Re: [asa] Fred Singer

At 10:30 AM 1/3/2008, j burg wrote:
>A person with the name "Fred Singer" has just published a book
>espousing an anti-GW position which, if the Amazon reviews are any
>indicator, has received a lot of admirers. Is it a credible book?
>Or is Singer just another contrarian? n a science class, are his
>ideas worth discussing at all as possibly valid? ~ Burgy

@ Fred Singer is Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the
University of Virginia. He holds a degree in Electrical engineering
from Ohio State University and a PhD in Physics from Princeton
University. In the 1940s and 50s Singer was involved in designing
instruments used in satellites to measure cosmic radiation and ozone.

Previous government and academic positions:
    * Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics,
University of Maryland (1953-62)
    * Special advisor to President Eisenhower on space developments (1960)
    * First Director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962-64)
Founding Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences,
University of Miami (1964-67)
    * Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water Quality and Research, U.S.
Department of the Interior (1967- 70)
    * Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (1970-71)
    * Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (1971-94)
    * Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987- 89)
Space and exploration

In 1994, Singer contributed to a paper on the results from the
Interplanetary Dust Experiment using data from the Long Duration
Exposure Facility satellite.
Singer also has been a proponent of manned exploration to Mars.

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  S. Fred Singer. Professional Background S. FRED SINGER, Ph.D..
Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
http://www.sepp.org/about%20sepp/bios/singer/cvsfs.html

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Received on Thu Jan 3 11:23:27 2008