Consequences of the Climate Change Boom,” Trinity College Independent Review, a good review of gov’t spending on climate change. In addition to teaching Hartford, CT undergraduate and graduate courses at Trinity, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow in New York University's Austrian Economics Program since 1993 and lectures at the Foundation for Economic Education and Mises Institute. (NOAA Letter Signatory) B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Brooklyn College, CUNY. Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University Carl, Jeremy Hoover Institution Research fellow at the Hoover Institution, member of Hoover’s Energy Policy Task Force and Arctic Security Working Group. Previously a research fellow at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Stanford University Development at Stanford. Previously a research fellow in resource and development economics at the Stanford, CA Energy and Resources Institute (India). Author of Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America’s Energy Choices and Assessing the Role of Distributed Power Systems in the US Power Sector . MPA, Kennedy School of Govt. (Harvard), Doctoral work at Stanford Carlin, Alan Senior analyst and manager, USEPA, 1971-2010; whistleblower on EPA’s endangerment finding, Fairfax, VA affiliated with CEI, author or co-author of about 40 publications; author of Environmentalism Gone Mad: How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy , 2015, Stairway Press. (NOAA Letter Signatory) Ph.D. Economics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); B.S. Physics (California Institute of Technology) https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/alan-carlin Chilton, Kenneth Lindenwood Kenneth W. Chilton, Ph.D. is Professor of Management at Lindenwood University and Director of the University Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment. He previously was a researcher and administrator (for 24 years) at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy (formerly Center for the Study of American Business) at Washington University in St. Louis. PhD in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis (1992, 1994). https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/dr-kennith-chilton Cooke, Amy Oliver Independence Institute Executive VP and director of the Energy Policy Center at the Independence Institute, Colorado’s free market State Policy Network think tank since 2004. Lawmakers frequently request Cooke’s testimony on Denver, CO energy and transparency in legislative committee hearings. She collaborated with William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to expose the high cost of Main phone line: Colorado’s “new energy economy,” a supposed model for renewable energy for the rest of the country, questionable behavior at the Public Utilities Commission, and collusion between lawmakers, bureaucrats Fax: and special interest groups. Their work resulted in five pieces of legislation introduced during the 2011 legislative session. Cordato, Roy John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation. From 1993-2000 he served as the Lundy Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC. From 1987- 1993 he was Senior Economist at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET) in Raleigh, NC Washington, DC. He has served as full time economics faculty at the University of Hartford and at Auburn University and as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Spoke at ICCC-1. Ph.D.