Who are your favorite climate scientists?

Of all the great "climate scientists/sausage makers," Phil Jones is my favorite.

In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

Other crooks include Mann, Hansen, and Schmidt.

Carl Sagan. Hands down. He was influential in the space exploration programs and charismatic. He made cosmology popular and a household word.

Neil DeGrasse is another good one. Very charismatic, but is also known as the guy who killed the "planet" Pluto.

While not being a true scientist, Albert Einstein was probably the most influential and charismatic. Albert never tested any theories. He proposed them.

I think Kerry Emanuel has done a tremendous amount of very influential work in climate science and meteorology, although I haven't always agreed with some of it. I'd love to get the chance to work with him sometime. I also am a big fan of Howard Bluestein, who has done his work in meteorology and not climate. Among geologists I think Bob Parker is brilliant (he's actually a geophysicist). He's one of the guys that started plate tectonics and a leader in inverse theory and geomagnetism.

EDIT: wow, I have four thumbs down so far for...what? Do people dislike the my choice of scientists?

I find the linking of solar activity with climate patterns to be fascinating, so perhaps the one person I would be most eager to see more work from would be Mike Lockwood.

Why are some papers read more than others? Largely because of the quality, reputation and appropriateness of the journals in which they are published. A paper on climate published in Nature or Science gets far more attention than comparable papers published in other journals.

http://sciencewatch.com/ana/st/climate/journals/

Based on the volume and absurdity of the lies told about him by anti-science crackpots, con-artists, demagogues and ignoramuses, Hansen is probably doing something right. But, the question is rather ridiculous. Like asking who is your favorite medical doctor researching cancer. Most of have no direct contact (we hope)with cancer researchers, and thus no basis for having any particular "favorite," but we appreciate the many little separate steps taken by thousands of separate doctors and scientists adding up to a general advancement of knowledge over time. And we would NOT be very happy if half the US Congress went around routinely and idiotically pronouncing cancer to be a liberal hoax, hyped by alarmists using health care as a trick to impose communism on us.

Dr Phil Jones formerly of E.Anglia uni is my very favourite.That boy is a star and so funny.I just love the way that he is even too incompetent to tell good lies and get away with it.

Science isn't a popularity contest, this is the mistake deniers make when they try to single out those like Hansen or Mann, deniers forget the thousands of scientists across a number of fields who have all contributed to the AGW theory. If you read any of the papers by either of the above two scientists they will contain dozens of references (per paper) to the work of other scientists that went before.

Denial is a house of cards, and the wind is starting to blow.

Moe,Larry and Curly

James.E.Hansen is always good for a laugh. He should be on the comedy channel.