Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen | |
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Born |
1942 (age 71–72) Dresden, Germany |
Residence | Germany, Australia, United Kingdom |
Citizenship | German, Australian, British |
Nationality | German |
Fields | Environmental Policy, Geography |
Institutions | University of Sussex, University of Hull |
Alma mater | Adelaide University, University of Sussex |
Thesis | Limits to the international control of marine pollution (1981) |
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (Born 1942) is an Emeritus Reader in the Department of Geography at the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull England, where she taught environmental policy, management and politics.[1][2][3][4] She has been editor of the journal Energy & Environment since 1998 and an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC.[5][6][7]
Early life and education
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen was born in Dresden, East Germany.[2][5] In 1956, she moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where she obtained a B.A. with Honours in Geomorphology from Adelaide University while also studying climatology, geology, physical geography and German literature.[5][8][9][10] She moved again to England in 1969 and later attended the University of Sussex where she first obtained an M.A. followed by a D.Phil. in International Relations in 1981.[2][8][11] Her doctoral thesis was titled, Limits to the international control of marine pollution.[12]
Career
Boehmer-Christiansen joined the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex in 1985, working for a decade as a Research Fellow and then later as a Visiting Fellow.[2][9][13] Since the mid-1990s she had taught environmental policy, management and politics in the Geography Department at the University of Hull.[3][10] As an Emeritus Reader she still works from the University of Hull's Geography Department.[1][9]
She is a past member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future.[2][14]
Views
Climate change
Boehmer-Christiansen has been a critic of climate models saying they are based on data that cannot be verified.[15] She has also been critical of climate research funding, asserting that "Some university research units have almost become wholly-owned subsidiaries of Government Departments. Their survival, and the livelihoods of their employees, depends on delivering what policy makers think they want."[16]
In 2006, she signed an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging him to open the Kyoto Protocol to debate by holding balanced, comprehensive public-consultation sessions on the Canadian government's climate change plans.[17]
She holds an agnostic position on anthropogenic climate change and believes its negative aspects to be politically exaggerated.[18]
Third-party views
According to Fred Pearce, Boehmer-Christiansen is a sceptic about acid rain and global warming and calls the science reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "political constructs."[19]
The Guardian reported that Boehmer-Christiansen published — against the recommendations of a reviewer — a paper in Energy & Environment claiming that the Sun is made of iron.[20][21]
Selected publications
- Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja; Skea, Jim (1991). Acid politics: Environmental and energy policies in Britain and Germany. Belhaven Press. ISBN 1852931167.
- Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja; Weidner, Helmut (1995). The politics of reducing vehicle emissions in Britain and Germany. London and Madison. ISBN 1855672030.
- Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja; Kellow, Aynsley J. (2002). International Environmental Policy: Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 184064818X.
- Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja (1997). "A winning coalition of advocacy: climate research, bureaucracy and 'alternative' fuels: Who is driving climate change policy?". Energy Policy 25 (4): 439–444. doi:10.1016/S0301-4215(97)00016-5.
- Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja (2002). "The geo-politics of sustainable development: bureaucracies and politicians in search of the holy grail". Geoforum 33 (3): 351–365. doi:10.1016/S0016-7185(02)00018-0.
- Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja (2003). "Science, Equity, and the War against Carbon". Science, Technology & Human Values 28 (1): 69–92. doi:10.1177/0162243902238496.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Geography Department: Academic Staff". University of Hull. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen". University of Hull. Archived from the original on December 6, 2003. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Enlightening the Future 2024 Survey - Dr Sonja A Boehmer-Christiansen". Spiked. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
- ↑ "Scientific Advisory Forum". The Scientific Alliance. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen". OGEL. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ "Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report - Annex A. Authors and Expert Reviewers". IPCC. 2001. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ "Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis - Appendix IV - Reviewers of the IPCC WGI Third Assessment Report". IPCC. 2001. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja (1982). "The scientific basis of marine pollution control". Marine Policy 6 (1). doi:10.1016/0308-597X(82)90038-0. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja (February 2010). "Memorandum submitted by Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (CRU 26)". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia" II. House of Commons. March 24, 2010. p. 124. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
- ↑ Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja A. (1990). "Emerging international principles of environmental protection and their impact on Britain". The Environmentalist 10 (2): 95.
- ↑ Boehmer-Christiansen, S.A. (1981). Limits to the international control of marine pollution. University of Sussex. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ "SPRU Annual Report - SPRU Staff: Associate Staff - Visiting Fellows and Professors". University of Sussex. 1998. p. 39. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
- ↑ "Stakeholder Forum - Annual Report 2001–2002". Stakeholder Forum. 2002. p. 25. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
- ↑ "Tuvalu's tides divide scientists". The Age. August 25, 2004. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ Orlowski, Andrew (March 1, 2010). "UK Physicists on Climategate: Intolerance, sub prime stats, wider enquiry needed". The Register. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ↑ "Open Kyoto to debate - An open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper". National Post. April 11, 2006. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
- ↑ "Conversations From the Frotier with Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Geomorphologist". Frontier Centre for Public Policy. June 29, 2010. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
- ↑ Pearce, Fred, The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming, (2010) Guardian Books, ISBN 978-0-85265-229-9, p. XIV.
- ↑ Barley, Shanta (February 25, 2011). "Real Climate faces libel suit". The Guardian.
- ↑ Manuel, Oliver K. (2009). "Earth's Heat Source - The Sun". Energy & Environment 20 (1-2): 131–144.
External links
- Energy and Environment
- What inspired you? - Dr Sonja A Boehmer-Christiansen
- Key challenges for the next generation - Dr Sonja A Boehmer-Christiansen
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