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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1095 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:59 pm    Post subject: Hired front groups dispute global warming Hired front groups dispute global warming? Sounds like old news? Apparently not to some, who are still buying the bull. Hence this backgrounder. In the Architecture Forum discussion of the ArchitectureWeek article "Disaster Engineering": http://arch.designcommunity.com/topic-6256.html Darius quoted at length from the web site globalwarming.com, run by the so-called, "Cooler Heads Coalition" and the "Competitive Enterprise Institute". I responded with the comment that, "By the way, GlobalWarming.org is nothing more or less than an oil industry and market fundamentalist propaganda site. 100% conflict of interest on these issues. Don't be suckered by paid liars and their intentionally misleading reports." Darius responded with a long list of "member names" of the Cooler Heads Coalition, with the comment, "Gee, I don't see any Oil Companies listed..." A quick Internet search reveals that there is in fact substantial oil industry funding of several of those "coalition members", which include a bunch of the most notorious corporate "think-thank for hire" flack shops. Here's some background on some of the Cooler Heads Coalition groups. Decide for yourself the chances they have truth, science, and the public interest at heart: 60 Plus Association Big Pharma front group: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=60_Plus_Association Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Front group for hire - Big Tobacco, Microsoft against open source Nicknamed "the think tank that didn't" for failed attempt to smear open source hero Linus Torvalds. Reportedly funded partly by Amoco: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution American Policy Center http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Policy_Center Americans for Tax Reform Run by Grover Norquist: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Tax_Reform Citizens for a Sound Economy Funding incudes Enron, ExxonMobil, Amoco: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy Competitive Enterprise Institute Funders include: Amoco Foundation, Inc., ExxonMobil ($405,000 during 2002), Texaco, Inc., Texaco Foundation, American Petroleum Institute, ARCO Foundation, Dow Chemical http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute "[CEI] also sponsors several other subsidiary organizations, including... Cooler Heads Coalition http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooler_Heads_Coalition Chaired by former CEI director Marlo Lewis and directed by Myron Ebell, CEI's Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy. The Cooler Heads Coalition was formed on May 6, 1997, "to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis." In March 2001, the nonprofit Clean Air Trust named Ebell its "clean air villain of the month," citing his "ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide." Consumer Alert http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert George C. Marshall Institute ' According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest: "The Marshall Institute investigates facts concerning global climate change. The Institute also studies the implications of the Kyoto Protocol upon national security. The Institute is partially supported by the Exxon Education Foundation and American Standard Companies." ' ... and by ExxonMobil: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_C._Marshall_Institute Heartland Institute Directors from Amoco Corporation, General Motors Corporation, ExxonMobil Corporation, Philip Morris http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute JunkScience.com "JunkScience.com is maintained by Steven J. Milloy, an adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute and a columnist for FoxNews.com." Heavy tobacco ties: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=JunkScience National Center for Policy Analysis Director from Thompson Petroleum Corporation, funding from El Paso Energy Foundation, ExxonMobil Foundation: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis National Center for Public Policy Research "Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, NCPPR began using the rhetoric of anti-terrorism to attack environmentalists. In May 2002, it created the Envirotruth web site, to attack what it called the "jihad" that environmental activists are waging against corporations." Funding from ExxonMobil... "In 2003 the company boosted its general operating support to $25,000 with another $30,000 for 'global climate change/EnviroTruth website"." http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research Small Business Survival Committee Big tobacco, anti-open source, anti-environmental: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Small_Business_Survival_Committee All in all, a pretty dirty bunch. Not surprising that they run a dirty web site.
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Organicmechanic Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 1	Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:12 pm    Post subject: http://www.climateprediction.net/board/ the proverbial horses mouth.
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