David Evans
No peer-reviewed articles on climate change
According to his resume, Evans has not published any peer-reviewed research papers on the subject of climate change. Evans published one paper, in 1987, but it was unrelated to climate change.
Evans published an article for the Alabama-based Ludwig von Mises Instutute, a right-wing, free-market think tank.
Some of Evans articles appear on the website for the for the Australian chapter of the Lavoisier Group, a global warming "skeptic" organization with close ties to the mining industry.
"I am not a climate modeler"
From 1999 to 2006, Evans worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office<!--[if gte mso 9]>
Background
David Evans lives in Australia and gained media attention after an article he wrote titled, "No smoking hot spot," which was published in The Australian in June, 2008. The article claims that climate change is not caused by C02 emissions because there is no evidence of "a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics." Evan's claim has been thoroughly debunked by Tim Lambert, a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
According to his bio, Evans claims to be a "Rocket Scientist," and one article claims that he is a "Top Rocket Scientist." While Evans's background does show that he has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, there is no evidence that he was ever employed as a rocket scientist.
Evans also claims to be "building a word processor for Windows." DeSmogBlog contacted Microsoft and they have confirmed that he does not work for them.
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