It concluded that the 20th century was probably not the warmest on record and uniquely extreme. Baliunas (and Soon) incorrectly asserted that atmospheric data showed no warming trend, when satellite temperature records proved otherwise.īaliunas and Soon coauthored a 2003 paper published in Climate Research. One such collaborator, Willie Soon, put more than $1 million in the bank from coal and petroleum companies. In a 2001 paper, Baliunas speculated that financial considerations were a major influence on those linking climate change to human causes, however failing to account for funding received by some of her collaborators from energy companies. By 1995, she had written a paper for the conservative Marshall Institute think tank asserting that “predictions of an anthropogenic global warming have been greatly exaggerated.” Baliunas concluded that solar variability has a stronger correlation with variations in air temperature than any other factor, including carbon dioxide concentrations. She was the third author in a 1992 paper published in Nature that proposed greater variability in the historical brightness of the sun than was generally thought. Her original research focus was astrophysics, a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to explain the birth, life and death of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and other objects in the universe.Īlthough not active in recent years, Baliunas gained notoriety in the early 90s when her work stirred controversy in the global warming debate. in astrophysics from Harvard University in 1980. He’s now semi-retired and lives with his wife.Īstrophysicist and climate change skepticīaliunas earned a PH.D. He rejoined the group from 1988 until 1991. Robbie stayed with BTO, recording and touring, until the tour to support their 1979 album Rock ‘n’ Roll Nights was over. The two first performed in the band Brave Belt, which morphed in to BTO in 1973. As a kid, Robbie often practiced drumming with older brother Randy on guitar and lead vocals. Hailing from Winnipeg, Canada, the Bachman brothers were all musical. It became one of the popular band’s biggest hits, along with “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”. If you ever listened to Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “Roll on Down the Highway”, you’ve heard a song that Robbie Bachman co-wrote. Mill got a $7 million settlement and their $4 million dollar house, proposed to Aspenite Debra Harvick after three dates, and now enjoys biking, skiing, fishing and bow hunting with his wife. After 18 years together, they divorced in 2006 and Evert paired with their friend and famous golfer Greg Norman. Mill was divorced from his first wife, a former Miss California, when he met tennis phenomenon Chris Evert. A lifelong angler, Mill became a champion tarpon fisherman and was a triple crown winner in the sport. You may have seen Mills as a ski racing commentator on several major networks, or on his show, Ski with Andy Mill. Mill finished 16th in the 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid, and then suffered a serious crash the next year that ended his career. To achieve this, Mill had to numb his lower right leg in snow minutes before entering the starting gate due to a training run injury that hurt so much he could hardly stand. He was America’s top downhill racer for the next seven years, culminating in a sixth place finish at the 1976 Winter Olympics, the best result by an American man in downhill in 24 years. Ski Team by 1971, and then at the World Championships in Switzerland in 1974. Mill soon became a star junior racer, competing with U.S. Skier Andy Mill lived in Laramie, Wyoming before his family moved to the glitzy Colorado ski town of Aspen in the early 60s.

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