Roy Spencer
Roy Spencer
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Full Name and Common Aliases
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Dr. Roy William Spencer is a renowned American climatologist and research scientist best known for his work on satellite remote sensing of the Earth's climate system.
Birth and Death Dates
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Roy Spencer was born on December 18, 1955. He is still alive as of this writing (2023).
Nationality and Profession(s)
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Nationality: American
Profession(s): Climatologist, Research Scientist
Early Life and Background
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Spencer grew up in a small town in the Midwest, where he developed an interest in science and mathematics. He pursued his academic interests at the University of Michigan, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Meteorology and Physics in 1977.
Major Accomplishments
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Dr. Spencer has made significant contributions to our understanding of climate variability and change through satellite remote sensing. Some of his notable achievements include:
As a research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he developed and maintained several satellite-based climate monitoring systems.
He was part of the team that launched the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) on NASA's Terra spacecraft, which provided critical data for climate modeling and prediction.
Spencer has also made important contributions to our understanding of global warming and cooling patterns through his research on atmospheric temperature and humidity.Notable Works or Actions
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Dr. Spencer has published numerous papers in leading scientific journals, including Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature. Some of his notable works include:
"On the Diurnal Cycle of Ozone in the Upper Troposphere" (published in Journal of Atmospheric Science)
* "Global Warming and the Natural Climate Cycle" (published in Environmental Research)
Impact and Legacy
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Dr. Spencer's work has had a significant impact on our understanding of climate variability and change. He is widely recognized as one of the leading experts in satellite remote sensing of the Earth's climate system, and his research has influenced policy decisions at both national and international levels.
Why They Are Widely Quoted or Remembered
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Dr. Spencer is frequently quoted in media outlets for his insights on climate change and its implications for society. He is also widely respected among his peers for his contributions to the field of climatology, which have helped advance our understanding of global warming patterns.
As a researcher and scientist, Dr. Roy Spencer's work has had a lasting impact on our knowledge of climate variability and change.
Quotes by Roy Spencer
Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes – both in climate and in biological systems.
Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas-water vapor-into the atmosphere every day and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not man-made, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.
![We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.](/_vercel/image?url=https:%2F%2Flakl0ama8n6qbptj.public.blob.vercel-storage.com%2Fquotes%2Fquote-2540559.png&w=1536&q=100)
We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.
We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens.
I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world...
Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.
Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but you have to ask them, what is there a consensus on? Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I`m aware of is that it's warmed in the last century. They completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate change.
All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds of explanations of what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect, and yet most of those explanations are wrong. It's really easy to be wrong in science ... it's really hard to be right.
We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.