The climate denial think tank Heartland Institute created a poster of 58 “experts” who reject the 97% consensus on climate change science. To set the record straight, DeSmogBlog has remixed the poster with more accurate bios of the 58 “experts” so the public can judge whether to believe the fossil-fuel-funded Heartland Institute or the overwhelming scientific consensus.
Global Warming Scientific Consensus
In the last few decades, the climate science community has pieced together an ever clearer picture of the effect of the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. A scientific consensus emerged that Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are warming up, that it is predominantly due to human activities, and that continued warming will lead to severe consequences to humans and large parts of the biosphere.
The warming of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.(Source: Skeptical Science 2012)
Work done by James Powell in 2012 illustrates this point. He reviewed the literature of peer-reviewed climate articles from 1991 to 2012, identifying 13,950 articles concerned with global warming. Of these, only 24 papers were found to reject global warming. Furthermore, these papers were authored by a small group of people, and had very low impact on other authors. If noticed, they were found to be flawed in one way or the other. In 2013, Powell added two more articles to this short list. One is by Russian physicist S.V. Avakyan, who, writing for the “Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, also noted in his article that “The switch of world powers […] to carbon-free energy […] may lead to economic collapse for Russia as a consequence of the reduction […] to sell oil and natural gas on the world market.” The other, by German chemist Heinz Hug, which appeared in the journal “Nachrichten aus der Chemie”, might not even be peer-reviewed, and attributes global warming to cosmic radiation, a claim that has long been debunked.
Additionally, a Skeptical Science survey led by Cook et al. (2013) came to the conclusion that there is a 97% consensus among climate science experts that humans are causing global warming.
Efforts to undermine climate action have been going on for decades, too. For example, the Western Fuels Association conducted a half-million dollar campaign in 1991 designed to ‘reposition global warming as theory (not fact).’
Two interests (often combined) have been dominant: industries that feel threatened by the switch to renewable energy, and free-trade fundamentalists, fearing a slippery slope into total governmental control of the economy. ExxonMobil was for a while the dominant spender on disinformation campaigns. In recent years they have been replaced and topped by other entities. One is Koch Industries, which funded groups denying climate change with more than US$67,000,000 since 1997. Another very important one is DonorsTrust, also named “the dark-money ATM of the Conservative Movement”. It collects funds from donors, and redistributes those funds to organizations promoting a right-wing agenda. DonorsTrust ensures that these donations cannot be traced back to their origins. Between 2002 and 2010, they provided over $90,000,000 in funding to 84 groups that deny the scientific realities of climate change.
The science of climate change has been robust for a while now. Thus, the most effective way to fool the public has been to parade fake experts in front of them, reasonably assuming that a layperson will not be able to see the difference. This has been greatly aided by the willingness of parts of the media to provide a false balance in talk shows, reports and print.
During the last decade, the Heartland Institute has established itself at the forefront of climate denial. They already worked with tobacco company Philip Morris in the 1990s, “questioning” the science linking second-hand smoke to health risks. Since 2012, they do not disclose their sources of funding, but received at least US$10,815,644 from DonorsTrust and its partner organization Donors Capital Fund.
Since 2008, the Heartland Institute has been hosting nine “International Climate Change Conferences” (aka “Denial-a-Palooza”), where like-minded visitors can “collect the rhetorical baseball bats with which they will club environmentalists and climate scientists in the weeks and months to come”.
In 2012, Heartland Institute received backlash and withdrawal of funds resulting from a billboard campaign using Unabomber Ted Kaczynski to equate those not believing in a vast climate conspiracy with “murderers, tyrants, and madmen.”
During the run-up to the 2014 COP20 conference in Lima, the Heartland Institute published a poster (left) presenting “58 experts [that] don’t believe global warming is a crisis.” This was used by Republican Chairman of the Senate Environment Committee (…) James Inhofe in his most recent “Man-Made Global Warming is a Hoax!” speech on the Senate floor. DeSmogBlog took up the effort to check their credentials, to let you decide for yourself if you would choose to believe them, instead of the climate science community. Click on the right picture to see the new, improved version.
Below is a list of all 58 Heartland “experts”, listing their affiliations, and providing links to sources and rebuttals.
Peer-reviewed data are mostly estimates from 2011. If you find any inaccuracies, please report them, and we will correct them as soon as possible.
- Member of physics-denying group “Principia Scientific International” (but allegedly “resigned” in 2013).
- Published with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- DeSmogBlog: “Skeptical” Russian Scientist Blinded by Sunspots
- Live Science: Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds
- National Geographic: Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
- Skeptical Science: Global warming on Mars, ice caps melting
- Skeptical Science: Sun & climate: moving in opposite directions
- “Climate Science Coalition of America”, a spawn of Tom Harris‘ “International Climate Science Coalition”. Other members are Roy Spencer, Steve Goreham, Don Easterbrook, David Legates, Anthony Watts and George Taylor.
- DeSmogBlog: Scott Armstrong
- Skeptical Science: How reliable are climate models?
- Skeptical Science: Chaos theory and global warming: can climate be predicted?
- Policy Advisor for Heartland Institute.
- Scientific Advisor for “American Council on Science and Health”, an industry lobby group with financing by the Koch brothers, DonorsTrust (used for anonymizing conservative donations), ExxonMobil and others. Specialized in anti-anti-tobacco activities. Other advisors are Dennis Avery, Jay Lehr, Pat Michaels and Fred Singer.
- Adjunct Scholar of “Competitive Enterprise Institute”, which is involved in tobacco disinformation and climate change denial.
- DeSmogBlog: Jerome C. Arnett Jr.
- Executive Vice-President of “Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise”. Among the advisors are Paul Driessen and Marita Noon.
- Tom Paine: Terrorist Tree Huggers
- Director of Center for Global Food Issues at conservative think tank Hudson Institute, mostly funded by US corporations.
- Environmental Task Force at free-trade think tank National Center for Policy Analysis, which received funding from ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel interests.
- Advisor, CFACT.
- Scientific Advisor for “American Council on Science and Health”, an industry lobby group with financing by the Koch brothers, DonorsTrust (used for anonymizing conservative donations), ExxonMobil and others. Specialized in anti-anti-tobacco activities. Other advisors are Jerry Arnett, Jay Lehr, Pat Michaels and Fred Singer.
- Skeptical Science: Global cooling – Is global warming still happening?
- Founding member and former chairman of physics-denying group “Principia Scientific International”.
- Former chairman of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group led by Tom Harris.
- Scientific Advisor to Canadian anonymously-funded anti-climate group “Friends of Science”.
- Research Fellow of neoliberal think tank “Frontier Centre for Public Policy” (which is a member of the anti-climate group “Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change”).
- Member of anti-climate group “International Climate Science Coalition”.
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Skeptical Science: Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming
- Skeptical Science: Greenland used to be green
- Former director of Office of Climatology at Arizona State University.
- Received c. US$400,000 in research funding from fossil fuel industry during one decade.
- Writes for Cato Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute.
- Paid US$1,000 per month in 2012 from Heartland Institute.
- CFACT.
- Former Allied Expert of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- Former advisor to “Greening Earth Society”, a defunct public relations organization promoting doubt about effects of climate change.
- Editor of Heartland Institute publication “Environment & Climate News”.
- Former adviser to defunct fossil fuel company funded “Information Council on the Environment”, which did a US$500,000 public relations campaign to “reposition global warming as theory” (not fact) in 1991.
- Senior Fellow at big-business lobbying group “Goldwater Institute”.
- Former member of the defunct pro-tobacco front group “European Science and Environment Forum”.
- Formerly involved with “Competitive Enterprise Institute”, which is involved in tobacco disinformation and climate change denial.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Roundtable Speaker, George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Skeptical Science: CO2 is plant food
- Member of physics-denying group “Principia Scientific International”.
- Senior Advisor to fossil fuel funded “American Tradition Institute”.
- DeSmogBlog: Joe Bastardi
- Media Matters: A Fox News Science Lesson
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Joe Bastardi
- Skeptical Science: The greenhouse effect and the 2nd law of thermodynamics
- Science Blogs: Is CO2 “well mixed”?
- CFACT Advisor.
- Founder, spokesperson and advisor for Christian anti-climate group “The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation”.
- DeSmogBlog: E. Calvin Beisner
- Speaker at 2011 Tea Party event.
- RealClimate: The weirdest millennium
- Skeptical Science: How reliable are CO2 measurements?
- Skeptical Science: Does high levels of CO2 in the past contradict the warming effect of CO2?
- DeSmogBlog: Christopher Booker
- President of “Institute for Energy Research”, a fossil fuel funded free-market think tank specializing in attacking the expansion of renewable energies.
- Adjunct Scholar of “Cato Institute”, which receives funds from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Adjunct Scholar of “Competitive Enterprise Institute”, which is involved in tobacco disinformation and climate change denial.
- Adjunct Scholar of Koch-funded “Mackinac Center for Public Policy”.
- Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank funded by the Koch brothers.
- Heritage Foundation, a conservative, free-market think tank that receives funding from oil giants.
- “American Sound Science Coalition”.
- Free Enterprise Institute.
- DeSmogBlog: Robert L. Bradley Jr.
- Skeptical Science: Positives and negatives of global warming
- Chairman of “New Zealand Climate Science Coalition”, which received funding from the Heartland Institute.
- Former president/chairman/director of various power companies.
- DeSmogBlog: Barry Brill
- Science Blogs:New Zealand Climate Science Coalition caught lying about temperature trends
- Former Science Advisor of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Founding member of “New Zealand Climate Science Coalition”, which received funding from the Heartland Institute.
- Scientific Advisor to the anti-climate Australian Climate Science Coalition, created by the Australian Environment Foundation, mostly funded by the Heartland Institute.
- Emeritus Fellow, “Institute of Public Affairs”, which received funding from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Chief Science Advisor of anti-climate group “International Climate Science Coalition”, which received funding from the Heartland Institute.
- Affiliated with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- CFACT.
- Advisor to German anti-climate group EIKE.
- Advisor to UK anti-climate group “Global Warming Policy Foundation”.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Speaker at Australian Environment Foundation, a front group of the right-wing, corporate funded think tank Institute of Public Affairs.
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Bob Carter
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- DeSmogBlog: John Coleman
- Policy Advisor to Heartland Institute.
- DeSmogBlog: Walter Cunningham
- Skeptical Science: Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project
- Skeptical Science: Explaining how the water vapor greenhouse effect works
- Skeptical Science: How do human CO2 emissions compare to natural CO2 emissions?
- DeSmogBlog: James Delingpole
- Together with Marita Noon advisor to “Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise”. Ron Arnold is Executive Vice-President.
- Senior Policy Advisor, Senior Fellow, CFACT.
- Member of physics-denying group “Principia Scientific International”.
- Cofounder and co-author of Christian anti-climate group “The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation”.
- Senior Policy Advisor to the conservative, anti-environmental group Congress for Racial Equality, whose original founder called its later way of operating “fraudulent”.
- Senior Fellow at Frontiers of Freedom, funded by fossil fuel and tobacco money.
- Senior Fellow at Atlas Economic Research Foundation, whose mission it is “to litter the world with free-market think-tanks.”
- Skeptical Science: Renewable energy investment kills jobs
- Open Mind: Culpable?
- Technical Advisor to “Climate Science Coalition of America”, a spawn of Tom Harris‘ “International Climate Science Coalition”. Other members are Roy Spencer, Steve Goreham, Scott Armstrong, David Legates, Anthony Watts and George Taylor.
- Published with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- CFACT Senior Advisor.
- Hot Topic: The Incorrigible Easterbrook
- Hot Topic: Don Easterbrook knowingly misleads Washington State Senate
- Skeptical Science: Don Easterbrook’s Heartland Distortion of Reality
- Skeptical Science: Global cooling – Is global warming still happening?
- Former Policy Director of Frontiers of Freedom, funded by fossil fuel and tobacco money.
- Director of Global Warming (2004 salary: US$82,000) at conservative think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute, funded by a variety of big corporations.
- Chair of free-market group anti-climate “Cooler Heads Foundation”, closely linked to CEI.
- DeSmogBlog: Myron Ebell
- CFACT.
- Wrote for “Cato Institute”, which receives funds from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Advisor to UK anti-climate group “Global Warming Policy Foundation”.
- Contributor to neoliberal meta-group Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change, founded by fossil fuel funded International Policy Network.
- Skeptical Science: How is climate change affecting the advance of spring?
- “Climate Analyst” for Heartland Institute.
- Skeptical Science: CO2 is plant food
- Skeptical Science: Has Arctic sea ice returned to normal?
- Executive Director, “Climate Science Coalition of America”, a spawn of Tom Harris‘ “International Climate Science Coalition”. Other members are Roy Spencer, George Taylor, Don Easterbrook, David Legates, Anthony Watts and Scott Armstrong.
- Heartland Institute Policy Advisor.
- DeSmogBlog: Steve Goreham
- Skeptical Science: The human fingerprint in global warming
- Former Executive Director of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- Former Director of High Park Group, a Canadian lobbying organization for the energy industry. Tries to remove this fact from websites.
- Former Associate of public relations firm APCO Worldwide, which has been receiving funding from Philip Morris, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical and others. APCO held a key role in the pro-tobacco propaganda of the 1990s.
- Policy Advisor, Heartland Institute.
- Executive Director of anti-climate group “International Climate Science Coalition”, which received funding from the Heartland Institute.
- Affiliated with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- DeSmogBlog: Tom Harris
- Skeptical Science: Tom Harris’ Carleton University Climate Misinformation Class
- Former Allied Expert of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- Member, Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors, CFACT.
- DeSmogBlog: Howard Hayden
- Skeptical Science: Global cooling – Is global warming still happening?
- Skeptical Science: What does past climate change tell us about global warming?
- DeSmogBlog: Roger Helmer
- Skeptical Science: CO2 lags temperature – what does it mean?
- Former Advisor, CFACT.
- Affiliated with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Founder, “Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change”. Mostly an Idso family propaganda operation. Has received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Policy Advisor, Senior Fellow, Heartland Institute.
- Roundtable Speaker, George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Former Director of Environmental Science, Peabody Energy, “the world’s largest private-sector coal company”.
- Skeptical Science: CO2 is plant food
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Craig Idso
- Wrote for “Cato Institute”, which receives funds from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Conference speaker at Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, which is in the business of promoting doubt about “Ozone hole, Global warming, and other Environmental Scares”.
- Skeptical Science: CO2 is plant food
- Former Allied Expert of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- Scientific Advisor to Canadian anonymously funded anti-climate group “Friends of Science”.
- Science Advisor of anti-climate group “International Climate Science Coalition”.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Skeptical Science: Does CO2 always correlate with temperature (and if not, why not?)
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Science Advisor to the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute
- Contributor, Lavoisier Group, an anti-climate group founded by a former Western Mining Corporation executive.
- Science Advisor of anti-climate group “International Climate Science Coalition”, which received funding from the Heartland Institute.
- Scientific Advisor to the anti-climate Australian Climate Science Coalition, created by the Australian Environment Foundation, mostly funded by the Heartland Institute.
- Speaker at Australian Environment Foundation, a front group of the right-wing, corporate funded think tank Institute of Public Affairs.
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: William Kininmonth
- Skeptical Science: The difference between weather and climate
- Senior Fellow, Policy Analyst for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative, free-trade think tank that receives funding from oil giants.
- Former economist at Washington-based public affairs firm, Berman and Company.
- Member, Mont Pelerin Society
- DeSmogBlog: Vaclav Klaus
- “Climate Science Coalition of America”, a spawn of Tom Harris‘ “International Climate Science Coalition”. Other members are Roy Spencer, Steve Goreham, Don Easterbrook, Scott Armstrong, Anthony Watts and George Taylor.
- Former Allied Expert of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- Speaker for Christian anti-climate group “The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation”.
- Affiliated with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- “Expert” and Senior Scientist at George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Environmental Task Force at free-trade think tank National Center for Policy Analysis, which received funding from ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel interests.
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: David Legates
- Skeptical Science: Global warming: a battle for evangelical Christian hearts and minds
- Open Mind: Culpable?
- Carbon Brief: Factcheck: Scientists hit back at claims global warming projections are “greatly exaggerated” (on the Monckton paper)
- Scientific Advisor for “American Council on Science and Health”, an industry lobby group with financing by the Koch brothers, DonorsTrust (used for anonymizing conservative donations), ExxonMobil and others. Specialized in anti-anti-tobacco activities. Other advisors are Jerry Arnett, Dennis Avery, Pat Michaels and Fred Singer.
- Director of anti-climate group “International Climate Science Coalition”, which received funding from the Heartland Institute.
- DeSmogBlog: Jay Lehr
- Senior Fellow (2004 salary: US$100,000) at conservative think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute, funded by a variety of big corporations.
- Environmental Task Force at free-trade think tank National Center for Policy Analysis, which received funding from ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel interests.
- Chair of free-trade group anti-climate “Cooler Heads Foundation”, closely linked to CEI.
- Former Allied Expert of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Published with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- Advisor to UK anti-climate group “Global Warming Policy Foundation”.
- Roundtable Speaker at George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Former member of defunct Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, which was also associated with Senator Jim Inhofe.
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Richard Lindzen
- DeSmogBlog: Craig Loehle
- Skeptical Science: Loehle and Scafetta find a 60 year cycle causing global warming
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- “Expert”, George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Skeptical Science: The human fingerprint in global warming
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Director of Environment Unit, “Institute of Public Affairs”, which received funding from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Director, Australian Environment Foundation, a front group of the right-wing, corporate funded think tank Institute of Public Affairs.
- Skeptical Science: Climate sceptics see a conspiracy in Australia’s record breaking heat
- Scientific Advisor for “American Council on Science and Health”, an industry lobby group with financing by the Koch brothers, DonorsTrust (used for anonymizing conservative donations), ExxonMobil and others. Specialized in anti-anti-tobacco activities. Other advisors are Jerry Arnett, Dennis Avery, Jay Lehr and Fred Singer.
- Advisor, CFACT.
- Former advisor to “Greening Earth Society”, a defunct public relations organization promoting doubt about effects of climate change.
- Former adviser to defunct fossil fuel company funded “Information Council on the Environment”, which did a US$500,000 public relations campaign to “reposition global warming as theory (not fact)” in 1991.
- Former member of the defunct pro-tobacco front group “European Science and Environment Forum”.
- Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies of “Cato Institute”, which receives funds from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Roundtable Speaker, George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Policy Expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative, free-trade think tank that receives funding from oil giants.
- Former Supporter and Member Scientist at defunct The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, advancing industry-friendly positions on a wide range of topics, including global warming, smoking, phthalates, and pesticides.
- Report Author for ALEC, which has been described as a “corporate bill mill”.
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Patrick Michaels
- CFACT.
- Policy Advisor of anti-climate group “International Climate Science Coalition”.
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Affiliated with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- Speaker at anti-climate science, anti-evolution and islamophobic group American Freedom Alliance 2011 conference “Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny”, where he paired a swastika with a quote recommending acceptance of mainstream climate science.
- DeSmogBlog: Christopher Monckton
- Barry Bickmore: Lord Monckton’s Rap Sheet
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Christopher Monckton
- Carbon Brief: Factcheck: Scientists hit back at claims global warming projections are “greatly exaggerated” (on the Monckton paper)
- Nuclear Energy Institute.
- Co-chair, Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, funded by the Nuclear Energy Institute.
- Past clients of Moor’s company Greenspirit Strategies include Asian Pulp & Paper, the Canadian Mining Association, the National Association of Forest Industries (Australia) and others.
- DeSmogBlog: Patrick Moore
- Together with Paul Driessen advisor to “Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise”. Ron Arnold is Executive Vice-President.
- Marita Noon: Climate Change: A Serious Threat to Science
- Supporter of “Institute of Public Affairs”, which received funding from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Published with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- DeSmogBlog: Joanne Nova
- DeSmogBlog: David Evans
- Skeptical Science: How Jo Nova doesn’t get past climate change
- Former Allied Expert of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Former Associate, “Institute of Public Affairs”, which received funding from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- Scientific Advisor to the anti-climate Australian Climate Science Coalition, created by the Australian Environment Foundation, mostly funded by the Heartland Institute.
- Advisor to UK anti-climate group “Global Warming Policy Foundation”.
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Ian Plimer
- Former chairman of defunct Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, which was also associated with Senator Jim Inhofe.
- Honorary Member (1973), The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.
- Skeptical Science: Schmitt and Happer manufacture doubt
- Scientific Advisor for “American Council on Science and Health”, an industry lobby group with financing by the Koch brothers, DonorsTrust (used for anonymizing conservative donations), ExxonMobil and others. Specialized in anti-anti-tobacco activities. Other advisors are Jerry Arnett, Dennis Avery, Jay Lehr and Pat Michaels.
- Former Allied Expert of defunct “Natural Resources Stewardship Project”, a Canadian anti-climate group. Former chairman Tim Ball.
- Editorial Advisor to “Cato Institute”, which receives funds from tobacco and fossil fuel companies.
- “Independent Advisor” to Australian anti-climate group “Galileo Movement”, which organized a Monckton Tour at a cost of AU$115,000, and suggests the global warming “movement” has parallels with Hitler and Stalin.
- Public head for defunct fossil fuel company funded “Information Council on the Environment”, which did a US$500,000 public relations campaign to “reposition global warming as theory” (not fact) in 1991.
- Former member of the defunct pro-tobacco front group “European Science and Environment Forum”.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Former Adjunct Fellow of Frontiers of Freedom, funded by fossil fuel and tobacco money.
- Environmental Task Force at free-trade think tank National Center for Policy Analysis, which received funding from ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel interests.
- President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, which received some ExxonMobil funding. Mostly concerned with promoting doubt about ozone depletion and global warming.
- Research Fellow at think tank Independent Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil and Philip Morris.
- Former Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative, free-trade think tank that receives funding from oil giants.
- Senior Fellow, Heartland Institute.
- “Featured Expert” at Centre for the New Europe, a Brussels-based free-trade think tank. Received funding from ExxonMobil.
- DeSmogBlog: S. Fred Singer
- DeSmogBlog: Mashey Report Confirms Heartland’s Manipulation; Exposes Singer’s Deception
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Fred Singer
- Advisor, CFACT.
- Former advisor to “Greening Earth Society”, a defunct public relations organization promoting doubt about effects of climate change.
- Former member of the defunct pro-tobacco front group “European Science and Environment Forum”.
- Affiliated with the anonymously funded, anti-climate publishing outlet Science and Public Policy Institute.
- Roundtable Speaker, George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Author with libertarian think tank Fraser Institute. Fraser received funding from tobacco and fossil fuel companies, including US$60,000 by ExxonMobil to work on “Climate Change”.
- Skeptical Science: Climate science peer review is pal review
- Carbon Brief: Factcheck: Scientists hit back at claims global warming projections are “greatly exaggerated” (on the Monckton paper)
- Advisor to Christian anti-climate group “The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation”.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Roundtable Speaker, George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Skeptical Science: Climate Misinformer: Roy Spencer
- Speaker at anti-climate science, anti-evolution and islamophobic group American Freedom Alliance 2011 conference “Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny”.
- DeSmogBlog: Brian Sussman
- “Climate Science Coalition of America”, a spawn of Tom Harris‘ “International Climate Science Coalition”. Other members are Roy Spencer, Steve Goreham, Don Easterbrook, David Legates, Anthony Watts and Scott Armstrong.
- Member of anti-climate website ICECAP.
- Science and Policy Advisor, “Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change”. Mostly an Idso family propaganda operation. Has received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Roundtable Speaker, George C. Marshall Institute, which received funding from ExxonMobil.
- Scientific Advisor to the anti-climate Australian Climate Science Coalition, created by the Australian Environment Foundation, mostly funded by the Heartland Institute.
- Senior Fellow for Environmental Policy, Heartland Institute.
- DeSmogBlog: James M. Taylor
- Skeptical Science: Skepticism About Lower Atmosphere Temperature Data
- Skeptical Science: Does record snowfall disprove global warming?
- Policy Expert, Senior Fellow, Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank funded by the Koch brothers
- Executive Director at free-trade Beacon Hill Institute.
- Past director of the Center for Research and Advertising of the pro-business think tank American Enterprise Institute, funded by the Koch brothers.
- Past Policy Expert at Heritage Foundation, a conservative, free-trade think tank that receives funding from oil giants.
- DeSmogBlog: David G. Tuerck
- “Climate Science Coalition of America”, a spawn of Tom Harris‘ “International Climate Science Coalition”. Other members are Roy Spencer, Steve Goreham, Don Easterbrook, Scott Armstrong, David Legates and George Taylor.
- Skeptical Science: Watts Interview – Denial and Reality Mix like Oil and Water
- DeSmogBlog: Thomas Wysmuller