Richard was born and raised in Stratford, Connecticut. As a combination of the Great Depression and WW II, it was a time of economic hardship as well as national wartime mobilization. Richard’s upbringing was deeply affected by “the war,” as well as the glory of living in a booming post-war period. Americans were the good guys – we had defeated fascism and imperialism. In 1950, a thing called The Korean War changed all that. After three years of lackluster police action, America accepted a stalemate. Richard by his own admission is an incurable romantic and altruist. America’s lack of outright victory in Korea deeply impacted Richard’s world view. Nonetheless, Richard’s writings and musings are filled with hope and bright horizons as he points the way towards a better internal mindset and a better world.

Richard earned his Ph.D. in engineering from Purdue University, 1969. In terms of higher education, Richard was a product of the post-Sputnik era. He was trained to use science and mathematics to solve problems. Richard taught systems theory for three decades at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Richard has researched and written about the causation of Earth’s periodic glaciations, i.e., ice ages. Richard authored and submitted his first peer-reviewed paper on glacial causation in 1972. His interest in ice age causation was prompted by an early report of Earth’s temperature history based on a Greenland ice core drilling. Richard has steadfastly and doggedly formed a working hypothesis that Earth’s periodic glaciations are internal to the earth and thus self-generating. His self-generating climate hypothesis stands in stark contrast to virtually all other candidate explanations. Most other candidate explanations start with the presumption that periodic glaciations result from external drivers. To date, all candidate external driver theories have failed to explain the extant climate history. The matter of explaining Earth’s periodic ice ages represents one of mankind’s most pressing and yet unsolved mysteries. Richard asserts that the present-day concern and alarmism concerning carbon emissions impacting Earth’s climate are without basis; as any discussion of climate alteration is pointless absent an understanding of Earth’s cyclical glaciation causation.

Richard and his wife of 59 years reside in the St. Louis area. They have two grown children and six grandchildren.

Richard’s book “Shivering: Heating Up the Global Warming Debate”: https://www.amazon.com/Shivering-Heating-Global-Warming-Debate-ebook/dp/B08CS18LDF/

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