Would you consider an electrical engineer a climate science expert?

Q: I'm referring to David Evans, who some claim is a climate science expert: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080917121201AA4SEeK&r=w#RsR4WTC1UGLXAOZlOfd26Pr22G__DAD6hVJeJW5TpX.ayPFJ4ZHX However, according to his own resume, Evans has not published a single peer-reviewed research paper on the subject of climate change. Evans published only a single paper in 1987 in his career and it is unrelated to climate change. Evans has a PhD in electrical engineering. From 1999 to 2006 Evans worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office designing a carbon accounting system that is used by the Australian Government to calculate its land-use carbon accounts for the Kyoto Protocol. While Evans says that "[he] know[s] a heck of a lot about modeling and computers," he states clearly that he is "not a climate modeler." http://www.desmogblog.com/who-is-rocket-scientist-david-evans So what do you think - would you consider Evans a climate science expert? Richard - yeah, I read about that study. Very interesting results, no doubt relevant to global warming denial.

A: "So I suppose an electrical engineer with studies in several of the above fields COULD work in the "climatology" field." Of course Evans *could* work in the climatology field. There have been several examples of climatologists who received their PhD's in electrical engineering--like Ralph Cicerone, current president of the NAS. What you get your degree in isn't as important as what you research (as in peer reviewed research). Plain and simple, Evans isn't a climate scientist.

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