Endorsements from Academics and Experts

The following academics and leaders in their fields have endorsed the statement below.* Please contact us at supporters@ourhorizon.org if you know a prominent group or individual who might also like to endorse our campaign.

“Our burning of fossil fuels contributes to climate change.

We support the idea of putting warning labels on gas pump nozzles.”

Health

  • John Eyles, Distinguished University Professor, School of Geography and Earth Sciences and Member, McMaster Institute of Environment & Health (MIEH), McMaster University.
  • Ryan David Kennedy, PhD., Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  • Jeffrey Masuda, Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, and Member, McMaster Institute of Environment & Health (MIEH), McMaster University.
  • Tony McMichael, Professor Emeritus, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University.
  • Carmel Mothersill, Professor, Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, and Member, McMaster Institute of Environment & Health (MIEH), McMaster University.
  • Mary Rice, Program Advisor, Climate, Energy, & Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University.
  • Kirk R. Smith, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Tim Takaro, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University.
  • Susan Tirone, Associate Professor, School of Health and Human Performance, Associate Director, Undergraduate Programs, College of Sustainability, Dalhousie University.

Social Science

  • Dr. Faran Ali, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University.
  • Paul Beckwith, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa.
  • Robin Boadway, Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, Queen’s University.
  • Simon Donner, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.
  • Meg Holden, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Geography, Simon Fraser University.
  • Gyles Iannone, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Trent University.
  • Jacqueline Kennelly, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University.
  • Dr. Anders Knudby, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University.
  • Harvey Krahn, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.
  • Matthew Ladd, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa.
  • Roger Lohmann, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Trent University.
  • Lynn McDonald, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
  • Damon Matthews, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Planning & Environment, Concordia University.
  • Kenise Murphy, Senior Scholar at CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre.
  • Maya Papineau, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University.
  • J. Timmons Roberts, Professor, Institute for the Study of the Environment and Society, Brown University.
  • Matthew Schnurr, Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University.
  • Suzanne St. John Smith, M.A., M.A. (Psych).
  • Bradley B. Walters, Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Mount Allison University.

Policy, Law, & Politics

  • Maxwell A. Cameron, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia.
  • Jessica Dempsey, Assistant Professor of Political Ecology, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria.
  • Simon Dalby CIGI chair in the political economy of climate change, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University.
  • Kathryn Harrison, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia.
  • Anders Hayden, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University.
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
  • Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University.
  • Mary Louise McAllister, Associate Professor & Faculty of Environment Teaching Fellow, University of Waterloo.
  • Monica E. Mulrennan, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University.
  • John Nyboer, Adjunct Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University.
  • Valentina Radic, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Studies, University of British Columbia.
  • Mark Roseland, Professor and Director, Centre for Sustainable Community Development; Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University.
  • James K. Rowe, Assistant Professor of Political Ecology, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria.
  • Anne Salomon, Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University.
  • Stephan Schott, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton Univeresity.
  • Mitu Sengupta, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration and the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University.
  • Douw Steyn, Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Studies, University of British Columbia.
  • Peter Stoett, Professor, Department of Politcal Science, and Director, Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, Concordia University.
  • Jason Thistlethwaite, PhD., Director of the Climate Change Adaptation Project: Canada.

Business & Finance

  • Laura Allan, Assistant Professor, School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
  • Robert L. Brown, President of the International Actuarial Association.
  • Barry Colbert, Associate Professor, Director, P&G Centre for Business & Sustainability, School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
  • Amelia Clarke, Assistant Professor, Program Director Master of Environment and Business (MEB) Program,School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, University of Waterloo.
  • Dror Etzion, Associate Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.
  • Deborah de Lange, Assistant Professor, Ted Rogers School of Business Management, Ryerson University.
  • Oliver Masakure, Associate Professor, School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
  • Shawna Milliot-Guinn, Associate Professor, IAE School of Business, University of Poitiers.
  • Steven Moore, Adjunct Professor, Queen’s School of Business and Queen’s School of Environmental Studies.
  • Trish Ruebottom, Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, International Business and Strategy, Goodman School of Business, Brock University.
  • David Wright, Full Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.
  • Lianne Foti, Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies, College of Business & Economics. University of Guelph.

Natural Sciences

  • Dr. Juan Jose Alava, Adjunct Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University.
  • Sarah Brown, Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) at the University of Waterloo.
  • Fred Bunnell, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia.
  • Sarah Burch, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo.
  • Dr. Sean Cox, Associate Professor, Director of CRMI, Quantitative Fisheries Research Group, Simon Fraser University.
  • Charles Curry, Research Associate, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, University of Victoria.
  • Dagomar Degroot, Co-Administrator of the Climate History Network.
  • Lawrence Dill, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University.
  • Eve Emshwiller, Associate Professor, Botany Faculty, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
  • Lenore Fahrig, Professor, Department of Biology, Carleton University.
  • Jessica Forrest, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa.
  • James Hansen, Adjunct Professor, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Former Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
  • Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist, Texas Tech. University.
  • George Hoberg, Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia.
  • Shelley Hunt, Associate Professor and Arboretum Director, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph.
  • Peter Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo.
  • Aled Jones, Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI), Anglia Ruskin University.
  • Karen Kohfeld, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University, and Canada Research Chair (II) in Climate, Resource, and Global Change.
  • Richard Kuhn, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Guelph.
  • Douglas Macdonald, Senior Lecturer, Academic Associate Director, School of the Environment, University of Toronto.
  • Merrin Macrae, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo.
  • Scott Mandia, Assistant Chair, Physical Sciences Department, Suffolk County Community College.
  • Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State University.
  • John P. Monteverdi, Professor, Department of Geosciences, San Francisco State University.
  • Dennis Murray, Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Ecology & Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Trent University.
  • Naomi Oreskes, Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.
  • Sarah Otto, Director, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia.
  • Paul Parker, Professor and Director, Economic Development Program, School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, University of Waterloo.
  • Thomas F. Pedersen, Executive Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.
  • Richard M. Petrone, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo.
  • Catherine Potvin, Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University.
  • Dr. Bernard Roitberg, Professor Emeritus, Evolution and Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Simon Fraser University.
  • Dolph Schluter, Professor Canada Research Chair, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia.
  • Simron Jit Singh, Associate Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.
  • Scott Smith, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Wilfrid Laurier University.
  • Rashid Sumaila, Professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at the University of British Columbia’s Fisheries Centre.
  • Bart Verheggen, lecturer at Amsterdam University College.
  • Andrew Weaver, Professor, previous Canadian Research Chair at the University of Victoria.

Arts & Humanities

  • Paul Allen, Associate Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University.
  • Matthew Barker, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University.
  • Gerda Cammaer, Professor, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University.
  • Shannon Dea, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo.
  • Michel Desjardins, Professor, Department of Religion and Culture, Associate Dean, Research and Curriculum, Faculty of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University.
  • Yasmin Jiwani, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.
  • Thierry Libaert, Professor, Faculty of Communications, Université Catholique de Louvain.
  • Chris Lowry, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo.
  • Kym Maclaren, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ryerson University.
  • Jennifer Mensch, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University.
  • Liza Piper, Associate Professor, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta.
  • Udo Schuklenk, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics.
  • Peter C. van Wyck, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.

Applied Science and Engineering

  • Dr. Jonn Axsen, Assistant Professor, Energy and Materials Research Group, Simon Fraser University.
  • Brajesh Kumar Dubey, Assistant Professor & Graduate Faculty, School of Engineering, University of Guelph.
  • Susan Gaskin, Brace Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University.
  • Dr. Veselin Jungic, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director of The IRMACS Centre, Associate Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University.
  • Gail Krantzberg, Professor and Director of the Centre for Engineering and Public Policy, School of Engineering Practice, McMaster University.
  • Upmanu Lall, Alan & Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering and Director, Columbia Water Center, Columbia University.
  • Kumaraswamy Ponnumbalam, Professor, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo.
  • Majid Sartaj, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, University of Ottawa.
  • Slobodan Simonovic, Professor and Research Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western, Ontario.
  • Daniel Sperling, Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, and founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.

*These endorsements do not reflect support for any particular label design/text/image and are not endorsements of Our Horizon as an organization. The endorsements are strictly intended to show support for the concept of putting climate change warning labels on gas pump nozzles.

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