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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon Petition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1998, together with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Seitz circulated and gathered signatures for a petition opposing the Kyoto Protocol. In addition to the petition, the mailing included what appeared to be a reprint of a scientific paper from Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), and a letter from Seitz identifying himself as past president of the National Academy of Sciences. In fact, the petition, paper, and letter were entirely unrelated to the Academy, which issued a strong denunciation of the petition project as deliberately deceptive and an affirmation of the consensus in favor of the reality of anthropogenic global warming. Subsequent investigations of the signatories found a minority of them to be climate scientists, or even scientists of any kind. [9] The web page of the petition itself states "31,478 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs."[13]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;=</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">early important target // mann hockey stick Madrid 12 words? ~ pat michaels</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">frontline 4 22</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Running this propaganda across the country, putting millions of dollars into this media effort. And environmentalists really don't know what's hitting them.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MALE NEWSREADER:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—in Madrid, where 2,500 scientists from around the world have finally agreed with one another and are convinced that burning oil and coal is causing the world's temperature to rise, which may bring with it environmental disaster.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How do you think this is going to affect policy action on this?</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MALE SPEAKER:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's certainly ammunition for those that would like more government regulation of industry to move away from fossil fuels to other forms of energy.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BENJAMIN SANTER:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In retrospect those 12 words were the handwriting on the wall.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>What happened next was that the Global Climate Coalition really came onto my radar screen.&nbsp;</b>In the spring of 1996, they published this report, "The IPCC: Institutionalized<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;'Scientific Cleansing.'</span>" They were arguing that I had purged all discussion of uncertainty from the document, which was patently untrue. Twenty percent of Chapter 8 was specifically devoted to the discussion of uncertainties.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Reading] "The changes quite clearly have the obvious political purpose of cleansing the underlying scientific report of important information and scientific analysis that would lead policymakers and the public to be very cautious, if not skeptical, about blaming human activities for climate change over the past century."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I had grandparents who were "cleansed" because of their religion in the Second World War. People were being cleansed because of their religion in Bosnia. And the Global Climate Coalition, through this odious "scientific cleansing," was arguing that I was guilty of a crime.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Reading] "These revisions raise very serious questions about whether the IPCC has compromised or even lost its scientific integrity."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DON RHEEM:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Um, I certainly had a, probably a role in the creation of this. There's a level of detail here I just, I don't remember. But what I do—<b>I do remember the gist of this, where things were said at one point in the process and then they disappeared at the next, and that struck me as troubling. And so I noted that to the folks in the Coalition.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BENJAMIN SANTER:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">This stuff caught on like wildfire.&nbsp;<b>Patrick Michaels devoted substantial time to amplifying the Global Climate Coalition’s allegations.</b></span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Others picked up that report and repeated bits of it verbatim</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">.<b>&nbsp;Things became worse when Prof. Frederick Seitz wrote an op-ed in&nbsp;</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The Wall Street Journal</b></span><b>.&nbsp;</b>I was accused of the worst abuse of the peer-reviewed system that Prof. Seitz had seen in his 60 years as a scientist.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Folks were calling for my dismissal with dishonor from my position.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;A gentleman intimated that I was about to be indicted by the Hague International Court of Justice for quote, falsification of international scientific documents.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JANE McMULLEN:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That document set in motion a number of public attacks on the lead scientist, the lead author of that chapter.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DON RHEEM:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oh.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JANE McMULLEN:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was particularly shaken by the accusation that he was guilty of scientific cleansing. He found that hard to take.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DON RHEEM:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Yeah, that wouldn't have been terminology, by the way, that I would have used</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;How this was used and what others did with it was outside of my control and purview. And it troubles me to hear that this had such an impact on an individual. That's not something I would want to do to anybody.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>BENJAMIN SANTER:</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This attack on individuals, on their integrity, decency, honesty, involved high personal cost, and the Global Climate Coalition knew what they were doing. Sow those seeds of doubt, and watch them grow and mature. And they did.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KERT DAVIES:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Clearly, one of the GCC’s main missions was to blunt the scientific urgency driven by scientific reports.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Simultaneously, there's an assessment done, written by a Mobil scientist within the GCC. So it says, "Can human activities affect the climate?" And the answer is, "The scientific basis for the greenhouse effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on the climate is well established and cannot be denied."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What's really interesting about this document is the back six pages—and this is just a draft; this was never published as far as we know. [Reading] "Several arguments have been put forward attempting to challenge the conventional view of greenhouse gas-induced climate change."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Patrick Michaels</b>&nbsp;is named as one of the people putting forward these arguments and concludes, "They do not offer convincing arguments against the conventional model of greenhouse gas emission-induced climate change." So don’t use don’t use their voice!...</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Frederick Seitz was born in San Francisco, California on July 4, 1911. He died March 2, 2008.[1][2]Seitz was a former head of Rockefeller University, a former head of the National Academy of Sciences and the principal scientific advisor to the R.J. Reynolds medical research program. In 1984 he co-founded the George C. Marshall Institute with Dr. Robert Jastrow and Dr. William Nierenberg.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;He was later the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Institute, an organization that has long denied global warming.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Board of Sponsors, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[hide]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 Tobacco industry involvement and documents</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1.1 Contract with R.J. Reynolds</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1.2 Involvement in secondhand smoke issue</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Involvement in global warming skepticism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.1 Oregon Petition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 Education</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 Former Postions</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 Positions After Retirement in 1978</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 Books</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Articles and Resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 External links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.1 Related links</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.1.1 Biographical Notes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.1.2 Interviews with and Articles By Seitz</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.1.3 General Articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.1.4 Obituaries</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tobacco industry involvement and documents</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2006 article in Vanity Fair magazine called Dr. Seitz the "$45 million man" for the amount of money he helped R.J. Reynolds distribute for research that specifically avoided the health issues surrounding smoking. "They didn't want us looking at the health effects of cigarette smoking," Seitz admitted in the article. During the time RJR was funding the research, it used the results of the program to claim that the evidence was inconclusive about the health effects of smoking. Dr. Seitz went on to become a denier of global warming. [4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contract with R.J. Reynolds</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1986, while at Rockefeller University, Dr. Seitz mantained a contract for his services with RJR Nabisco. According to a letter from RJR's CEO Edward A. Horrigan, Jr., he originally entered into the contract with RJR in 1976. In 1986, RJR paid him $65,000 for six months' work. Vanity Fair reported in its 2006 article about Seitz that he had earned a total of approximately $585,000 from his contract with RJR. [5] [4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March, 1994, the George C. Marshall Institute, a U.S. policy group, issued a report by Dr. Seitz in which Seitz claimed the government had misled the public about the relative dangers posed by global warming and secondhand smoke. Seitz claimed many of the scientific conclusions reached and publicized by the federal government were based on faulty science. He lumped into that category additional issues like nuclear power, asbestos and pesticides.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Initiated a strategy to publicize and communicate the results of a Marshall Institute report that challenges the scientific basis of various environmental regulations. The report was written by Dr. Frederick Seitz who is a world renowned scientist. Dr. Seitz is President Emeritus of Rockefeller University and past President of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to his criticisms of the global warming and ozone depletion issues, Dr . Seitz also addressed the ETS [environmental tobacco smoke] issue. With respect to ETS, Dr. Seitz concluded that ". . . there is no good scientific evidence that moderate passive inhalation of tobacco smoke is truly dangerous under normal circumstances." The report will be used to challenge the EPA's report on ETS in domestic and international markets."[7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Philip Morris employed the lobbying firm Multinational Business Services to help raise doubt about the EPA's risk assessment on secondhand smoke. MBS's activities included publicizing Seitz's Marshall Institute report, and working through industry-funded group Federal Focus to organize a seminar for federal employees in an attempt to seek a commitment from Federal agencies to address the issues raised in the Seitz report. Specifically, MBS sought the formation of an interagency team to respond to the conclusion about secondhand smoke in the Seitz report, with the ultimate goal of re-opening the risk assessment.[8]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Books</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frederick Seitz ,"Modern Theory of Solids", McGraw-Hill, NY, 1940, (reprint Dover Publications, 1987: ISBN 0486654826)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">W. Thüne, F. Singer, F. Seitz, Helmut Metzner, "Treibhaus-Kontroverse und Ozon-Problem : Symposium der Europäischen Akademie für Umweltfragen Leipzig 9.-10. November 1995", Böttiger, 1996, ISBN 3925725296</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz , "Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate", The Independent Institute, December 1, 1998, ISBN 094599978X</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? F. Seitz. Biography of Frederick Seitz Resume'. November, 1985. 5 pp. Lorillard Bates No. 87697430/7434</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? George C. Marshall Institute, "Remembering Frederick Seitz", March 4, 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Board of Sponsors, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, accessed September 1, 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 4.0 4.1 Mark Hertsgaard While Washington Slept Vanity Fair, April 5, 2006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Edward A. Horrigan, R.J.R. Nabisco We should like to renew the letter agreement dated July 12, 1978 between you and RJR Nabisco, Inc. Letter. July 15, 1986. 1 page. Bates No. 508263286</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA Designates Passive Smoking a "Class A" or Known Human Carcinogen Press release. January 7, 1993. Accessed April 9, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Thomas J. Borelli, Philip Morris February Activity Report March 1, 1994. 2 pp. Bates No. 2046585282/5283</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Jim Tozzi, Multinational Business Services Untitled Memorandum. December 29, 1993. Philip Morris Bates No. 2024207141/7142</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 9.0 9.1 "Frederick Seitz", Natural Selections, Rockefeller University, March, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? "Frederick Seitz", Hot Politics, PBS, April 3, 2006.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Holtzman A., Philip Morris Fred Seitz Memorandum. August 31, 1989. Bates No. 2023266534</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Bacon JL. External Advisors. Consultancy Agreements - Dr's Seitz and McCarty Letter, July 15, 1986. R.J. Reynolds Bates No. 508263284/3285</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? "Global Warming Petition Project"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? SEPP Board of Directors, accessed April 8, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Book cover. In their sweeping and comprehensive new book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erick M. Conway document how a handful of right-wing ideologues — all scientists — have (mis)shaped U.S. policy for decades, delaying government action on life-and-death issues from cigarettes and second-hand smoke, to acid rain, and now, finally, to climate change. The book is similar to the popular Discovery Channel show “How Do They Do It?” Only instead of investigating quirky mysteries like how stripes get into toothpaste, Merchants of Doubt looks at exactly how we arrived at the gravest crisis in the history of our species — one we created ourselves.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This premise may sound like a conspiracy theory, but the truth Oreskes and Conway elucidate is more banal and convincing. The title, Merchants of Doubt, frames the authors’ argument, echoing an internal memo from the Brown & Williamson tobacco company that declared: “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public.” Big tobacco helped finance the industry of doubt in its modern form, run by the scientists whose schemes this book details. In a sense, this is an industrial history and it should be no more shocking to see the same names continually popping up than it is to see Lee Iacocca’s in a history of the auto industry.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nineteen eighty-four marked a key moment in Oreske and Conway’s darkly fascinating history of selling doubt. The issue at the center of events at the time had no obvious relation to climate change. The controversy involved missiles, specifically, Ronald Reagan’s $60 billion program to build an impenetrable “missile shield” over the United States. Most scientists regarded SDI as technologically impossible and almost certainly destabilizing. Over a thousand experts signed a petition stating that they would refuse any government funding of projects that could further SDI. The move enraged Seitz and his colleagues Nierenberg and Robert Jastrow. In reaction, the three hawks formed the George C. Marshall Institute, a conservative think tank dedicated to selling Star Wars to policy makers and the public. For Seitz and his colleagues, GMI represented a decisive step away from the scientific community — and from science itself. With the fate of the country hanging in the balance, an ideology devoted to the red, white, and blue came before science, which prided itself on being colorless and colorblind.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the unworkable SDI inevitably faded, GMI turned to other ideological battles, including ozone depletion and global warming. Their adversaries saw these as scientific issues, not clashes of ideology, which gave GMI an advantage. Science recognizes the inevitability of uncertainty. The point isn’t to go for perfection but to continually refine models of how complex phenomena work. Science uses doubt as a tool, a prod to deepen understanding. Seitz and his associates used doubt as a weapon against science. They seized on inevitable uncertainties in scientific models as evidence that the models had no value, or worse. In 1987, for example, Singer, then working at the Department of Transportation, wrote an article published in The Wall Street Journal that was rife with inaccuracies and distortions minimizing the importance of the discovery of a hole in the ozone layer, a portion of the lower stratosphere that blocks most harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching the surface of the earth.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That same counternarrative of denial continues today, stronger and more strident than ever, and now focused on creating doubt about all aspects of climate change. The ultimate goal hasn’t changed since the tobacco days — preventing government regulation of industry. In a 2007 article, Newsweek called the George C. Marshall Institute “a central cog in the denial machine.” GMI has received millions of dollars from conservative foundations and corporations. Exactly how much isn’t known because in 2001, tired of facing criticism over the fact that one of the largest corporate donors to its anti-global warming work was oil giant ExxonMobil, GMI made its donor list secret.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The denial machine contains a huge number of cogs, and it would take an encyclopedia to list them all. The authors do an excellent job, however, of touching on many of the cogs inside that dreadful box, from clueless writers (Bjorn Lomborg, John Tierney, George Will) to odious politicians (Sen. James Inhofe, Vice President Dick Cheney) to the scores of conservative foundations that wrap themselves in the flag that they disgrace by their actions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Merchants of Doubt is an important book. How important? If you read just one book on climate change this year, read Merchants of Doubt. And if you have time to read two, reread Merchants of Doubt.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Princeton University, one of two inventors of the Wigner-Seitz unit cell, which is an important concept in solid state physics, president of the National Academy of Sciences 1965-1968, president of the Rockefeller University 1968-1978, questions the reasons for global warming, was a director and shareholder of a company that operated coal-fired power plants, chairman Science and Environmental Policy Project, Chairman George Marshall Institute, violently opposes the Kyoto protocols and is being criticized for that, member of the New York City Commission for Science and Technology, chairman of the United States delegation to the U.N. Committee on Science and Technology for Development.</font></div>