Atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers over the course of his career. Only a handful of scientists--in any field of research--have anything approaching that number. His most recent peer-reviewed publication on global warming appeared in EOS: Transactions of the AGU (American Geophysical Union), December 16, 1997.

In the last decade, Dr. Singer's key research publications have included a paper on the greenhouse effects of cirrus clouds, published in the Journal of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics in 1988; publications on ozone depletion, including a paper in EOS in 1988; and a peer-reviewed technical critique on UV-B trends, co-authored with Prof. Patrick Michaels and Paul Knappenberger, published in Science in 1994. He also contributed several book chapters, including an invited chapter on the magnetosphere for a 1997 book published by the American Geophysical Union and an invited chapter on ozone depletion for a NASA book published in 1990.

Dr. Singer was the Principal Investigator (working with a team of scientists from the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, Florida) on an experiment launched aboard the LDEF satellite in 1985 and retrieved by the space shuttle in 1990. That experiment resulted in peer-reviewed research papers on the effects of particles moving in the outer atmosphere of the Earth. The first of these research papers was presented at a 1991 international congress of the ICSU Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), published that same year in Advances in Space Research, and has since been expanded and published in numerous reports and journals. For this work, NASA in 1997 presented Dr. Singer with a commendation and cash award "for important contributions to space research."

Dr. Singer has authored or edited 17 books and monographs, six of them on global climate change. They are:

Global Effects of Environmental Pollution (Reidel, 1970)

The Ocean in Human Affairs (Paragon House, 1989), which dealt with ocean circulation and climate

Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences (Paragon House, 1989)

The Greenhouse Debate Continued (ICS Press, 1992), a critique of the IPCC science report.

The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty (SEPP, 1997)

Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (The Independent Institute, 1997)

These books are all technical publications and are well-referenced. Global Effects of Environmental Pollution, published in 1970, was one of the first to deal with the possibility of global warming. The book grew--in part--out of Dr. Singer's association with the late Dr. Roger Revelle, a scientist often referred to as the "father of greenhouse warming."

Dr. Singer currently has 5 scientific research papers either in progress or submitted for publication, all of them on global warming. He has presented four of these research papers at scientific conferences hosted by the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and NASA.

Drawing on his books and research, Dr. Singer has given nearly 40 lectures and seminars on global warming in the past year. The list of those organizations that have invited him to speak include the science faculties at Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, State University of New York-Stony Brook, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, University of Connecticut, University of Colorado, Imperial College-London, Copenhagen University, University of Rome, and Tel Aviv University.

Singer has also given invited seminars at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Max Planck Institute for Extra-Terrestrial Physics in Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. In November 1997, he gave a solo presentation on global warming before an audience of more than 250 people at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna, with follow-up questions and commentary by the five leading Austrian political parties.