{{Short description|Canadian scientist and politician}} {{for|the American Olympic cyclist|Andrew Weaver (cyclist)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Andrew Weaver (34189176593) (cropped).jpg | honorific_prefix = | name = Andrew J. Weaver | honorific_suffix = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1961}} | birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | office = Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia | term_start = 9 December 2015 | term_end = 6 January 2020 | deputy = {{plainlist| * Adam Olsen * Sonia Furstenau * Jonina Campbell }} | predecessor = Adam Olsen (interim) | successor = Adam Olsen (interim) | constituency_AM1 = Oak Bay-Gordon Head | assembly1 = British Columbia Legislative | term_start1 = 14 May 2013 | term_end1 = 24 November 2020 | predecessor1 = Ida Chong | successor1 = Murray Rankin | party = Independent | other_party = Green (2012–2020) | alma_mater = University of Victoria | occupation = {{plainlist|
* Climate scientist * Former politician }} }} '''Andrew John Weaver''' {{Post-nominals|OBC}} 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. Weaver was the leader of the Green Party of British Columbia from 2015 to 2020. After leaving the Green caucus in January 2020, he continued to sit as an independent member but did not run for reelection in the 2020 BC election.
==Academics== Weaver was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and graduated from Oak Bay High School in 1979.
He received a BSc in mathematics and physics from the University of Victoria in 1983, a Certificate of Advanced Study in mathematics (Master of Advanced Study) from the University of Cambridge in 1984, and a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of British Columbia in 1987.<ref name="bioMetroVancouver">{{cite web |url=http://www.metrovancouver.org/region/dialogues/Bios/BIO-AndrewWeaver.pdf |website=Metro Vancouver | access-date=8 January 2015 |title=Andrew Weaver, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140924040727/http://www.metrovancouver.org/region/dialogues/Bios/BIO-AndrewWeaver.pdf | archive-date=24 September 2014}}</ref>
After finishing his PhD, Weaver worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1988, and in the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1989.<ref name="Huffington Post">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/21/andrew-weaver-green-party-bc_n_3128469.html |title=Andrew Weaver, BC Green Party Candidate, Ready To Surprise Voters |date=21 April 2013 |work=HuffPost|access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref> Prior to joining the University of Victoria in 1992, he spent three years as an assistant professor in the department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University.<ref name="Huffington Post" /> 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 34 years. He was the Lansdowne Professor until 2017.<ref>[http://climate.uvic.ca/people/weaver/ UVic Climate People]</ref>
Weaver has chaired or served as a member of numerous local, national and international committees. From 2003 to 2004, he was president of the Victoria Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils (VCPAC).<ref name="andrewweavermla.ca">{{cite web |url=http://www.andrewweavermla.ca/meet-andrew-weaver/ |title=Meet Andrew Weaver |last=Weaver |first=Andrew |publisher=Andrew Weaver |access-date=25 November 2015 |location=Victoria, BC}}</ref> In 2004–2005 he was president of the University of Victoria Faculty Association and served as their chief negotiator in the 2003 and 2006 collective bargaining. Weaver has been engaged in public outreach and science communication. He 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.<ref name="andrewweavermla.ca" /> He continues to lead the development of the Vancouver Island School Based weather station project.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.victoriaweather.ca/ |title=Victoria Weather |access-date=25 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013205441/http://www.victoriaweather.ca/ |archive-date=13 October 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Weaver has authored or coauthored over 200 peer-reviewed papers in climate, meteorology, oceanography, earth science, policy, education and anthropology journals.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://climate.uvic.ca/people/weaver/weaver-publications.html |title=Weaver Publications |access-date=25 November 2013 |archive-date=31 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031211957/http://climate.uvic.ca/people/weaver/weaver-publications.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a lead author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th scientific assessments.<ref name="Legislative Assembly of BC">{{cite web |url=https://www.leg.bc.ca/learn-about-us/members/40th-Parliament/weaver-Andrew |title=Dr. Andrew Weaver |publisher=Legislative Assembly of BC |access-date=25 November 2015 |location=Victoria, BC}}</ref> He was the chief editor of the ''Journal of Climate'' from 2005 to 2009.
==Honours and awards== Weaver is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the American Geophysical Union,<ref name="Ring1">{{cite web |url=https://ring.uvic.ca/people/andrew-weaver-elected-american-geophysical-union-fellow |title=Andrew Weaver elected as American Geophysical Union fellow |date=13 January 2015 |publisher=University of Victoria |access-date=25 November 2015 }}</ref> the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<ref name="HuffPost1">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/andrew-weaver/ |title=Andrew Weaver |work=HuffPost|access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref>
Over the years he has received numerous awards including the NSERC–EWR Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 1997, the Killam Research Fellowship and a CIAR Young Explorers award as one of the top 20 scientists in Canada under the age of 40 in 2002,<ref name="VS1">{{cite web |url=https://vancouversun.com/opinion/community-of-interest/Andrew+Weaver/1821457/story.html |title=Andrew Weaver |date=6 August 2009 |work=Vancouver Sun |access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref> the CMOS President's Prize in 2007. He was a lead author in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th scientific assessments of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the group that, with Al Gore, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.<ref name="BCG1">{{cite web |url=https://www.bcgreens.ca/shinybird/climate_change_the_economy_a_conversation_with_dr_andrew_weaver_1 |title=Climate Change & the Economy—a conversation with Dr. Andrew Weaver |work=Greens of BC |access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref> He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 and the Royal Society of Canada Miroslaw Romanowski Medal and the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science in 2011. In 2008 he was appointed to the Order of British Columbia<ref name="Legislative Assembly of BC" /> and in 2013 he was awarded a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2014, Weaver received an Honorary DSc from McMaster University, and in 2026 the Alliance of World Scentists honoured him with an AWS Earth Planet Award. He gave the 2010 Elizabeth R. Laird Lecture at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mun.ca/gazette/issues/vol42no9/laird.php |title=Laird lecturer to discuss global warming |website=mun.ca |access-date=7 July 2019}}</ref>
==Publications== His book, ''Keeping our Cool: Canada in a Warming World'' was published by Viking Canada in September 2008 ({{ISBN|978-0-670-06800-5}}). His second book, ''Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming'' was published by Raven Books in 2011 ({{ISBN|978-1-55469-804-2}}).<ref name="bioMetroVancouver" />
==Politics== [[File:Dr Andrew Weaver.webm|thumb|Andrew Weaver in conversation with Silver Donald Cameron]] 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.<ref name="MetVan1">{{cite web |url=http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2012/09/20/nobel-contributing-climate-scientist-andrew-weaver-to-run-for-b-c-greens.html |title=Nobel-contributing climate scientist Andrew Weaver to run for B.C. Greens |date=20 September 2012 |publisher=Metro Vancouver |access-date=25 November 2015 |location=Vancouver, BC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223160620/http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2012/09/20/nobel-contributing-climate-scientist-andrew-weaver-to-run-for-b-c-greens.html |archive-date=23 December 2017}}</ref> He was elected in the 2013 provincial election as the first Green Party MLA in British Columbia's history.<ref name="TC3">{{cite web |url=http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/andrew-weaver-walks-into-history-as-b-c-s-first-green-party-mla-1.314849 |title=Andrew Weaver walks into history as B.C.'s first Green party MLA |first1=Rob |last1=Shaw |date=6 June 2013 |work=Times Colonist |access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref>
Since running for office, Weaver has been a strong supporter of the development of the clean technology industry and a firm critic of the LNG Canada project. 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.<ref name="TC2">{{cite web |url=http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/b-c-s-liquefied-natural-gas-plan-a-pipe-dream-says-green-mla-andrew-weaver-1.631566 |title=B.C.'s liquefied natural gas plan a 'pipe dream,' says Green MLA Andrew Weaver |last=Cleverley |first=Bill |date=19 September 2013 |work=Times Colonist |access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref> Weaver was also involved in several local issues, such as calling for a reconsideration of the Capital Regional District's sewage treatment plan in 2013.<ref name="AW2">{{cite web |url=http://www.andrewweavermla.ca/2013/08/13/province-flexible-crd-sewage-project/ |title=Province Flexible on CRD Sewage Project |last=Wright |first=Mat |date=13 August 2013 |publisher=Andrew Weaver |access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref>
In August 2013, Weaver chose not to take on leadership of the BC Green Party stating: "I have an ambitious agenda for my term as MLA and achieving this requires focus and hard work. I consider it in the best interests of my constituents, the party and the province if, for now, I focus on my role as MLA and support a new interim leader who can concentrate on building the party."<ref name="VN1">{{cite web |url=http://www.vicnews.com/news/219940841.html |title=MLA Weaver leaves door open to leadership |last=Pope |first=Danielle |date=16 August 2013 |work=Victoria News |access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref>
However, Weaver also 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.<ref name="HP3">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/14/andrew-weaver-bc-green-leader_n_3757475.html |title=Andrew Weaver: Green Leader Should Be Someone Else, For Now |last=Keller |first=James |date=14 August 2013 |work=Huffintgon Post|access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref>
On 24 November 2015 Weaver announced his bid to run for leader of the British Columbia Green Party.<ref name="Lead1">{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/andrew-weaver-bc-green-party-leadership-1.3331971 |title=Andrew Weaver to seek B.C. Green Party leadership |date=23 November 2015 |work=CBC News |access-date=25 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Lead2">{{cite web |url=http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/andrew-weaver-says-he-s-ready-to-lead-b-c-greens-1.2117904 |title=Andrew Weaver says he's ready to lead B.C. Greens |last=Kines |first=Lindsay |date=24 November 2015 |publisher=Times Colonist |access-date=25 November 2015 |location=Victoria, BC}}</ref> He was acclaimed to this position on 9 December 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cknw.com/2015/12/09/122872/ |title=BC Greens elect Andrew Weaver as next leader |publisher=CKNW |date=9 December 2015 |access-date=19 December 2015 |last=Woodford |first=Shane}}</ref>
[[File:Andrew Weaver and John Horgan (34612192490).jpg|thumb|Green Party leader Andrew Weaver and NDP Premier John Horgan sign the confidence and supply agreement.]] In the 2017 election, Weaver was reelected and the BC Green Party increased their share of the popular vote to 16.8% from 8.13%. Weaver was joined by BC Green MLAs Sonia Furstenau and Adam Olsen, forming the first BC Green Caucus in the province's history.<ref name="2017 election">{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-greens-historic-wins-1.4107747 |title=Greens celebrate 'historic' BC wins amid minority uncertainty |last=Johnson |first=Lisa |date=10 May 2017 |work=CBC News |access-date=12 January 2018}}</ref> The election resulted in a hung parliament, with the Greens holding the balance of power. Weaver led the subsequent negotiations with the BC Liberal Party and BC NDP. The Greens ultimately opted to remain an opposition party rather than forming a formal coalition and signed a confidence and supply agreement with the BC NDP, allowing NDP leader John Horgan to become premier. The agreement committed Weaver, Furstenau and Olsen to vote with the BC NDP government in matters of confidence, such as provincial budgets, and committed both parties to implementing a number of shared policy priorities.<ref name="confidence and supply agreement">{{cite web |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3486794/b-c-green-party-leader-andrew-weaver-agrees-to-support-john-horgans-ndp/ |title=BC Greens and NDP strike deal for 'stable minority government' |last=Baker |first=Paula |date=29 May 2017 |publisher=Global News |access-date=12 January 2018}}</ref>
In October 2019, 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/andrew-weaver-1.5311543 |title=Andrew Weaver says he'll step down as B.C. Green Party leader |last=Larsen |first=Karin |date=7 October 2019 |publisher=CBC News |access-date=7 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/andrew-weaver-stepping-down-as-leader-of-b-c-green-party-won-t-run-for-re-election-1.23968899 |first=Cindy |last=Harnett |publisher=Times Colonist |date=7 October 2019 |title=Andrew Weaver stepping down as leader of B.C. Green Party, won't run for re-election |access-date=8 November 2020}}</ref> Adam Olsen became interim leader effective 6 January 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=B.C. Green MLA Adam Olsen named new interim party leader |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/adam-olsen-named-interim-party-leader-1.5404776 |access-date=16 January 2020 |publisher=CBC News |date=20 December 2019}}</ref> 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". He continued to serve as an independent for the remainder of his term as an MLA.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former BC Green leader Andrew Weaver to sit as an independent in legislature |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-former-bc-green-leader-weaver-to-sit-as-an-independent-in-legislature/ |access-date=16 January 2020 |work=The Globe and Mail |date=15 January 2020}}</ref> In the 2020 election, Murray Rankin was elected in Weaver's former riding.<ref>{{ cite web |url=https://electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net/electionsbcenr/ed/GE-2020-10-24_Oak%20Bay-Gordon%20Head.html |title=2020 Provincial General Election Final Voting Results |access-date=8 November 2020 |website=Elections BC |date=8 November 2020}}</ref>
In the lead-up to the 2024 BC election, Weaver publicly criticized David Eby, Horgan's successor as NDP leader and premier, and praised John Rustad, the leader of the BC Conservatives.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/andrew-weaver-shows-support-bc-conservatives-1.7262839|title=Former B.C. Green leader praises B.C. Conservatives|publisher=CBC|date=13 July 2024|access-date=14 October 2024}}</ref> He 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".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.westernstandard.news/news/former-bc-greens-leader-andrew-weaver-endorses-conservative-candidate-in-victoria/58571|title=Former BC Greens leader Andrew Weaver endorses Conservative candidate in Victoria|newspaper=Western Standard|date=13 October 2024|access-date=14 October 2024|first=Jarryd|last=Jäger}}</ref>
==Lawsuit over ''National Post'' articles==
The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that 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. In ''Weaver v. Corcoran''<ref>''Weaver v. Corcoran'', 2015 BCSC 165 (Justice Burke) available online at [https://archive.today/20170914220304/http://canlii.ca/t/gg63c]</ref> the court ruled that the charges were false and that "the defamation in this case was serious. It offended Dr. Weaver's character and the defendants refused to publish a retraction". The court awarded Weaver $50,000 in damages, ordered that the offending articles be removed from the newspaper's archives and that a complete retraction be published. The ''National Post'' appealed the decision.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/national-post-appeals-ruling-on-defaming-b-c-scientist-andrew-weaver-1.2991474 |title=National Post appeals ruling on defaming B.C. scientist Andrew Weaver |date=11 March 2015 |publisher=CBC News |access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/03/10/national-post-appealing-libel-ruling-in-andrew-weaver-case.html |title=National Post appealing libel ruling in Andrew Weaver case |date=10 March 2015 |last=Mendleson |first=Rachel |website=Toronto Star |access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> On 21 April 2017, the British Columbia Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in the defamation suit, citing an error in the judge's analysis of the articles pertaining to the suit.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-appeal-court-overturns-decision-in-andrew-weavers-defamation-suit/article34786469/ B.C. Appeal Court overturns decision in Andrew Weaver's defamation suit]</ref><ref>''Weaver v. Corcoran'', 2017 BCCA 160 (Justice Dickson) available at: http://canlii.ca/t/h398d</ref>
==Documentary film==
Weaver is featured in the documentary film ''Running on Climate''. Filming began before Weaver was nominated as a candidate and continued through the 2013 election campaign.<ref name="TP1">{{cite web |url=http://www.the-peak.ca/2015/09/professor-lynne-quarmby-is-running-on-climate/ |title=Professor Lynne Quarmby is Running on Climate |last=Hill |first=Dara |date=21 September 2015 |publisher=The Peak |access-date=25 November 2015 |location=Burnaby, BC}}</ref>
== Electoral record == {{2017 British Columbia general election/Oak Bay-Gordon Head}} {{2013 British Columbia general election/Oak Bay-Gordon Head}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.andrewjweaver.ca/ Official website for his science and activism] *[http://www.andrewweavermla.ca/ Former website for his role as member of the Legislative Assembly]
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