Brian P. Flannery is a physicist who variously worked as an astrophysicist and as a climate modeller for ExxonMobil.
He is known for being a co-author of Numerical Recipes, a widely used series of textbooks describing useful algorithms.
[2] As an astrophysicist, he published work on cataclysmic variable stars and other interacting binaries until 1982.
[5] He has at times been accused of participating in effort's by ExxonMobil to undermine action against climate change.
[6] Jeremy Leggett recounts a conversation with Flannery in his book, The Carbon War, in which the physicist claimed that if most of the recoverable oil and gas on the planet were to be burnt there would be no noticeable effect on the climate.