Robert Balling
| Robert C. Balling | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 16, 1952 Uniontown, Pennsylvania |
| Fields | Geography, climatology |
| Institutions | Arizona State University |
| Alma mater | Wittenberg University, Bowling Green State University, University of Oklahoma |
| Thesis | Regional winter climatic variations associated with atmospheric circulation change in the coterminous United States, 1939-1965 (1979) |
| Known for | Climate change skepticism |
| Notable awards | 2011 Professor of the Year Award from the Order of Omega |
Robert C. Balling, Jr. 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.
Balling was born and raised in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and moved to Springfield, Ohio in 1970 to attend Wittenberg University. While there, he decided to join Phi Gamma Delta after hearing good things about it and because many of his friends were pledging it. Balling gained bachelor's and master's degrees in geography in 1974 (Wittenberg University, BA) and 1975 (Bowling Green State University, MA), before gaining his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oklahoma in 1979. He was assistant professor at the University of Nebraska (1979–1984), before joining the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. He gained tenure there in 1987, and served as the director of the Office of Climatology until 2004.
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