S. Fred Singer

S. Fred Singer (Deceased)

Credentials

Background

Siegfried Frederick Singer (S. Fred Singer) was a former space scientist and government scientific administrator. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 95.3โ€œS. FRED SINGER, Ph.D.: Professional Background,โ€ Science and Environmental Policy Project. Archived April 17, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4oEQa 4James Taylor. โ€œDR. S. FRED SINGER, R.I.P.โ€ The Heartland Institute, April 7, 2020. Archived April 7, 2020. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.vn/nvptZ

Singer founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) in 1990, a 501(c)(3) โ€œeducational groupโ€ focusing on global warming denial. According to their website, SEPP also reports to cover topics such as nuclear radiation, DDT, science and regulation at EPA, energy policy, and space exploration.5โ€œAbout the Project,โ€ Science & Environmental Policy Project. Archived July 2, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/YSCIl

According to SEPP, โ€œsound, credible science must form the basis for health and environmental decisions that affect millions of people and cost tens of billions of dollars every year.โ€6โ€œAbout the Project,โ€ Science & Environmental Policy Project. Archived July 2, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/YSCIl

Leaked documents obtained by DeSmog revealed that Fred Singer had also been receiving $5,000 a month from the Heartland Institute. With the help of Craig Idso, Singer helped develop the Heartland Instituteโ€™s โ€œNongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC),โ€7Richard Littlemore. โ€œWhat passes for a Brain Trust at Heartland?โ€ Desmog, February 23, 2012. 8Brendan DeMelle. โ€œHeartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine,โ€ Desmog, February 14, 2012. 9โ€œHeartland Institute NIPCC Climate Denier Craig Idso: โ€˜Climate Change Is Good For Youโ€™โ€ Desmog, April 8, 2014.

Stance on Climate Change

January 2016

โ€œThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and are rapidly diverging from actual observations. The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shortages and famines.โ€10S. Fred Singer. โ€œClimate Change: The Burden of Proof,โ€ American Thinker, January 29, 2016. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LCN7k

โ€œClimate change has been going on for millions of years โ€” long before humans existed on this planet. Obviously, the causes were all of natural origin and not anthropogenic. There is no reason to think that these natural causes have suddenly stopped.โ€11S. Fred Singer. โ€œClimate Change: The Burden of Proof,โ€ American Thinker, January 29, 2016. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LCN7k

June 2015

โ€œ[โ€ฆ] So, has global warming really stopped? We will know for sure in just a few years.

There will certainly be debate also about my proposition of no evidence at all for AGW.We will need a persuasive answer to the puzzle โ€” why do land thermometers show a warming before 2000, but not after 2000?I may have an answer, but must first try to convince my colleagues.

One thing is quite certain, however: Current IPCC climate models cannot explain what the observations clearly show. This makes the models unsuitable for climate prediction โ€“ and for policy purposes generally.โ€12S. Fred Singer. โ€œThe climate warming pause goes AWOL (or not),โ€ American Thinker, June 4, 2015. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MslNm

November 2011

According to Skeptical Science, Singer contends that data collected from tree rings โ€œdonโ€™t show any global warming since 1940.โ€13โ€œFred Singer Denies Global Warming,โ€ Skeptical Science, November 2, 2011. Archived March 26, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/FNZrv

October 2011

โ€œ[U]nlike the land surface, the atmosphere has shown no warming trend, either over land or over ocean โ€” according to satellites and independent data from weather balloons.โ€14โ€œScientific climate,โ€ Nature 478, 428 (27 October 2011). See Singerโ€™s comment, โ€œDear Editors of Nature:,โ€ Comment #28687. Archived image on file at Desmog.

Undated

โ€œClimate change is a natural phenomenon. Climate keeps changing all the time. The fact that climate changes is not in itself a threat, because, obviously, in the past human beings have adapted to all kinds of climate changes.โ€15โ€œInterview: Dr. S. Fred Singer,โ€ PBS.org. Archived Ocober 17, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Rvtwq

Key Quotes

February 2016

โ€œI go back to the major error of the UN climate panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They have been claiming in all their 5 major reports that CO2 increases are the cause of warming. I am of the opinion, and have tried to back it up with publications, that these arguments donโ€™t hold water and that their evidence does not exist.โ€16S. Fred Singer. โ€œThe Goldilocks Approach to Global Warming,โ€ American Thinker, February 8, 2016. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Qm8PI

2015

The following is from an article Fred Singer wrote for The Washington Times titled โ€œGlobal climate policy after Limaโ€œ:17S. Fred Singer. โ€œGlobal climate policy after Lima,โ€ The Washington Times, January 21, 2015. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/F1O74

โ€œMore specifically, on the climate-energy issue, [Republican Senator Chuck] Hagel can point to increasing evidence that nature rules the climate โ€” and always has โ€” not human activities. He can point to the disastrous record of Kyoto and scandalous waste of resources and human efforts โ€” and how โ€˜saving the climateโ€™ detracts from solving genuine world problems.

[โ€ฆ] That is why we must strongly oppose creating a second Kyoto in Paris in 2015 โ€” with the active assistance of India, Japan, Australia and Canada, who all share our doubts.โ€18S. Fred Singer. โ€œGlobal climate policy after Lima,โ€ The Washington Times, January 21, 2015. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/F1O74

September 5, 2013

โ€œThe forthcoming (Sept. 2013) IPCC report claims that the reported surface warming of 1978-2000 is sure (better than 95% โ€” by IPCCโ€™s own unsupported estimate) evidence for AGW. But the missing hotspot is sure (better than 96%, by my personal reckoning) evidence against the existence of any such warming. But before you dispose of the 2000-page-plus IPCC report, stop and consider: it makes a wonderful paper weight or door stop.โ€19โ€œThe UN Climate Panelโ€™s โ€˜Hot Spotโ€™ is Missing in Action,โ€ American Thinker. September 5, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/JYDuh

2001

โ€œIt is ironic that the attempt by two environmental activists to misrepresent my credentials [letters, Feb. 6] coincides with a sustained cold spell in the United States that set a 100-year record. As for full disclosure: My resume clearly states that I consulted for several oil companies on the subject of oil pricing, some 20 years ago, after publishing a monograph on the subject. My connection to oil during the past decade is as a Wesson Fellow at the Hoover Institution; the Wesson money derives from salad oil.โ€20S. Fred Singer, โ€œMy Salad Days,โ€ Letter to the Editor, Washington Post, February 12, 2001. Republished by The Heat is Online. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/h31Nm

Undated

โ€œ[S]ince 1979, our best measurements show that the climate has been cooling just slightly. Certainly, it has not been warming.โ€21โ€œInterview: Dr. S. Fred Singer,โ€ PBS.org. Archived Ocober 17, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Rvtwq

โ€œWe have to ask, what is the impact of a warmer climate? Itโ€™s not the warming itself that we should be concerned about. It is the impact. So we have to then ask: What is the impact on agriculture? The answer is: Itโ€™s positive. Itโ€™s good. Whatโ€™s the impact on forests of greater levels of CO2 and greater temperatures? Itโ€™s good. What is the impact on water supplies? Itโ€™s neutral. What is the impact on sea level? It will produce a reduction in sea-level rise. It will not raise sea levels. What is the impact on recreation? Itโ€™s mixed. You get, on the one hand, perhaps less skiing; on the other hand, you get more sunshine and maybe better beach weather.

Letโ€™s face it. People like warmer climates. Thereโ€™s a good reason why much of the U.S. population is moving into the Sun Belt, and not just people who are retiring.โ€22โ€œInterview: Dr. S. Fred Singer,โ€ PBS.org. Archived Ocober 17, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Rvtwq

โ€œIf it warms, it will be good. So what is the concern, really? Even if the warming should take place, and the warming will be noticeableโ€ฆif that should be the case, if it is measurable, that does not mean that it is economically damaging. In fact, the opposite is true.โ€23โ€œInterview: Dr. S. Fred Singer,โ€ PBS.org. Archived Ocober 17, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Rvtwq

โ€œLet me say something about this idea of scientific consensus. Well, you really shouldnโ€™t go by numbers. I think itโ€™s significant to straighten out misconceptions. One misconception is that 2,500 IPCC scientists agree that global warming is coming, and itโ€™s going to be two degrees Centigrade by the year 2100. Thatโ€™s just not so.โ€24โ€œInterview: Dr. S. Fred Singer,โ€ PBS.org. Archived Ocober 17, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Rvtwq

Key Actions

February 16, 2021

The Independent Institute announced the release of an update to Fred Singerโ€™s book, Hot Talk, Cold Science. โ€œDr. Singer passed away in April 2020, but not before updating and expanding his much-discussed book with the co-authors, and atmospheric scientist Anthony R. Lupo (University of Missouri) and climatologist David R. Legates (University of Delaware),โ€ the press release noted.25(Press Release). โ€œNew Book Explores the Inaccuracies in Historical Climate Data,โ€ The Independent Institute, February 16, 2021. Archived March 31, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/092wD

โ€œIn the new edition (twice the size of the previous edition) the authors explore the inaccuracies in historical climate data, the limitations on and failures of climate models, solar variability along with the effects of clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate, plus factors that could mitigate any human impact on world climate.

โ€œโ€˜Over the years and despite all the invectives poured upon him by climate alarmists, Dr. Singer has stood his ground for scientific integrity and adherence to the scientific method. For that, he is to be greatly commended,โ€™ said climatologist David R. Legates.โ€

April 6, 2020

Fred Singer passed away at 95 years old. Obituaries were published at the Heartland Institute, the Washington Post, The New York Times, Drilled News, Watts Up With That, Climate Depot, among others.26James Taylor. โ€œDR. S. FRED SINGER, R.I.P.โ€ The Heartland Institute, April 7, 2020. Archived April 7, 2020. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.vn/nvptZ 27Matt Schudel. โ€œS. Fred Singer, scientist and climate-change skeptic, dies at 95,โ€ The Washington Post, April 11, 2020. Archived April 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8cpke 28John Schwartz. โ€œS. Fred Singer, a Leading Climate Change Contrarian, Dies at 95,โ€ The New York Times, April 11, 2020. Archived April 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/wZyDQ 29Paul Thacker. โ€œFred Singer Has Passed. He Took Pleasure In Bullying Scientists. May He Rest,โ€ Drilled News, April 15, 2020. Archived April 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/wip/CJDoH 30Charles Rotter. โ€œIP: Award-Winning Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Fred Singer Dies โ€“ Pioneering Scientist & The Dean of Climate Skeptical Scientists,โ€ Watts Up With That, April 7, 2020. Archived April 23, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/DU2rG 31Marc Morano. โ€œRIP: Award-Winning Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Fred Singer Dies โ€“ Pioneering Scientist & The Dean of Climate Skeptical Scientists,โ€ Climate Depot, April 7, 2020. Originaly published at Watts Up With That. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/96NKT

While blogs like Climate Depot and WUWT promoted Singer as โ€œThe Dean of Climate Skeptical Scientists,โ€ Paul Thacker at Drilled went into depth to describe Singerโ€™s history of โ€œbullying scientists.โ€

โ€œSinger seemed to take special pleasure in discrediting scientists who investigated the ways that human activity threatens public health and the safety of our planet, the sort of research that informs regulations to solve problems ranging from acid rainโ€™s toll on forests to DDTโ€™s impacts on wildlife, as well as โ€” of course โ€” the effects of climate change on us all,โ€ Thacker wrote.32Paul Thacker. โ€œFred Singer Has Passed. He Took Pleasure In Bullying Scientists. May He Rest,โ€ Drilled News, April 15, 2020. Archived April 23, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/wip/CJDoH

Writing at WUWT/Climate Depot, Marc Morano described how he and CFACTโ€™s Craig Rucker had bestowed the โ€œDAUNTLESS Purveyor of Climate Truthโ€ upon Singer in 2018. They described Singer as a โ€ giant of a man, a renowned pioneering scientist, a prominent climate skeptic and perhaps the most influential skeptical scientist in the climate debate since the 1980s.โ€33Charles Rotter. โ€œIP: Award-Winning Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Fred Singer Dies โ€“ Pioneering Scientist & The Dean of Climate Skeptical Scientists,โ€ Watts Up With That, April 7, 2020. Archived April 23, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/DU2rG 34Marc Morano. โ€œRIP: Award-Winning Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Fred Singer Dies โ€“ Pioneering Scientist & The Dean of Climate Skeptical Scientists,โ€ Climate Depot, April 7, 2020. Originaly published at Watts Up With That. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/96NKT

May 15, 2018

Singer wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal titled โ€œThe Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change.โ€ In the article, Singer claimed, โ€œthe temperature of sea water has no direct effect on sea-level rise. That means neither does the atmospheric content of carbon dioxide.โ€35S. Fred Singer. โ€œThe Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change,โ€ The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/jZhIN

โ€œThis conclusion is worth highlighting: It shows that sea-level rise does not depend on the use of fossil fuels. The evidence should allay fear that the release of additional CO2 will increase sea-level rise,โ€ Singer wrote.36S. Fred Singer. โ€œThe Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change,โ€ The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/jZhIN

He does admit that โ€œthere is also good data showing sea levels are in fact rising at an accelerating rateโ€ however comments that โ€œThe cause of the trend is a puzzle.โ€37S. Fred Singer. โ€œThe Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change,โ€ The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/jZhIN

โ€œCurrently, sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2. We can expect the sea to continue rising at about the present rate for the foreseeable future. [โ€ฆ] There is nothing we can do about rising sea levels in the meantime. Weโ€™d better build dikes and sea walls a little bit higher,โ€ Singer concluded.38S. Fred Singer. โ€œThe Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change,โ€ The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/jZhIN

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) offered commentary on Singerโ€™s WSJ piece, noting that the counter to Singerโ€™s claims, โ€œscience is crystal clearโ€ regarding the reason for sea level rise:39โ€œHereโ€™s Why Seas Are Rising. Somebody Remind the Wall Street Journal,โ€ Union of Concerned Scientists, May 18, 2018. Archived May 18, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/RVZnv

โ€œ[W]e know that without strong policy to limit CO2 emissions, the rising water will continue to accelerate, inundating all the coastal cities of the world,โ€ UCS noted. โ€œThe reason that sea levels are rising faster and faster is because every bit of coal, oil, and gas we burn adds to the CO2 in the atmosphere, absorbing more of the Earthโ€™s radiant heat, and contributing more to the thermal expansion of seawater and the loss of land ice. This is not a mystery. Itโ€™s extremely well understood and documented by millions of direct measurements.โ€

Scientists at Climate Feedback also examined the WSJ article, and found it โ€œgrossly misleads readers about science of sea level riseโ€ and that Singerโ€™s claims were โ€œcontradicted by a wealth of data and research.โ€ According to the scientistsโ€™ feedback, โ€œSinger bases his conclusion entirely on a cherry-picked comparison of sea level rise 1915-1945 and a single study published in 1990, claiming a lack of accelerating sea level rise despite continued warming. But in fact, modern research utilizing all available data clearly indicates that sea level rise has accelerated, and is unambiguously the result of human-caused global warming.โ€40โ€œWall Street Journal commentary grossly misleads readers about science of sea level rise,โ€ Climate Feedback, May 2018. Archived May 18, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/RkxeN

March 23, 2017

Singer was a speaker at the Heartland Instituteโ€˜s 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC12) on a โ€œCllimate Scienceโ€ panel alongside Don Easterbrook and Willie Soon.41โ€œS. FRED SINGER,โ€ Climateconference.heartland.org. Archived April 7, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/IW6rj

Panel 1B) Climate Science

Panel 1B) Q&A

February 23, 2017

Fred Singer was a signatory of a petition (PDF) organized by Richard Lindzen of the Cato Institute urging President Donald Trump to pull the United States out of the United Nations international convention on climate change (UNFCCC).42โ€œPETITIONโ€ (PDF), February 23, 2017. Richard Lindzen. PDF Archived at DeSmog.

โ€œIn just a few weeks, more than 300 eminent scientists and other qualified individuals from around the world have signed the petition below,โ€ Lindzen wrote in the letter.43โ€œPETITIONโ€ (PDF), February 23, 2017. Richard Lindzen. PDF Archived at DeSmog.

DeSmog investigated the list, and found that only a small handful of the signatories could be considered โ€œeven remotely โ€˜qualifiedโ€™ or โ€˜eminentโ€™ โ€” but not in the field of climate science.โ€ The list included individuals โ€œinterested in climate,โ€ and one signatory who only identified as an โ€œemailer who wished to sign the petitionโ€ while some signers provided no affiliation or address whatsoever.44Graham Readfearn. โ€œClimate Science Denier Richard Lindzenโ€™s List of 300 โ€œScientistsโ€ Sent to Trump Is the Usual Parade of Non-Experts,โ€ DeSmog, February 27, 2017.

December 12, 2016

Fred Singer was an attendee at a private meeting also attended by Trumpโ€™s EPA Transition team lead Myron Ebell on Capitol Hill. E&E News reported that the event was not open to the public or to the press and Ebell refused to give any details. The event was hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and held in the hearing room of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. The EPW committee is chaired by Senator James Inhofe who, like Trump, has described human-caused climate change as a hoax.45George Cahlink. โ€œTrump EPA adviser Myron Ebell meets with Hill aides,โ€ E&E News, December 12, 2016.

DeSmog reported that the event featured the โ€œWhoโ€™s Who of Climate Science Deniers.โ€ Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts, who spoke at the event, also wrote that the meeting was a gathering of the Cooler Heads Coalition and listed some of the participants on Facebook:46Graham Readfearn. โ€œDonald Trumpโ€™s Aide at EPA Myron Ebell Meets with Whoโ€™s Who of Climate Science Deniers,โ€ DeSmog, December 13, 2016. 47โ€œYesterday I spoke at an event for the Competitive Enterprise Institute called Cooler Heads Coalition in Washington. [โ€ฆ]โ€ Facebook post by Malcolm Roberts โ€“ QLD Senate โ€“ One Nation, December 13 at 6:38 pm. Archived image on file at DeSmog.

Malcolm Roberts Facebook Post

Names mentioned above included:

DeSmog also noted that three of the attendeesโ€”Myron Ebell, Randy Randol, and Steve Milloyโ€”had all been part of the Global Climate Science Communications Team in the late 1990s, a group organized by the American Petroleum Institute. According to an early memo, the group said โ€œvictory will be achieved when [โ€ฆ] Average citizens โ€˜understandโ€™ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the โ€˜conventional wisdomโ€™.โ€48โ€œGlobal Climate Science Communications Plan (1998),โ€ SourceWatch.

July 8โ€“10, 2016

S. Fred Singer was a speaker at 34th Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, co-sponsored by Access to Energy, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and Physicians for Civil Defense.49โ€œDDP 34th Annual Meeting โ€“ July 2016,โ€ Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Archived July 22, 2016. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/oRn3j

Singer spoke alongside Ken Haapala, both representing the Science and Environmental Policy Project. Singerโ€™s portion of the presentation focused on โ€œParis COP-21,โ€ while Haapala spoke on โ€œLegal Actions of EPA, CPP, and SCOTUS.โ€50โ€œDDP 34th Annual Meeting โ€“ July 2016,โ€ Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Archived July 22, 2016. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/oRn3j

DDP listed the following speakers at their event:51โ€œDDP 34th Annual Meeting โ€“ July 2016,โ€ Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Archived July 22, 2016. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/oRn3j

December 7, 2015

S. Fred Singer appeared at the United Nationโ€™s Conference on Climate Change, COP21, in Paris, France with the Heartland Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) to โ€œhold a โ€˜counter-conferenceโ€™ โ€ฆ called the Day of Examining the Data.โ€52โ€œPARIS COP-21: Day of Examining the Data with The Heartland Institute, CFACT, and CEI,โ€ (Youtube Video), Heartland Institute, December 7, 2015.

Other notable climate science deniers that were in attendance at the โ€œcounter-conference,โ€ included: Robert Carter, Willie Soon, Christopher Essex, James Taylor, Patrick Moore, Wolfgang Mรผller, James Inhofe, and Christopher Monckton.53โ€œBringing Climate Realism to Paris at COP-21,โ€ Heartland Institute, December 7, 2015.

Watch S. Fred Singerโ€™s โ€œcounter-conferenceโ€ presentation with the Heartland Institute, below (S. Fred Singerโ€™s presentation begins at 1:34:30):54โ€œPARIS COP-21: Day of Examining the Data with The Heartland Institute, CFACT, and CEI,โ€ (Youtube Video), Heartland Institute, December 7, 2015.

November 30, 2015

S. Fred Singer is a co-author of a Heartland Institute/NIPCC book titled Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Consensus. The book was timed for release on the first day of the United Nationsโ€™ twenty first conference of the parties (COP21) in Paris.55(Press Release). โ€œFrom The Heartland Institute: โ€˜Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming,โ€™ The NIPCC Report on Consensus,โ€ PRWeb, November 30, 2015. Archived December 1, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/kmDpN

According to the the Heartland Institute press release, The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Changeโ€™s book, โ€œemphatically rejects claims of a โ€˜scientific consensusโ€™ on the causes and consequences of climate change.โ€56(Press Release). โ€œFrom The Heartland Institute: โ€˜Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming,โ€™ The NIPCC Report on Consensus,โ€ PRWeb, November 30, 2015. Archived December 1, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/kmDpN

Contrary to the bookโ€™s premise, multiple studies and surveys have shown that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate warming trends over the past century are due to human activities (NASA for example).57โ€œScientific consensus: Earthโ€™s climate is warming,โ€ NASA. Archived December 1, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8ADdO

Other authors include Craig D. Idso of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSCDGC) and Bob Carter of the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA). The NIPCC itself is sponsored by the CSCDGC, SEPP, and The Heartland Institute.58(Press Release). โ€œFrom The Heartland Institute: โ€˜Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming,โ€™ The NIPCC Report on Consensus,โ€ PRWeb, November 30, 2015. Archived December 1, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/kmDpN

CSDGC, IPA, and SEPP are all secretive about their funding sources. Still, available data at ExxonSecrets and the Conservative Transparency Project show they have received funding from ExxonMobil, Donors Capital Fund, Scaife, and Koch-related Foundations.

June 11-12, 2015

S. Fred Singer was a speaker on Panel 9: โ€œClimate Change Reconsidered II: Human Welfare, Energy, and Policies,โ€ at the Heartland Instituteโ€™s Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC10) in Washington, D.C., with Craig Idso, Bob Carter, and Christopher Monckton.59โ€œSpeakers,โ€ Heartland Institute. Archived June 30, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lpiqu

View S. Fred Singerโ€™s Panel 9 presentation at the Heartland Instituteโ€™s ICCC10, below:60โ€œSpeakers,โ€ Heartland Institute. Archived June 30, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lpiqu

May 12, 2015

S. Fred Singer is a signatory to an open letter to Pope Francis on climate change. The letter invites the Pope to reconsider his views on climate change before his upcoming encyclical letter on the environment, which is widely expected to call for measures to prevent climate change in the interests of the worldโ€™s poor.61โ€œAn Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change,โ€ Cornwall Alliance For The Stewardship of Creation. April 27, 2015. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/x9zyb

The open letter was coordinated and signed by Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance. According to the letter, โ€œGood climate policy must recognize human exceptionalism, the God-given call for human persons to โ€˜have dominionโ€™ in the natural world (Genesis 1:28), and the need to protect the poor from harm, including actions that hinder their ascent out of poverty.โ€62โ€œAn Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change,โ€ Cornwall Alliance For The Stewardship of Creation. April 27, 2015. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/x9zyb

Another excerpt below:

โ€œ[โ€ฆ] the [climate] models are wrong. They therefore provide no rational basis to forecast dangerous human-induced global warming, and therefore no rational basis for efforts to reduce warming by restricting the use of fossil fuels or any other means.โ€63โ€œAn Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change,โ€ Cornwall Alliance For The Stewardship of Creation. April 27, 2015. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/x9zyb

Judith Curry comments on her blog Climate Etc. that โ€œArguably the most effective โ€˜pushbackโ€™ comes from Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance, who coordinated An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change.โ€64Judith Curry. โ€œPope Francis, climate change, and morality,โ€ JudithCurry.com, April 29, 2015. Archived September 13, 2016.Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UNoI5

March, 2015

S. Fred Singer is one of several climate change skeptics ccโ€™d on an email from S. Fred Singer in hopes of countering the documentary film โ€œMerchants of Doubt,โ€ which exposes the network of climate change skeptics and deniers trying to delay legislative action on climate change.65Katherine Bagley. โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CVOi5

The October, 2014 email was leaked to journalists before the documentary was released. โ€œCan I sue for damages?โ€ Singer asked in the email. โ€œCan we get an injunction against the documentary?โ€66Katherine Bagley. โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CVOi5

InsideClimate News reports in their article โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ how โ€œMany of those copied on the email thread, such as Singer and communications specialist Steven Milloy, have financial ties to the tobacco, chemical, and oil and gas industries and have worked to defend them since the 1990s.โ€67Katherine Bagley. โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CVOi5

InsideClimate News also documented all those who were ccโ€™d on the email, including the following skeptics and groups:68Katherine Bagley. โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CVOi5

DeSmogBlog covered the emails here: โ€œMerchants of Doubt Film Debuts, Textbook Denial Attack Campaign Led By Fred Singer Ensuesโ€ and DeSmogBlog also archived a full copy of the Singer email thread (PDF).

August 30, 2014

S. Fred Singer, Marc Morano, James Taylor, William Oโ€™Keefe, and Tim Phillips were all featured in the film Merchants of Doubt, based on the 2010 non-fiction book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway.69โ€œMerchants of Doubt; A Film By Robert Kenner,โ€ Sony Pictures Classics, August 30, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/T9HD1

According to the filmโ€™s synopsis on its website, Merchants of Doubt โ€œlifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver- tongued pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities โ€“ yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change.โ€70โ€œMerchants of Doubt; A Film By Robert Kenner,โ€ Sony Pictures Classics, August 30, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/T9HD1

July 7โ€“9, 2014

S. Fred Singer was a speaker at the Heartland Instituteโ€™s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) in Las Vegas, Nevada.71โ€œReturn of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest,โ€ DeSmog, July 7, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.

DeSmogBlog has done in-depth research on the other speakers and sponsors from Heartlandโ€™s ICCC9, which can be found here.72Brendan DeMelle. โ€œReturn of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest,โ€ Desmog, July 7, 2014.

November 30โ€“December 1, 2012

Fred Singer was a speaker (PDF) at the Eighth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-8)/Fifth International Conference on Climate and Energy (ICCE-5) sponsored by both the Heartland Institute and the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). Singerโ€™s speech is titled โ€œChecking the Evidence for Man-Made Global Warming.โ€73โ€œ8th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-8): V International Conference on Climate and Energy (ICCE-5). Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich, November 30 โ€“ December 1, 2012โ€ (PDF) retrieved from eike-klima-energy.eu on November 24, 2012.

May 21โ€“23, 2012

Fred Singer was a speaker at the Heartland Instituteโ€˜s 7th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7).74โ€œSpeakers,โ€ 7th International Conference on Climate Change. Archied June 22, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/TpPsv

DeSmogBlog researched the co-sponsors behind Heartlandโ€™s ICCC7 and found that they had collectively received over $67 million from ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothers and the conservative Scaife family foundations.75Brendan DeMelle. โ€œHeartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsors Have Received Million From ExxonMobil, Koch and Scaife Foundations,โ€ Desmog, May 22, 2012.

January 2010

In the January 2010 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, Singer was profiled in the top 17 โ€œpolluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming.โ€76Tim Dickson. โ€œThe Climate Killers,โ€ Rolling Stone Magazine, January 6, 2010. Archived January 9, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/t1Zfw

In an excerpt of the article about โ€œThe Climate Killers,โ€ Singer is described as โ€œA former mouthpiece for the tobacco industryโ€ who โ€œis still wheeled out as an authority by big polluters determined to kill climate legislation.โ€77Tim Dickson. โ€œThe Climate Killers,โ€ Rolling Stone Magazine, January 6, 2010. Archived January 9, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/t1Zfw

April 2008

Singer is the editor, and a contributor to the โ€œNIPCCโ€ report, titled โ€œNature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climateโ€ (PDF).78S. Fred Singer, ed. โ€œNature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Changeโ€ (PDF), The Heartland Institute, 2008. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.

The report is published by the Heartland Institute, and also gives credit to Singerโ€™s Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). Contributors include:

March 8, 2007

Appeared in documentary โ€œThe Great Global Warming Swindleโ€ which portrays global warming as a hoax.79โ€œThe Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie,โ€ YouTube Video uploaded by user Apollo, April 2, 2013. Archived movie on file at Desmog.

DesmogUK describes how after the program aired on Channel 4, there were more than 260 complaints from viewers including Sir David King, then chief scientific advisor to the UK Government, who complained that his contribution to the film had been manipulated. Professor Chris Rapley, then head of the British Antarctic Survey, dismissed the programme as โ€œa tissue of lies.โ€80Brendan Montague. โ€œRevealed: The Inside Story of The Great Global Warming Swindle,โ€ DesmogUK, August 11, 2015. 81โ€œScience chief: cut birthrate to save Earth,โ€ The Guardian, July 22, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/jCa4O

The film includes other prominent climate change skeptics like Tim Ball, Nir Shaviv, Nigel Lawson, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Moore, Roy Spencer, and numerous others.82โ€œThe Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie,โ€ YouTube Video uploaded by user Apollo, April 2, 2013. Archived movie on file at Desmog.

July 2005

DeSmogBlog reported that S. Fred Singer worked with an organization challenging the claims by the US Environmental Protection Agency that second-hand tobacco smoke is bad for human health.83James Hoggan. โ€œNo apology is owed Dr. S. Fred Singer, and none will be forthcoming,โ€ Desmog, June 28, 2006.

Here is a memo sent by an official at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution soliciting $20,000 from the Tobacco Institute for the preparation of a โ€œresearchโ€ paper challenging the health effects of second-hand smoke, and suggesting that Dr. Singer be retained to write the report.84โ€œPm_r_ Olmo_,โ€ Archived document at Tobaccodocuments.org. Archived August 5, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/KQrvw

AdTI sent a follow up letter โ€œto thank the Tobacco Institute for its grant of $20,000 to support our research and educational projects.โ€85โ€œDear. Mr. Woodson,โ€ December 14, 1994. Document retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. TI15000035.

Singer Co-Authored the draft paper with Kent Jeffreys, an Adjunct Sholar of AdTI with the title โ€œThe EPA and the Science of Environmental Tobacco Smoke.โ€ According to the report introduction:86โ€œDraft Only the Epa and the Science of Environmental Tobacco Smoke.โ€ Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. TI40481951.

โ€œScientific standards were seriously violated [by the EPA] in order to produce a report to justify a political agenda, namely to ban smoking.โ€

Another Tobacco Institute memo reports on Dr. Singerโ€™s appearance with two Congressional Representatives releasing the paper to the media.87โ€œExcom Mail โ€“ August 11, 1994 Alexis de Tocqueville Inst Study,โ€ The Tobacco Institute. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. TI10882879.

Singer also collaborated on an article for APCO Associates, the PR firm hired by The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC), on behalf of Philip Morris for their โ€œjunk scienceโ€ campaign.88โ€œOPINION EDITORIALS ON INDOOR AIR QUALITY AND JUNK SCIENCE,โ€ March 8, 1993. Retrieved from Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, Bates Number 2021178205. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/E7eTv

May 2005

In his May 10, 2005 Guardian column, George Monbiot uncovered a story implicating Fred Singer in the spread of misinformation on the state of the worldโ€™s glaciers. An expanded version of this story made its way into Monbiotโ€™s best selling book, Heat. 89George Monbiot. โ€œJunk science,โ€ The Guardian, May 10, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UUQY

During his research, Monbiot found a letter by the UK climate change skeptic David Bellamy in New Scientist magazine. Bellamyโ€™s letter reported that โ€œ555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich have been growing since 1980.โ€90George Monbiot. โ€œJunk science,โ€ The Guardian, May 10, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UUQY

When Monbiot phoned the World Glacier Monitoring Service, they reported in indelicate words that this claim was โ€œcomplete bullshit.โ€ They confirmed that glaciers are retreating around the world.91George Monbiot. โ€œJunk science,โ€ The Guardian, May 10, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UUQY

Monbiot looked for a source for the claim, which appeared dozens of times in different locations. All trails seemed to lead back to the website of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, S. Fred Singerโ€™s group.92George Monbiot. โ€œJunk science,โ€ The Guardian, May 10, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UUQY

When people challenged Singer on his claim, he criticized Monbiot, saying he must have โ€œbeen smoking something or other.โ€ Singer eventually conceded that the information had originated on his site โ€“ posted there by โ€œformer SEPP associate Candace Crandallโ€ and that the information โ€œappears to be incorrect and has been updated.โ€93George Monbiot. โ€œJunk science,โ€ The Guardian, May 10, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UUQY

โ€œUpdated,โ€ however, appears to be different than โ€œcorrectedโ€ as over 18 months later the false claim was still present on his website. Singer also failed to mention that this former associate, Candace Crandall, is his wife.94George Monbiot. โ€œJunk science,โ€ The Guardian, May 10, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UUQY

July 28, 2003

Singer was the co-author of Independent Institute report titled โ€œNew Perspectives in Climate Change: What the EPA Isnโ€™t Telling Usโ€ (PDF).95S. Fred Singer, John R. Christy, Robert E. Davis, David R. Legates, and Wendy M. Novicoff. โ€œNew Perspectives in Climate Changeโ€ (PDF), The Independent Institute, July 28, 2003. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6tYRy

The report criticizes the EPAโ€™s 2001 Climate Action Report. Other authors include climate change skeptics John R. Christy, Robert E. Davis, and David R. Legates.96S. Fred Singer, John R. Christy, Robert E. Davis, David R. Legates, and Wendy M. Novicoff. โ€œNew Perspectives in Climate Changeโ€ (PDF), The Independent Institute, July 28, 2003. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6tYRy

July 18, 2000

Fred Singer testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Climate Change.97โ€œTestimony of Prof. S. Fred Singer: President, The Science & Environmental Policy Project before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Climate Change,โ€ July 18, 2000. Republished by the Global Warming Information Center. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vZext

Singer concludes in his testimony that โ€œContrary to the conventional wisdom and the predictions of computer models, the Earthโ€™s climate has not warmed appreciably in the past two decades, and probably not since about 1940.โ€98โ€œTestimony of Prof. S. Fred Singer: President, The Science & Environmental Policy Project before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Climate Change,โ€ July 18, 2000. Republished by the Global Warming Information Center. Archived September 13, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vZext

July 1998

S. Fred singer testified (PDF) before the House Small Business Committee, stating that โ€œClimate science does not support the Kyoto Protocol and its emission controls on carbon dioxide.โ€99โ€œTestimony of Dr. S. Fred Singer, President, SEPP to the Committee on Small Business, US House of Representativesโ€ (PDF), July 27, 1998. Retrieved from Greenpeace USA. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.

November 1995

The 1995 โ€œLeipzig Declarationโ€ was a collaboration between Fred Singerโ€™s Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and a group called the European Academy of Environmental Affairs. The Leipzig Declaration stats that โ€œthere does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide.โ€100โ€œThe Leipzig Declaration,โ€ SEPP.org. Archived January 27, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lnX5C 101โ€œThe Leipzig Declaration,โ€ Sovereignty.net. Archived March 22, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/M6Cwm

According to SourceWatch, when a Danish journalist attempted to contact the 33 European scientists listed on the petition, 12 denied signing the petition and some had not even heard of the Leipzig Declaration. Of those that did admit to signing the letter, one was a doctor and another was an expert on flying insects. The declaration was revised in 2005 and many names were removed.102โ€œLeipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change,โ€ SourceWatch. Accessed Nov 2, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8ziSW 103โ€œTHE LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE (2005, revised),โ€ SEPP. Archived November 6, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/BkCkn

1991

S. Fred Singer was the primary author of a paper in the journal Cosmos, titled โ€œWhat to do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap.โ€ Many have credited this article to Roger Revelle, a man described by some as the grandfather of modern climate change science and whose name woul dhave given the article significantly more credence than Singerโ€™s alone.104โ€œWhat To Do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap,โ€ Cosmos: A Journal of Emerging Issues. Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 1992). Republised by Science & Environmental Policy Project. Archived September 28, 2006. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/HcQus

Evidence suggests that Revell was never an author. Justin Lancaster, a Research Fellow at Harvard University School of Public Health, suggests that Revelle never had complete knowledge of Singerโ€™s paper, and that he may have even been pressured into his role in the project. Lancasterโ€™s report and evidence are still available here.105โ€œThe Cosmos Myth,โ€ The OSS Foundation, July 6, 2006. Original article archived here. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4RhDo

The main conclusions of the Cosmos paper, including the most-referred-to quotes like โ€œLook before you leapโ€ and โ€œThe scientific basis for a greenhouse warming is too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time,โ€ both appeared before the publication of the Cosmos article, in a separate paper authored by Fred Singer alone in the journal ES&T (see archived PDF here).106S. Fred Singer. โ€œWhat to do about Greenhouse Warming (PDF), Environ. Sci. Technol. Vol. 24, No. 8 (1990). Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.

The key points of Lancasterโ€™s report are reproduced below:107โ€œThe Cosmos Myth,โ€ The OSS Foundation, July 6, 2006. Original article archived here. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4RhDo

  1. Revelle did not write the Cosmos article.
  2. S. Fred Singer claimed sole authorship of the major statements of the article in his ES&T paper months before he put the finishing touches on his Cosmos Masterpiece.
  3. If S. Fred Singer is sole author of this material, then Revelle cannot be an author.
  4. If S. Fred Singer is not sole author of this material, then he has admitted in his deposition to ethical concern about one author publishing under his own sole authorship material that was co-authored.
  5. Revelle appears not to have had full information โ€” not about the ES&T publication and not about the many energy-industry agents who were busy at work here.

In a written affidavit (Archived PDF here) by Rogerโ€™s secretary Christa Beran, it appears that Singer may have also pressured Roger Revelle into his involvement with the paper:108โ€œAffidavit of Ms. Christa Beranโ€ (PDF), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex, ss. Superior Court Civil Action No. 93-2219.

โ€œI do not remember seeing any review by Roger of any text by Dr. Singer before a day in February 1991 when he came to Rogerโ€™s office. For quite some time Dr. Singer had been trying to get Roger to work on an article that Dr. Singer was writing for the Cosmos Club Journal. He seemed quite anxious to get Rogerโ€™s comments. [โ€ฆ] After a series of unsuccessful attempts to get Roger to work on this document, Dr. Singer must have decided that the only way he was going to get this thing done was to come in person.109โ€œAffidavit of Ms. Christa Beranโ€ (PDF), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex, ss. Superior Court Civil Action No. 93-2219.

โ€œI remember feeling that Roger was cornered, because I thought I understood from the fact that Roger had procrastinated so long that this enterprise was something he didnโ€™t really want to be involved with. [โ€ฆ]โ€

It appeared that Revelle did not have full information about the original ES&T publication. Singer went through three drafts of the paper after receiving comments from fellow climate change skeptics Patrick Michaels, Robert C. Balling Jr., Hugh W. Ellsaesser, and Richard Lindzen, however it also appears that Revelle was unaware of their contributions. While Singer incorporated a number of changes based on suggestions made by these skeptics, unlike Revell, none of their names appear in the final paper.110โ€œThe Cosmos Myth,โ€ The OSS Foundation, July 6, 2006. Original article archived here. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4RhDo

The discussion between Singer and Revelle accounted for just 1% of changes in the articleโ€™s text between galley proof and final article; this said, it is strange that many still refer to the publication as โ€œRevelleโ€™s articleโ€ and not Singerโ€™s. And those changes were not consistent with Revelleโ€™s traditional views. Most notably, that warming in the 21st century would be 1-3 degrees Celsius, as opposed to โ€œwell below normal year-to-year variationโ€ which, as Revelle had frequently cited in his own lectures, was less than about 0.2 degrees Celsius.111โ€œThe Cosmos Myth,โ€ The OSS Foundation, July 6, 2006. Original article archived here. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4RhDo

Lancaster reported that in personal discussion, Revelle โ€œgave me the very strong sense that he was intensely embarrassed that his name was associated [with the paper]. He seemed noticeably relieved when we agreed together that perhaps the readership of the Cosmos Club journal would be small and limited. Little did either of us anticipate at that moment what was really going on and what would follow.โ€112โ€œThe Cosmos Myth,โ€ The OSS Foundation, July 6, 2006. Original article archived here. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4RhDo

What followed was a continued use of โ€œthe Revelle paperโ€ in Congressional and Vice-Presidential debates with climate change skeptics including Singer, Balling and Michaels where it was used โ€œto harrass, embarrass and otherwise discredit Al Gore.โ€ In 2003, Singer published a book chapter titled โ€œThe Revelle-Gore Story: Attempted Political Suppression of Scienceโ€ that continued to criticize Al Gore as well as Lancaster.113โ€œThe Cosmos Myth,โ€ The OSS Foundation, July 6, 2006. Original article archived here. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4RhDo

Evidence (from original Lancaster article):

1990

Fred Singer founded the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) in 1990. While engaged in activities denying the existence of man-made global warming, SEPP has received funding from numerous oil companies including Shell, Uniroyal and ARCO as well as $20,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.114ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Science and Environmental Policy Project, SEPP. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/XZ0Ca

Fred Sietz was the Chair of Fred Singerโ€™s SEPP project, and was the co-organizer of The โ€œOregon Petitionโ€ was organized by Art Robinson and Fred Seitz. Seitz was past Chair of Fred Singerโ€™s SEPP project. He has also been the former medical advisor to RJ Reynolds medical research program.

A 1989 Philip Morris memo stated that Seitz was: โ€œquite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice.โ€ However, nine years later, it seems that he was โ€œsufficiently rationalโ€ to lead the charge on Robinsonโ€™s Oregon Petition. It also seems that Seitz was still โ€œsufficiently rationalโ€ to sit as the Chair of Fred Singerโ€™s, Science and Environmental Policy Project.115โ€œSEPP Board of Directors,โ€ SEPP. Archived March 26, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/N9hw3 116โ€œFred Seitz,โ€ Philip Morris, August 21, 1989. Retrieved from Tobaccodocuments.org. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pyB8o

The Oregon Petition has been used by climate change skeptics as supposed proof that there is no scientific consensus regarding man-made climate change, however the validity of its signatures has been questioned.117(Press Release). โ€œINHOFE QUESTIONS SCIENCE BEHIND ARCTIC REPORT,โ€ U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. Archived September 12, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9iThq 118(Press Release). โ€œSEPP News Release: More Than 15,000 Scientists Protest Kyoto Accord; Speak Out Against Global Warming Myth,โ€ SEPP, April 21, 1998. Archived February 8, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rDV9M

Affiliations

According to a January 2007 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists called โ€œSmoke, Mirrors & Hot Air,โ€ Singer is affiliated with 11 think tanks and associations that have received funding from ExxonMobil. Singerโ€™s own โ€œScience and Environmental Policy Projectโ€ (SEPP) has received $20,000 from ExxonMobil.137โ€œSmoke, Mirrors & Hot Airโ€ (PDF), Union of Concerned Scientists, January, 2007.

According to SourceWatch, Singer has also done consulting work for other major oil companies including Texaco, Arco, Shell, Sun, Inocal, the Electric Power Institute, Florida Power and the American Gas Association.138โ€œS. Fred Singer,โ€ SourceWatch Profile. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/NzfjA

Publications

According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Singer had published 45+ research articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Singer co-authored a global warming denial book called Unstoppable Global Warming, with Dennis Avery, a โ€œSenior Fellowโ€ at an organization called the Hudson Institute, a US think-tank that has received funding from ExxonMobil.

Other Resources

Profile image S. Fred Singer speaking at the Heartland Instituteโ€™s 12th International Conference on Climate Change, screenshot via YouTube.

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