Joel Wood
Joel Wood Credentials Background Joel Wood is an associate professor at Thompson Rivers University. Previously, he was the Fraser Institute‘s Senior Research Economist in the Centre for Environmental Studies and Centre for Risk and Regulation. A similar position was previously held by climate change skeptic Kenneth Green who now works with the American Enterprise Institute.1Joel […]
Reynald Du Berger
Reynald Du Berger Credentials Background Reynauld Du Berger is emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. His background is in geological engineering and seismology. Du Berger’s research interests while working at the University of Quebec were in the fields of applied […]
Stewart Franks
Stewart Franks Credentials According to Franks, โI’m primarily a hydrologist, but I study what we call hydro-climatology, and that really is the hydrological impacts of climate variability.โ1 โWhy so wet?โ, RadioNational Counterpoint (see transcript), February 7, 2011. Background Stewart Franks is a former professor of environmental engineering at the University of Tasmania in Australia. He […]
David H. Padden
David H. Padden (Deceased) Credentials Background David H. Padden was the founder of the Heartland Institute, a founding director of the Cato Institute, and played a prominent role in a number of other libertarian think tanks. Padden also started the small municipal bond firm Padden and Co. in the early 1960s. David H. Padden passed […]
Andrew Montford
Andrew W.ย Montford Credentials Background Andrew W. Montford is an English writer, editor, chartered accountant, and the voice behind climate change skeptic blog Bishop Hill. He is also the author of The Hockey Stick Illusionย (2010). He currently lives inย Scotland. Montford set up the company Anglosphere in 2004 which provides editing services to the publishing industry […]
Donna Laframboise
Donna Laframboise Credentials Background Donna Laframboise is a journalist, photographer, and founder of NOconsensus.org, a website critical of the IPCC and skeptical of climate change. In late 2013, Laframboise became a senior fellow for the Frontier Center for Public Policy, a freemarket think tank based in the US and Canada.1โDonna Laframboise,โ Google Profile. Accessed October […]
Scaife Family Foundations
Scaife Family Foundations Background The Scaife family foundations are made up of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, the Allegheny Foundation, and the Scaife Family Foundation. Originally, the foundations were managed by Sarah Mellon Scaife. Effective January 1, 2015, The Carthage Foundation merged with and into the Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated and no […]
George Mason University
George Mason University (GMU) Background George Mason University (GMU) began as the Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia in 1957. In 1972 it had grown to the point where it officially separated from its parent institution. During the 1990s it became […]
Mercatus Center
Mercatus Center, George Mason University Background The Mercatus Center is a conservative think tank located at George Mason University and is a sister organization to the Institute for Humane Studies. The Mercatus Center was originally founded at Rutgers University by Richard Fink in the late 1970s, under the name the Center for Market Processes.1โHistory and […]
Capital Research Center
Capital Research Center (CRC) Background The Capital Research Center (CRC) was founded in 1984 by Willa Johnson to โstudy non-profit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism.โย Prior to founding CRC, […]