Mototaka Nakamura

Mototaka Nakamura is an oceanographer and meteorologist with background at MIT (1995 Doctor of Science in meteorology), Georgia Institute of Technology, Goddard Space Flight Centre, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Duke and Hawaii Universities, and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. In 2019, he wrote a short book, initially in Japanese and later translated to English, Confessions Of A Climate Scientist: The Global Warming Hypothesis Is An Unproven Hypothesis.
Research and publications
He wrote four scientific articles while affiliated with CalTech. He was Visiting Associate Researcher with 12 publications while at International Pacific Research Center.
He has authored or co-authored other studies, including:
* Destabilization of the Thermohaline Circulation by Atmospheric Feedback
*Effects of Atmospheric Coupling on the Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation
and a book length dissertation,
*Characteristics of Potential Vorticity Mixing by Breaking Rossby Waves in the Vicinity of a Jet (Sc. D Thesis)
Nakamura has authored or co-authored nearly 20 research publications that have been cited hundreds of times. In 1994, Nakamura was co-author of a report that drew attention to "fudge factors" being used to make climate models appear to better match climate data. In 2013, Asahi Shimbun said Nakamura, as a senior scientist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, analyzed Greenland Sea surface temperatures since 1957, and predicted the Northern Hemisphere could start a cooling period around 2015.
Confessions of a climate scientist
In September 2019, Tony Thomas, a widely published author, with many published articles on energy and environment, wrote a detailed review of the book and summarized Nakamura's background, for Quadrant.
In September 2019, Carolina Coast Online, News-Times, a subsidiary of TownNews, published an editorial discussing the coverage of Nakamura by Thomas Lifson, the publisher of American Thinker, and at Quadrant, and disparaging the "global warming crisis."
In late September 2019, writing an opinion column in The Manila Times, Yen Makabenta, discussed the Quadrant article, and discussed several other events he argued support his opinion "that the rejection of the climate scare is at hand."
In November 2019, Ferruccio Ferroni, an energy consultant with nuclear energy patents and published articles on solar energy, wrote a detailed summary of Nakamura's book, for Carnot-Cournot Network. Ferroni said Nakamura's goal for his book was to renounce "fraudulent claims" of the "mainstream climate science community." He summarized a few of Nakamura's long list of criticisms as:
* Models for influence of storage and transport of large amounts of energy in the seas are “Mickey Mouse models,” because important complex phenomena cannot be included with today's computers, and these ocean phenomena are more important than the atmosphere.
* Current computer models are not adequate for complex interactions of natural and human-caused greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and radiation.
* The hypothesis of global warming through human activity has not been proven.
Reception in Letters to Editors
In October 2019, The Telegram published a letter to the editor by Clayton Rowsell, citing Nakamura as an example.
Also in October 2019, Steamboat Pilot & Today published two letters to the editor with discussion of Nakamura's book, one supportive and the other critical.

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