Kiminori Itoh

Kiminori Itoh Credentials Background Dr. Kiminori Itoh received his Ph.D. in industrial chemistry from University of Tokyo in 1978. As […]

Bjørn Lomborg

Bjørn Lomborg Credentials Background Bjørn Lomborg is a political scientist, economist, and the founder and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC). Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) was founded in 2006 in Denmark and registered as a non-profit organization in the United States in 2008.2“Board & Directors,” Copenhagen Consensus Center. August 31, […]

Oregon Petition

Oregon Petition The infamous “Oregon Petition” The Oregon Petition has been used by climate change skeptics as proof that there is no scientific consensus, however they fail to note the controversy surrounding the petition itself.2“SEPP News Release: More […]

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Background The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded by civil rights activist James Farmer in 1942 and was originally a leading civil rights organization that later aligned itself with conservative and anti-environmental groups. In 1993, James Farmer himself told New York Newsday that “CORE has no functioning chapters; it holds no […]

David Evans

David Evans Credentials Background David M. W. Evans is an editor for the Australian edition of GoldNerds, a company that sells information about gold companies to investors. He also does private mathematics research. Evans works alongside his wife Joanne Nova at Science Speak, a group that describes itself as “a small private scientific modeling and […]

Frederick Seitz

Frederick Seitz (Deceased) Credentials Background Dr. Frederick Seitz passed away on March 2, 2008. He was the former head of Rockefeller University, a former head of the National Academy of Sciences and the principal scientific advisor to the R.J. Reynolds medical research program. He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute, and later […]

Tom Harris

Tom Harris Credentials Background Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), a group of climate change skeptics that has received funding from the Heartland Institute. Before starting work with ICSC, Harris was the Executive Director of the now-defunct Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP).1 “WHO WE ARE,” International Climate Science […]

Dan Gainor

Dan Gainor Credentials Background Dan Gainor is the Director of the Business & Media Institute, a free market think tank operating under another organization called the Media Research Center which also operates Newsbusters, a site where right-wing media question the existence of man-made global warming. BMI describes its mission as “[auditing] the media’s coverage of […]

John Charles

John A. Charles Jr. Credentials Background John A. Charles Jr. is the president and CEO of the Cascade Policy Institute. He started as their Environmental Policy director in 1997 with his research focused on “transportation, land use, and free-market environmentalism.” He is a contributing author to Citizen’s Guide […]

Alexandra Liddy Bourne

Alexandra Liddy Bourne Credentials Background Alexandra “Sandy” Liddy Bourne a senior policy advisor at the Heartland Institute where she addresses energy and environmental regulation. She was the Heartland Institute’s vice-president for policy and strategy from 2006 until December 2008 and acted as Heartland’s Washington DC media spokesman and liaison to Heartland’s Legislative Advisors (elected officials), […]