Ian Simmonds
Ian Simmonds is Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at The University of Melbourne, Australia, and has held posts with the Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University (USA). He has a broad range of interests including meteorology, climatology, oceanography, climate variability and change, palaeoclimate, and land–atmosphere processes. In addition, he has made significant contributions to the fields of air–sea interaction, data analysis, modelling of geophysical systems, behaviour and influence of Antarctic sea ice, global balances and transport of carbon dioxide and methane, circulation of the Antarctic atmosphere, and urban climates. He has published over 130 scientific articles in the fully-refereed international literature, and was awarded the inaugural Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Medal (2000). He has served on many national and international scientific committees related to his areas of expertise.
Papers Published in World Economics:
Response to ‘The Stern Review: A Dual Critique—Part I: The Science’
In their comments on part one of the ‘Dual Critique’ [Vol. 7, No. 4] the authors draw attention to a number of instances where the treatment of sources and evidence is selective and biased, and perhaps where it reveals a modest understanding of the vast amount of conventional and well-established literature on climate science and allied topics. The purpose of this record is not fundamentally to dissect all the main points made by the Dual Critique authors. Rather, Simmonds and Steffen have confined themselves to commenting under a few headings on issues which they found particularly striking (grossly misleading, inconsistent with the workings of the climate system, or just plain wrong).
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