Tad S. Murty (1937 – 2018) was an Indian-Canadian[citation needed] 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[2] at the University of Ottawa.[3] Murty had a PhD degree in oceanography and meteorology from the University of Chicago. He was co-editor of the journal Natural Hazards[4] with Tom Beer of CSIRO and Vladimir Schenk of the Czech Republic.
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."[2] 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."[5] Murty was among the sixty scientists from climate research and related disciplines who authored a 2006 open letter[6] to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticizing the Kyoto Protocol and the scientific basis of anthropogenic global warming.
He has never published a scientific study against anthropogenic climate change and has been accused of receiving fossil fuel money.[7][8][9]
Murty died on 2018, at the age of 80–81.[10]
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