Areas of Expertise
Climate Change

David R. Legates

Retired Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Delaware
Areas of Expertise
Climate Change

David R. Legates

Research Fellow

David R. Legates is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, retired Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography and a retired Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics at the University of Delaware. He received his PhD in climatology from the University of Delaware, and he has taught at Louisiana State University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Virginia. He is former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Observation and Prediction and former Executive Director of the United States Global Change Research Program; and he has been Research Scientist at the Southern Regional Climate Center, Chief Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Geosciences, and Visiting Research Scientist at the National Climate Data Center.

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August 31, 2022 | News Article
A recent CNN article entitled “The World’s Rivers are...
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February 9, 2022 | News Article
Five days before the recent snowstorm rocked the...
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November 13, 2021 | News Article
No doubt you’ve heard—and always at ear-splitting decibels—that...
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