# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-spencer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:02:10.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-spencer"
name: "Roy Spencer"
slug: "roy-spencer"
description: "Roy Warren Spencer is an American meteorologist and climate scientist. He is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. He has served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He is known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work, for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society's Special Award. Regarding climate change, Spencer is a \"lukewarmer\", with the view that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused some warming, but that influence is small compared to natural variations in global average cloud cover. He wrote several political books slamming what he calls \"hysteria\" about climate change, which he says hurt both science and the people."
tagline: "American meteorologist (born 1955)"
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country:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1955-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.drroyspencer.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump