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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Z.2007.02.8 Heartland on Monckton Letter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">British Lord Demands End to Climate Science Censorship</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley and a member of the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upper House of the British legislature, 763 has sent a letter to Sens. Olympia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Snowe (R-ME) and John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) excoriating them for</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">attempting to strong-arm ExxonMobil into cutting off support for public interest</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">groups that question global warming alarmism. …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monckton, a former science and technology advisor764 to British Prime Minister</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Margaret Thatcher, .. Monckton’s open letter, edited for length, appears below.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">…”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You commend Britain’s Royal Society765</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">, once a learned body and now a mere</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Left-leaning political pressure-group, …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, you may wonder why it is that a member of the Upper House of the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United Kingdom legislature,…”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heartland edited the original766 document, deleting the following section</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">quite relevant to the topics discussed in this report:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In the circumstances, your comparison of Exxon’s funding of sceptical</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scientists and groups with the former antics of the tobacco industry is</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">unjustifiable and unworthy of any credible elected representatives. Either</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">withdraw that monstrous comparison forthwith, or resign so as not to pollute the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">office you hold.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monckton has been discredited numerous times,767 but Heartland promotes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">him as a “global warming expert” to their readership.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This was apparently insufficient as seen in next article.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">763en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Br</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">enchley Monckton has never been a member of the House of Lords.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">764 There is no evidence of this claim, and much otherwise.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">765 The RS is the oldest science society in the world. Monckton is a nonscientist.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">766 www.ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061212_monckton.pdf p.6</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">767 scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2011/12/monckton_debunks_monckton.php</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.skepticalscience.com/monckton-tries-to-censor-john-abraham.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/jul/14/monckton-johnabraham</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">p 156</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Z.2007.02-10 David Ridenour</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senators’ Inquisition Attempts to Stifle Science, Debate</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nicolas Copernicus was condemned for suggesting that the sun, rather than the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earth, was the center of our universe. …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and John Rockefeller IV are engaging in</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">persecution of their own, attempting to silence dissenting voices. Just what do</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">they fear? … IRS-3E</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Truth, Science Will Prevail</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientific method isn’t about winning popularity contests. It’s also not about</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">being with the majority opinion. It isn’t supposed be determined by politics. It is</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">about attempting to limit bias or prejudice in the results.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, by attempting to cut off some of the funding for those who</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">contribute to the diversity of both the scientific and public policy debate, Sens.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Snowe and Rockefeller are attempting to bias the results.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They will fail, however, because funding from energy companies is not what is</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fueling the vigorous climate change debate.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is fueling the debate is a genuine, sincere difference of opinion.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ridenour’s degree is in political science and he is now President of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NCPPR, after a 25-year tenure as Vice president.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">768</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unsurprisingly NCPPR has gotten ExxonMobil funding. 769</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> In fact, almost</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">all of the foundation funding identifiable then came from ExxonMobil.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Likewise, (Fig. F.4), NCPPR was able to obtain tobacco funding, so one</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wonders how many children got addicted from NCPPR’s assistance. That</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">might be a question to ask of Mr. Ridenour for his impassioned defense of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">science. Has NCPPR ever done much real science? Any?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">768 www.nationalcenter.org/bios/ridenourd.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.eri-nonprofitsalaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=521226614</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is another family business, run by Amy and David Ridenour.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">769 MAS2010 p.71, </font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div>