Tad Murty

Tad S. Murty (or" Murthy") is an Indian-Canadian oceanographer and expert on tsunamis. He is the former president of the Tsunami Society. He is an adjunct professor in the departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences [http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&Region_id=&Issue_id=&IsTextOnly=True Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics - US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works] ] at the University of Ottawa [http://www.genie.uottawa.ca/people/professor/422/e/ link] . Murty has a PhD degree in oceanography and meteorology from the University of Chicago.

He is co-editor of the journal Natural Hazards [http://www.springer.com/west/home?SGWID=4-102-70-35533100-detailsPage=journal|editorialBoard&changeHeader=true&SHORTCUT=www.springer.com/journal/11069/edboard] with Tom Beer of CSIRO and Vladimir Schenk of the Czech Republic.

He has taken part in a review of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Murty characterizes himself as a global warming skeptic. In an August 17, 2006 interview, he stated that "I stated " [sic] " with a firm belief about global warming, until I started working on it myself...I switched to the other side in the early 1990's when Fisheries and Oceans Canada asked me to prepare a position paper and I started to look into the problem seriously.". Murty has also stated that global warming is "the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities." [ [http://magazine.carleton.ca/2005_Spring/1535.htm Global warning? Controversy heats up in the scientific community] ] Murty was among the sixty scientists from climate research and related disciplines who authored a 2006 [http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605 open letter] to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticizing the Kyoto Protocol and the scientific basis of anthropogenic global warming.

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* [http://www.tlca.com/adults/tadmurthy.html| Indo-Canada Award]