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Tad S. Murty (or Murthy) was an Indian-Canadian oceanographer and expert on tsunamis. He was the former president of the Tsunami Society. He was an adjunct professor in the departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Murty had a PhD degree in oceanography and meteorology from the University of Chicago. He was co-editor of the journal Natural Hazards with Tom Beer of CSIRO and Vladimir Schenk of the Czech Republic.

Climate change

He had taken part in a review of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Murty characterized himself as a global warming skeptic. In an August 17, 2006 interview, he stated that "I started with a firm belief about global warming, until I started working on it myself...I switched to the other side in the early 1990s when Fisheries and Oceans Canada asked me to prepare a position paper and I started to look into the problem seriously." Murty also stated that global warming is "the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities." Murty was among the sixty scientists from climate research and related disciplines who authored a 2006 open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticizing the Kyoto Protocol and the scientific basis of anthropogenic global warming.

References

1. "In memoriam for Prof. Tadepalli (Tad) Murty (1937–2018)". SpringerLink. June 6, 2019. Archived from the original on October 29, 2019 – via link.springer.com.
2. ^ "U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works". www.epw.senate.gov.
3. "Murty, Tad". University of Ottawa. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008.
4. "Springer - International Publisher Science, Technology, Medicine". www.springer.com.
5. Robinson, Cindy (Spring 2005). "Global warning? - Controversy heats up in the scientific community". Carleton University Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 April 2008.
6. "Open Kyoto to debate". ocanada. National Post. April 11, 2006. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012 – via Canada.com.

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