Wibjörn Karlén

Wibjörn Karlén (born 26 August 1937 in Kristine, Kopparberg County, Sweden), Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of physical geography and quaternary geology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Karlén is a global warming skeptic, and claims: "One of the big problems with trying to determine long-term temperature changes, is that weather records only go back to about 1860. By relying on statistical reconstruction of the last 1000 years, using only the temperature patterns of the last 140 years instead of actual temperature readings, the IPCC report and Summary missed both a major cooling period as well as a significant warming trend during that millennium." [cite web | last = Karlen| first = Wibjorn | title = Kyoto's Fatal Flaws Revealed| publisher = sepp.org| date =30 May 2000 | url = http://www.sepp.org/Archive/NewSEPP/BriefingMay30.htm | accessdate = 2007-04-06] Karlén has also criticized the mainstream media for "spreading the exaggerated views of a human impact on climate." [ [http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/global-gore-warming-1951764-consensus-carbon Opinion: Editorial: Global warming 'consensus' a fiction - OCRegister.com ] ] He was also named in a 2007 minority report of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as one of 400 "prominent scientists" who were said to dispute global warming. [ [http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport : U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page : ] ]

He is also a contributing author to the Fraser Institute 2007 Independent Summary for Policymakers.

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NAME=Karlén, Wibjörn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Karlen, Wibjorn (English)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Geologist
DATE OF BIRTH=26 August 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH=Kristine, Kopparberg County, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH=
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