human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see." In a 2009 written testimony to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, he wrote: "From my analysis, the actions being considered to 'stop global warming' will have an imperceptible impact on whatever the climate will do, while making energy more expensive, and thus have a negative impact on the economy as a whole. We have found that climate models and popular surface temperature data sets overstate the changes in the real atmosphere and that actual changes are not alarming." In 2014, Christy and his UAH colleague Richard McNider wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, arguing that climate models projected temperatures consistently higher than real-world satellite and balloon data. The authors also pointed to past instances where scientific consensus turned out to be incorrect. Awards 1991: NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (with Roy Spencer). 1996: AMS Special Award "for developing a global, precise record of Earth's temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate" (with Roy Spencer). See also Roy Spencer (scientist) UAH satellite temperature dataset Selected publications Articles Peer-Reviewed Papers References External links Homepage "Though Scorned by Colleagues, a Climate-Change Skeptic Is Unbowed", profile at New York Times, July 15, 2014 "Global Warming – Where's The Alarm?", Presentation for the Society of American Foresters National Convention, 2010 Written Statement of John R. Christy – Subcommittee on Energy and Power Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, March 8, 2011 "The Gospel According to John", Discover Magazine, February 1, 2001 "What if global-warming fears are overblown?", Interview with Fortune magazine, May 14, 2009 Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American climatologists Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributing authors Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors California State University, Fresno alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni University of Alabama in Huntsville faculty People from Fresno, California Fellows of the American Meteorological Society