The COP15 Top 15: Academics
The Hill & Knowlton COP15 Top 15 Academics for 21 December 2009 (based on media mentions since 5 November 2009; arrows indicate change since 14 December 2009):
| 1 (1) | Phil Jones, East Anglia Climate Research Unit |
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| 2 (2) | Michael Mann, University of Virginia |
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| 3 (3) | Nicholas Stern, Author of The Stern Report |
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| 4 (4) | James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
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| 5 (5) | Kevin Trenberth, NCAR’s Climate Analysis Section |
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| 6 (6) | Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen Business School |
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| 7 (7) | Ian Plimer, University of Adelaide |
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| 8= (9) | Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
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| 8= (9) | Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University |
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| 10 (8) | Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
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| 11= (11) | Bob Ward, Climate expert, London School of Economics |
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| 11= (-) | Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School |
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| 13 (12) | Richard Somerville, Center for Multiscale Modelling of Atmospheric Processes |
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| 14 (13) | Stephen Schneider, Stanford University |
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| 15 (13) | Saleemul Huq, Bangladeshi scientist |
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Below you can find all of our COP15 Top 15 rankings:



