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
No change
2 (2) Michael Mann, University of Virginia
No change
3 (3) Nicholas Stern, Author of The Stern Report
No change
4 (4) James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
No change
5 (5) Kevin Trenberth, NCAR’s Climate Analysis Section
No change
6 (6) Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen Business School
No change
7 (7) Ian Plimer, University of Adelaide
No change
8= (9) Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Up
8= (9) Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University
Up
10 (8) Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Down
11= (11) Bob Ward, Climate expert, London School of Economics
No change
11= (-) Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School
Up
13 (12) Richard Somerville, Center for Multiscale Modelling of Atmospheric Processes 
Down
14 (13) Stephen Schneider, Stanford University
Down
15 (13) Saleemul Huq, Bangladeshi scientist
Down

Below you can find all of our COP15 Top 15 rankings: