Dr. Roy Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  Before beginning his tenure there, he was a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites. He continues to work with NASA as the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Dr. Spencer has also provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming.

According to his website, Dr. Spencer’s research has been entirely supported by U.S. government agencies: NASA, NOAA, and DOE. He has never been asked by any oil company to perform any kind of service.

Now that I’ve introduced you to Dr. Spencer, I want to talk a bit about his research, which ties into Thursday’s entry.  As I said yesterday, NOAA is partnering with NC State University and the University of Maryland to study climate change using satellites.  Dr. Spencer and his colleague Dr. John Christy have been studying global temperature and precipitation patterns using satellites for years.

Dr. Spencer’s research has shown some serious flaws in climate modeling and he discusses these issues in his blog and other writings.

Check out his website  .