DeSmog
Background
Hugh W. Ellsaesser, born in 1920, is a meteorologist by training and retired “guest scientist” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[1]
Ellsaesser previously served for twenty-one years as a weather officer in the US Air Force. He is also CEO of HWE Atmospheric Consultant. [1]
“I am one of the strong supporters of the proposition that the available records indicate climate warming over the past century or so. It’s just that I don’t believe the observed warming is due to an increase in greenhouse gases.” [2]
Key Quotes
January 29, 1998
The following is from the conclusion a 1998 letter from Hugh W. Ellsaesser to the publisher of