Steven Goddard

Steven Goddard (Tony Heller)

Credentials

Background

Steven Goddard is a climate science denier, regular contributor to WattsUpWithThat (WUWT), and operator of โ€The Deplorable Climate Science Blog.โ€ The name โ€œSteven Goddardโ€ is a pseudonym used by Tony Heller, which he confirmed himself in June 2014.5Heartland Institute ICCC9 Speakers List, May 2014. Archived September 24, 2014. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/8vtMO 6โ€œReal Science Announces the Death of Steve Goddard,โ€ย Watts Up With That, April 21, 2012. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/9x8Nv 7โ€œEvaluating The Integrity Of Official Climate Records,โ€ YouTube Video uploaded by user DDP Meetings, July 13, 2016. Archived .png on file at DeSmog. 8โ€œWho Is Steven Goddard?โ€ย StevenGoddard.wordpress.com, June 27, 2014. Archived September 6, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/y5J2f 9Anthony Watts. โ€œAnnouncements,โ€ย Watts Up With That?ย August 31, 2010. Archived September 6, 2016. Arhive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ACWkn

Tony Heller describes himself as โ€œan independent thinker who is considered a heretic by the orthodoxy on both sides of the climate debate.โ€ He has degrees in Geology and Electrical Engineering, and lives in Columbia, Maryland. He describes global warming as the โ€œbiggest scientific fraud in history.โ€10โ€œWho Is Steven Goddard?โ€ย StevenGoddard.wordpress.com, June 27, 2014. Archived September 6, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/y5J2f 11โ€œNASA Hiding The Decline,โ€ Realclimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/Ux269

Steven Goddard is known for a 2008 article in The Register where he posited that Arctic Sea ice is not receding and claimed that data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) showing the opposite was incorrect. Goddard later issued a retraction on his statement.12Steven Goddard. โ€œArctic ice refuses to melt as ordered,โ€ย The Register, August 15, 2008. Archived September 6, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ewavl 13Joe Romm. โ€œA new Olympic record for retraction of a denier talking point,โ€ ThinkProgress, August 25, 2008. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/sj2ZZ

Goddard operates a blog titled โ€œReal Scienceโ€, originally located at Real-Science.com, then at Stevengoddard.wordpress.com (until May, 2016), and now at Realclimatescience.com.14Real Science Homepage, Real-science.com. Archived July 3, 2012. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/Hd2d3 15โ€œToto Has Moved!โ€ StevenGoddard.wordpress.com, May 3, 2016. Archived September 6, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/BHZ6e

Stance on Climate Change

โ€œMake no mistake about it, global warming is the biggest scientific fraud in history.โ€16โ€œNASA Hiding The Decline,โ€ Realclimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/Ux269

โ€œGlobal warming is indeed Mann-made, by Michael Mann and James Hansen. But it has nothing to do with climate or science.โ€17โ€œThe 100% Fraudulent Hockey Stick,โ€ Realclimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/Jgrbu

โ€œโ€The 97% consensus quoted daily by Barack Obama is based on a few fraudulent studies of a handful of published papers.โ€18โ€œThe 52% Consensus,โ€ Realclimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/IuJL3

โ€œThere is no global warming crisis. There is a crisis of the White House having government agencies manipulate data, in pursuit of their global warming agenda. There is also a crisis of the White House attacking the Bill of Rights in pursuit of their global warming agenda.โ€19โ€œThe Government Knew,โ€ย Realclimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/jq52j

Key Quotes

February 24, 2017

Tony Heller moderated a discussion panel sponsored by the CO2 Coalition at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). After Craig Idso finished his talk, Heller noted:20โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

โ€œMy takeaway from that [Craig Idsoโ€™s talk] is that efforts to reduce CO2 are not only anti-science, but theyโ€™re anti-human.โ€21โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

July 2016

โ€œI completely agree with Fred [Singer] that there probably has been little or no warming since the 1940s.โ€22โ€œEvaluating The Integrity Of Official Climate Records,โ€ YouTube Video uploaded by user DDP Meetings, July 13, 2016. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.

August 2008

โ€œThe Arctic did not experience the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar Year Secretariat. It didn’t even come close. Additionally, some current graphs and press releases from NSIDC seem less than conservative. There appears to be a consistent pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss.โ€23Steven Goddard. โ€œArctic ice refuses to melt as ordered,โ€ย The Register, August 15, 2008. Archived September 6, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ewavl

Undated

โ€œNothing about climate science reeks more of confirmation bias, than the changes scientists make to their own data sets over time. They all show exactly the same pattern of monotonically cooling the past and warming the present, regardless of the instrumentation.โ€24โ€œAll Temperature Adjustments Monotonically Increase,โ€ย Realcimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/OTSJy

โ€œClimate fraudsters say that glaciers melting is an ‘early sign of global warming.’ They are lying. Glaciers have been melting for a very long time, and were melting during NASAโ€™s claimed coldest years ever.โ€25โ€œDisappearing Glaciers,โ€ย Realcimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/WkZB2#selection-247.0-247.21

โ€œโ€In summary, the NASA global and US temperature records are neither accurate, nor credible representations of reality.โ€26โ€œFitting An Elephant,โ€ย Realcimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/6gRUN

โ€œThe claimed agreement in temperature data is simply not legitimate. The people involved know that their data is inadequate, tampered and largely made up. [โ€ฆ] The reason that the data sets agree is due to collusion, not independent research as they claim. It is the biggest scientific fraud in history.โ€27โ€œGlobal Temperature Record Is A Smoking Gun Of Collusion And Fraud,โ€ย Realcimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/RtA1g

โ€œNASA scientists have a strong conflict of interest in that they expect to see warming, and they the more alarm they create, the more money they obtain. This is why climate scientists have no business touching the temperature data. They have no training in signal processing and they have shown repeatedly that they will alter data to suit their needs.โ€28โ€œNASA Doubling Warming Since 2001,โ€ย Realcimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ynchk

โ€œNASA shows 3.24 mm/year sea level rise on their web site. They call it ‘Facts’ โ€“ when in fact it is blatant fraud.โ€29โ€œNASA Sea Level Fraud,โ€ Realcimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/N0OzS

โ€œIn 1927, CO2 levels were very low. An endless series of disasters struck the world, and glaciers were rapidly melting. What we can conclude from all this is:

1. The climate was not better at lower levels of CO2

2. The climate would not get better if we reduced CO2 levels

3. The NASA temperature record is complete garbageโ€30โ€œReducing CO2 โ€“ To Save The Climate,โ€ Realcimatescience.com. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/YND1m

Comments Surrounding 2021 Capitol Insurrection

Tony Heller (@Tony_Heller on Twitter) was among dozens of the individuals and organizations profiled in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database who posted online or gave interviews about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some posted claims of election fraud, similar to those that drove the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. Some circulated dubious information about the insurrection itself. DeSmog has preserved a selection of notable posts related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including some that were later deleted or removed.

Heller also uploaded a video in which a participant in the failed Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection claims that antifa had infiltrated the mob:

In another video, a person identified as โ€œKatherineโ€ says โ€œAll of us were fairly peaceful. There were a couple undercover ANTIFA that were in the group. They were disguised. Some of them had red bandanas but most of them were wearing like Trump hats either backwards or like loosely fitted in order to kind of like stand themselves outโ€:

In that video, a person identified as โ€œKatherineโ€ says โ€œAll of us were fairly peaceful. There were a couple undercover ANTIFA that were in the group. They were disguised. Some of them had red bandanas but most of them were wearing like Trump hats either backwards or like loosely fitted in order to kind of like stand themselves out.โ€

The Washington Post reported on Jan. 7, 2021, in response to similar claims, โ€œIn fact, many of the Trump supporters who stormed into the Capitol openly boasted about their participation, live-streaming as they forced their way past police and bashed the buildingโ€™s doors and windows.โ€31Rowan Scarborough. โ€œFacial recognition firm claims Antifa infiltrated Trump protesters who stormed Capitol,โ€ย The Washington Times, January 6, 2021. Archived January 7, 2021. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/SBRvA 32Craig Silverman.ย โ€œA Facial Recognition Company Says That Viral Washington Times โ€˜Antifaโ€™ Story Is False,โ€ย BuzzFeed News, January 7, 2021.ย Archived February 12, 2021. Archive URL:ย https://archive.vn/47NDU 33Teo Armus. โ€œRep. Matt Gaetz and other GOP politicians baselessly suggest antifa is to blame for pro-Trump mob rioting into Capitol,โ€ย The Washington Post, January 7, 2021. Archived February 12, 2021. Archive URL:ย https://archive.vn/8ogtC 34โ€œHow pro-Trump insurrectionists broke into the U.S. Capitol,โ€ย The Washington Post, January 6, 2021.ย Archived February 11, 2021. Archive URL:ย https://archive.vn/H9tVy 35Andrea Salcedo. โ€œGOP West Virginia state delegate live-streams as he storms Congress with pro-Trump mob: โ€˜Weโ€™re going in!โ€™โ€œย The Washington Post, January 7, 2021.ย Archived February 12, 2021. Archive URL:ย https://archive.vn/iXmob

The following is from a video Tony Heller released titled โ€œInsurgents In The Capital [sic]โ€:

[00:08:51] Whatever was going on there doesn’t really look like a plot by the president of the United States to overthrow his own government. The way this has been portrayed by the press seems to have little to do with reality. I don’t know what happened there that day, but it looks a lot more like a coup to overthrow the president of the United States than the other way around. [00:09:10]

@Tony_Heller posted the following on Jan. 7, 2021 and on Jan. 11, 2021:

Key Deeds

June 2019

Heller posted a video claiming to have discovered โ€œdata tamperingโ€ by NOAA/NASA regarding the climate tipping point.36โ€œData Tampering Past The Climate Tipping Point,โ€ YouTube video uploaded by user โ€œTony Heller,โ€ June 24, 2019. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

โ€œTheyโ€™ve quadrupled warming mainly by cooling past temperatures and warming present temperatures,โ€ Heller claimed in the video. โ€œWhen youโ€™re willing to manipulate data you can show any result you want, and they wanted to show warming,โ€ He concluded.

Heller’s claims were featured in an article at The New American, which introduces Heller as a โ€œscientist.โ€37โ€œClimate Alarmists Caught Manipulating Temperature Data Yet Again,โ€ย The New American, June 26, 2019. Archived July 2, 2019. Archive.fo URL:ย https://archive.fo/r8NRw

March 5, 2018

Heller posed for a photo with Chris Horner, Marc Morano, and Steve Milloy of Junk Science at what appeared to be an event promoting Morano’s new book,The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, by Regnery Publishing. Horner had written the first version of the book in 2007.38โ€œHot Off The Press,โ€ย The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, March 7, 2018. Archived March 10, 2018. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/rocSl

Heller described them as the โ€œThe Washington DC global warming scam demolition team.โ€ He also tweeted the image:39โ€œHot Off The Press,โ€ย The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, March 7, 2018. Archived March 10, 2018. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/rocSl

2017

Tony Heller is listed as a contributor to the upcoming release of Climate Change: The Facts 2017, a book released by the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) and edited by Jennifer Marohasy. While investigating the authors, DeSmog noted that one of the IPA’s listed โ€œleading expertsโ€ involved in the book is New Zealandโ€™s Ken Ring, who in addition to being a described โ€œlong range weather forecasterโ€ has written โ€œtwo, possibly three, books about catsโ€ including Pawmistry: How to Read Your Catโ€™s Paws in 1998.40Graham Readfearn. โ€œAustralian Climate Denial Think Tank Picks Cat Author and Moonman Ken Ring as Climate Expert,โ€ย DeSmog, April 9, 2017.

According to the book description:41โ€œRegister your interest now and be the first to hear about the publication of Climate Change: The Facts 2017,โ€ย Institute of Public Affairs. Archived April 10, 2017. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/kvAFK

โ€œClimate Change: The Facts 2017 brings together contributions on the latest climate science from some of the worldโ€™s leading experts in the field including John Abbot, Sallie Baliunas, Paul Driessen, Tony Heller, Craig Idso, Clive James, Pat Michaels, Jo Nova, Ian Plimer, Tom Quirk, Peter Ridd, Ken Ring, Nicola Scafetta, Willie Soon, Roy Spencer, and Anthony Watts.

There are also essays by Matt Ridley, and Bjรธrn Lomborg on the economics of climate change, and by Simon Breheny on how the freedom to discuss climate change science is under threat.โ€42โ€œRegister your interest now and be the first to hear about the publication of Climate Change: The Facts 2017,โ€ย Institute of Public Affairs. Archived April 10, 2017. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/kvAFK

Prior versions of the book featured contributions from a range of prominent climate change deniers, and describes mainstream climate change research as โ€œpseudo-science.โ€43โ€œClimate Change: The facts 2014,โ€ย Catallaxyfiles.com. Archived October 31, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/Trs4Y

August 23, 2017

Writing at The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, Heller claimed that, since 1990, โ€œThe measured NOAA data shows no warming.โ€ โ€œThe data is simply fake,โ€ he said.44โ€œ100% Of US Warming Is Fake,โ€ย The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, August 23, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/lFySf

Apart from himself, Heller does not cite any external sources to explain how he reached his conclusion. However, he signs off with a final statement that โ€œThis is the biggest and most cynical scam in science history.โ€45โ€œ100% Of US Warming Is Fake,โ€ย The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, August 23, 2017. Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/lFySf

Writing at Breitbart, James Delingpole shared Goddard’s graph, echoing his sentiment that โ€œAll of recent U.S. warming has been faked by NOAA.โ€

โ€œYou donโ€™t need to be a scientist to see the hoax here: itโ€™s there in blue and red,โ€ Delingpole wrote.46James Delingpole. โ€œDelingpole: All of Recent U.S. Warming Has Been Faked by NOAA,โ€ย Breitbart, August 23, 2017.ย Archived August 23, 2017. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/qWKpL

February 24, 2017

Tony Heller was the moderator of a discussion panel sponsored by the CO2 Coalition at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The panel included Kathleen Hartnett-White and Craig Idso of the CO2 Coalition. View video of the event at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute’s Facebook page.47โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

Heller, a self-described โ€œlifelong environmentalist,โ€ began his introduction by describing his regular commute by bicycle past the Valmont coal-fired power plant near his home in Boulder Colorado. It was โ€œBeautiful clean coal, it puts out no visible pollution whatsoever. 24/7 reliable power,โ€ Heller said of the coal plant.48โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

โ€œWhen I was a kid, you know, growing up in school, we all leaned that carbon dioxide was a good thing,โ€ Heller said in the introduction. โ€œThat it was essential for life. Photosynthesis required chlorophyl, carbon dioxide, water, and sunshine in order to create life. So itโ€™s kind of odd to see this transition over the past few decades where carbon dioxide got demonized. It started out as a good thing, essential for life. [โ€ฆ] Now weโ€™re told that tiny amounts of carbon dioxide can destroy all life.โ€49โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

Before introducing Craig Idso, who would be โ€œdoing the science,โ€ Heller asked, โ€œWhich one is the true story? Is carbon dioxide essential for life? Is it a good thing? Or is it something thatโ€™s going to destroy the planet?โ€50โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

After Idso finished his talk, Heller noted:51โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

โ€œMy takeaway from that [Craig Idsoโ€™s talk] is that efforts to reduce CO2 are not only anti-science, but theyโ€™re anti-human.โ€52โ€œLIVE from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) When Politics Meets Climate Forecasting with Tony Heller, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Craig Idso,โ€ Facebook post by Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 24, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

February 23, 2017

Tony Heller was a speaker on a CPAC 2017 panel sponsored by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) titled โ€œFake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda โ€“ and What President Trump Plans To Do About It,โ€ according to the CPAC agenda (PDF).53โ€œCPAC-2017-Agenda-Finalโ€ (PDF)ย CPAC.conservative.org, March 8, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

E&E News reported that the panel included fellow climate change deniers Steve Milloy and James Delingpole. Heller accused the government of manipulating statistics to make people โ€œabsurdโ€ and โ€œfake newsโ€ regarding climate change.54Amanda Reilly. โ€œCLIMATE: Conservatives predict โ€˜real warโ€™ with environmentalists,โ€ย E&E News, February 23, 2017.ย Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/MOpl2

โ€œRight now, conservatives get blamed for every bad weather event and for climate change, right. It’s our fault,โ€ Heller said. โ€œBut hundreds of years ago, it was witches who were blamed for it.โ€55Amanda Reilly. โ€œCLIMATE: Conservatives predict โ€˜real warโ€™ with environmentalists,โ€ย E&E News, February 23, 2017.ย Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/MOpl2

February 7, 2017

Tony Heller received an invitation by Senator Doug Ericksen to speak at the Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications committee at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia.56Jeanie Lindsay. โ€œClimate Change Denier Gets Chilly Reception In Washington Legislature,โ€ย KUOW.org,ย February 7, 2017.ย Archived February 8, 2017. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ofHZ2

โ€œI see that global warming has become a distraction which has derailed the environmental movement,โ€ Heller said during his presentation.57Jeanie Lindsay. โ€œClimate Change Denier Gets Chilly Reception In Washington Legislature,โ€ย KUOW.org,ย February 7, 2017.ย Archived February 8, 2017. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ofHZ2

Heller went on to claim that climate scientists have purposely altered for fabricated data to support their theories, and accused โ€œclimate alarmistsโ€ of spreading this bad data. Democratic Senator Kevin Ranker responded, saying โ€œI feel like some of this presentation may be alternative facts.โ€ Near the end of the presentation, a single protestor called out and said the presentation was an insult to โ€œsettled science.โ€58Jeanie Lindsay. โ€œClimate Change Denier Gets Chilly Reception In Washington Legislature,โ€ย KUOW.org,ย February 7, 2017.ย Archived February 8, 2017. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ofHZ2

December 12, 2016

Tony Heller was an attendee at a private meeting also attended by Trump’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.59George 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€œWho’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 then listed some of the participants on Facebook:60Graham Readfearn. โ€œDonald Trumpโ€™s Aide at EPA Myron Ebell Meets with Whoโ€™s Who of Climate Science Deniers,โ€ย DeSmog, December 13, 2016. 61โ€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 ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom’.โ€62โ€œGlobal Climate Science Communications Plan (1998),โ€ SourceWatch.

July 8โ€“10, 2016

Steven Goddard (Tony Heller) 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.63โ€œDDP 34th Annual Meeting โ€“ July 2016,โ€ Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Archived July 22, 2016. Backup archive url:ย http://archive.is/oRn3j

Tony Heller’s talk was titled โ€œThe Analysis of Historical Climate Data.โ€ He introduces his talk with the claim that โ€œthat there probably has been little or no warming since the 1940s.โ€ View the full video below:64โ€œDDP 34th Annual Meeting โ€“ July 2016,โ€ Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Archived July 22, 2016. Backup archive url:ย http://archive.is/oRn3j

DDP listed the following speakers at their event:65โ€œDDP 34th Annual Meeting โ€“ July 2016,โ€ Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Archived July 22, 2016. Backup archive url:ย http://archive.is/oRn3j

March 2015

Steven Goddard is one of several climate change deniers cc’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 deniers trying to delay legislative action on climate change.66Katherine Bagley. โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ย InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015.

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€67Katherine Bagley. โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ย InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015.

InsideClimate News reports in their article โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Who’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€68Katherine Bagley. โ€œLeaked Email Reveals Whoโ€™s Who List of Climate Denialists,โ€ย InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015.

InsideClimate News also documented all those who were cc’d on the email, including the following individuals and groups:

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

July 7โ€“9, 2014

Steven Goddard was a speaker at the Heartland Instituteโ€™s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) in Las Vegas, Nevada.69โ€œReturn of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest,โ€ย DeSmog, July 7, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.

DeSmog has done in-depth research on the other speakers and sponsors from Heartland’s ICCC9.70Brendan DeMelle. โ€œReturn of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest,โ€ย Desmog, July 7, 2014.

June 2014

Media Matters reports that Tony Heller/Steven Goddard wrote a blog claiming that โ€NASA cooled 1934 and warmed 1998, to make 1998 the hottest year in US history instead of 1934.โ€71Shauna Theel. โ€œFox News Cites Birther To Claim NASA โ€˜Fakedโ€™ Global Warming,โ€ย Media Matters, June 24, 2014. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/W3jv6

Goddard’s report was picked up by numerous conservative media outlets including the Drudge Report, The Telegraph, and others. However, Reason magazine had previously noted that even climate denier Anthony Watts had said that Goddard made โ€œmajor errors in his analysisโ€ and criticized the implication that โ€œnumbers are being plucked out of thin air in a nefarious way.โ€72Shauna Theel. โ€œFox News Cites Birther To Claim NASA โ€˜Fakedโ€™ Global Warming,โ€ย Media Matters, June 24, 2014. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/W3jv6

June 2012

Goddard was quoted by Heartland senior fellow James Taylor as having showed โ€œhow dramatically the NOAA and NASA bureaucrats have doctored the U.S. temperature data during the past several decades.โ€73James Taylor. โ€œDoctored Data, Not U.S. Temperatures, Set a Record This Year,โ€ย Forbes, June 13, 2012. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.

Goddard’s only previous connection to the heartland institute is a 2008 ‘analysis’, A Tale of Two Thermometers (PDF) where he claims to have found cooling in the HadCrut temperature record.74โ€œA tale of two thermometersโ€ (PDF), the Heartland Institute, May 2, 2008. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.

August 15, 2008

Steven Goddard Published an article titled โ€œArctic ice refuses to melt as orderedโ€ in The Register. Goddard claimed that the National Snow and Ice Data Center plot of the extent of Arctic Sea Ice was wrong.75Steven Goddard. โ€œArctic ice refuses to melt as ordered,โ€ย The Register, August 15, 2008. Archived September 6, 2016. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/ewavl

However, on August 25, Goddard retracted his claim, saying that โ€œโ€ฆ it is clear that the NSIDC graph is correct, and that 2008 Arctic ice is barely 10% above last year – just as NSIDC had stated.โ€76Kevin Grandia. โ€œArctic Ice melt media misinformation retracted,โ€ย Desmog, August 25, 2008.

Joe Romm at ThinkPogress reported that the retraction may have been too late, as Goddardโ€™s article had already received over 70 references by blogs and websites skeptical of man-made climate change.77โ€œA new Olympic record for retraction of a denier talking point,โ€ย ThinkProgress, August 25, 2008. Archive.is URL:ย https://archive.is/6B5hM

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Steve Goddard does not have a background in climate science. He has primarily published his articles in blogs and newspapers using a pseudonym. A search of Google Scholar for โ€œTony Hellerโ€ returned no results.

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