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WSJ Op-Ed Claims Finding That Bacon Causes Cancer Is Part Of Climate Change ConspiracyThe Wall Street Journal published a Nov. 9 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/11/10/wsj-op-ed-claims-bacon-cancer-link-is-part-of-c/206757" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">op-ed</a>, The Climate Agenda Behind the Bacon Scare, which was co-authored by Jeff Stier and Julie Kelly of the oil industry-backed <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=59" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">National Center for Public Policy Research</a> and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/31/media-disclosure-guide-here-are-the-industry-fu/204708#heartland" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Heartland Institute</a>, respectively. Stier and Kelly asserted that the World Health Organization’s announcement linking red and processed meats to cancer “seems particularly well timed” to coincide with the United Nations climate negotiations in Paris, and baselessly claimed that “[t]he widely publicized warning about meat isn’t about health. It’s about fighting global warming.”<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/sen-sheldon-whitehouse-wsj-caters-fossil-fuel-interestsagain">http://www.alternet.org/environment/sen-sheldon-whitehouse-wsj-caters-fossil-fuel-interestsagain</a>In recent weeks the right-wing attack machine has been up in arms regarding a letter sent by a group of 20 climate scientists to President Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and White House science adviser John Holdren requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate fossil-fuel companies that appear to have lied about the effects of their products on our world's climate. This week, the <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/shut-upor-well-shut-you-down-1444429915" target="hplink" style="line-height: 32px; color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">Wall Street Journal joined the fray</a>, writing that "[a]dvocates of climate regulation are urging the Obama Administration to investigate people who don't share their views... they want the feds to use a law created to prosecute the mafia against lawful businesses and scientists."As the Wall Street Journal and others have noted, and as the scientists' letter acknowledges, I myself raised the possibility of an investigation along these lines in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-campaign-to-mislead-the-american-people/2015/05/29/04a2c448-0574-11e5-8bda-c7b4e9a8f7ac_story.html" target="hplink" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">Washington Post op-ed</a>earlier this year. The connection prompted the Journal to quote Georgia Tech's Judith Curry - a prominent climate denier - attacking both me and the scientists. "The demand by Senator Whitehouse and the 20 climate scientists for legal persecution of people whose research on science and policy they disagree with represents a new low in the politicization of science," she said.m sure the Wall Street Journal and their cohorts in the right-wing echo chamber are having fun twisting this whole concept around in service to their fossil-fuel friends, but let's take a step back. The genesis of this idea for DOJ to investigate fossil fuel companies lies in the comparison between the actions of the fossil fuel industry and the actions of other industries known to have intentionally misled the public about the nature of their products, including the tobacco and lead paint industries. Entire books have been written about the subject, including "Merchants of Doubt," "Doubt is Their Product," "Deceit and Denial," and "Lead Wars." In the case of the tobacco industry in particular, a federal judge found in 2006 that its efforts amounted to a racketeering enterprise after DOJ filed a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit.Here's how Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia described the actions of the industry in her decision: "Defendants coordinated significant aspects of their public relations, scientific, legal, and marketing activity in furtherance of a shared objective -- to . . . maximize industry profits by preserving and expanding the market for cigarettes through a scheme to deceive the public."The bottom line is this: A private company and/or its industry allies should not knowingly lie to the American people about the harms that are caused by its product. No one went to jail in the tobacco case. No one was prosecuted criminally. This was a civil RICO case. All a civil lawsuit does is get people to have to actually tell the truth, under oath, in front of an actual impartial judge or jury, with the ability to cross-examine -- which the Supreme Court has described as "the greatest legal invention ever invented for the discovery of truth."The Wall Street Journal piece also notes that my previous Washington Postop-ed "cited Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who has published politically inconvenient research on changes in solar radiation." Not noted by the Journal: Dr. Soon reportedly received more than half of his funding from big fossil fuel interests like Exxon-Mobile and the Charles G. Koch Foundation, to the tune of $1.2 million. Some of Dr. Soon's research contracts gave his industry backers a chance to see what he was doing "for comment and input" before he published it. The New York Timesreported that in correspondence with his fossil fuel funders, Dr. Soon referred to the scientific papers he produced as "deliverables." And he apparently failed to note his funding sources -- which constitute a clear conflict of interest -- when publishing his research, prompting his employers at the Smithsonian to conduct an internal review of his conduct.Of course, none of that seems to matter to the Wall Street Journal. They'd rather believe that Dr. Soon is being attacked for espousing "politically inconvenient" views. Please.Sadly, Dr. Soon is just a small cog in a massive climate-denial machine, which rivals that of the tobacco industry in size, scope, and complexity. Its purpose is to cast doubt about the reality of climate change in order to forestall a move toward cleaner fuels and allow the Kochs and Exxons of the world to continue reaping profits at our expense. In fact, thanks to an <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken" target="hplink" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">investigative report by Inside Climate News</a>, we now know that Exxon indeed knew about the effect of its carbon pollution as far back as the late 1970s, but ultimately chose to fund a massive misinformation campaign rather than tell the truth. As famed author and Harvard professor Naomi Oreskes wrote this weekend in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/opinion/exxons-climate-concealment.html?r=0" target="hplink" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">piece for theNew York Times</a>, "As one of the most profitable companies in the world, Exxon could have acted as a corporate leader, helping to explain to political leaders, to shareholders and institutional investors, and to the public what it knew about climate change... Instead -- like the tobacco industry -- Exxon chose the path of disinformation, denial and delay."Now, the big question is: Why is the Wall Street Journal so eager to fill their editorial pages with articles defending such mischievous misdirection and attacking those who dare to fight back? Maybe that the tobacco case could in fact be successfully replicated against the climate denial scheme they so shamelessly and one-sidedly tout. And wouldn't that be embarrassing.Whatever the motivation of the Wall Street Journal and other right-wing publications, it is clearly long past time for the climate denial scheme to come in from the talk shows and the blogosphere and have to face the kind of an audience that a civil RICO investigation could provide. No more spin and deception. It's time to let the facts shine through.=this town:  jeff birnbaum repected reporter at WSJ (showdown at gucci gulch) jumps to bgr 147 t do PR. lobbyists gloat about luring purists 148alternet:4. WSJ Editorial Board Member: New York City's Bike Share Program Part Of "Totalitarian" Plot. With a straight face, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member Dorothy Rabinowitz <a href="http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-death-by-bicycle/C6D8BBCE-B405-4D3C-A381-4CA50BDD8D4D.html#!C6D8BBCE-B405-4D3C-A381-4CA50BDD8D4D" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">said</a> [10] that bicyclists were the "most important danger" facing New York City, and raged against bike share programs that are pursued by the "all powerful" "bike lobby" emboldened by "totalitarians." She emphasizes that "the city is helpless" before the driven ambitions of its "autocratic" mayor. Rabinowitz's overly hyped attack of a bike-share program attracted<a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/44495/citi-bike-share-program-nyc-program-called-dreadful-by-wsj" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">criticism</a> [11], notably from Comedy Central's <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-6-2013/full-pedal-racket%3Chr%20/%3Eciti-bike" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Daily Show</a> [12]. However, Rabinowitz stuck by her attack, saying the bike racks are "<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/dorothy-rabinowitz-lets-loose.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">instruments of aesthetic torture</a> [13]" and told a bicyclist who asked her a question to instead ask "<a href="http://live.wsj.com/video/opinionrabinowitz-responds-to-the-bike-lobby/5FBFA551-0192-4FDB-B209-248E733E0083.html#!5FBFA551-0192-4FDB-B209-248E733E0083" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the therapist we hope this biker is consulting</a> [14]."---wiki bs?Dorothy Rabinowitz is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">conservative</a> journalist and commentator.She was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New York City</a>, and attained a bachelor's degree at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_College,New_York" title="Queens College, New York" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Queens College</a>. She worked toward a doctorate at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New York University</a> from 1957 to 1960, but did not graduate.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> She has worked as editorial writer for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wall Street Journal</a> since June 1990 and has been a member of their editorial board since May 1996.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-wsjbio-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a> She is a regular panelist on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_Editorial_Report" title="Journal Editorial Report" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Journal Editorial Report</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background-image: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#Pulitzer_Prize" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Pulitzer Prize</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#No_Crueler_Tyrannies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 No Crueler Tyrannies</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#Political_commentary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Political commentary</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#Bibliography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 Bibliography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">6 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pulitzer Prize<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorothy_Rabinowitz&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Pulitzer Prize" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a>]</h2>Rabinowitz was awarded the 2001 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Commentary" title="Pulitzer Prize for Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Pulitzer Prize for Commentary</a> for a series of articles published in 2000 covering aspects of U.S. social and cultural trends.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-pul2001-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> Previously, she had been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times, but in 2001 "she was not a finalist [but]... the Pulitzer board, which makes the final decisions, reviewed the jury's original three finalists and decided it wanted 'a broader choice.' The jury offered Ms. Rabinowitz as an alternate selection.".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a> "[A]mong the ten articles cited by the board were five articles challenging questionable allegations of sexual abuse. Four of the cited articles commented on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2000" title="United States presidential election, 2000" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2000 U.S. presidential election</a> and the remaining article discussed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Giuliani" title="Rudolph Giuliani" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rudolph Giuliani</a>'s recommending a pardon for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken" title="Michael Milken" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Michael Milken</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-si2001-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a>She was previously nominated in 1996 for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "For her columns effectively challenging key cases of alleged <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">child abuse</a>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-pul_com-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a> and had been nominated for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Criticism" title="Pulitzer Prize for Criticism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Pulitzer Prize for Criticism</a> in 1995 "For her writing about television", and in 1998 for "her tough-minded, critical columns on television and its place in politics and culture."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-pul_crit-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a><table class="infobox vcard" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; line-height: 1.5em; border-spacing: 3px; width: 22em; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" cellspacing="3"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-style: italic;">No Crueler Tyrannies</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NoCruelerTyrannies.gif" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><img alt="NoCruelerTyrannies.gif" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/NoCruelerTyrannies.gif" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" width="106" height="156" /></a>
<div>Cover of No Crueler Tyrannies</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;">Author</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">Dorothy Rabinowitz</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;">Original title</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;">Publisher</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Press(publisher)" title="Free Press (publisher)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Free Press</a>, NY</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;">Publication date</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">2003</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN</a></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-2834-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-2834-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">0-7432-2834-0</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">OCLC</a>Number</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/51275066" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">51275066</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification" title="Library of Congress Classification" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">LC Classification</a></th><td style="vertical-align: top;">HV8079.C48 R33 2003</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No Crueler Tyrannies<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorothy_Rabinowitz&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: No Crueler Tyrannies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a>]</h2>Rabinowitz wrote exposés of the dubious sexual abuse charges filed against the operators of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_care_center" title="Day care center" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">day care centers</a> and other individuals, notably that of a family named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Amirault" title="Gerald Amirault" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Amirault</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malden,Massachusetts" title="Malden, Massachusetts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Malden, Massachusetts</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a> and those in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenatchee,Washington" title="Wenatchee, Washington" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wenatchee, Washington</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a> These exposés earned her a 1996 Pulitzer nomination,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-pul_com-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a> formed half of the articles cited for her 2001 Pulitzer win,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-si2001-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a> and were the basis of her book No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a>Rabinowitz told <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">C-SPAN</a> that her work on these cases began with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Care_Nursery_School" title="Wee Care Nursery School" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wee Care Nursery School</a> case:<blockquote style="line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I was working as a television commentator. I was at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOR-TV" title="WWOR-TV" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WWOR-TV</a> in New Jersey, doing three times a week some sort of media criticism. And ... I saw this woman in her 20s ... accused of something like 2,800 charges of child sex abuse. Oh, I thought, well, that's very odd ... I thought, How can one woman, one young, lone woman in an absolutely open place like the child care center of the church in New Jersey that she worked for -- how could she have committed these enormous crimes against 20 children, dressed and undressed them and sent -- you know what it is to dress and undress even one child every day without getting their socks lost? -- 20 children in a perfectly public place, torture them for two years, frighten and terrorize them, and they never went home and told their parents anything? ... This did seem strange.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-bn03-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a></blockquote>Her work on this story led The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wall Street Journal</a> to hire her.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-bn03-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Political commentary<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorothy_Rabinowitz&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political commentary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a>]</h2>In 1999, Rabinowitz wrote an editorial in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wall Street Journal</a> about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Broaddrick" title="Juanita Broaddrick" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Juanita Broaddrick</a>, an Arkansas woman who alleged that then President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bill Clinton</a> had raped her.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> Rabinowitz took the woman's story at face value, writing "To encounter this woman, to hear the details of her story and the statements of the corroborating witnesses, was to understand that this was in fact an event that took place."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a> She also wrote approvingly of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a> presidential candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John McCain</a> in both the 2000<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008" title="United States presidential election, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2008 U.S. presidential elections</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a>On May 31, 2013, Rabinowitz criticized the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citi_Bike" title="Citi Bike" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Citi Bike</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_sharing" title="Bicycle sharing" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">bicycle sharing</a> program in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">New York City</a> as "dreadful" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian" title="Totalitarian" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">totalitarian</a>": when an interviewer asked why the program was necessary, she responded, "Do not ask me to enter the minds of the totalitarians running this government of the city." She described <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_New_York_City" title="Mayor of New York City" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Mayor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg" title="Michael Bloomberg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Michael Bloomberg</a> as "autocratic" and "a practiced denier" and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Transportation" title="New York City Department of Transportation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">City Transportation Commissioner</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janette_Sadik-Khan" title="Janette Sadik-Khan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Janette Sadik-Khan</a> as "ideology-maddened". She also warned that "the bike lobby is an all-powerful enterprise."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rabinowitz#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.1875px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorothy_Rabinowitz&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Bibliography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times, Free Press, 2003. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0743228340" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-7432-2834-0</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">About the Holocaust : what we know and how we know it, Institute of Human Relations Press, American Jewish Committee, 1979. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5829480" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">OCLC 5829480</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America, Random House, 1976. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0394485734" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-394-48573-4</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The other Jews; portraits in poverty, Institute of Human Relations Press, American Jewish Committee, 1972. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/344030" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">OCLC 344030</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Home life; a story of old age, by Dorothy Rabinowitz & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yedida_Nielsen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yedida Nielsen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yedida Nielsen</a>, Macmillan, 1971. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/138427" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">OCLC 138427</a>.</li></ul>=~ rice on benghazi, BO an alien on ctr-terror?  <a href="http://mediamatters.org/tags/dorothy-rabinowitz">http://mediamatters.org/tags/dorothy-rabinowitz</a>bimbogate===

http://www.alternet.org/print/media/wsj-op-ed-bemoans-end-white-rule-america<div class="headline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; clear: both;">WSJ Op-Ed Bemoans the End of White Rule in America</h1></div><div class="teaser" style="font-style: italic; margin: 10px 0px 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Joseph Epstein argues that we need more rich white men in power, preferably WASPs</div></div></div></div>===

LISA GRAVES: Well, this is really, I think, one of the most extraordinary parts of the documents thatThe Guardian published, because what you have is one of the editorial board members of The Wall Street Journal who is sitting on a board, in essence, of—you know, basically making decisions as a board member of—a grant adviser, pardon me, of the Searle Freedom Trust, telling them which of these State Policy Network groups they should fund for this agenda. And Stephen Moore, time and time and time again, has written—has written op-eds and probably contributed to unsigned editorials by The Wall Street Journal promoting these very policies that he—you know, he has perhaps had a hand in influencing. Now, we don’t know how long Moore has been involved with the Searle Freedom Trust. We know that he’s previously been working with one of the Donors—the Donors Trust or Donors Capital groups on some advising. What we do know is that he has extensive ties to ALEC, most of which have not been disclosed by The Wall Street Journal when they editorialize in favor ofALEC or in favor of these SPN group policies. And we think that’s a really serious issue for theJournal to have such close ties, not just from Stephen Moore, but also from others like John Fund and Paul Gigot in the past, to ALEC, and not disclose to their readers how closely Stephen Moore has been aligned with ALEC and is aligned with some of these groups. In fact, it looks like some of these groups turn around and ask Stephen Moore to write reports that advance their agenda.

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The Wall Street Journal has been a corporate funder of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations" title="ALEC Corporations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC Corporations</a> for more.

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As of January 2010:

On the editorial side are:

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Gigot" title="Paul Gigot" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Paul Gigot</a> is the Editorial Page editor;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Pollock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Pollock (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Robert Pollock</a> is The Editorial Features editor, in charge of op-eds;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-oped-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Timothy_Lemmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Timothy Lemmer (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Timothy Lemmer</a> is the Letters editor<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-oped-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></li>

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On the news side are:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-ceocouncil-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Thomson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Thomson (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Robert Thomson</a>, Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones & Company; Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gerard_Baker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerard Baker (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gerard Baker</a>, Deputy Editor-in-Chief The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Company</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Ball&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeffrey Ball (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jeffrey Ball</a>, Environment Editor and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rebecca_Blumenstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rebecca Blumenstein (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rebecca Blumenstein</a>, Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal Online</li>

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Robert Pollock was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,New_York" title="Buffalo, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Buffalo, New York</a>. He studied at Yale and was a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_the_Right(Yale)" title="Party of the Right (Yale)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Party of the Right (Yale)</a>

Pollock joined the Wall Street Journal Europe in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Brussels</a> as an editorial page writer in 1995. He moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Wall Street Journal</a>'s headquarters in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New York</a> in 2000 as an assistant features <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing" title="Editing" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editor</a>. In 2002 Pollock became an editorial writer and in 2005 he joined the Editorial Board. He received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bachelor's degree</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">philosophy</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yale University</a>. Pollock was a finalist for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_prize" title="Pulitzer prize" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Pulitzer prize</a> in 2003 for his editorials on the American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Food and Drug Administration</a> (FDA) and its delaying of cancer drug approval. Pollock makes frequent appearances on television shows such as that on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">CNBC</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Fox News</a> as well as radio appearances on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WABC</a>.

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Much of what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Iran</a> has been doing, they would be allowed to do out in the open. But they've been lying to the international community."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Pollock#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"All that means is decreasing -- all that means is decreasing the length of some breaks from tours of duty and increasing the lengths of some tours of duty. That's not a hard thing to do when you've got 1.4 million troops."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Pollock#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Pollock#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} PBS: The Journal Editorial Report transcript: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/journaleditorialreport/091704/transcript_oneonone.html" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">One on One.</a>September 17, 2004.</li>

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bs Robert Pollock is a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.

In 2003 Mr. Pollock was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the editorial writing category for “his clear, compelling editorials on the Food and Drug Administration's delay in approval of new cancer drugs.”  He has also won the Joanie Award  (2005) for a series of editorials on lung cancer treatment,  and a special media award  (2003)  from the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs. In 2002, he was named runner-up in the inaugural Frederic Bastiat Prize [reason fdn, TV puff]for Journalism awards held in London. The Bastiat Prize honors journalists whose writing supports the institutions of a free society such as economic liberty and the rule of law, especially in the developing world.

Mr. Pollock also appears regularly on CNBC and Fox News television, and on WABC radio.

Mr. Pollock joined The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels as an editorial page writer in 1995.  He moved to the domestic Journal in May 2000 as an assistant editorial features editor, and was also the editor of the weekly “Manager’s Journal” column.  He became an editorial page writer in January 2002 and was named to his current position in 2005.

Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Mr. Pollock received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University.

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The paper was owned by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dow_Jones_%26_Company" title="Dow Jones & Company" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Dow Jones & Company</a> until 2007, when that company was acquired by News Corporation. As of October 2009, its daily circulation is over two million, including over 350,000 electronic subscribers. Based on these new figures reported by Editor & Publishermagazine, its total circulation has now exceeded <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=USA_Today&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USA Today (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">USA Today</a> giving it the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States. USA Todayremains number one in total print circulation, despite a 17% decline in the first half of 2009 to a circulation of 1.88 million.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a>

The newspaper has been printed continuously since July 8, 1889, and has won the Pulitzer Prize twenty-six times.

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Nicknamed The Journal, this newspaper primarily covers U.S. and international business and financial news and issues. In fact, the paper's name comes from Wall Street, the street in New York which is the heart of the business district.

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An analysis of 86 editorials and op-eds about climate published in the WSJ between October 2008 and January 25, 2011 showed a "backward" mix, with the vast majority of columns opposing climate science.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a>

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The Journal enjoyed the reputation of being a generally reliable source of news, though not for climate change.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a>. Its editorial pages are considered far less reliable on matters of fact <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a> and solidly right-wing, although it regularly gives one weekly opinion column spot to an opposing view, as with the slot formerly held by the liberal <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al_Hunt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al Hunt (page does not exist)" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Al Hunt</a> and now held by a populist, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Frank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Frank (page does not exist)" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Thomas Frank</a>, who wrote What's the Matter with Kansas How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a> The editorial pages commonly publish <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_warming_skeptic" title="Global warming skeptic" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">global warming skeptic</a> op-eds and pieces by U.S. and world leaders with conservative views such as Russian president <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vladimir_Putin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vladimir Putin (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Vladimir Putin</a> and U.S. Supreme Court Justice <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Antonin Scalia</a>.

When it comes to the WSJ´s views towards Latin America, the paper features articles from Mary Anastasia O´Grady, who wrote reports published by the conservative Heritage Foundation. O´Grady often criticizes "populism" and "leftists" in Latin America.

WSJ´s O´Grady recently criticized the South American multilateral forum known as Unasur saying "(Colombian president) Uribe will be outnumbered by leftist tyrants" despite the fact that all countries of Unasur have democratically elected presidents. Amerian author living in Mexico Richard Grabman chracterized O´Grady´s columns at the WSJ as " a better barometer of what Latin Americans are NOT going to do than the Miami Herald’s Andres Oppenheimer" <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://mexfiles.net/2009/11/25/mary-anastasia-ogrady-making-enemies-wherever-she-goes/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a>

Political blogger Sabina Becker dubbed WSJ´s O´Grady as "a discredited hack parachuted in from the Heritage Foundation to promote far-right "values" at the expense of honesty and reality." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/2008/07/the_wall_street_journals_jewis.html" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a>, and Inca Kola News compiled a list of WSJ´s O´Grady inaccuracies <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/11/mary-anastasia-ogrady-winner-of-this.html" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a> involving her stories on Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras, and Ecuador, criticizing her "serial ignorance of Latin American affairs".

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Editorial Board Member <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Moore" title="Stephen Moore" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Stephen Moore</a> is also an <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) "Scholar." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a> On August 4th, 2011, he spoke at a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shell" title="Shell" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Shell</a> Oil-sponsored plenary session of the 38th Annual ALEC Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, along with fellow <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Board_of_Scholars" title="ALEC Board of Scholars" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC "scholar"</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arthur_B._Laffer" title="Arthur B. Laffer" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Arthur B. Laffer</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> Moore also participated in the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting, speaking on a panel on corporate taxes in front of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy_Task_Force" title="Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a> Furthermore, he partook in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy_Task_Force" title="Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force</a> meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting, leading a discussion, alongside ALEC Director of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jonathan_Williams" title="Jonathan Williams" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jonathan Williams</a>, about the 4th Edition of Rich States, Poor States.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a>

<table><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(64, 127, 212); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(41, 102, 184);">About ALEC</th></tr><tr><td>

<div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a> is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">PRWatch.org site</a>.</div>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Official Web site: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wsj.com/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">http://www.wsj.com</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Francis X. Dealy, The Power and the Money: Inside the Wall Street Journal, Jr. Birch Lane Press, June 1993. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:BookSources/1559721189" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 1559721189</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Leslie_Chang" title="Leslie Chang" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Leslie Chang</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Melanie_Kirkpatrick" title="Melanie Kirkpatrick" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Melanie Kirkpatrick</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-0" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-0" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, "Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Meeting," agenda and meeting materials, August 4, 2011, on file with CMD</li>

<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://topics.wsj.com/person/g/paul-gigot/5473" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Paul Gigot - News, Articles, Biography, Photos</a>. WSJ.com. Retrieved on 2010-01-13. “Paul Gigot is the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal, a position he has held since 2001. He is responsible for the newspaper's editorials, op-ed articles and Leisure & Arts criticism and directs the editorial pages of the Journal's Asian and European editions and the OpinionJournal.com Web site. He is also the host of the weekly half-hour news program, the Journal Editorial Report, on the Fox News Channel.”</li>

<li id="cite_note-oped-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-oped_2-0" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-oped_2-1" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/guidelines/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Op-Ed Guidelines for The Wall Street Journal</a>. WSJ.com. Retrieved on 2010-01-13.</li>

<li id="cite_note-ceocouncil-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-ceocouncil_3-0" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ceocouncil.wsj.com/participant.php?bio=282" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAIVJREFUeF6tjzsKg0AQhi09mimsFJLCzpNYCGKbK3gAtfUIljaCoKCCZIs8MMV2v+yCg8siWlh8zOtjhjEAEFmeIopDQtTrTJNEZIxhWysiNfULJFJjDzGnba/aBt4+wAuBzD+tg6a8SVkXf4GET96xmDxNzP39IvE/PPDtXIyVpYinv14A5F0laJ8oYFgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">CEO Council</a>. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2010-01-13.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Andrew Vanacore, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_USA_TODAY_CIRCULATION?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"USA Today to post 17 percent drop in circulation"</a>, "Associated Press", October 10, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-5" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Scott Mandia (2011-01-31). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://profmandia.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/wall-street-journal-selectively-pro-science/#comment-1475" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Wall Street Journal: Selectively Pro-Science</a>. Global Warming: Man or Myth?. Retrieved on 2011-01-31. “while the WSJ touts accurate science with regard to vaccines, the WSJ is anti-science when it comes to climate change. Read on for an analysis of the WSJ’s coverage of climate change and to read an excellent Letter to the Editor that was never published.”</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Joe Romm (2010-02-26). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/26/michael-mann-false-and-misleading-claims-wall-street-journal-oversimplify-piece-by-jeffrey-ball-and-keith-johnson/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Michael Mann responds to the “false and misleading claims” in the error-riddled, defamatory WSJ piece by Jeffrey Ball and Keith Johnson «</a>. Climate Progress. Retrieved on 2010-10-13. “Has the WSJ's vaunted 'firewall' between straight news and ideological-driven editorials been breached?”</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Richard Littlemore (2008-03-25). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/wall-street-journal-still-promoting-debate" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Wall Street Journal: Still Promoting Debate</a>. DeSmogBlog. Retrieved on 2010-10-13. “WSJ juxtaposes three decades of warnings, from sources of integrity and obvious expertise...with 30 years of denial, from paid apologists for industry”</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-8" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Paul D. Thacker (2005-08-31). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=5492&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=Dissecting+the+Wall+Street+Journal%27s+Mannhunt&Cache=False" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Dissecting the Wall Street Journal's Mannhunt: How the Wall Street Journal and Rep. Barton celebrated a global-warming skeptic: The untold story of how a front-page article and powerful U.S. politicians morphed former mining executive Stephen McIntyre into a scientific superstar.</a>. Environmental Science & Technology. Retrieved on 2010-10-13. “ES&T asked Regalado and his immediate editor to respond on-the-record to the criticisms of the story and the paper's coverage of climate-change science, and were directed to set up an interview through Dow Jones & Co., the owner of the Wall Street Journal. After four days of phone calls and emails, Robert Christie, director of corporate communications for Dow Jones, responded by email: "We've made it clear [that] when you submit your questions, we'll be more than happy to provide written on-the-record answers." ES&T then emailed 19 questions and asked to receive a response within three days. Six days later, editor Bob McGough confirmed by phone that the questions had been received. ES&T has never received a response.”</li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-9" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Paul Krugman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/modified-goldbugism-at-the-wsj/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Modified Goldbugism at the Wall Street Journal"</a>, "New York Times", October 9, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-10" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Kathy G, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/83170/thomas_frank_takes_spot_at_wsj%3B_frost_reported_in_hell/" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Thomas Frank Takes Spot at WSJ, Frost Reported in Hell"</a>, "Alternet.com", April 23, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-11" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Board_of_Scholars" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Board of Scholars</a>, organizational website, accessed May 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal#cite_ref-12" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, "Solutions for the States," 38th Annual Meeting agenda, on file with CMD, August 3-6, 2011</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chris Welles, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/93/4/books-wsj.asp" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Of Bulls and Bears and Sacred Cows"</a>, Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1993. (This is a review of Francis X. Dealy's book The Power and the Money: Inside the Wall Street Journal.)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dean Starkman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/wsj_committee_must_prove_its_m.php" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"WSJ committee Must Prove Its Mettle: It gets benefit of doubt, but now it’s time to fight"</a>, Columbia Journalism Review, April 30, 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dean Starkman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/what_the_new_wsj_lacks.php" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Anglo-ization of The Wall Street Journal: A struggle over the editor was about much more than turf"</a>, Columbia Journalism Review, May 8, 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ryan Chittum, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/journal_drawings.php" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The WSJ’s Sketches of Pain"</a>, Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ryan Chittum, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/good_news_for_once_at_the_jour.php" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"'Good News (For Once) At The Journal: Two internal promotions are hopeful signs in the News Corporation era"</a>,Columbia Journalism Review, July 7, 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ryan Chittum, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_roundup.php" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Audit Roundup: Wall Street Gives Way: Wall Street’s rot; Where are the accounting cops?"</a>, Columbia Journalism Review, September 16, 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David Carr, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/media/14carr.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at The Journal"</a>, New York Times, December 13, 2009.</li>

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Jeffrey Ball

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Biography

Jeffrey Ball, formerly The Wall Street Journal’s environment editor, is scholar-in-residence at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance.

At Stanford, Ball writes broadly about energy and the environment and is working on a book. In recent months, he has published pieces in Foreign Affairs, Slate and The Wall Street Journal. He also heads a Stanford project exploring how countries, particularly China and the U.S., might deploy clean-energy capital more efficiently if each one played more strategically to its economic strengths.

Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center, a non-partisan initiative of the university’s law and business schools, was created in 2011 to explore economically sensible ways to scale up a cleaner and more-secure energy system. Ball’s research focuses on the intensifying race among companies and countries to corner the clean-energy market, and the implications of that race for consumers and the planet. It centers on the idea that building a more environmentally sustainable energy system will require doing it in a more economically efficient way.

Before coming to Stanford in fall 2011, Ball spent 14 years at The Wall Street Journal. He wrote for most of that time about energy and the environment, in particular about the economic viability of changing the way the world consumes fossil fuels. He covered the auto industry for the Journal out of its Detroit bureau and the oil industry from the paper’s Dallas bureau. In 2009, he wrote a biweekly Journal column, Power Shift, which won an award from the National Press Foundation for its coverage of the changing energy and environmental landscape. He spent most of 2010 covering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, focusing on questions about the spill’s environmental effect.

Also at the Journal, Ball created and was the founding editor of Environmental Capital, a blog on energy and the environment. He helped conceive, and was a host and moderator of, ECO:nomics, the Journal’s annual conference on energy and the environment, which brings together chief executives, policymakers, and other leaders in the field.

Ball is a member of “The Experts,” a Wall Street Journal panel of energy experts who regularly contribute commentary about energy issues on WSJ.com. He also remains on the steering committee of The Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference.

Ball speaks frequently about energy and environmental issues, including on college campuses as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. He has appeared on PBS, NPR, CNN and the BBC, among other networks.

Before coming to the Journal, Ball worked as a reporter at the Charlotte (NC) Observer and the Corpus Christi (TX) Caller-Times. He graduated from Yale University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife and two daughters.

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<a href="http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/china%E2%80%99s-solar-panel-boom-and-bust" style=" cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">       Jeffery Ball, China’s Solar-Panel Boom and Bust, Stanford Business 50 (Summer 2013).</a>

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<a href="http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/help-deploy-technology-that-curbs-energy-waste" style=" cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">       Jeffrey Ball, Help Deploy Technology That Curbs Energy Waste, The Expert's Energy (Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2013).</a>

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<a href="http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/blue-sky-thinking" style=" cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">       Jeffrey Ball, Blue Sky Thinking, Slate, March 26, 2013</a>

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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/coal/2012/11/clean_coal_technology_china_is_the_new_testing_ground_for_coal_fired_power.single.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/coal/2012/11/clean_coal_technology_china_is_the_new_testing_ground_for_coal_fired_power.single.html</a></div>

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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/beneath-a-war-of-words-money-paints-a-different-china-us-picture" style=" cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">Jeffrey Ball, Beneath a War of Words, Money Paints a Different China-U.S. Picture, Wall Street Journal online, June 14, 2012; in print June 18, 2012.</a></div>

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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/tough-love-for-renewable-energy" style=" cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">Jeffrey Ball, Tough Love for Renewable Energy, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2012.</a></div>

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Help Deploy Technology That Curbs Energy Waste

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Publication Date:  April 16, 2013

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Bibliography: Jeffrey Ball, Help Deploy Technology That Curbs Energy Waste, The Expert's Energy (Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2013).

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Jeffrey Ball: Help Deploy Technology That Curbs Energy Waste

What steps can – and should – local, state and federal governments take to encourage energy conservation?

Most places around the world that have succeeded in getting consumers to use energy more wisely have had the benefit of a crisis to push that change. They were hit by a war, or an energy shock or visibly dirty air. So they benefited from broad public agreement that something had to change.

The United States doesn’t face such a crisis. So it’s unlikely many Americans will willingly change their behavior to consume less. At a time when the U.S. is swimming in domestic natural gas, for instance, it’s harder than ever to make the argument that Americans should take extra care to turn off the lights when they’re not in a room.

The upshot: Technological fixes to curb energy waste are likely to prove more effective in the U.S. than are calls for behavioral change. The question is how to roll out that technology. Two ideas show merit.

One is tweaking government regulations that get in the way of private investors bankrolling energy-efficiency improvements where those investors think they can make money in the process. Wall Street is showing increasing interest, for example, in cobbling together portfolios of small energy-efficiency upgrades in buildings. Securitized into portfolios, those efficiency improvements could make a real dent in U.S. energy consumption.

Another idea is changing today’s electric-utility regulations, which generally reward power companies for selling more power. By incentivizing power companies not just to sell more juice–but also to deploy technologies that help their customers use their juice more efficiently–the government could enlist powerful private forces in the push to curb energy waste.

Jeffrey Ball (@jeff_ball), formerly The Wall Street Journal’s environment editor and a longtime energy reporter at the paper, is scholar-in-residence at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, a joint initiative of Stanford’s law and business schools. He writes about energy and heads a project exploring the relationship among countries in the globalizing clean-energy industry.

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<h1 class="headline">Climate change hurts women. Wall Street Journal sneers.</h1>

By <a href="http://grist.org/author/john-upton/" title="Posts by John Upton">John Upton</a>

Apparently the idea of girls being sold off into early marriage and women being pushed into prostitution is fucking hilarious.

Or so thinks the right-wing media machine, confronted this week with warnings about the negative ways climate change could affect women around the world.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and 11 other House Democrats, both men and women, introduced a resolution that aims to raise awareness about the vulnerability of women and girls to global warming.

<a href="http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/flooraction/jan2013/hconres36.pdf" target="_blank">From the resolution</a> [PDF], via <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/296679-dems-warn-climate-change-could-drive-women-to-transactional-sex">The Hill</a>:

Whereas climate change exacerbates issues of scarcity and lack of accessibility to primary natural resources, forest resources, and arable land for food production, thereby contributing to increased conflict and instability, as well as the workload and stresses on women farmers, who are estimated to produce 60 to 80 percent of the food in most developing countries; …

Whereas food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health; …

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The resolution lists many other threats and goes on to encourage the president to “integrate a gender approach in all policies and programs in the United States that are globally related to climate change” and to “ensure that those policies and programs support women globally to prepare for, build resilience for, and adapt to climate change.”

Heavy stuff, right? And it’s heavy stuff that’s not often talked about. The resolution got some people in politics and the media to consider these issues for the first time.

But conservative commentators decided against spending too much time thinking about it. They jumped right to snickering about the sex references. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the resolution in <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/best_of_the_web_today.html">a mocking piece</a> with the headline, “Baby, It’s Warm Outside,” and the subhed, “The climate is changing. Lock up your daughters.” The first paragraph:

<blockquote>Is “climate change” corrupting the morals of women around the world? That’s a question nobody is asking if ever there was one, yet a dozen left-wing congressmen, led by Rep. Barbara Lee of California, are answering in the affirmative.</blockquote>

The Daily Caller followed right up with “<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/30/democrats-global-warming-means-more-hookers/">Democrats: Global warming means more hookers</a>.”

Needless to say, Lee has been unimpressed by some of the coverage, particularly by the near singular focus on sex work. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-women-prostitution-20130430,0,4593965.story" target="_blank">She told the Los Angeles Times</a> that “it’s unfortunate that this resolution has been misrepresented as to its goals.”

John Upton is a science aficionado and green news junkie who <a href="https://twitter.com/johnupton">tweets</a>, posts articles to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/journalistupton">Facebook</a>, and <a href="http://wonkonthewildlife.com/">blogs about ecology</a>. He welcomes reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants: <a href="mailto:johnupton@gmail.com">johnupton@gmail.com</a>.

http://grist.org/news/climate-change-hurts-women-wall-street-journal-sneers/

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By <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/author/joe/">Joe Romm</a> on Dec 20, 2012 at 5:31 pm

<h3>Leading Scientists Debunk Ridley Piece, Even Climatologist Cited By Ridley Says He “Is Just Plain Wrong About Future Warming”</h3>

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Memo to media, deniers: “Climate sensitivity” is NOT the same as projected future warming!

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Projected warming even with (an unlikely) low climate sensitivity of between 1.5°C and 2.0°C from <a href="http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=20038">Michael Schlesinger et al 2012</a>. A WSJ op-ed that cites this work absurdly concludes “Evidence points to a further rise of just 1°C by 2100.” Not even close — one of the key math errors in the piece.

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Every major projection of future warming makes clear that if we keep listening to the falsehoods of the anti-science crowd and keep taking no serious action to reduce carbon pollution we face catastrophic 9°F to 11°F [5°C to 6°C] warming over most of the U.S. (see <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/14/1009121/science-of-global-warming-impacts-guide/">literature review here</a>).

The Wall Street Journal, however, has published a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323981504578179291222227104.html">piece</a>, “Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change,” that (falsely) asserts observations suggest global warming will be so low as to “be benificial.” This risible piece by Matt Ridley is so riddled with basic math and science errors it raises the question of how the Journal can possibly maintain its reputation as a credible source of news and financial analysis.

Ridley and the Journal apparently don’t know the difference between water vapor and clouds. They don’t understand the basic concept of climate sensitivity. And they can’t do simple math. Naturally, the climate deniers have embraced this nonsense and spread it across the internet.

UPDATE: Ridley has made an even more self-defaming response at Bishop Hill’s blog and WattsUpWithDisinformation. He doesn’t actually refute any of my points– just repeats his mistakes. His piece proves once and for all that Ridley doesn’t know the first thing about climate science or the IPCC.  As but the most astounding example, in my debunking below I explicitly quote the IPCC’s draft Fifth Assessment (AR5) — “the new IPCC draft report, upon which Ridley makes all his claims” — which summarizes the recent literature on clouds this way: “The net radiative feedback due to all cloud types is likely positive.” Ridley then absurdly asserts “He gives no backing for this dogmatic conclusion.” Seriously. It’s like he never read my piece — or the AR5! And he apparently thinks you can’t read either! I must say it is shocking that Bishop Hill would print such an easily falsifiable claim. It is not shocking Watts would.

I wasn’t going to waste time with the umpteenth debunking of the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/02/01/416317/wsj-letter-top-climate-scientists-slam-murdochs-16-posers-dentists-practicing-cardiology/">Wall Street Journal</a>‘s nonsense — especially a piece written by someone whose “family leases land for coal mining”! But one of Ridley’s many basic mistakes is often seen in the media — the confusion of the “climate sensitivity” (to a doubling of CO2 levels to 560 parts per million) with projected warming (from actual greenhouse gas levels projected for this century plus carbon cycle feedbacks). That confusion needs clearing up (<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/09/1170701/science-stunner-observations-support-predictions-of-extreme-warming-worse-droughts-this-century/">again</a>).

First, though, let me start by quoting some of the country’s leading climate experts in an excellent debunking piece by Media Matters, “<a href="http://mediamatters.org/mobile/blog/2012/12/20/wsjs-climate-dynamite-is-a-dud/191923">WSJ’s Climate ‘Dynamite’ Is A Dud</a>“:

[A]s <a href="http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm">John Abraham</a>, an IPCC reviewer and the director of the <a href="http://www.climaterapidresponse.org/">Climate Science Rapid Response Team</a>, put it to Media Matters: the column “has such elementary errors in it that [it] casts doubt on the author’s understanding of any aspects of climate change.”

… Boston University’s <a href="http://www.bu.edu/earth/people/faculty/robert-k-kaufmann/">Robert Kaufmann</a>, lead author of a 2011 sulfur emissions <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/05/scientist-calls-foxs-global-warming-headline-pa/167503">study</a> [wrote]:

<blockquote>I know of no evidence that would suggest that the temperature effect of sulfur emissions are small.  This conclusion is totally at odds with my peer reviewed publication in the area, which indicate that sulfur emissions have a significant effect on temperature.</blockquote>

With regard to the feedback effect of water vapor: <a href="http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/trenbert.html">Kevin Trenberth</a>, a scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told Media Matters in an email: “water vapor effects are well established as an amplifier (strong positive feedback).” Abraham further noted that Ridley has apparently confused water vapor with clouds, whose effects are not as well understood. He said, “it is very clear water vapor … is an amplifying effect. It is a very strong warmer for the climate” and challenged Ridley to name the anonymous scientist who gave him his information.

With regard to the rate of ocean heat absorption:<a href="http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/trenbert.html"> Trenberth</a> wrote: “On the contrary there is now very good evidence that a LOT of heat is going into the deep ocean in unprecedented ways, which completely undermines this sort of argument. OHC [Ocean Heat Content] keeps increasing at a fairly steady rate, just as sea level keeps going up.”

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A good discussion of the latest science on ocean heat content can be <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/02/24/431902/search-for-missing-heat-myth-global-warming-has-halted/">found here</a>.

To expand on what Abraham said, it is head-exploding and self-discrediting for Ridley and the Wall Street Journal to print this for millions to read:

And then, as one Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a senior role in combating climate change admitted to me the other day: “We don’t even know the sign” of water vapor’s effect—in other words, whether it speeds up or slows down a warming of the atmosphere.

Climate models are known to poorly simulate clouds, and given clouds’ very strong effect on the climate system—some types cooling the Earth either by shading it or by transporting heat up and cold down in thunderstorms, and others warming the Earth by blocking outgoing radiation—it remains highly plausible that there is no net positive feedback from water vapor.

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An unnamed physicist? Seriously, WSJ? What’s next. “A guy I met in an underground parking lot”?

If Ridley did in fact talk to a Nobel prize-winning physicist then that person almost certainly did not make the mistake Ridley did and confuse “water vapor’s effect” — where we most certainly know the sign (it speeds up warming) — with cloud’s effect (where there is a tad more uncertainty). Yet even in that case, the new IPCC draft report, upon which Ridley makes all his claims finds:

<blockquote>Various feedbacks associated with water vapour can now be quantified, and together they are assessed to be very likely positive and therefore to amplify climate changes. The net radiative feedback due to all cloud types is likely positive.</blockquote>

UPDATE: Ridley wrote this transparent falsehood at Bishop Hill’s blog:

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Climate science deniers of the second kind say that they accept basic climate science — so they aren’t ignored by the media — but then just assert that it isn’t going to be a big deal. They usually latch on to some tiny subset of the recent literature to make this argument. You have to cherry pick your science very carefully to be a CSD2 since as 2010 research presented at the AAAS presentation “<a href="http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1639.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">concluded</a>“: New scientific findings since the 2007 IPCC report are found to be more than twenty times as likely to indicate that global climate disruption is “worse than previously expected,” rather than “not as bad as previously expected.”

And, of course, you have to ignore the fact that if the world actually keeps listening to CSD2s and taking no serious action to reduce carbon pollution, then worst-case scenarios are all but unavoidable (see <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/04/1507261/memo-to-media-climate-sensitivity-is-not-the-same-as-projected-future-warming-world-faces-10f-rise/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">here</a>). I would call Bjorn Lomborg the prototypical CSD2, except that he <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/01/25/1495691/bjorn-legacy-lomborg-urges-climate-inaction-with-misleading-stats-in-murdochs-wall-street-journal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">changes his position</a> so often it’s hard to know what he really believes now.

A climate science denier of the third kind is the rarest of all. A CSD3 says that they accept basic climate science but then starts making arguments that effectively deny that science. Indeed a CSD3 who is <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/04/23/204003/shakespeare-rhetoric-debate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">rhetorically clever</a> often says he or she used to believe in climate science, but then supposedly looked into the matter closely and was shocked, shocked to learn that they had been misled. The late <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/11/05/203302/michael-crichton-worlds-most-famous-global-warming-denier-dies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Michael Crichton</a> comes to mind.

It seemed that Matt Ridley was a CSD2 based on his December Wall Street Journal piece (see <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/20/1365671/error-riddled-matt-ridley-piece-lowballs-global-warming-discredits-wall-street-journal-world-faces-10f-warming/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Leading Scientists Debunk Ridley Piece</a>, Even Climatologist Cited By Ridley Says He “Is Just Plain Wrong About Future Warming”).

But now in <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323936404578579753341239688.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">his farewell “Mind & Matter” (!!) column</a>, he proves to be a CSD3. I can’t in good conscience waste valuable time debunking this nonsense when I could be doing something far more productive, for instance, continuing my July 4th binge-watching of “Breaking Bad” in a desperate effort to get myself up to date for the final episodes in August.

But fortunately, the great science blogger Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy has already done an <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/08/global_warming_wall_street_journal_article_cites_bad_evidence_draws_wrong.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">awesome job</a>. Hmm, if Walter White had a Wall Street Journal column, would it be called Bad Chemistry? I digress.

Anyway, Ridley runs the classic CSD3 scam in his article:

A decade ago, I was persuaded by two pieces of data to drop my skepticism and accept that dangerous climate change was likely. The first, based on the Vostok ice core, was a graph showing carbon dioxide and temperature varying in lock step over the last half million years. The second, the famous “hockey stick” graph, showed recent temperatures shooting up faster and higher than at any time in the past millennium.

Within a few years, however, I discovered that the first of these graphs told the opposite story from what I had inferred. In the ice cores, it is now clear that temperature drives changes in the level of carbon dioxide, not vice versa.

As for the “hockey stick” graph, it was effectively critiqued by Steven McIntyre, a Canadian businessman with a mathematical interest in climatology….

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Yes, he went there. He’s essentially accusing climate scientists and the National Academy of Science of being filled with scientists who are all breaking bad.

I’ll just quote Plait at length:

Folks, let me give you a very useful piece of advice: When you hear a claim that goes against the consensus opinion of climate scientists, type that claim into Google followed by the words “skeptical science”. Because the website <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Skeptical Science</a> is very thorough, and it rebuts both claims by Ridley.

First, it’s true that in the distant past (hundreds of thousands of years ago) a rise in carbon dioxide sometimes did follow a rise in temperature. <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">As Skeptical Science points out</a>, that’s to be expected: If the temperature goes up (which can have a number of initial causes), a lot of CO2 locked up in the oceans gets released. However, this does not mean carbon dioxide doesn’t cause warming; in fact <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/basics_one.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">we know an increase in CO2causes an increase in temperature</a>. That in turn increases the amount of CO2 released from the oceans, further increasing temperature. This is called a positive feedback loop. Happily, in general, positive feedback loops like this <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/positive-feedback-runaway-warming.htm" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">tend to flatten out</a>, preventing the heat from cranking up past the point where temperatures become unstable.

Mind you, as <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Skeptical Science again points out</a>, in the past most of the increase in temperature did in fact happen afteran increase of atmospheric CO2. Some initial trigger caused temperatures to go up a little bit, but then the increased CO2 drove a much larger increase in temperature. Ridley is simply wrong here, and the debunking is quite easy to find online.

Still, Ridely claims that “In the ice cores, it is now clear that temperature drives changes in the level of carbon dioxide, not vice versa.” I’m puzzled by this; is he saying CO2 does not cause increased temperature in modern times? He never comes out and says this (except with that one sentence, and with the caveat “in the ice cores”), but he implies it pretty strongly. But that contradicts his stated stance that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and humans are at least partly responsible for global warming. His position on this appears to be untenable.

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And as Plait adds, “His second claim is just as wrong,” but you can read that<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/08/global_warming_wall_street_journal_article_cites_bad_evidence_draws_wrong.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">here</a>. I have to go back to doing something useful — I’m only in the middle of Season 2….

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Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_Lieutenant" title="Deputy Lieutenant" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">DL</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">FRSL</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Medical_Sciences" title="Academy of Medical Sciences" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">FMedSci</a> (born 7 February 1958), known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">British</a> scientist and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">journalist</a> who wrote several popular science books<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>. He is also a businessman and a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House of Lords</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-HoL-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>

Ridley has written several science books including The Red Queen (1994), Genome(1999) and The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010). In 2011, he won the Hayek Prize, which "honors the book published within the past two years that best reflects<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayek" title="Hayek" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hayek</a>’s vision of economic and individual liberty."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a> Ridley also gave the Angus Millar Lecture on "scientific heresy" at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Arts" title="Royal Society of Arts" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">RSA</a> in 2011.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> He was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a> and won the Julian Simon award in March 2012.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a>

Ridley was chairman of the UK bank <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock" title="Northern Rock" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Northern Rock</a> from 2004 to 2007, during which period Northern Rock experienced the first run on a British bank in 150 years. Ridley chose to resign, and the bank had to be bailed out by the UK government leading to the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalisation_of_Northern_Rock" title="Nationalisation of Northern Rock" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">nationalisation of Northern Rock</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#Personal_life" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 Personal life</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#Northern_Rock" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 Northern Rock</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#Debate_over_Ridley.27s_political_philosophy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">6 Debate over Ridley's political philosophy</a></li>

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Ridley was educated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Eton College</a> from 1970–1975 and then went on to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_College,_Oxford" title="Magdalen College, Oxford" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Magdalen College</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of Oxford</a> and completed a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">BA</a> degree with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Class_Honours" title="First Class Honours" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">first class honours</a> in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoology" title="Zoology" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">zoology</a> and then a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">DPhil</a> degree in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoology" title="Zoology" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">zoology</a> in 1983.

Ridley worked as the science editor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Economist</a> from 1984 to 1987 and was then its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Washington</a> correspondent from 1987 to 1989 and American editor from 1990 to 1992.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-matt-cv-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a>

He was also founding chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Life" title="Centre for Life" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">International Centre for Life</a>, a non-profit science centre in Newcastle, UK, which has since become the largest provider of formally taught science workshops in Europe.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a> He served as chairman for seven years. He formerly had been a governor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditchley_Foundation" title="Ditchley Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ditchley Foundation</a>, which organises conferences at its stately home in Oxfordshire.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a> He is a supporter of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Humanist_Association" title="British Humanist Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">British Humanist Association</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a>

He was also a visiting professor at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Spring_Harbor_Laboratory" title="Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New York</a>.

Ridley's The Rational Optimist was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson prize.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> His work Genome: the Autobiography of the Species in 23 Chapters was also shortlisted in 2000 .<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a>

In 2013 he was elected as hereditary peer in the House of Lords.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-HoLelection-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a>

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He is the author of several works of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_science" title="Popular science" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">popular science</a>:

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1993 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evolution_of_Human_Nature" title="The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature</a></li>

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In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lewis Carroll</a>’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass" title="Through the Looking-Glass" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Through the Looking-Glass</a>, Alice meets the Red Queen who runs everywhere but stays in the same place. This book champions a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_Hypothesis" title="Red Queen's Hypothesis" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Red Queen</a> theory for the evolution of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_reproduction" title="Sexual reproduction" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sexual reproduction</a>: that it evolved so that the resultant genetic variation would thwart constantly mutating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite" title="Parasite" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">parasites</a>.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1996 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Virtue:_Human_Instincts_and_the_Evolution_of_Cooperation" title="The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation</a></li>

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In The Origins of Virtue, Ridley argues that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mind" title="Human mind" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">human mind</a> has evolved a special instinct for social exchange that enables us to reap the benefits of co-operation, ostracise those who break the social contract and avoid the trap of being 'rational fools'. It traces the evolution of society first among genes, then among cells, then in ants, vampire bats, apes and dolphins, and finally among human beings. In an interview with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy" title="Foreign Policy" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Foreign Policy</a> magazine, former US President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bill Clinton</a> named this book as one which had influenced his thinking.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1999 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_(book)" title="Genome (book)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters</a></li>

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This book examines one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 human chromosomes.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2003 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_via_Nurture:Genes,Experience,_%26_What_Makes_Us_Human" title="Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, & What Makes Us Human" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, & What Makes Us Human</a>, also later released under the title The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture in 2004</li>

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This book discusses reasons why humans can be considered to be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2006 Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code</li>

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Ridley's biography of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick" title="Francis Crick" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Francis Crick</a> won the Davis Prize for the history of science from the US History of Science Society.

Ridley also edited The Best American Science Writing 2002, one of a series of annual science writing anthologies edited by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Cohen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jesse Cohen (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jesse Cohen</a>, and contributed a chapter to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins:How_a_Scientist_Changed_the_Way_We_Think" title="Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think</a>, a collection of essays in honour of his friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richard Dawkins</a> (edited by his near-namesake <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ridley(zoologist)" title="Mark Ridley (zoologist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mark Ridley</a>).

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2010 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Rational_Optimist&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Rational Optimist (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves</a>, published by 4th Estate. Reviewed in Nature 465, 294–295 (20 May 2010). The Rational Optimist was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson prize.</li>

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Ridley argues that the capacity of humans for change and social progress is underestimated, and denies what he sees as overly pessimistic views of global <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">climate change</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-thersa1-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_World" title="Western World" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Western</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthrate" title="Birthrate" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">birthrate</a> decline.

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Ridley writes the weekly "Mind and Matter" column for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wall Street Journal</a>, which "explores the science of human nature and its implications".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a>

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Ridley is the son of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_White_Ridley,4th_Viscount_Ridley" title="Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley</a> (1925 – 2012), and Lady Anne Katharine Gabrielle Lumley (1928–2006), daughter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roger_Lumley,11th_Earl_of_Scarbrough" title="Lawrence Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lawrence Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a> With the death of his father in 2012, Ridley succeeded him as the 5th<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Ridley" title="Viscount Ridley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Viscount Ridley</a>, having taken over the running of the family estate of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blagdon_Hall" title="Blagdon Hall" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Blagdon Hall</a>, near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramlington" title="Cramlington" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cramlington</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Northumberland</a>, some years before.

Ridley is married to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience" title="Neuroscience" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">neuroscientist</a> Anya Hurlbert and lives in northern England; he has a son and a daughter.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-matt-cv-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a> He is a great grandson of the Victorian architect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edwin_Lutyens" title="Sir Edwin Lutyens" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sir Edwin Lutyens</a> and the nephew of the late conservative Cabinet minister, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ridley,_Baron_Ridley_of_Liddesdale" title="Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale</a>.

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Ridley was chairman of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock" title="Northern Rock" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Northern Rock</a> from 2004 to 2007, having joined the board in 1994. His father had been chairman from 1987 to 1992 and sat on the board for 30 years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[20]</a>

In September 2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock" title="Northern Rock" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Northern Rock</a> became the first British bank since 1878 to suffer a run on its finances at the start of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932010" title="Financial crisis of 2007–2010" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">credit crunch</a>. It was forced to apply to the Bank of England for emergency liquidity funding, following problems caused by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007-2008" title="Financial crisis of 2007-2008" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">financial crisis of 2007-2008</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-21" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[21]</a> The failure of the bank eventually led to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalisation_of_Northern_Rock" title="Nationalisation of Northern Rock" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">nationalisation of Northern Rock</a>.

Matt Ridley resigned as chairman in October 2007, having been blamed by members of parliament for not recognising the risks of the bank's financial strategy and thereby "harming the reputation of the British banking industry."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[22]</a>

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In a 2006 edition of the on-line magazine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-the_third_culture" title="Edge - the third culture" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Edge - the third culture</a>, Ridley wrote a response to the question "What's your dangerous idea?" which was entitled "Government is the problem not the solution",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-23" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[23]</a> in which he describes his attitude to government regulation: "In every age and at every time there have been people who say we need more regulation, more government. Sometimes, they say we need it to protect exchange from corruption, to set the standards and police the rules, in which case they have a point, though often they exaggerate it... The dangerous idea we all need to learn is that the more we limit the growth of government, the better off we will all be."

In 2007 the environmentalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot" title="George Monbiot" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George Monbiot</a> wrote an article in 'The Guardian' connecting Ridley's libertarian economic philosophy and the £27 billion failure of Northern Rock.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[24]</a> In the same newspaper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Buckingham#Chancellorship" title="University of Buckingham" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Terence Kealey</a> defended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">libertarianism</a>, arguing that the performance of the government's regulatory agencies confirmed scepticism about state intervention, because the government had crowded out the market's own regulatory mechanisms.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-25" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[25]</a>

On 1 June 2010 Monbiot followed up his previous article in the context of Matt Ridley's book 'The Rational Optimist', which had just been published. Monbiot took the view that Ridley had failed to learn from the collapse of Northern Rock.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[26]</a> Ridley has responded to Monbiot on his website, stating "George Monbiot’s recent attack on me in the Guardian is misleading. I do not hate the state. In fact, my views are much more balanced than Monbiot's selective quotations imply." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-27" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[27]</a> On 19 June 2010 Monbiot countered with another article on the Guardian website, further questioning Ridley's claims and his response.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[28]</a>

In November 2010, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wall Street Journal</a> published a lengthy exchange between Ridley and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Microsoft</a> founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bill Gates</a> on topics discussed in Ridley's book The Rational Optimist.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[29]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-30" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[30]</a> Gates said that "What Mr. Ridley fails to see is that worrying about the worst case—being pessimistic, to a degree—can actually help to drive a solution"; Ridley said "I am certainly not saying, "Don't worry, be happy." Rather, I'm saying, "Don't despair, be ambitious".

Ridley recently summarised his own views on his political philosophy during the 2011 Hayek lecture: "[T]hat the individual is not – and had not been for 120,000 years – able to support his lifestyle; that the key feature of trade is that it enables us to work for each other not just for ourselves; that there is nothing so anti-social (or impoverishing) as the pursuit of self sufficiency; and that authoritarian, top-down rule is not the source of order or progress."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[31]</a>

In an email exchange, Ridley responded to environmental activist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lynas" title="Mark Lynas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mark Lynas</a>' repeated charges of a right wing agenda with the following reply:

<div class="Bug6200">On the topic of labels, you repeatedly call me a member of “the right”. Again, on what grounds? I am not a reactionary in the sense of not wanting social change: I make this abundantly clear throughout my book. I am not a hierarchy lover in the sense of trusting the central authority of the state: quite the opposite. I am not a conservative who defends large monopolies, public or private: I celebrate the way competition causes creative destruction that benefits the consumer against the interest of entrenched producers. I do not preach what the rich want to hear — the rich want to hear the gospel of Monbiot, that technological change is bad, that the hoi polloi should stop clogging up airports, that expensive home-grown organic food is the way to go, that big business and big civil service should be in charge. So in what sense am I on the right? I am a social and economic liberal: I believe that economic liberty leads to greater opportunities for the poor to become less poor, which is why I am in favour of it. Market liberalism and social liberalism go hand in hand in my view.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_note-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a></div>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rationaloptimist.com/biography" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">biography</a> - official website Matt Ridley</li>

<li id="cite_note-HoL-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-HoL_2-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21358553" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Ex-Northern Rock chairman Ridley joins Lords"</a>. BBC News. 6 Feb 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/video/index.htm?c=092611MI" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Hayek Lecture 2011"</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/angus-millar-lecture-2011-scientific-heresy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Angus Millar Lecture 2011"</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2012.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif); padding-right: 18px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"2012 Fellows"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="The American Academy of Arts and Sciences" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cei.org/julian-l-simon-memorial-award" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Past Winners"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian_L._Simon_Memorial_Award&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julian L. Simon Memorial Award (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Julian L. Simon Memorial Award</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/19/business/rock.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Northern Rock chairman quits after criticism from lawmakers"</a>. International Herald Tribune. 19 October 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Additional bio-details from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debrett%27s" title="Debrett's" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Debrett's</a> People of Today 2007, p 1406,</li>

<li id="cite_note-matt-cv-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-matt-cv_9-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-matt-cv_9-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> Ridley, Matt. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070706164710/http://www.mattridley.co.uk/index.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Matt Ridley's C.V."</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mattridley.co.uk/index.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">the original</a> on 6 July 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.life.org.uk/education/about" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"International Centre for Life website"</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Ditchley Foundation: The Governors"</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=159" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction"</a>.Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Retrieved 21 April 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }The Samuel Johnson Prize<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk/sjnav/books/2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk/sjnav/books/2</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-HoLelection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-HoLelection_15-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Beamish, David (6 Feb 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/2013/Conservative-Hereditary-Peers-by-election-result-Earl-Ferrers.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif); padding-right: 18px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Conservative Hereditary Peers’ By-election, February 2013: Result"</a> (PDF). Retrieved 6 February 2013.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/19/bill_clintons_world?page=0,1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">""Bill Clinton's World""</a>. Foreign Policy. December 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-thersa1-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-thersa1_17-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/angus-millar-lecture-2011-scientific-heresy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Angus Millar Lecture 2011 - Scientific Heresy"</a>. thersa.org. 31 October 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Post. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-lifestyle-arts-entertainment.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Mind and Matter column"</a>. Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 6 December 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thepeerage.com/p8563.htm#i85622" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Matthew White Ridley</a> - website ThePeerage.com</li>

<li id="cite_note-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Times</a> 19 September 2007 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article2485366.ece" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Northern Rock chairman gives chief full backing</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-21" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Pfanner, Eric (15 September 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/business/worldbusiness/15mortgage.html?_r=1&ref=business" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Credit Crisis Hits Lender in Britain"</a>. New York Times. Retrieved 12 March 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/19/business/rock.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Northern Rock chairman quits after criticism from lawmakers"</a>. International Herald Tribune. 19 October 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-23" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_11.html#ridley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"What's your dangerous idea? Matt Ridley "Government is the problem not the solution""</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge" title="The Edge" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Edge</a>. 1 January 2006. Retrieved 1 March 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-24" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Monbiot, George (23 October 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2197247,00.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Governments aren't perfect, but it's the libertarians who bleed us dry"</a>. London: The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-25" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-25" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Kealey, Terence (31 October 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/oct/31/comment.business" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Response The state is crowding out successful market mechanisms"</a>. London: The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-26" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Monbiot, George (7 June 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/06/01/the-man-who-wants-to-northern-rock-the-planet/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet"</a>. The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-27" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-27" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Ridley, Matt (7 June 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/monbiots-errors" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Monbiot's errors"</a>. The Rational Optimist. Retrieved 7 June 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-28" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Monbiot, George (19 June 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/06/19/ridleyed-with-errors/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Ridleyed With Errors"</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot" title="George Monbiot" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George Monbiot</a>. Retrieved 19 June 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-29" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Ridley, Matt (26 November 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704648604575621122887824544.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Africa Needs Growth, Not Pity and Big Plans"</a>. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 April 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-30" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-30" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gates, Bill</a> (26 November 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704243904575630761699028330.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Africa Needs Aid, Not Flawed Theories"</a>. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 April 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-31" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/video/index.htm?c=092611MI" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Matt Ridley 2011 Hayek lecture"</a>. The Manhattan Institute.</li>

<li id="cite_note-32" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#cite_ref-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.marklynas.org/2011/07/debate-with-matt-ridley-on-ocean-acidification/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Debate with Matt Ridley on ocean acidification"</a>. Mark Lynas.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mattridley.co.uk/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Matt Ridley's website</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/viscount-ridley/4272" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">The Viscount Ridley</a> on parliament.uk</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtreasy/56/7101601.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Treasury - Minutes of Evidence: Examination of Witnesses: Dr Matt Ridley, Chairman, Northern Rock</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.renegademedia.info/media/radio-mp3/Matt_Ridley.mp3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKBAMAAAB/HNKOAAAAMFBMVEX///91fyrI0Xt5gzPCzGuyv0bw8eubomu3u5qQlWafo4HV25q3w1CLljOEjjKRlHTuBCtpAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAADdJREFUCFtjYGgUFBRnYBBSUlJkYDCCkIKCIFKAEUZmiohNdGRYs/XW6VgGkbhC1xcMjB8Y5BMA6nkLTrUjfj0AAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Ridley interviewed for Massive Change Radio in January 2004</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/ridley.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Biography page on Edge.org</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Matt Ridley, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,928170,00.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">We've never had it so good - and it's all thanks to science</a>," <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Guardian</a>, 3 April 2003. Article in newspaper.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Matt Ridley, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_11.html#ridley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">What's your dangerous idea?</a>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge" title="The Edge" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Edge</a> On-line magazine 2006</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Matt Ridley, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/02/darwin-legacy/ridley-text" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Darwin's Legacy"</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Magazine" title="National Geographic Magazine" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Geographic</a>, February 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Matt Ridley, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vimeo.com/7536594" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Putting Darwin in Genes"</a>, Thinking Digital, May 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Matt Ridley, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">'When Ideas Have Sex'</a>, a video of his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)" title="TED (conference)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">TED</a> talk</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Roberts" title="Russ Roberts" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Roberts, Russ</a> (October 18, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/matt_ridley/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Ridley on Trade, Growth, and the Rational Optimist"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EconTalk" title="EconTalk" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">EconTalk</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Economics_and_Liberty" title="Library of Economics and Liberty" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Library of Economics and Liberty</a>.</li>

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WSJ does not disclose Rove (col) connections

The Wall Street Journal's failure to disclose op-ed columnist Karl Rove's ties to political organizations raising hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat President Obama and other Democratic candidates is drawing harsh criticism from editorial page editors at America's top newspapers.

Even as he writes regular columns on the 2012 election for the Journal, Rove serves as <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/09/karl-rove-gop-craig-unger">what Vanity Fair calls</a> "the defacto leader of the Republican Party." As the co-founder of the super PAC <a href="http://www.americancrossroads.org/category/news/">American Crossroads</a> and its related organization Crossroads GPS, Rove is helping to assemble a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33683_162-57426453/superpac-american-crossroads-says-goal-is-win-elections-to-improve-quality-of-life/">massive war chest</a> to run attack ads against Democrats this fall -- an obvious conflict of interest.

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apen mtg koch:

Stephen Moore -- Wall Street Journal editorial board member and senior economics writer and former President of the Club for Growth.

Moore has ties to the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, two of the top Koch beneficiaries, and was a National Review magazine contributing editor.

The Wall Street Journal’s opinion section serves as a podium for prominent skeptics with ties to the Kochtopus, such as Bjorn Lomborg, Richard Lindzen and Patrick Michaels. Michaels, the champion denier of the Cato Institute and other Koch-backed institutions, used the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section to continue pushing “climategate” even after scientists were exonerated by formal investigations. Michaels himself is coming under scrutiny for being dishonest during a 2009 Congressional testimony about the funding he receives from the oil industry.

Between moving to the Wall Street Journal and being forced out of the Club for Growth, Moore founded the Free Enterprise Fund with Arthur Laffer and Mallory Factor, both former Club for Growth directors. Arthur Laffer’s Laffer Center for Global Economic Growth is tied to Koch Industries through its Vice Chairman, Richard Fink, and Executive Director Wayne Gable, both prominent Koch executives, and a $100,000 grant from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation in 2009.

Moore is also a frequent commentator on CNBC’s Kudlow & Co and Fox News' On the Record with Greta van Susteren.

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The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Hoover Institute fellow John Taylor is a Mitt Romney adviser after not doing so when it published two previous op-eds by Taylor.

The Journal has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979">published</a> a total of 23 op-eds from 10 other Romney advisers without disclosing their Romney connection. Editorial page editors from across the country <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/27/editorial-page-editors-wsj-lack-of-romney-advis/190152">have criticized</a> the Journal for its lack of transparency in its editorial pages, and <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/09/report-wsj-published-romney-adviser-opeds-without-135997.html#.UFnskDzZjJo.twitter">several</a> media <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/09/19/currents-eliot-spitzer-wsj-editors-should-know/190020">outlets</a> have <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10/01/the-nations-adler-criticizes-fox-news-and-the-w/190227">noted</a> their failure to disclose. Media Matters has also launched a <a href="http://goo.gl/ewSAf">petition </a>urging the Journal to disclose the conflicts.

But recently, the Journal <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10/01/following-criticism-wsj-identifies-writer-max-b/190242">identified</a> Max Boot as a Romney adviser in a book review he wrote for the paper. Following <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/22/negligent-top-newspaper-editorial-editors-slam/189472">criticism</a>, the Journal has also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/26/wsj-finally-discloses-karl-roves-link-to-americ/190159">disclosed</a> that weekly columnist Karl Rove is linked to the pro-Romney American Crossroads Super PAC in Rove's <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443768804578034341205066014.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop">two</a> most recent <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443507204578020410637501592.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">columns</a>.

The Wall Street Journal identified Taylor in his October 3 column as a "professor of economics at Stanford and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is an economic adviser to the Romney presidential campaign."

The Journal previously published a September 11 <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443686004577639590237612020.html">op-ed</a> that Taylor co-wrote with former GOP senator Phil Gramm without such disclosure. The Journal instead identified Taylor as "a professor of economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs in the first George W. Bush administration." The Journal also did not disclose Taylor's affiliation with the Romney campaign in a September 16 <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577497442109193610.html">op-ed</a> Taylor co-wrote.

An August 15 Fortune <a href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/15/romney-economy-plan/">article</a>, identified Taylor as part of Romney's "Economic Policy Steering Group," a group that convened on July 4. also co-authored an <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2012/08/romney-program-economic-recovery-growth-and-jobs">August 2</a> <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/sites/default/files/shared/the_romney_program_for_economic_recovery_growth_and_jobs.pdf">paper for the Romney campaign</a> titled "The Romney Program for Economic Recovery, Growth and Jobs."    media matters

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The Wall Street Journal has published op-eds from 10 writers without disclosing their roles as advisers to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. The op-eds attack President Obama and his administration or discuss Romney on a range of topics like the economy, health care, education and foreign policy.

According to a Media Matters review, the Journal published a total of 23 pieces from the following Romney advisers without disclosing their campaign ties: <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#bolton">John Bolton</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#boot">Max Boot</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#caseyrivkin">Lee A. Casey</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#dobriansky">Paula Dobriansky</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#glendon">Mary Ann Glendon</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#hubbard">Glenn Hubbard</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#Mukasey">Michael Mukasey</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#petersonwest">Paul E. Peterson</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#caseyrivkin">David B. Rivkin Jr.</a>; and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/nine-wall-street-journal-op-ed-writers-who-were/189979#petersonwest">Martin West</a>. In several instances, the Journal failed to disclose an op-ed writer's connection despite its own news section reporting that the writer is advising Romney.

With respect to one writer, the Journal disclosed his ties to the campaign in an initial op-ed but failed to do so in subsequent op-eds. With regard to another, the paper failed to disclose the campaign ties in an initial op-ed but did do so in later pieces. The eight remaining writers have not had their Romney connections disclosed in any of their op-eds following the publication of those ties, according to Media Matters' review.

Media Matters <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/blog/2012/09/14/top-mccain-lawyer-criticizes-lack-of-disclosure/189893">previously documented</a> that the Journal regularly fails to disclose columnist Karl Rove's ties to the super PAC American Crossroads and its related organization Crossroads GPS, which are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat President Obama and other Democratic candidates. The paper's lack of disclosure on Rove has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/blog/2012/08/22/negligent-top-newspaper-editorial-editors-slam/189472">drawn criticism</a> from some of America's top editorial page editors as well as <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/blog/2012/09/14/top-mccain-lawyer-criticizes-lack-of-disclosure/189893">Trevor Potter</a>, who served as general counsel to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaigns.

Fox News, which, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp., has had <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/blog/2012/09/10/the-members-of-romneys-campaign-who-work-for-fo/189821">similar problems</a>. There have been <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/blog/2012/05/04/fox-news-where-romney-advisers-are-undisclosed/185649">numerous instances</a> in which the network has hosted Romney advisers John Bolton, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/blog/2012/09/06/another-fox-news-contributor-isnt-disclosed-as/189777">Elaine Chao</a>, Jay Sekulow, and Walid Phares without disclosing their ties.

Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot and spokespersons for the paper and for News Corp. did not respond to requests for comment.

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<h1 class="title-news" style=" line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">News Corp. Climate Change Coverage Is Misleading, Analysis Claims</h1>

<div class="comments_datetime_new border_none relative v05" style=" line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Posted: 09/25/2012 1:48 pm EDT Updated: 09/25/2012 2:14 pm EDT </div>

93 percent of Fox News' and 80 percent of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages' climate coverage is inaccurate and misleading according to an analysis titled "<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Is-News-Corp-Failing-Science.pdf" target="_hplink">Is News Corp. Failing Science,</a>" from The Union of Concerned Scientists. The report examined how various media outlets fare in their coverage of climate related news.

<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/09/22/fox-news-distorts-climate-science/" target="hplink">Scientific American explains</a> that, according to the analysis, in 37 out of 40 occurrences, Fox's staff made dismissive and inaccurate comments regarding climate change, <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/1729695908001/climate-scientist-explains-record-temperatures" target="hplink">misleading audiences of its importance and relevance</a>, and that from August 2011 to July 2012 only nine out of the Wall Street Journal's 48 mentions of climate were accurate.9/26

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<h1 style=" margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">The Wall Street Journal: Dismissing Environmental Threats Since 1976</h1>

<h5><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research"> Research </a>››› <time datetime="2012-08-02T10:31:50-04:00" itemprop="datePublished"> August 2, 2012 10:31 AM EDT </time> ››› JILL FITZSIMMONS & JOCELYN FONG </h5>

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To forestall policy on climate change, the Wall Street Journal editorial board routinely downplays scientific consensus, overstates the cost of taking action, and claims that politics, not science, motivate those concerned about the climate. But an analysis of more than 100 editorials from 1976 to present shows that the Wall Street Journal used these same rhetorical tactics in previous decades on acid rain and ozone depletion and they did not stand the test of time.

<h2>The Journal's Pre-Fabricated Arguments Against Environmental Protection</h2>

For decades the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board has campaigned with industry against government action to address major environmental threats. Regardless of the specific issue, the editorials offer this familiar refrain:

<ul>

<li>'We Don't Know Enough': The Journal makes claims that are out of step with the weight of scientific evidence, seizes on uncertainties, and argues for further study before any action is taken to mitigate the risk.</li>

<li>'It Will Cost Too Much': The Journal claims regulations would have enormous economic costs, often citing unreliable industry-backed studies.</li>

<li>'It's All Politics': To sidestep the science showing a clear threat, the Journal claims that those who want to address the problem are motivated by politics, not science.</li>

</ul>

<h2>The Wall Street Journal On Climate Change</h2>

WSJ Claims We Don't Know Enough About Climate Change. Despite a strong <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/ssi/climate-change/scientific-consensus-on.html">scientific</a> <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/aug/14/tim-pawlenty/do-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming/">consensus</a> based on abundant <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/">evidence</a> that human activities are contributing to global climate change, the Wall Street Journal editorial board continues to cast doubt on the science:

<ul>

<li>A December 2011 editorial said that the global warming debate requires "more definitive evidence." [Wall Street Journal, Global Warming Wash Out, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203518404577094081344492356.html">12/13/11</a>]</li>

<li>A June 2011 editorial called global warming a "fad-scare." [Wall Street Journal, The Light Bulb Police, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576202770757822548.html">6/7/11</a>]</li>

<li>A February 2010 editorial stated: "We think the science is still disputable." It questioned "how much our current warming is man-made as opposed to merely another of the natural climate shifts that have taken place over the centuries." [Wall Street Journal, The Continuing Climate Meltdown, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703630404575053781465774008.html">2/16/10</a>]</li>

<li>A July 2009 editorial stated "There is still serious scientific debate about the causes, effects and possible solutions for climate change." [Wall Street Journal, Listening to India, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574301221048374500.html">7/25/09</a>]</li>

</ul>

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WSJ Fearmongers About The Cost Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/01/28/wsj-falsely-claims-cap-and-trade-is-an-economy/175703">determined</a> that the cap-and-trade legislation passed by the House in 2009 would have a "modest" impact on GDP and "only a small effect on total employment in the long run." But the Journal has painted cap-and-trade as a "tax" that would cost "millions of jobs:

<ul>

<li>A November 2010 editorial claimed that a national cap-and-trade program "would have cost millions of jobs." [Wall Street Journal, Cap and Retreat, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704648604575621350381458566.html">11/20/10</a>]</li>

<li>An October 2010 editorial claimed that California's cap-and-trade program will cost "tens of thousands of jobs." [Wall Street Journal, California's Cap-And-Trade War, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575535841904660332.html">10/18/10</a>]</li>

<li>An August 2010 editorial called cap-and-trade a "tax" that would have an "enormous economic cost." [Wall Street Journal, The Death of Cap and Tax, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703977004575393313926643450.html">8/2/10</a>]</li>

<li>An August 2009 editorial claimed that a national cap-and-trade program "would add so much to the cost of doing business in the U.S. that it would drive factories and jobs overseas." [Wall Street Journal, More Cap-and-Trade War, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574336844278574578.html">8/12/09</a>]</li>

</ul>

WSJ Claims Politics Drives Climate Concerns. Following the <a href="http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/11/16/getting-past-climategate-syndrome/#comments">overblown</a> "<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/08/08/we-win-conservative-media-celebrate-public-misc/182517">Climategate</a>" controversy, the Journal editorial board has repeatedly and baselessly accused climate scientists of manipulating data to promote a political agenda. The Journal has also suggested that "advocates" have tried to shut out dissenting voices to manufacture a scientific consensus on climate change, and that politicians have stoked fear about climate change in an effort to expand government power:

<ul>

<li>A September 2011 editorial claimed that Al Gore and other "climate-change advocates" have "tried to bully anyone who keeps an open mind," which "is true of many political projects, but it is or ought to be anathema to the scientific method." [Wall Street Journal, 'High School Physics', <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903927204576572842778437276.html">9/19/11</a>]</li>

<li>A July 2010 editorial claimed that the Climategate emails "revealed a habit among climate scientists of trimming their scientific sails to the political winds." It concluded that climate scientists "need to start taking the politics out of the science." [Wall Street Journal, A Climate Absolution?, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703394204575367483847033948.html">7/19/10</a>]</li>

<li>A February 2010 editorial called UN climate reports "sloppy political documents intended to drive the climate lobby's regulatory agenda." [Wall Street Journal, The Continuing Climate Meltdown, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703630404575053781465774008.html">2/16/10</a>]</li>

<li>A February 2009 editorial said "the political class loves a cap-and-trade tax because it gives them new economic and political power." It suggested that Democrats in Congress see "political control" of cap-and-trade revenues as "a source of tens of millions in new campaign contributions from thousands of affected businesses." [Wall Street Journal, An Inconvenient Tax, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123569802712289113.html">2/27/09</a>]</li>

</ul>

<h2>The Wall Street Journal On Acid Rain</h2>

U.S. Acid Rain Program Widely Seen As A Success. After a decade of warnings from the EPA, the Department of Energy, and the National Research Council that sulfur dioxide emissions from coal plants were contributing to acid rain, Congress passed and George H.W. Bush signed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which <a href="http://epa.gov/oar/caa/caaa_overview.html">established</a> a cap-and-trade program to reduce sulfur emissions. The program, which took effect in 1995, has "<a href="http://www.epa.gov/capandtrade/documents/ctresults.pdf">substantially reduced</a>" acid deposition in the Northeast and has led to major improvements in air quality with "significant benefits to human health," according to a 2010 <a href="http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/progress/ARP09_3.html">progress report</a> from the EPA. And it has done so in a cost-effective way. A 2005 <a href="http://www.epa.gov/capandtrade/documents/benefits.pdf">analysis</a> estimated the annual benefits of the program in 2010 at $122 billion compared to only $3 billion in costs -- a 40:1 benefit/cost ratio. Compliance costs have been "substantially lower" than the EPA estimated when the program was enacted. Acid rain is <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/is-acid-rain-a-thing-of-the-past.html">still</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081901237.html">a problem</a> in parts of the U.S. and some lakes have yet to <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-acid-rain-regulations-did-they-w">fully recover</a>, but overall the cap-and-trade program is widely seen as a success. The Economist <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/1200205">called</a> the acid rain program the "greatest green success story of the past decade."

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WSJ Shed Doubt On Science Behind Acid Rain. In the 1980s, evidence mounted that sulfur dioxide emissions from coal plants in the Midwest were contributing to acid rain, threatening hundreds of U.S. lakes and forests in the Northeast and Canada. But for more than a decade, the Journal editorial board argued that natural variability overshadowed the impact of human activity, and called for further research before taking action to limit harmful emissions:

<ul>

<li>A May 1980 editorial questioned the link between increased coal burning and acid rain, concluding that existing "data are not conclusive and more studies are needed." [Wall Street Journal, Acid Rain, 5/30/80, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A September 1982 editorial stated: "Scientific study, as opposed to political rhetoric, points more and more toward the theory that nature, not industry, is the primary source of acid rain." [Wall Street Journal, Gitche Gummee's pH, 9/7/82, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A January 1984 editorial called for "a few more years of research" before implementing regulations to address acid rain. [Wall Street Journal, Patience and Precipitation, 1/11/84, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A September 1985 editorial declared that "the scientific case for acid rain is dying." [Wall Street Journal, Out of the Blue, 9/24/85, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A January 1986 editorial declared: "Man-made acid rain pales by comparison with natural sources." [Wall Street Journal, All Wet on Acid Rain, 1/10/86, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A June 1989 editorial argued that we should "wait for science to understand, for example, to what extent acid rain is man-made" before enacting regulations. [Wall Street Journal, All Apocalyptics Now?, 6/16/89, via Factiva]</li>

</ul>

WSJ Claimed Politics -- Not Science -- Was Behind Efforts To Address Acid Rain. To obscure the science, the Journal editorial board claimed efforts to take action were simply driven by "politics, not science":

<ul>

<li>An October 1983 editorial claimed that "politics, not science, clearly is driving the acid-rain campaign. In true Madison Avenue fashion, acid rain sells..." [Wall Street Journal, Gold (Plated) Fish, 10/12/83, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A July 1987 editorial stated: "As the acid-rain story continues to develop, it's becoming increasingly apparent that politics, not nature, is the primary force driving the theory's biggest boosters." [Wall Street Journal, "No Remedies, Please", 7/27/87, via Factiva]</li>

</ul>

WSJ Wildly Overestimated The Cost of Cutting Emissions. The Journal editorial board initially opposed implementing a national program to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions because of the "immense cost":

<ul>

<li>A June 1982 editorial warned of the "immense cost of controlling sulfur emissions." [Wall Street Journal, Rained Out, 6/29/82, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A January 1984 editorial claimed a regulatory program for acid rain would cost "upwards of $100 billion." [Wall Street Journal, Patience and Precipitation, 1/11/84]</li>

<li>A September 1987 editorial claimed that legislation to address acid rain would cost "as much as $94 billion over a decade." [Wall Street Journal, The $94 Billion Report, 9/23/87, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A January 1990 editorial predicted that the acid rain provisions in the Clean Air Act amendments would lead to "staggering" utility costs. [Wall Street Journal, No Pap From NAPAP, 1/26/90, via Factiva]</li>

</ul>

WSJ Later Acknowledged The Acid Rain Program Was "Fabulously Successful" And Cost-Effective. A decade after the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 instituted a cap-and-trade program for sulfur dioxide emissions, the Journal acknowledged that the acid rain program was a success, and even recommended establishing a similar program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

<ul>

<li>A July 2001 editorial called the cap-and-trade program for sulfur dioxide "fabulously successful," noting that the program "saves about $700 million annually compared with the cost of traditional regulation and has been reducing emissions by four million tons annually." It added: "When the program is fully implemented, sometime over the next couple of years, cost savings should be as much as $2 billion a year -- that's twice as much as originally estimated by the EPA." In light of this success, the editorial called on the Bush administration to "propose a domestic cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide." [Wall Street Journal, Emissions Impossible?, <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2001-08-03/html/CREC-2001-08-03-pt1-PgS8894-2.htm">7/23/01</a>, via Factiva]</li>

<li>An April 2004 editorial noted that cap-and-trade "worked for acid rain." [Wall Street Journal, The Mercury Scare, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108138451608177487,00.html">4/8/04</a>]</li>

<li>A March 2005 editorial said the acid rain program led "to big improvements," noting: "Sulfur dioxide emissions are down about 40% compared with 1980 levels, and at half the cost of doing so through the command-and-control approach." [Wall Street Journal, The Clean Air Follies Continue, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111110552613683209,00.html">3/18/05</a>]</li>

</ul>

<h2>The Wall Street Journal On The Ozone Hole</h2>

Due To Government Action, Ozone Layer Is Recovering. As early as 1974, scientists <a href="http://www.cnie.org/nle/crsreports/stratospheric/strat-1.cfm">warned</a> that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were commonly used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants, could break down the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer, increasing human exposure to harmful UV rays that can cause cancer. Further studies <a href="http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9042&page=5">affirmed</a> the risk of CFCs, which led the FDA, EPA and CPSC to <a href="http://www.epa.gov/ozone/downloads/timeline_poster_11x17.pdf">enact</a> a ban in 1978 on nonessential uses of CFCs in aerosols like hair sprays and deodorants. But CFCs <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=rWYrAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">continued</a> to impact ozone levels, and in 1985 scientists discovered a massive <a href="http://www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/science/ozhole.htm">hole in the ozone layer</a> over Antarctica. In the wake of that finding, 24 countries, including the U.S., signed the 1987 <a href="http://ozone.unep.org/Ratification_status/montreal_protocol.shtml">Montreal Protocol</a>, which froze CFC consumption and called for a 50% reduction worldwide by 2000. Since then, over 150 countries have ratified the protocol, CFCs have been gradually phased out of consumer products in the U.S. and around the world, and consumption has <a href="http://www.unep.fr/ozonaction/information/mmcfiles/3139-e-OASI2010_OutOfTheMaze.pdf">fallen</a> by 98%. As a result of these steps, "levels of most ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere have been gradually declining," <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-357_Ozonehole_2011.html">according</a> to NASA. Because these chemicals remain in the atmosphere for decades, a "<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-357_Ozonehole_2011.html">significant</a>" ozone hole still recurs annually over Antarctica, and the ozone layer is not <a href="http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/SAP/ExecutiveSummary_SAP_2010.pdf">expected</a> to fully recover until midcentury. However, the CFC phase-out has already led to major health benefits. A 2010 EPA <a href="http://www.epa.gov/air/sect812/1990-2010/ch_apg.pdf">report</a> estimated that by 2165, CFC regulations under the Clean Air Act will have prevented more than 6.3 million skin cancer deaths in the U.S. alone and saved $4.2 trillion in health care costs -- a 76:1 benefit/cost ratio.

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WSJ Shed Doubt On The Impact Of CFCs On The Ozone Layer. Even when the link between CFCs and ozone depletion was firmly established by the scientific community, the Journal editorial board maintained that it was "only a theory" and favored postponing regulatory action:

<ul>

<li>A January 1976 editorial said the connection between CFCs and ozone depletion "is only a theory and will remain only that until further efforts are made to test its validity in the atmosphere itself." It added that the ozone layer "is subject to constant change in thickness through natural processes that have nothing to do with aerosol cans" and concluded that "it is doubtful there could be a very significant effect" of CFCs on the atmosphere. [Wall Street Journal, A Bit of Prudence at the CPSC, 1/6/76, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A May 1979 editorial said that scientists "still don't know to what extent, if any, mankind's activities have altered the ozone barrier or whether the possibly harmful effects of these activities aren't offset by natural processes ... Thus, it now appears, all the excitement over the threat to the ozone layer was founded on scanty scientific evidence." [Wall Street Journal, Ozone Re-Examined, 5/15/79, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A March 1984 editorial said that concerns about ozone depletion were based on "premature scientific evidence" and claims that "new evidence shows that the ozone layer isn't vanishing after all; it may even be increasing." [Wall Street Journal, Heads in the Ozone, 3/5/84, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A May 1985 editorial claimed that the "ozone scare" was a result of "pop science" and suggests that it turned out to be a "false alarm." [Wall Street Journal, Another False Alarm, 5/31/85, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A March 1989 editorial called for more research on the "questionable theory that CFCs cause depletion of the ozone layer," calling on scientists to "continue to study the sky until we know enough to make a sound decision regarding the phasing out of our best refrigerants." [Wall Street Journal, Ozone Chicken Littles Are at It Again, 3/23/89, via Factiva]</li>

</ul>

WSJ Implied That CFC Ban Was Based On Politics, Not "Real Science." A February 1992 editorial stated: "It is simply not clear to us that real science drives policy in this area." [Wall Street Journal, Press-Release Ozone Hole, 2/28/92, via Factiva]

WSJ Exaggerated Costs Of CFC Alternatives. As policymakers debated how to address ozone depletion, the Journal repeatedly warned that phasing out products containing CFCs would lead to "big price increases on many consumer products." But before the CFC production ban even took effect in the U.S., the Orange County Register <a href="http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920608&slug=1496142">reported</a> that companies were already "finding replacements for CFCs and, in some cases, making money from them." It quoted David Doniger of NRDC who noted that despite "panicking over the impending CFC ban," the electronics industry was "awash in replacements" five years later. Twenty years after the Montreal Protocol took effect, an EPA <a href="http://www.epa.gov/ozone/downloads/MP20_QandA.pdf">report</a> stated that "largely due to innovative research, many alternatives are available" to ozone depleting substances. According to a 2007 <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/302.pdf">analysis</a> in the Harvard Law Review, "the relatively low expected cost of the Montreal Protocol ... turned out to be even lower than anticipated because of technological innovation." And contrary to the Journal's prediction, these alternatives haven't led to a "dramatic increase" in consumer prices. In fact, the costs of refrigerators, air conditioners and other appliances "have been falling since the late 1970s," <a href="http://eec.ucdavis.edu/ACEEE/2002/pdfs/panel09/05_311.pdf">according</a> to researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

<ul>

<li>A March 1984 editorial claimed that banning CFCs "cost the economy some $1.52 billion in forgone profits and product-change expenses" and 8,700 jobs. [Wall Street Journal, Heads in the Ozone, 3/5/84, via Factiva]</li>

<li>An August 1990 editorial warned that banning CFCs would lead to "a dramatic increase in air-conditioning and refrigeration costs." It added: The likely substitute for the most popular banned refrigerant costs 30 times as much and will itself be banned by the year 2015. The economy will have to shoulder at least $10 billion to $15 billion a year in added refrigeration costs by the year 2000. [Wall Street Journal, Clean Air Revisited, 8/29/90, via Factiva]</li>

<li>A February 1992 editorial warned that accelerating the phaseout of CFCs "almost surely will translate into big price increases on many consumer products." [Wall Street Journal, Asides: Middle-Class Payments, 2/14/92, via Factiva]</li>

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<h1 class="headline">The Wall Street Journal’s willful climate lies</h1>

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It wasn’t surprising that the Wall Street Journal published an error-riddled op-ed about climate change last week, essentially saying it was bunk and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_RIGHTTopCarousel_1.">we shouldn’t “panic” about it</a>. We’ve gotten used to that. But what has really started to amaze me about that newspaper’s editorial page and the far right is that they now venture beyond delusion or misinformation. They lie, and they know they are lying.

That’s a big claim, but how else do you account for the statement that “the earth hasn’t warmed for well over 10 years now” when it is well known by anyone working on climate that <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-warmest-year.html">2010 was the hottest year on record</a>?

Despite the fact that many of the authors of the article are funded by ExxonMobil through the George C. Marshall Institute, and despite the fact that none of them are leading scientists, they, and the editor of the opinion page, simply had to know that that statement was false. They may be unethical, but they are not stupid.

This is new stuff. The claim of “no recent warming” has been made deviously before by taking a snapshot of an upward-sloping zigzag line graph. (If you take a snapshot of an upward zigzag, it can even appear to be going down … ) But rarely before have we seen brazen, unobscured lying in such a prominent location. Usually the lie or misinformation is gussied up just a little bit. It suggests a desperation of sorts, as Joe Romm pointed out in his <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/29/413961/panic-attack-murdoch-wall-%0d%0astreet-journal-finds-16-scientists-long-debunked-climate-lies/" target="_blank">masterfully complete debunking</a>. Romm also noted that it brings up some questions. Why would anyone — spaceman, oil industry shill, editor, university professor, or simple citizen — tarnish their name by signing onto an obvious untruth? How does that help their cause?

The problem is that willful lies have become the stock in trade of the extreme right. Another example, outside the climate arena, is the notion that if you cut taxes for the wealthy, and cut corporate taxes, the economy booms. Where are the economic or historical studies that say when you cut taxes for the wealthy, it creates jobs or stimulates the economy? Where are the economic or historical studies showing that cutting corporate taxes creates jobs? They don’t exist. And we have a 30-year test period showing that trickle-down economics didn’t work either. So how come people keep <a href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/08/lower-corporate-taxes-wont-create-more-jobs/">claiming it’s true</a>?

Another claim in the article is that “a recent study by William Nordhaus showed that nearly the highest benefit-to-cost ratio is achieved for a policy that allows 50 more years of economic growth unimpeded by greenhouse gas controls … ” Well, let’s ask Nordhaus what he thinks of that. In Andy Revkin’s <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/scientists-challenging-climate-science-appear-to-flunk-climate-economics/">Dot Earth blog</a> he stridently disagrees with that statement:

<blockquote>The piece completely misrepresented my work. My work has long taken the view that policies to slow global warming would have net economic benefits, in the trillion of dollars of present value. This is true going back to work in the early 1990s (MIT Press, Yale Press, Science, PNAS, among others) … I can only assume they [are] either completely ignorant of the economics on the issue or are willfully misstating my findings.</blockquote>

A whole campaign, a whole half of the country, now believes blindly in multiple falsehoods. On climate, at least, some of the people you can blame for this are the spacemen and oil guys who signed the WSJ op-ed. But opportunities for blame abound. Should MIT sit idly by while a professor of theirs, Richard Lindzen, incorrectly says the planet hasn’t warmed in 12 years? Is that a teacher you want on your staff, a guy who’s missing something that basic, and lazy enough not to correct the record?

The most guilty party of all is a fellow named Paul Gigot. He’s the editor of the Wall Street Journal opinion page. And he should be held accountable for knowingly publishing statements both he and his authors understood to be false — in particuar, the lie that the earth has not warmed in the past 12 years. Galileo would have muttered: “But it has.” And because of that, Gigot should resign.

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authors:  Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris;

J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting;

Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University;

Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society;

Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences;

William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton;

Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.;

William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology;

Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT;

James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University;

Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences;

Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne;

Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator;

Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem;

Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service;

Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.

<div class="main_postinfo">Posted by roygrubb on January 27, 2012 | 3 notes</div>

<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html" target="_blank">No Need to Panic About Global Warming</a> say sixteen scientists.  Judge for yourself how many are qualified to opine on climate science.

Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; A geochemist and author of The Climate Lie which is alleged to have <a href="http://bellaciao.org/fr/spip.php?article99206" target="_blank">100 actual errors and approximations</a> (in French but Google does a reasonable translation).

J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting; <a href="http://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/people/faculty/armstrong.cfm" target="_blank">Professor of Marketing</a> - University of Pennsylvania.

Jan Breslow M.D., Senior Attending Physician, and Head of the Laboratory of <a href="http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/labheads/JanBreslow/" target="_blank">Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism</a>, Rockefeller University.

Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society;  Manager, <a href="http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=252" target="_blank">Strategic Planning and Programs ExxonMobil Corporation (retired)</a>.

Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; <a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1864&page=185" target="_blank">Educated as an electrical engineer</a>

William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; Physicist specializing in optics and spectroscopy and Board member, George Marshall Institute which is a recipient of <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/George_C_Marshall_Institute/funders" target="_blank">substantial funding from Exxon Mobil</a>.

Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; Professor, Group:<a href="http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Emjk1/" target="_blank">Solid State Electronics and Nanoscale Science</a>. Dept. of Electrical Engineering

William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Meteorologist. Score 1!

Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/a-case-study-of-a-climate-scientist-skeptic.html" target="_blank">Interesting and relevant link</a>.

James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; current research interests are focused in the area of synthesis and characterization of <a href="http://www.mii.vt.edu/MACR/faculty/mcgrath.html" target="_blank">high performance matrix polymers</a>.

Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; A distinguished career as an advisor and leader, but <a href="http://www.fas.org/about/bio/nichols.html" target="_blank">not a climate scientist</a>.

Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, <a href="http://scaled.com/about/burt_rutan" target="_blank">designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne</a>.

Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; A <a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/schmitt-hh.html" target="_blank">Geologist</a>.

Nir Shaviv, <a href="http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/%7Eshaviv/cv/cv.html" target="_blank">professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University</a>, Jerusalem; An astrophysicist who attributes GW to cosmic rays.

Henk Tennekes, former director, <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=2041" target="_blank">Royal Dutch Meteorological Service</a>.  Score 2!

Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva. Italian physicist who has <a href="http://www.ccsem.infn.it/em/zichichi/short_bio.html" target="_blank">worked in the field of nuclear physics</a>.

There are many distinguished people in this list, but precious few researchers in climate science - so this looks like an argument-from-authority.

If it’s an argument from authority these gentlemen want, it’s telling that “<a href="http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/only-0-45-of-physicists-sign-denier-petition/" target="blank">[d]espite seven months of intense effort to recruit physicists to sign a politically motivated petition disputing anthropogenic climate change, a mere, 0.45% of the American Physical Society‘s 47,000 members signed o</a><a href="http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/only-0-45-of-physicists-sign-denier-petition/" target="blank">n</a>.”

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Update: Jan 31 2012 - More on that Wall Street Journal article

<a href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/dismal-science-at-the-wall-street-journal" target="_blank">Dismal Science at the Wall Street Journal</a> from Peter Frumhoff, Director of Science & Policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists

<a href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/dismal-science-at-the-wall-street-journal">http://blog.ucsusa.org/dismal-science-at-the-wall-street-journal</a>

<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/01/27/remarkable-editorial-bias-on-climate-science-at-the-wall-street-journal/" target="_blank">Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal</a> from Peter Gleick, in Forbes

But the most amazing and telling evidence of the bias of the Wall Street Journal in this field is the fact that 255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences wrote a comparable (but scientifically accurate) essay on the realities of climate change and on the need for improved and serious public debate around the issue, offered it to the Wall Street Journal, and were turned down

<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/30/while-temperatures-rise-denialists-reach-lower/" target="_blank">While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower</a> from Phil Plait, at Discover Magazine

<div>Auden Schendler is Vice President of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. He is the author of <a href="http://www.gettinggreendone.com/">Getting Green Done: Hard Truths From the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution</a> (PublicAffairs, 2009).</div>

<a href="http://grist.org/climate-skeptics/the-wall-street-journals-willful-climate-lies/">http://grist.org/climate-skeptics/the-wall-street-journals-willful-climate-lies/</a>

and yet more:

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<li>WSJ Reportedly Rejected Op-Ed By 255 Members Of The U.S. National Academy Of Sciences. From a Forbes.com column by Peter Gleick, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, in response to the Journal op-ed:</li>

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But the most amazing and telling evidence of the bias of the Wall Street Journal in this field is the fact that 255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences wrote a comparable (but scientifically accurate) essay on the realities of climate change and on the need for improved and serious public debate around the issue, offered it to the Wall Street Journal, and were turned down. [Forbes.com, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fpetergleick%2F2012%2F01%2F27%2Fremarkable-editorial-bias-on-climate-science-at-the-wall-street-journal%2F">1/27/12</a>]

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Six Of The Scientists Have Been Linked To Fossil Fuel Interests. <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalthermostat.com%2Fteam%2Froger-cohen">Roger Cohen</a> and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftcf.org%3A8081%2FPlone%2Fabout%2Fboard%2Fedward-e.-david-jr">Edward David</a> are both former employees of ExxonMobil. William Happer is the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marshall.org%2Fboard.php">Chairman</a> of the Board for the George C. Marshall Institute, which has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.exxonsecrets.org%2Fhtml%2Forgfactsheet.php%3Fid%3D36">received</a> funding from Exxon. Rodney Nichols is also on <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marshall.org%2Fboard.php">the</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manhattan-institute.org%2Fhtml%2Ftrustees.htm">boards</a> of the George Marshall Institute and the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201110070015">Manhattan Institute</a>, which has been funded by Exxon and the Koch Foundations. <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desmogblog.com%2Fharrison-schmitt">Harrison Schmitt</a> was the Chairman Emeritus of the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, which was funded by oil refiners and electric utilities in the 1990s, according to a Wall Street Journal <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2005%2F04%2Fput-tiger-your-think-tank-part-ii">report</a> (via Nexis). <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.org%2Faboutus%2Fperson_detail.asp%3Fid%3D1215">Richard Lindzen</a> also served on the Economic Advisory Council of the Center, was <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.exxonsecrets.org%2Fhtml%2Forgfactsheet.php%3Fid%3D13">funded</a> by ExxonMobil through the 2000s.

Scientists Behind The Op-Ed Have Made Some Colorful Claims.

<ul>

<li>Happer Compared Mainstream Climate Science To The Holocaust. [The Daily Princetonian, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyprincetonian.com%2F2009%2F01%2F12%2F22506%2F">1/12/09</a>]</li>

<li>Rutan: Both The Democratic And Republican Parties "Are Socialists." [RPS3.com, accessed <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Frps3.com%2FFiles%2FAGW%2FRutan.AGWdataAnalysis%2520v11.pdf%23page%3D8">1/27/12</a>]  </li>

<li>Schmitt: "National Socialism" Is "The Logical End-Point Of Current Governing Trends." [AmericasUncommonSense.com, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Famericasuncommonsense.com%2Fblog%2Fcategory%2Fstate-of-the-union%2F">4/2/10</a>]  </li>

<li>Allegre Called Climate Scientists "Marxists." [The Week, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theweek.co.uk%2Fpolitics%2F10353%2Ffrench-climategate-ends-sceptic%25E2%2580%2599s-humiliation">10/29/10</a>]  <a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/10353/french-climategate-ends-sceptic%E2%80%99s-humiliation">http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/10353/french-climategate-ends-sceptic%E2%80%99s-humiliation</a></li>

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201201300008">http://mediamatters.org/research/201201300008</a>

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the above wsj art came out about the same time as uk daily mail <a href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/01/lying-charts-global-warming-edition">http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/01/lying-charts-global-warming-edition</a>

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Someone at the Wall Street Journal read a press release about a scientific finding! And then decided that since people are evidently still discovering things, climate science is probably going to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576612620828387968.html">turn out bullshit</a>.

<blockquote>Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than the speed of light. If serious scientists can question Einstein's theory of relativity, then there must be room for debate about the workings and complexities of the Earth's atmosphere. </blockquote>

Hey, why stop there? If serious scientists can do a single as-yet-unreplicated experiment casting doubt on relativity, then there must be room to debate something as complex as the human body and genetic inheritence. Let's get evolution back on the table, guys! Also, gravity! And electronics, that shit is tricky -- if CERN can find something surprising, can we truly trust our devices to continue to work? They practically run on neutrinos! What? Electrons? Well if serious scientists can question relativity, do you really expect me to trust their definitions of "electrons" and "neutrinos"?

The rest of the op-ed basically boils down to three points:

<ul>

<li>You may say it's a terrible thing for carbon to increase, but the fact is, carbon is increasing. What do you say to THAT, smart guy?</li>

<li>Also, it's not my fault.</li>

<li>Plus, I LIKE driving and I get HOT in the summer, so screw you.</li>

</ul>

Personally, though, I find the "<a href="http://www.grist.org/list/2011-09-08-rick-perry-just-because-global-warming-is-fact-doesnt-mean-its-r">Galileo was outvoted for a spell</a>" approach to be the most hilarious every time.

<a href="http://www.grist.org/list/2011-10-06-wsj-we-cant-trust-climate-science-because-neutrinos-might-go-fas">http://www.grist.org/list/2011-10-06-wsj-we-cant-trust-climate-science-because-neutrinos-might-go-fas</a>

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<h1 class="headline">5. <a href="http://www.grist.org/list/2011-09-19-wall-street-journal-embraces-peak-oil-denialism" title="Wall Street Journal embraces peak oil denialism" class="article-title">Wall Street Journal embraces peak oil denialism</a> <a class="comment-count" title="Comments on Wall Street Journal embraces peak oil denialism" href="http://www.grist.org/list/2011-09-19-wall-street-journal-embraces-peak-oil-denialism#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="205433">9</a></h1>

By <a href="http://www.grist.org/people/Christopher+Mims">Christopher Mims</a>

19 Sep 2011 11:10 AM

Daniel Yergin is to peak oil and limits to growth what Richard Lindzen, Anthony Watts, Christopher Monckton, the Heartland Institute and Exxon Mobil are to climate change. That is, Yergin's entire reason for being in the public eye is his rejection of the possible arrival of this calamity.

So of course it's perfectly logical that the Wall Street Journal, long a bastion of climate change denial, would give Yergin a stage on which to spew his unique brand of half-truths. The simple fact is that people who are invested in the status quo like hearing that everything is hunky dory and that nothing out there will ever threaten their privilege, so there will always be an audience for the Yergins of the world.

Despite all evidence to the contrary -- namely, that world supplies of oil have not budged for some time even as prices have skyrocketed -- <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576572552998674340.html">Yergin argues in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal</a> that more and more oil will be available until "perhaps sometime around midcentury" at which point supply will hit a "plateau."

The thing is, Yergin has been demonstrably getting it wrong about oil for years. There are countless examples,<a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3487"> well chronicled here</a>, but he is so wrong, so often, that it only takes about 5 minutes with Google to find an egregious example.

Here's<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072901672.html"> Yergin in 2005, when oil was $60 a barrel, predicting that world oil production would grow from 85 million barrels a day to 101 million by 2010</a>, "reliev[ing] the current pressure on supply and demand." It's 2011, and<a href="http://omrpublic.iea.org/"> we're still only producing 89.1 million barrels a day</a>. Meanwhile the cost of a barrel of oil is hovering around $90, and that's with a depressed world economy keeping prices in check.

So why does the WSJ publish the rantings of a repeatedly-discredited crank? Well, he runs Cambridge Energy Research Associates, which does a fine job of promoting itself, running a conference on energy, and just generally telling people what they want to hear. They peddle the exact same variety of denialism on peak oil that others peddle on climate change, and to the exact same customers -- namely, Exxon Mobil and its ilk.

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greenpeace on aspen mtg: koch media ties

<a target="_blank" class="zoom" href="http://topics.wsj.com/person/M/stephen-moore/5675#">Stephen Moore</a> -- Wall Street Journal editorial board member and senior economics writer and former President of the Club for Growth.

Moore has ties to the <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.myheritage.org/events/dinner-with-stephen-moore/">Heritage Foundation</a> and the <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.cato.org/people/stephen-moore">Cato Institute</a>, two of the top Koch beneficiaries, and was a <a target="_blank" class="zoom" href="http://old.nationalreview.com/masthead/masthead-moore.asp">National Review</a> magazine contributing editor.

The Wall Street Journal’s opinion section serves as a podium for prominent skeptics with ties to the Kochtopus, such as Bjorn Lomborg, <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704448304575196802317362416.html">Richard Lindzen</a> and <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704075604575356611173414140.html">Patrick Michaels</a>. Michaels, the champion denier of the Cato Institute and other Koch-backed institutions, used the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section to continue pushing “climategate” even after scientists were exonerated by formal investigations. Michaels himself is<a target="_blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/25/michaels-climate-sceptic-misled-congress"> coming under scrutiny</a> for being dishonest during a 2009 Congressional testimony about the funding he receives from the oil industry.

Between moving to the Wall Street Journal and being forced out of the Club for Growth, Moore founded the <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/08/politics/08club.html?r=1&ex=1278475200&en=743088c03a7a3614&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">Free Enterprise Fund</a> with Arthur Laffer and Mallory Factor, both former Club for Growth directors. Arthur Laffer’s Laffer <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.thelaffercenter.com/board-of-directors.da">Center for Global Economic Growth</a> is tied to Koch Industries through its Vice Chairman, <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Fink">Richard Fink </a>, and <a target="_blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wayne_Gable">Executive Director Wayne Gable</a>, both prominent Koch executives, and a $100,000 grant from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation in 2009.

Moore is also a frequent commentator on <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=1765058273&play=1">CNBC’s Kudlow & Co </a>and Fox News' On the Record with<a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3955572/death-and-taxes"> Greta van Susteren</a>.

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Syndicated columnist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer" title="reference on Charles Krauthammer" target="self">Charles Krauthammer</a>, who writes for the Weekly Standard and the Washington Post, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Anshutz" title="reference on Philip Anshutz" target="self">Philip Anshutz</a>, owner of the Examiner newspapers and the Weekly Standard, Stephen Moore, a Wall Street Journal editorial board member, are just some of the conservative media figures who attend the Kochs' exclusive, private annual gatherings.

Main Source: <a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/02/koch-brothers-media-beck-greenpeace" target="_blank">Mother Jones, February 4, 2011</a>

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misfiled?

hmmn:

n 1983, a plan, hatched by CIA Director William J. Casey, called for raising private money to sell the administration’s Central American policies to the American public through an outreach program designed to look independent but which was secretly managed by Reagan-Bush officials.

The project was implemented by a CIA propaganda veteran, Walter Raymond Jr., who had been moved to the National Security Council staff and put in charge of a “perception management” campaign that had both international and domestic objectives.

In one initiative, Raymond arranged to have Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch chip in money for ostensibly private groups that would back Reagan-Bush policies. According to a memo dated Aug. 9, 1983, Raymond reported that “via Murdock [sic], may be able to draw down added funds.” [For details, see Parry’s <a href="http://www.secrecyandprivilege.com/" style=" text-decoration: underline; color: maroon;"> Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq</a>.]

Besides avoiding congressional oversight, privately funded activities gave the impression that an independent group was embracing the administration’s policies on their merits. Without knowing that the money had been arranged by the government, the public would be more inclined to believe these assessments than the word of a government spokesman.

“The work done within the administration has to, by definition, be at arms length,” Raymond wrote in an Aug. 29, 1983, memo.

In foreign countries, the CIA often uses similar techniques to create what intelligence operatives call “the Mighty Wurlitzer,” a propaganda organ playing the desired notes in a carefully scripted harmony. Only this time, the target audience was the American people.

Payoffs

In the 1980s, there were also propaganda operations directly comparable to the payments to Williams and Gallagher.

In a May 13, 1985, memo, which surfaced during the Iran-Contra scandal, Reagan-Bush official Jonathan Miller boasted about what he called “white propaganda” successes. As an example, he cited the Wall Street Journal’s publication of a pro-administration opinion piece on Nicaragua that had been written by a government consultant, history professor John Guilmartin Jr.

“Officially, this office had no role in its preparation,” wrote Miller, who worked out of the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy. “The work of our operation is ensured by our office’s keeping a low profile.”

At the time, a Reagan-Bush National Security Council official told me that the administration’s domestic propaganda campaign was modeled after CIA psychological operations abroad where information is manipulated to bring a population into line with a desired political position.

“They were trying to manipulate [U.S.] public opinion – using the tools of Walt Raymond’s tradecraft which he learned from his career in the CIA covert operations shop,” the official said.

Another administration official offered a similar description to the Miami Herald’s Alfonso Chardy. “If you look at it as a whole, the Office of Public Diplomacy was carrying out a huge psychological operation, the kind the military conduct to influence the population in denied or enemy territory,” the official said.

After disclosure of these “perception management” schemes, a legal opinion by the congressional General Accounting Office concluded that the administration’s secret operation amounted to “prohibited covert propaganda activities designed to influence the media and the public to support the administration’s Latin American policies.”

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Stephen Moore (economist)</h1>

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">attended koch aspen shindig</h1>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/453/000055288/">African American Republican Leadership Council</a> Advisory Panel

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/638/000058464/">American Conservative Union</a> Board of Directors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/691/000051538/">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> Board of Scholars

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/494/000049347/">Cato Institute</a> Former Director of Fiscal Policy Studies

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/494/000049347/">Cato Institute</a> Senior Fellow

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/894/000051741/">Club for Growth</a> President

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/822/000214180/">DonorsTrust</a> Board of Directors, Donors Capital Fund

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/306/000213664/">Free Enterprise Fund</a> Founder

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/330/000085075/">Goldwater Institute</a> Senior Fellow

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/489/000049342/">The Heritage Foundation</a> Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs (1983-87)

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/493/000049346/">Hoover Institution</a> Visiting Scholar

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/780/000122414/">Media Research Center</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/485/000135080/">TheVanguard.Org</a> Board of Advisors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/media/005/000048858/">National Review</a> Contributing Editor

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/media/467/000044335/">Time</a> Economic Board of Directors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/724/000206106/">Global Warming Skeptics</a>

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