30 Facts About Andrew Weaver

Andrew John Weaver is a Canadian scientist and former politician who represented the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head from 2013 to 2020 in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly.

Andrew Weaver was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and graduated from Oak Bay High School in 1979.

Andrew Weaver received a BSc in mathematics and physics from the University of Victoria in 1983, a Certificate of Advanced Study in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1984, and a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of British Columbia in 1987.

Andrew Weaver is a professor and, prior to his election to the BC Legislature, was the Canada Research Chair in climate modelling and analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, where he has worked for 25 years.

Andrew Weaver has chaired or served as a member of numerous local, national and international committees.

Andrew Weaver has been engaged in public outreach and science communication.

Andrew Weaver sat on the CRD Roundtable on the Environment, and has delivered numerous public and school presentations and hosted many school field trips to his university laboratory over his career.

Andrew Weaver continues to lead the development of the Vancouver Island School Based weather station project.

Andrew Weaver has authored or coauthored over 200 peer-reviewed papers in climate, meteorology, oceanography, earth science, policy, education and anthropology journals.

Andrew Weaver was a lead author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th scientific assessments.

Andrew Weaver was the chief editor of the Journal of Climate from 2005 to 2009.

Andrew Weaver is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 2014, Andrew Weaver received an Honorary DSc from McMaster University.

Andrew Weaver gave the 2010 Elizabeth R Laird Lecture at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Andrew Weaver joined the British Columbia Green Party in October 2012 as the party's deputy leader and candidate for the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head.

Andrew Weaver was elected in the 2013 provincial election as the first Green Party MLA in British Columbia's history.

Since running for office, Andrew Weaver has been a strong supporter of the development of the clean technology industry and a firm critic of the LNG Canada project.

Andrew Weaver called the LNG plan a "pipe-dream", asserting that Liberal government promises of a $1 trillion boost to the provincial GDP, a $100 billion prosperity fund, and the elimination of the provincial debt and sales tax were unsubstantiated and irresponsible.

Andrew Weaver was involved in several local issues, such as calling for a reconsideration of the Capital Regional District's sewage treatment plan in 2013.

However, Andrew Weaver stated that if he decided to re-run in the 2017 provincial election and was still the only elected BC Green Party MLA, he would then seek leadership of the party.

On 24 November 2015 Andrew Weaver announced his bid to run for leader of the British Columbia Green Party.

Andrew Weaver was acclaimed to this position on 9 December 2015.

Andrew Weaver was joined by BC Green MLAs Sonia Furstenau and Adam Olsen, forming the first BC Green Caucus in the province's history.

Andrew Weaver led the subsequent negotiations with the BC Liberal Party and BC NDP.

In October 2019, Andrew Weaver announced that, due to a family health issue, he would step down as Green Party leader once another leader had been chosen and that he would not seek re-election to the Legislative Assembly.

Andrew Weaver later announced that he was leaving the leadership, and the Green caucus, effective 20 January 2020, before a new leader could be elected, citing the need to "attend to personal matters".

Andrew Weaver continued to serve as an independent for the remainder of his term as an MLA.

Andrew Weaver subsequently endorsed the Conservative candidate Stephen Andrew in his former riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head, stating that the BC Greens had "lost their way fiscally and are proposing aspirational solutions that they have no hope of delivering or funding".

The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that Andrew Weaver had been libelled in a series of National Post articles written by Terence Corcoran, Peter Foster and Kevin Libin that accused him of scientific misconduct in his studies of climate change, among other claims.

Andrew Weaver is featured in the documentary film Running on Climate.