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Cunningham's views on global warming are well known, and he has quite a bit to say on the matter. He is a physicist by education, was a founder of The Earth Awareness Foundation in 1970, has been on the board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for five years, and has been writing articles on the environment since 2000. He is an advocate against the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW); in other words, he is a global warming skeptic.

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In September of this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest report in which they state there is now a 95% probability that humans are responsible for global warming. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the study is a call for governments to work to reach a planned UN accord in 2015 to combat global warming, while US Secretary of State John Kerry described it as "a wake-up call." IPCC chairperson Rajendra Pachauri claims the report is "of very high quality, totally credible and robust in every sense of the scientific content."

However, Cunningham does not agree, saying this latest report "is no more accurate than their earlier ones. This one is just a bit more toned down on its claims." He says the IPCC are still making "false claims that computer models 'prove' recent global warming is due to human CO₂emissions, and that they are able to forecast future global temperatures, climates and events. In reality, the models greatly exaggerate climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide levels." Cunningham sums up his opinion by stating that he has "yet to see data supporting the claim that humans are responsible for controlling the world's temperature." He even argued his case in person at the 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Warsaw in November. Although greatly outnumbered, said at a press briefing during the conference that "true believers in human-caused global warming cannot be reasoned out of their position, because it wasn't reason which got them there in the first place."