Tim Patterson

R. Timothy Patterson is a geologist and climatologist. He is a professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences at Carleton University and Director of the Ottawa - Carleton Geoscience Centre, Ottawa, Canada. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of Geography at Queen 's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland and holds a B.Sc. in biology, a B. A. in Geology, both from Dalhousie University, Halifax, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA).

Career

Patterson is a Canadian director of the project 495 of the UNESCO Programme for International Earth Science ( IGCP ), entitled " Quaternary Land- Ocean Interactions". It is to investigate the change in sea level in the past and make predictions for the future. Patterson was also Principal Investigator for projects of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada ( NSERC ) and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences ( CFCAS ). In this research, highly accurate climate data obtained from ocean basin to the west of Canada.

He was the founding editor of the journal Palaeontologia Electronica (1998-2000), and is currently editor of Journal of Foraminiferal Research, a journal of Micropaleontology.

Research

By 2007, Patterson had published over 120 articles in peer -reviewed. His research emphasizes the dynamics of climate and sea level changes over the last several thousand years, he also explores the environmental impact of land use in agricultural and urban environments.

In recognition of his research achievements Patterson was awarded the 2002-2003 Carleton University Research Achievement Award for " outstanding research ".

Climate change

In a published 2004 study Patterson writes that abrupt Klimawechel and long-term climatic fluctuations of the late Holocene with external factors such as changes in solar and cosmic radiation can be well correlated. As a result of his research Patterson takes in the controversy surrounding the global warming take a skeptical position and opposes many scenarios of climate change, as summarized by the IPCC.

Especially in Canada dealing with climate change is controversial, Patterson's statements were perceived in parliamentary hearings and any of these lectures in front of the Canadian Chapter of the Club of Rome.

In June 2007, Patterson published an article in which he predicted that the climate will cool down as the sun in 2018 would enter the solar cycle 25. He based his prediction on the close correlation between sun and climate cycles in stratigraphic and paleoclimatic analyzes of various sediment cores. Solar Cycle 25 would result in something so weak fail as solar cycles beginning of the 19th century, ie towards the end of the cold period of the so-called Little Ice Age.

In June 2007, Patterson said that " the climate cooling, which is connected to the solar cycle 25, the agricultural sector in Canada is concerned. A cool-down ... as they will occur from about 2018, would be an agrarian and national disaster. "

Patterson refers in his statements on its own geological research, as studies on cores in land-sea boundary areas during the Holocene and their Klimazyklizität. According to the work they are in accordance with the course of cosmic rays, regional studies, he has created, among others, for Ontario, British Columbia, as well as the Northeast Pacific. Patterson is derived from his research also statements include but page yield of commercially important fish stocks as a function of solar activity.

The results contradict the IPCC consensus of a lesser influence of solar activity on greenhouse gases significantly. Patterson refers here to work, see the entire Phanerozoic temperature and carbon dioxide clearly decoupled. He, however, does not address the discussed in science causes of the paradox of the faint young sun.

In 2005, Patterson said at a hearing of the Environment Committee of the Canadian Parliament on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol:

" There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 concentrations and the Earth's temperature over this geological time frame. In fact, the planet was - as the CO2 concentration was more than ten times as high as today, around 450 million years ago - in the midst of absolute coldest period in the last 500 million years. How can ... on the basis of this evidence anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 concentration would be the main cause of moderate warming in the past century? "

Selected Publications

  • R. Timothy Patterson, Andreas Prokoph, Eduard Reinhardt, Helen M. Roe: Climate cyclicity in late Holocene anoxic marine sediments from the Seymour - Belize Inlet Complex, British Columbia. Marine geology, Vol 242, No. 1-3, pp. 123-140, 2007
  • R. T. Patterson, H. P. Dalby, H. M. Roe, J.-P. Guilbault, I. Hutchinson, J. J. Clague: Relative utility of foraminifera, diatoms and macrophytes as high resolution indicators of paleo -sea level. Quaternary Science Reviews, vol 24, pp. 2002-2014, 2005
  • A. S. Chang, R. T. Patterson: Climate shift at 4400 years BP: Evidence from high-resolution diatom stratigraphy, Effingham Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 226, pp. 72-92, 2005
  • R. T. Patterson, A. Prokoph, A. S. Chang: Late Holocene sedimentary response to solar and cosmic ray activity Influenced climate variability in the NE Pacific. Sedimentary Geology, Vol 172, pp. 67-84, 2004
  • A. Prokoph, R. T. Patterson: Application of wavelet and discontinuity analysis to trace temperature changes: Eastern Ontario as a case study. Atmosphere Ocean. Vol 42, pp. 201-212, 2004.
  • R. T. Patterson, A.D. Fowler, B. Huber: Evidence of Hierarchical Organization in the Planktic Foraminiferal Evolutionary Record. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, Vol 34, No. 2, pp. 85-95, 2004.
  • R. T. Patterson, A. Prokoph, C. Wright, A. S. Chang, R. E. Thomson, D. M. Goods: Holocene Solar Variability and Pelagic Fish Productivity in the NE Pacific. Palaeontologia Electronica, Vol 6, No. 1, 17 pages, 2004 ( PDF file, 1.03 MB)
  • W. R. Gehrels, G. A. Milne, Jason R. Kirby, R. T. Patterson, D. F. Belknap: Late Holocene sea- level changes and isostatic crustal movements in Atlantic Canada. Quaternary International, Volume 120, pp. 79-89, 2004.
  • Martin Durkin: The Great Global Warming Swindle, DVD, TV WAG 2007 In Extras is in the section Some real science a complete seminar presentation by Tim Patterson to see, which is the reasons for its climate- skeptical theses. .

Academic Memberships

  • Director of Coquina Press, publisher of Palaeontologia Electronica
  • Geological Society of America (GSA)
  • Society for Sedimentary Geology ( SEPM )
  • North American Micropaleontological Society ( NAMS )
  • International Climate Science Coalition: Patterson is currently chairman of this international consortium of climate scientists skeptical.
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