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February 17, 2017

Speaking with*CNBC,* Murray claimed that global warming was a hoax citing “4,000 scientists.”88

“There’s no scientific analysis either,” Murray said. “I have 4,000 scientists that tell me global warming is a hoax. The Earth has cooled for 20 years.”89

When asked for clarification, a spokesperson for Murray Energy sent links to the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change, which says “human-caused climate change is not a global crisis,” and the infamous Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Petition, a debunked list of those who claim humans don’t cause climate change.90

TheManhattan Declaration is a document devised by theInternational Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) and unveiled at thefossil fuel industry-funded Heartland Institute’s 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. ICSC is run by Tom Harris who formerly worked for a PR company called the High Park Group. ICSC also receives funding from the Heartland Institute, which has been at the forefront of climate change denial.91

As Tom DiChristopher noted at CNBC, “Murray’s claim that there is no scientific analysis behind climate change is not true. […] His second claim that Earth is cooling is also false.”92

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History

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has yet to acknowledge receipt of either the 2007 Bali open letter, or the2009 Copenhagen Climate Challenge (a postal trace was done on the latter after it was sent a second time and it was confirmed that Secretary General Moon did indeed receive the open letter). ICSC Executive Director Tom Harris announced the Copenhagen Climate Challenge in a special two-day counter-conference held in Copenhagen a few kilometers from the main UNFCCC site. The following video shows his presentation of the Challenge: http://vimeo.com/8647229

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new Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC)

Background

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition was formedin April 2006 by a group of New Zealanders “concerned at the misleading information being disseminated about climate change and so-called anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.” [1]

The group’s mission reads as follows:

“To represent accurately, and without prejudice, facts regarding climate change; to provide considered opinion on matters related to both natural and human-caused climate effects; and to comment on the economic and socio-political consequences of climate change.”

According to WHOIS information, The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition’s website, climatescience.org.nz was first re:{gistered:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:on April 24, 2006 by Terry Dunleavy. The website nzclimatescience.net, which appears to feature identical content, was registered April 14, 2006. [2], [3:{] :(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

Dunleavy is a director of both the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, and the International Climate Science Coalition (:{ICSC:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:). Tom Harris, Director of the ICSC, says that the New Zealand Climate Science coalition launched the ICSC in 2007 because it had  “received such positive feedback from around the world … that they decided they needed an international group.” [4]

According to Tim Lambert at *Deltoid*, “The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition isn’t made up of climate scientists, but is just a group of global warming skeptics who gave themselves a fancy title. And they just got caught combining temperature data from different places to get rid of the inconvenient warming trend in New Zealand.” [5]

Stance on Climate Change

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NCCSC)  was founded with the aim of “refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.”

According to the :{NZCSC:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}::

“The climate is always changing and the nation may well benefit from moderate global warming. Having said that, temperature records indicate that New Zealand has not warmed significantly in the last fifty years.” [6:{]:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

Funding

The Conservative Transparency project has one funding record on file for the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, based on publicly available 990 tax records. TheHeartland Institute donated $25,000 to NZCSC in 2007. [7]

Hot Topic reports The Heartland Institute also gifted US $45,000 to the International Climate Science Coalition, forwarding the funding to NZ CSC webmaster and ICSC founding chairman Terry Dunleavy. The documents do not reveal what the money was used for, but four NZ CSC members attended the December 2007 Bali conference as part of an ICSC delegation.  [8]

Key People

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Credentials

Source:*NRSP* (blog).

Background

Harris's profile at APCO worldwide states that he "specializes in strategic communication and media relations and has 25 years experience in science and technology, specifically in the energy and environment, aerospace and high-tech sectors...he has worked with oil and gas, coal, nuclear, environmental and aerospace clients for whom he has conducted effective media and public relations campaigns."

Primary Affiliations

The International Climate Science Coalition

Harris is the executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC).  The Coalition is an organization scientists, economists and policy experts who have united to promote abetter public understanding of climate science.  In particular, the International Climate Science Coalition offers an alternative to science projections and policy recommendation of the United Nations' International Panel on Climate Change.

The ICSC regularly publishes information denying the theory of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.  Its science and policy advisory boards are filled with climate change skeptics, including  Tim Ball, David Bellamy, Scott Armstrong, Vincent Gray, Kesten Green, Chris de Freitas and Nils-Axel Morner. 

The ICSC and the Manhattan Declaration

The ICSC promotes the Manhattan Declaration, which openly states that "global warming is not a global crisis."  The Declaration goes on further to state, "there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change."

The ICSC and the International Conference on Climate Change

In 2008 and 2009 the ICSC sponsored the Heartland Institute's annual International Conference on Climate Change.  The sponsors of the 2009 International Confernce on Climate Change have collectively received over $47 million USD from organizations connected to the oil and gas industry.

The ICSC is affiliated with several high-profile climate skeptic organizations and websites including the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI), Climate Audit and Friends of Science.

Friends of Science has been exposed as an oil and gas front group.

Harris was a speaker at 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. In his speech, Harris discussed "information sharing" and "coordinated local activism" for climate change skeptics.

Tom Harris and the Natural Resource Stewardship Project

Harris was formerly the Executive Director for the now-defunct Canadian lobby group called the "Natural Resource Stewardship Project" (NRSP). ,

Two of the three directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project were also senior executives of the High Park Advocacy Group, a Toronto-based lobby firm that specializes in “energy, environment and ethics.”

The NRSP was also home to the prolific climate change skeptic Dr. Tim Ball.

Skeptical Activities

Harris Conceals His Connection to High Park Group

Harris was Harris was the Director of Operations of the Ottawa office of the High Park Group until October, 2006. The High Park Group is a lobbyist organization for the energy industry.

Harris has attempted to remove this fact from the NRSP entry on Wikipedia and Sourcewatch. He also denied his employment with the High Park Group in a comment on Deltiod.

His by-line in some Canada Free Press articles was misleading, calling him "a mechanical engineer and Executive Director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project." But in articles published in the Windsor Star, Vancouver Sun, the Hawaii Reporterand even another in Canada Free Press,Harris is listed as "a mechanical engineer and Ottawa director of High Park Group, a public affairs and public policy company."

Harris and APCO Worldwide

In 2005, Harris was listed as an "associate" for the public relations firm APCO Worldwide, with his areas of expertise being communications; science; technology; energy and environment.

APCO was hired by Philip Morris in 1993 to create a front group titled The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC). TASSC manufactured a public relations campaign with the purpose of discrediting any science that suggested tobacco increased cancer and heart problems. It also advocated industry-friendly positions on global warming and pesticides. TASSC labelled environmentalists as promoting "junk science" whale the Coalition advocated what they describe as "sound science."

Apart from Philip Morris, APCO also received funding from Chevron, ExxonMobil (at least $30,000), Dow Chemical, the National Pest Control Association, 3M, and numerous tobacco and oil companies.

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The Paris Climate Challenge

In association with the

Independent Committee on Geoethics www.www.geoethic.com

and the Collectif des Climato Réalistes www.www.skyfall.fr

Summary Statement

Over thirty years of intense (and extremely expensive) research has totally failed to produce any evidence that human emissions of CO2 are driving climate. CO2 is not a danger to but a benefit for all life on our planet.

We call on governments, NGOs and universities to stop pursuing policy and dogma based ‘evidence’ gathering.

• That they stop scaremongering.

• That they dissolve the IPCC and the UNFCCC.

• That governments focus instead on encouraging means of ensuring that under-developed and developing nations have full access to the cheapest reliable energy (particularly electricity), regardless of whether fossil fuels are used, so as to improve their access to clean water, low pollution cooking facilities and good medical services.

• That once respected academic institutions and scientific publications put their own houses in order and once again allow the free exchange of scientific ideas and results without prejudice.

• That those involved in alleged cases of scientific fraud, which have resulted in huge financial costs, causing greater poverty and many deaths among the poorest, be brought before the relevant Court of Law.

10th Dec 2015

Further, more detailed statements, references and videos of presentations at the Conference are available on the website: www.pcc15.org

Watch interviews with some of the PCC 15 organisers, speakers and attendees on this edition of ‘Windows on the Wor'

vid[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFE0gBnAci4&feature=emb_logo]

see presentation videos linked on the the schedule for the talks and events at the 2015 Paris Climate Challenge.

Please also see the organisers’latest updateat the Post and Email website.

In 2009 we laid down the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, when we asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to answer 10 questions about climate. We’re back to ask the same and more questions, and challenge the climate ‘consensus’ in Paris at COP 21 with alternative climate hypotheses. If you have something to say in Paris, we still have places for a few more speakers. Take some time to navigate our pages, you can leave a comment if you’d like to say something in response to the articles backing up our 10 questions to Ban Ki-Moon below.

His Excellency Ban-Ki Moon,

Secretary-General, United Nations,

New York, NY.

United States of America

8 December 2009.

Dear Secretary-General,

Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative discovery’ – the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.

Therefore, there is no sound reason to impose expensive and restrictive public policy decisions on the peoples of the Earth without first providing convincing evidence that human activities are causing dangerous climate change beyond that resulting from natural causes. Before any precipitate action is taken, we must have solid observational data demonstrating that recent changes in climate differ substantially from changes observed in the past and are well in excess of normal variations caused by solar cycles, ocean currents, changes in the Earth’s orbital parameters and other natural phenomena.

We the undersigned, being qualified in climate-related scientific disciplines, challenge the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming and other changes in climate.Projections of possible future scenarios from unproven computer models of climate are not acceptable substitutes for real world data obtained through unbiased and rigorous scientific investigation.

Specifically, we challenge supporters of the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused climate change to demonstrate that:

  1. :{Variations in global climate in the last hundred years are significantly outside the natural range experienced in previous centuries;

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  1. Humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other ‘greenhouse gases’ (GHG) are having a dangerous impact on global climate;
  2. Computer-based models can meaningfully replicate the impact of all of the natural factors that may significantly influence climate;
  3. Sea levels are rising dangerously at a rate that has accelerated with increasing human GHG emissions, thereby threatening small islands and coastal communities;
  4. The incidence of malaria is increasing due to recent climate changes;
  5. Human society and natural ecosystems cannot adapt to foreseeable climate change as they have done in the past;
  6. Worldwide glacier retreat, and sea ice melting in Polar Regions , is unusual and related to increases in human GHG emissions;
  7. Polar bears and other Arctic and Antarctic wildlife are unable to adapt to anticipated local climate change effects, independent of the causes of those changes;
  8. Hurricanes, other tropical cyclones and associated extreme weather events are increasing in severity and frequency;
  9. Data recorded by ground-based stations are a reliable indicator of surface temperature trends.

It is not the responsibility of ‘climate realist’ scientists to prove that dangerous human-caused climate change is not happening. Rather, it is those who propose that it is, and promote the allocation of massive investments to solve the supposed ‘problem’, who have the obligation to convincingly demonstrate that recent climate change is not of mostly natural origin and, if we do nothing, catastrophic change will ensue. To date, this they have utterly failed to do.

Signed by:

Science and Technology Experts Well Qualified in Climate Science

Science and Technology Experts in Other Related Disciplines

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[The climate deniers: Tom Harris standing at the front, Christopher Monkton in the front row on the right pix]

This afternoon, I went along to a fringe event in central Paris put on by the UK climate denier brigade. There were about 15 people – all older white men but for one woman, me, and Brendan Montague, editor of DesmogUK, with whom I'd arrived.

Among the small number at PCC15, as they called their event, were a number of prominent figures from the movement against the scientific consensus on climate change. Patrick Moore, the controversial former director of Greenpeace who has questioned both whether global warming is man-made, and whether it is dangerous, was leaving as we arrived.UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew was there, as were Christopher Monckton, a prominent climate change denier, and Canadian Tom Harris, executive director of the “International Climate Science Coalition” – and former operations director of the “High Park Group”, a Canadian lobbying company. I was told we'd missed the journalist James Delingpole and Piers Corbyn (MD of WeatherAction and brother of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn)..

Brendan was there to button-hole Christopher Monckton – I'll link to his interview as soon as its up. Meanwhile I had a nice cup of tea with a couple of folks at the back of the room, before settling down to the final session of the conference, at which they discussed their key messages to present to the media. I'm not quite sure why they did this with two journalists in the room. In any case, I took copious notes, which are copied below.

The session was chaired by Tom Harris, and Christopher Moncktonsat at the front of the audience and said more than anyone else. Each headline message they discussed is in bold, and the things people said about them are written below. The exact wording is sometimes mine rather than than theirs, but the messages are the same. My notes on their comments are in italics.

1) Focus on adaptation

2) The carbon cycle

[There seemed to be some discussion between Monckton and another man on the precise time periods relating to the carbon cycle, hence the different figures.

3) CO2 is beneficial to the biosphere

4) Lack of significant problems of ocean acidification

5) Solar factors

6) We want to see an increasing use of fossil fuel, especially the least expensive, coal

- Tens of millions are being killed every year because of the war on coal (Monckton).

7) The relative insignificance of the human contribution to atmospheric composition

8) The solutions to the supposed climate crisis are far more damaging than the possible problem

9) Global warming is a natural consequence of deglaciation

10) In a warming world, extreme storms reduce

11) Wind turbines

12) Policy makers & mainstream media have been deceived into thinking there is only one side

13) Sea level

14) “We're not climate change deniers”

Monckton suggested that they should accept that the greenhouse effect is real. There was a fair amount of disagreement in the room. The chair said “I'm trying to appeal to left wing journalists”. For a moment they lost control as a number of people shouted out their various objections. The conclusion?: “The Greenhouse Effect – the debate continues”.

15) People today are experiencing problems due to natural climate change

They cannot get the help they need due to all this focus on the distant future.

16) Working people's jobs are being destroyed

17) There is no policy that is better than doing nothing

18) We don't need any middle man if we wish to help people in foreign countries

There was quite a lot of general UN hatred in the room. One man – a lawyer - was there because he'd been invited to speak about his court cases against the UN.

Also, at one point, Phillip Foster, an English minister who seemed to be the event organiser, suggested they say they aren't funded by the coal industry. Tom Harris responded: “I don't think the funding issue is something we should say anything about... I don't think that funding is something we should get into... I want to get funding from oil”

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And suddenly it's old-home week. Here's the famous Steve Milloy, who turns out to be a youthful guy with a bulldog chest and an air of permanent irony. "He's the godfather," Morano says.

Milloy laughs: hahahaha. He has a very distinctive laugh, flat and braying. "We've got an event tomorrow," he says. "We're constructing a wall, the Copenhagen Wall, like the Berlin Wall that divided the free from the slave."

The idea is a ten-foot cardboard wall with a picture of a modern city on one side and a primitive one on the other. To illustrate the injustice of rich nations telling poor ones to control their carbon emissions, the college kids are going to spray-paint CO2 = Lifeacross it, Hahahahaha.

Morano spots Lord Christopher Monckton, another famous contrarian. He has googly eyes like Marty Feldman and a plummy English accent straight out of Monty Python. He claims to have been a science advisor to Margaret Thatcher, although environmentalists hotly dispute this.

"I heard you got heckled yesterday," Morano says.

"Yes, Hitler Youth," Monckton answers. He was giving a speech at an event sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, an event just like this one, when a dozen young Americans rose up and began chanting, "Clean energy makes jobs." He called them Hitler Youth and they got terribly upset. "They said, 'We have the right to free speech,' and I said, 'Yes, but not in our meeting.' "

"Hahahahaha."

And here's Tom Harris, a thin bearded man who runs the International Climate Science Coalition. He's circulating a petition that demands "OBSERVABLE EVIDENCE" of climate change, a sentiment that has exploded since Climate-gate, he says. "Suddenly I'm getting twenty responses a day, scientists saying, 'Sign me up, sign me up.' They're worried their whole profession will be disgraced."

There's more of them — Phelim McAleer, an Irish filmmaker who is planning to protest by dressing up as a polar bear who is not endangered; Cal Beisner, who runs the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation; Craig Rucker of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. They stand around making contrarian small talk, which includes a lot of speculation about the identity of the e-mail hacker — the Saudi intelligence service is a popular suspect — and an endless stream of "I told you so" moments. "Did you hear James Hansen on Letterman?" Morano asks. "He basically said 'bad judgment' — they used 'bad judgment.' "

"Hide it better next time," Harris says.

"And they're also not doing an investigation."

"There's a lot of hardcore evidence of corruption."

Milloy talks about the theme of his latest book, Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do To Stop Them. They want to tell us what to eat, where to live, how many kids to have, how soft our toilet paper will be. Obama wants to put smart meters on every house so he can control our electricity. "You can't say you're a socialist but you can say you're an environmentalist and have the same goals — it's too bad Joe Stalin missed this one."

Morano seems uncomfortable with this line of argument. "I would still argue environmentalism is not his big issue."