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Who are these groups? And what is the evidence linking them to the fossil fuel industry?
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a quick primer on several prominent global warming skeptic organizations, including examples of
For years, AEI played a role in propagating misinformation about a manufactured controversy over emails
stolen from climate scientists [2], with one AEI research fellow even claiming, There was no consensus about
the extent and causes of global warming. [3] A resident scholar at AEI went so far as to state that the
profession of climate scientist threatens to overtake all on THE LIST
of most distrusted occupations. [4]
AEI received $3,615,000 from ExxonMobil from 1998-2012 [5], and more than $1 million in funding from Koch
foundations from 2004-2011. [6]
Cato Institute
Cato acknowledges that Global warming is indeed real But when it comes to the causes of global
warming, Cato has sent mixed messages over the years. Cato's website, for instance, reports that human
ACTIVITY
has been a contributor [to global warming] since 1975. [23] Yet, on the same topic of whether
human ACTIVITY
is responsible for global warming, Catos vice president has written: We dont know. [24]
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Heartland Institute
While claiming to stand up for sound science, the Heartland Institute has routinely spread misinformation
about climate science, including deliberate attacks on climate scientists. [37]
Popular outcry forced the Heartland Institute to pull down a controversial billboard that COMPARED
supporters of global warming facts to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski [38], bringing an early end to a planned
campaign first announced in an essay by Heartland President Joseph Bast, which claimed the most
prominent advocates of global warming arent scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen. [39]
Heartland even once marked Earth Day by mailing out 100,000 free copies of a book claiming that climate
science has been corrupted [40] despite acknowledging that all major scientific organizations of the
world have taken the official POSITION
Heritage Foundation
While maintaining that Science should be used as ONE
tool to guide climate policy, the Heritage
Foundation often uses rhetoric such as far from settled to sow doubt about climate science. [44, 45, 46, 47]
One Heritage report even claimed that The only consensus over the threat of climate change that seems to
exist these days is that there is no consensus. [48]
Vocal climate contrarians, meanwhile, are described as the worlds best scientists when it comes to the
climate change STUDY
Heritage received more than $4.5 million from Koch foundations from 1997-2011. [50] ExxonMobil contributed
$780,000 to the Heritage Foundation from 2001-2012. ExxonMobil CONTINUES
to provide annual
contributions to the Heritage Foundation, despite making a public pledge in 2007 to stop funding climate
contrarian groups. [51, 52]
. [53]
The science is not settled, not by a long shot, Robert Bryce, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow has written
in the Wall Street Journal [57]. At other times Bryce has expressed indifference to the science on climate
change. I dont know whos right. And I really dont care, he wrote in one BOOK
. [58]
The Manhattan Institute has received $635,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 [59], with annual contributions
CONTINUING
as of 2012, and nearly $2 million from Koch foundations from 1997-2011. [60]
8 PR Watch. 2012. Koch's AFP Complains about Gas Prices, but Koch Speculation Helps Fuel High Prices
at the Pump.
9 Koch Industries. 2010. Koch and Americans for Prosperity/Citizens for a Sound Economy.
10 Americans for PROSPERITY
11 Americans for PROSPERITY
12 INVESTIGATIVE
Reporting Workshop. 2013. Koch database: donations to nonprofits.
13 American Legislative Exchange Council. 2011. ALEC Energy Principles.
14 The Cap Times. 2011. Brendan Fischer: CO2 is good for you, and other ALEC talking points.
15 Center for the STUDY
of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. 2011. The Many Benefits of Atmospheric
CO2 Enrichment.
16 PR Watch. 2013. A Side of Climate Change Denial with Your Coffee? ALEC Dishes up Some Hard to
Swallow Spin with the Heartland Institute.
17 Climate Progress. 2012. WeatherBELL Chief Forecaster Joe Bastardi Denies Basic Physics: CO2 Cannot
Cause Global Warming
18 ExxonSecrets.org. 2012. Factsheet: ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council.
19 Greenpeace. 2011. Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group. American Legislative Exchange Council
(ALEC).
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Carolina Journal ONLINE . 2008. Friday Interview: Global Warming Policy Costs.
Washington Post. 2012. Climate skeptic group works to reverse renewable energy mandates.
Greenpeace. 2013. Koch Brother Fronts Flood into Kansas to Attack Wind Industry.
Cato Institute. Global Warming.
Cato Institute. 2005. Hot Enough for You? The state of the global-warming debate, and politicking.
Cato Institute. 2013. Federal Climatologists Pen Fantasy Novel.
Cato Institute. 2009. Cato Handbook for Policymakers.
Cato Institute. 2012. Cato Institute and Shareholders Reach Agreement in Principle.
Cato Institute. 2012. Cato Institute and Shareholders Reach Agreement in Principle.
Greenpeace. 2011. Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: Cato Institute.
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Enterprise Institute. 2009. 10 Cool Global Warming Policies.
31 Competitive Enterprise Institute. Global Warming FAQ.
32 Competitive Enterprise Institute. 1991. Why Worry About Global Warming.
33 UCS. 2009. New Disinformation Ads Argue for More Carbon Dioxide.
34 UCS. 2013. Timeline: Legal Harassment of Climate Scientist Michael Mann.
35 UCS. 2013. Fossil Fuel Industry Funders of Climate Contrarian Groups, 2001-2011.
36 Greenpeace. Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: Competitive Enterprise Institute.
37 UCS. 2012. Scientists Who Had Emails Stolen Ask Heartland Institute to End Attack on Climate Science.
38 UCS. 2012. Whos the Crazy One Here?
39 Heartland Institute. 2012. Do You Still Believe in Global Warming? Billboards Hit Chicago.
40 Heartland Institute. 2013. Heartland Institute Celebrates Earth Day with Release of New Book.
41 ExxonSecrets.org. Factsheet: Heartland Institute.
42 The Guardian. 2013. How Donors Trust distributed millions to anti-climate groups.
43 The Center for Public Integrity. 2013. Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states.
44 Heritage Foundation. 2013. Climate Change: The Cost of Bold Action
45 Heritage Foundation. 2013. With Climate Change Science Unsettled, a Carbon Tax is Even More Useless.
46 Heritage Foundation. 2009. Sen. Inhofe Discusses Climategate, The Greatest Scandal in Modern
Science
47 Heritage Foundation. 2013. 10 Questions for DOE Nominee Ernest Moniz.
48 Heritage Foundation. 2010. How the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming Affects American
Businessand Consumers.
49 Heritage Foundation. 2009. Global Warming Conference: The Science of Climate Change
50 Greenpeace. 2011. Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: The Heritage Foundation.
51 ExxonSecrets.org. 2012. Factsheet: Heritage Foundation.
52 UCS. 2012. ExxonMobil Corporation.
53 Institute for Energy Research. Climate Change Overview.
54 ExxonSecrets.org. Factsheet: Institute for Energy Research.
55 Investigative Reporting Workshop. 2013. Koch database: donations to nonprofits.
56 Manhattan Institute. 2007. Realities and Uncertainties of Global Warming.
57 Media Matters. 2011. Who Is Robert Bryce?
58 Media Matters. 2011. Who Is Robert Bryce?
59 ExxonSecrets.org. 2012. Factsheet: Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research.
60 Greenpeace. 2011. Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: The Manhattan Institute for Policy
Research.
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