| A. Scott Denning | |
| Fields: | Atmospheric science |
| Workplaces: | University of California at Santa Barbara, Colorado State University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Maine, Colorado State University |
| Thesis Title: | A study of the transport, sources, and sinks of atmospheric COâ‚‚ using a general circulation model |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32483535 |
| Thesis Year: | 1994 |
| Awards: | Monfort Professor Award from Colorado State University, 2002[1] |
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| Children: | 2[2] |
A. Scott Denning is a climate scientist and professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, whose faculty he joined in 1998. He is known for his research into atmosphere-biosphere interactions, the global carbon cycle, and atmospheric carbon dioxide.[3] He firmly supports action to avoid climate change.[4] He has also argued that, if no action is taken on the matter, global warming could make the climate of Colorado resemble that of southern New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.[5]
Denning received his BA in geology from the University of Maine and his MS and PhD in atmospheric science from Colorado State University in 1993 and 1994, respectively.[3] He then spent two years as an assistant professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara.[3] He joined the faculty of Colorado State University in 1998, and become the director of education for the Center for Multi-Scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes in 2006.[3] Denning also worked on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory's scientific team.[6] [7]
Denning has appeared twice at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change. In 2011, Denning debated skeptical climatologist Roy Spencer at the 6th International Conference on Climate Change.[8]