Sallie Baliunas

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Full Name	Sallie Baliunas
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Feb 23, 1953(1953-02-23)
Age	71
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Sallie Baliunas Biography

Sallie Baliunas is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on February 23, 1953 in New York, United States. Sallie Louise Baliunas (born on February 23, 1953) is an astrophysicist who retired. She previously worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. She also at one point , she was the Director’s Deputy at Mount Wilson Observatory. Mount Wilson Observatory.

The year 1992 was the time that Baliunas became the 3rd author of the Nature paper that analyzed observations of sun-like stars to provide an analogy of the possible past changes on the Sun. The paper states that

By 1995, she had entered the global warming controversy. In January of that year the Marshall Institute think tank published a review she had written for them, “Are Human Activities Causing Global Warming?” disputing the IPCC Second Assessment Report and arguing that “predictions of an anthropogenic global warming have been greatly exaggerated, and that the human contribution to global warming over the course of the 21st century will be less than one degree Celsius and probably only a few tenths of a degree.” She concluded with the view that “even if fears of anthropogenic global warming were realized – a concern which finds no support in the scientific data – there is no significant penalty for waiting at least two decades before taking corrective action to reduce global CO2 emissions.” The work of Willie Soon and Baliunas, suggesting that solar variability is more strongly correlated with variations in air temperature than any other factor, even carbon dioxide levels, has been widely publicized by lobby groups including the Marshall Institute and Tech Central Station, and mentioned in the popular press.

Baliunas contends that findings of human influence on climate change are motivated by financial considerations: “If scientists and researchers were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with man, and most to do with just how the planet works, there wouldn’t be as much money to study it.” She does not address the countervailing financial considerations of the energy companies that fund some of her collaborators, including Willie Soon who received over $1,000,000 from petroleum and coal interests since 2001.

Baliunas is also an academic visiting fellow at Dartmouth College, an adjunct professor at Tennessee State University, and was the deputy director at Mount Wilson Observatory from 1991 to 2003. Mount Wilson Observatory from 1991 until 2003.

Sallie Baliunas Net Worth

Sallie Baliunas is one of the richest Astronomer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sallie Baliunas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Baliunas was born within New York City and its suburbs. She went to public schools within New York City and its suburbs. New York City area and high school in New Jersey. She earned an B.S. in astrophysics at Villanova University in 1974, and then an A.M. and a Ph.D. in astrophysics at Harvard University in 1975 and 1980. Her dissertation was entitled, Optical and ultraviolet studies of stellar chromospheres Lambda Andromedae and other late- type stars.

Baliunas was initially as a research associate at the Harvard College Observatory in the year 1980 and then became an astrophysicist with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory located at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 1989.

In 1995, Baliunas testified before the United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Science that CFCs were not responsible for ozone depletion. An article written by Baliunas and Soon in 2000 for the Heartland Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank, promoted the idea that ozone depletion rather than CO2 emissions could explain atmospheric warming.

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Sallie Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sallie Baliunas celebrates birthday on February 23 of every year.