Vincent R. Gray

Who is Vincent R. Gray?

Vincent R. Gray is a New Zealand-based chemist, and a founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.

Gray has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiary bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps. He has had a long scientific career in the UK, France, Canada and China working on petroleum, plastics, gelatin, timber, paint, adhesives and adhesion, coal, and building materials with well over 100 scientific and technical articles, patents and chapters in books. In New Zealand, he was the first Director of Building Research and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association. He has also published many articles and reports, seven in peer-reviewed journals. After retirement, he had four and a half years in China and when he returned became a climate specialist who rapidly became a critic of the claim that climate was harmed by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

He has commented on every publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with 1,898 comments on the 2007 Report. He has published critical studies on all of the reports including a book "The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001'".