Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen Explained

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
Birth Place:Dresden, Germany
Citizenship:German, Australian, British
Nationality:German
Fields:Environmental Policy, Geography
Work Institution:University of Sussex, University of Hull
Alma Mater:University of Adelaide, University of Sussex
Thesis Title:Limits to the international control of marine pollution
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53601092
Thesis Year:1981

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (born 1942) is an Emeritus Reader in the Department of Geography at the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull England, where she taught environmental policy, management and politics.[1] [2] [3] [4] She was editor of the journal Energy & Environment from 1998 to 2017.[5] [6]

Early life and education

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen was born in Dresden, East Germany.[2] [5] In 1956, she moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where she obtained a BA with Honours in Geomorphology from the University of Adelaide while also studying climatology, geology, physical geography and German literature.[5] [7] [8] [9] She moved again to England in 1969 and later attended the University of Sussex where she first obtained an MA followed by a DPhil in International Relations in 1981.[2] [7] [10] Her doctoral thesis was titled, Limits to the international control of marine pollution.[11]

Career

Boehmer-Christiansen joined the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex in 1985, working for a decade as a Research Fellow and then later as a visiting fellow.[2] [8] [12] Since the mid-1990s she had taught environmental policy, management and politics in the Geography Department at the University of Hull.[3] [9] As an Emeritus Reader she still works from the University of Hull's Geography Department.[1] [8]

She is a past member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future.[2] [13]

Views on climate change

When asked about the publication in the Spring of 2003 of a revised version of the paper at the center of the Soon and Baliunas controversy, Boehmer-Christiansen said, "I'm following my political agenda -- a bit, anyway. But isn't that the right of the editor?"[14]

Boehmer-Christiansen has been a critic of climate models saying they are based on data that cannot be verified.[15] In 2006, she signed an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging him to open the Kyoto Protocol to debate by holding balanced, comprehensive public-consultation sessions on the Canadian government's climate change plans.[16]

She describes herself as agnostic on whether humans are causing global warming, and believes its negative aspects to be politically exaggerated.[17]

Third-party views

According to Fred Pearce, Boehmer-Christiansen is a sceptic about acid rain and global warming and calls the science reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "political constructs."[18]

The Guardian reported that Boehmer-Christiansen published – against the recommendations of a reviewer – a paper in Energy & Environment claiming that the Sun is made of iron.[19] [20]

Selected publications

Books
Journal articles

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Geography Department: Academic Staff . . 29 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120301012402/http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/geography/about_us/staff.aspx . 1 March 2012 . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen . . https://web.archive.org/web/20031206122802/http://www.hull.ac.uk/geog/html/boehmer.html . 6 December 2003 . 30 June 2012.
  3. Web site: Enlightening the Future 2024 Survey – Dr Sonja A Boehmer-Christiansen . . 30 June 2012.
  4. Web site: Scientific Advisory Forum . The Scientific Alliance . 29 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120312211736/http://www.gaia-technology.com/sa/about/forum-member.cfm?ID=3 . 12 March 2012 . dmy-all .
  5. Web site: Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen . OGEL . 29 June 2012.
  6. 2017-09-15 . Editorial . Energy & Environment . 28 . 5–6 . 543 . 10.1177/0958305X17733089. free . 2017EnEnv..28..543. .
  7. Boehmer-Christiansen . Sonja . The scientific basis of marine pollution control . . 6 . 1 . 2–10 . 10.1016/0308-597X(82)90038-0 . January 1982 . 1982MarPo...6....2B .
  8. Web site: Boehmer-Christiansen. Sonja . February 2010 . Memorandum submitted by Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (CRU 26) . . 29 June 2012.
  9. Web site: The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . II . 124 . 24 March 2010 . . 3 June 2012.
  10. Boehmer-Christiansen. Sonja A. . Emerging international principles of environmental protection and their impact on Britain . The Environmentalist . 10 . 2 . 1990 . 95 . 10.1007/bf02244387. 1990ThEnv..10...95B . 153996433 .
  11. Boehmer-Christiansen. S.A. . Limits to the international control of marine pollution . 1981 . University of Sussex . 53601092 .
  12. Web site: SPRU Annual Report – SPRU Staff: Associate Staff – Visiting Fellows and Professors . 1998 . 39 . . 30 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607150013/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/publications/annualreport/1998/docs/38-39.pdf . 7 June 2011 . dead .
  13. Web site: Stakeholder Forum – Annual Report 2001–2002 . 2002 . 25 . . 30 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140220080152/http://www.stakeholderforum.org/sf/mediafiles/sf_annual_report_02.pdf . 20 February 2014 . dead .
  14. Monastersky. Richard. Storm Brews Over Global Warming. Chronicle of Higher Education. 5 September 2003.
  15. News: Tuvalu's tides divide scientists . . 25 August 2004 . 29 June 2012.
  16. News: Open Kyoto to debate – An open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper . . 11 April 2006 . 1 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120512140810/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605 . 12 May 2012 . dmy-all .
  17. Web site: Conversations From the Frotier with Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Geomorphologist . Frontier Centre for Public Policy . 29 June 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726050446/http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3348. 26 July 2011.
  18. [Fred Pearce|Pearce, Fred]
  19. News: Barley. Shanta . Real Climate faces libel suit. . 25 February 2011.
  20. Manuel . Oliver K. . Earth's Heat Source – The Sun . https://archive.today/20130128141051/http://multi-science.metapress.com/content/v3600623g8txh577/ . dead . 2013-01-28 . . 20 . 1–2 . 131–144 . 2009 . 10.1260/095830509787689178 . 0905.0704 . 2009EnEnv..20..131M . 119304686 .

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