Contrarian View of Climate Change Issues

Climate Change, Anthropocene, & Associated Issues

Presentation Slides: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBAL WARMING STORY

Jay Lehr, Ph.D. is the science director at The Heartland Institute, a conservative, nonprofit organization based in Chicago. He is an internationally renowned speaker, scientist, and author who has testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on environmental issues and consulted with nearly every agency of the national government, as well as many foreign countries.

Dr. Lehr is a leading authority on groundwater hydrology. After graduating from Princeton University at the age of 20 with a degree in Geological Engineering, he went on to receive the nation’s first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona. He served as Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University and later became Executive Director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers, during which he criticized the U.S. EPA with a series of Editorials on its management of environmental regulations to which EPA retaliated in the 1980s with a major lawsuit against Dr. Lehr about a very minor bookkeeping mistep on one of his EPA projects. This cost Dr. Lehr a few months in jail and changed his life significantly. 

Undaunted, Dr. Lehr re-doubled his counter-attack on the EPA and continued to add thousands of magazine and journal articles and 36 books on a range of topics. He is editor of Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns, McGraw-Hill’s Handbook on Environmental Science, Health and Technology (2000); Wiley’s Remediation Technologies Handbook (2004); the Environmental Instrumentation and Analysis Handbook (2005), the six-volume Water Encyclopedia (Wiley Interscience, 2005); and Wiley Interscience's Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia: Science, Technology, and Applications (2011).

Dr. Lehr is a popular speaker before thousands of audiences in the U.S. and overseas on topics ranging from global warming and biotechnology to business management and health and physical fitness. He invariably receives the highest scores for entertaining and energizing even the largest audiences.

He was featured in Parachute Magazine in March 2010 for setting a new world record, having jumped from an airplane each and every month for 32 years.

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