William Robert Kininmonth is an Australian retired meteorologist noted for rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.

Kininmonth has a B.Sc. from the University of Western Australia, a M.Sc. from Colorado State University, and a M.Admin. from Monash University.^[1]

Kininmonth headed Australia's National Climate Centre at the Bureau of Meteorology from 1986 to 1998. He was Australia's delegate to the WMO Commission for Climatology, was a member of Australia's delegations to the Second World Climate Conference (1990) and the subsequent intergovernmental negotiations for the Framework Convention on Climate Change (1991–1992).

Kininmonth published a book, Climate Change, a Natural Hazard in 2004.

The book launch for Kininmonth's Climate Change: a Natural Hazard was organised by the Lavoisier Group, of which Kininmonth and Ian Plimer are members,^[2] and was chaired by Hugh Morgan, the President of the Business Council of Australia.^[3]

Kininmonth is a science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute.^[4]

Kininmonth runs the Australasian Climate Research Institute (trading as Australasian Climate Research) from his home in Victoria (Australia).^[5]

• "Unmasking “An Inconvenient Truth”, William Kininmonth, February 2007, Center for Science and Public Policy