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Global Warming Denial Machine
UK science academy letter tells ExxonMobil to stop funding global warming denial machine
Posted on Saturday, September 23, 2006
The UK Guardian reported on September 20 that a letter from the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, has called on ExxonMobil Corp. to stop funding dozens of organizations that have “misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence”. Exxon has been distributing millions of dollars to what Climate Science Watch terms the global warming denial machine. See “details” for the full text of the Royal Society’s no-nonsense letter, which exemplifies the role we have called on the science community to play in promoting accountability for how climate change research is used in the public arena.
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Refuting a Global Warming Denier
Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006
Dr. Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Programs at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC, provides a set of comments detailing intellectual errors and misleading statements in a recent report on “Climate Change and Its Impacts” by Prof. David Legates, a favorite scientist of the global warming denial machine, that was published by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a “free market” oriented policy organization.
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Junketing Judges and Carbon Dioxide Decisions
Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006
Two U.S. Court of Appeals judges who cast the deciding votes in a decision that the Clean Air Act does not require regulating carbon dioxide emissions had attended a global warming seminar at Yellowstone National Park sponsored by a free-market foundation and featuring presentations from companies with a clear financial interest in limiting regulation.
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Study author accuses CEI global warming TV ads of misrepresenting science
Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006
Recently, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) initiated a national television campaign claiming, among other things, that global warming is not causing ice sheets to shrink. Curt Davis, director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence at the University of Missouri-Columbia, says CEI is misrepresenting his previous research to back their claims. “These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate,” Davis said. “They are selectively using only parts of my previous research to support their claims.”
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CEI TV spots continue global warming denial communications strategy
Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), an anti-regulation advocacy group that has received substantial funding from ExxonMobil, has begun running 60-second TV spots apparently timed as an attempt to counter favorable public response to the new film that centers on Al Gore’s communication of the global warming problem. With this action, CEI continues to act in accord with a long-standing communications strategy, developed by global-warming denial cadre in conjunction with oil industry interests, designed to misrepresent the scientific issues and manufacture an enhanced sense of scientific uncertainty about the global warming problem.
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President claims human influence on global warming is fundamentally in question
Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006
At a March 29 press briefing, in response to a question about global warming, the President said, “Well, first of all, the globe is warming—the fundamental debate, is it manmade or natural?” In a March 31 interview on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, Climate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz said, “For the President to say there is a “fundamental debate” about that—that’s misrepresenting the intelligence on an issue of tremendous importance to the future of this society, in order to conform the intelligence to a predetermined political position.”
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Boulder Daily Camera reports on Sen. Inhofe’s NCAR/UCAR inquisition
Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, Colorado, home of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reported in a March 18 article on our story about how “U.S. Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has asked for detailed information regarding the employees, research projects and funding sources of Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research and its parent organization, the University Center for Atmospheric Research.” But should the Senator really be called a global warming “skeptic”?
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Greenwire report: Sen. Inhofe inquiry into research group funding sparks scientists’ concerns
Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006
Greenwire (subscription), a daily newsletter on energy and environmental policy, reported in its #1 article on March 16: “An inquiry by Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman James Inhofe [R-OK] into the governance and financing of a leading climate research institution has generated waves of concern and speculation among scientists who see it potentially opening a new front in the battle over the flow of climate information to decisionmakers and the public.” The article draws on the March 11 entry on this Weblog and includes comments by CSW director Rick Piltz.
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Senator Inhofe Launches Inquisition Probing Climate Research Organization
Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006
In a letter dated 24 February 2006, Republican Senator James Inhofe has asked the National Science Foundation for detailed information about the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, including details about employees and contractors… We provide the full text of the letter (also available as PDF file).
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Bush Aide Edited Climate Reports: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened Greenhouse Gas Links (NY Times)
Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005
In “Bush Aide Edited Climate reports: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened Greenhouse Gas Links,” (New York Times, June 8, 2005, page 1), Andrew C. Revkin reports that a “White House official who once led the oil industry’s fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming.”
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