Robert Balling
Robert C. Balling | |
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| Born | December 16, 1952 Uniontown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Wittenberg University (BA) Bowling Green State University (MA) University of Oklahoma (PhD) |
| Known for | Climate change denial |
| Awards | 2011 Professor of the Year Award from the Order of Omega |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geography, climatology |
| Institutions | Arizona State University |
| Thesis | Regional winter climatic variations associated with atmospheric circulation change in the coterminous United States, 1939-1965 (1979) |
Robert C. Balling, Jr. is an American climatologist. He is a professor of geography at Arizona State University, and the former director of its Office of Climatology. His research interests include climatology, global climate change, and geographic information systems. Balling has declared himself one of the scientists who oppose the consensus on global warming, arguing in a 2009 book that anthropogenic global warming "is indeed real, but relatively modest", and maintaining that there is a publication bias in the scientific literature.