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=capt bak 619pioneer? key to killing mcc-liberman?see ebell:  Cooler Heads Coalition 1997 (consortium of 23 think tanks?!)b did what exactly? buffer/front?"Its website states: "The risks of global warming are speculative; the risks of global warming policies are all too real." [2]=new<a href="https://www.c-span.org/organization/?41262/Cooler-Heads-Coalition">https://www.c-span.org/organization/?41262/Cooler-Heads-Coalition</a>Cooler Heads Coalition has hosted 4 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1998 Speech. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2000 with an average of 1,195 views per video. Most appearances with Myron Ebell (3). Most common tag: Global Climate Change.
Program ImageAPRIL 18, 2008The DeniersLawrence Solomon talked about his book, The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming…
Program ImageMARCH 16, 2007Global Climate ChangeMarlo Lewis critiqued former Vice President Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, citing evidence against…
Program ImageDECEMBER 6, 2000Kyoto ProtocolAfter their prepared remarks on the progress toward a global warming treaty the panel responded to questions and comments…
Program ImageAUGUST 7, 1998Reasons for Global Climate ChangeMs. Baliunas discussed reasons for global climate change. She explained the reasons by examining climate data and solar…
December 12, 2016Steve Milloy was an attendee at a private meeting also attended by Trump's EPA Transition team lead <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Myron Ebell</a> on Capitol Hill. E&E News reported that the event was not open to the public or to the press and Ebell refused to give any details. The event was hosted by the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) </a>and held in the hearing room of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. The EPW committee is chaired by Senator<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-inhofe" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> James Inhofe</a> who, like Trump, has described human-caused climate change as a hoax. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-milloy#s41" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[41]</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/13/exclusive-myron-ebell-donald-trump-s-aide-epa-meets-who-s-who-long-serving-climate-science-deniers" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">DeSmog reported </a>that the event featured the “<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/13/exclusive-myron-ebell-donald-trump-s-aide-epa-meets-who-s-who-long-serving-climate-science-deniers" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Who's Who of Climate Science Deniers</a>.” Australian Senator <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/malcolm-roberts" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Malcolm Roberts</a>, who spoke at the event, also wrote that the meeting was a gathering of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/malcolmrobertsonenation/posts/984456478364899" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">listed some of the participants on Facebook</a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-milloy#s42" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[42]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-milloy#s43" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[43]</a>Names mentioned above included:<ul style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steven-goddard" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Tony Heller</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Tim Ball</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/s-fred-singer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Fred Singer</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/ken-haapala" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Ken Haapala</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/craig-rucker" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Craig Rucker</a></li><li>Randy Randall</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-milloy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Steve Milloy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/marc-morano" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Marc Morano</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-delingpole" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">James Delingpole</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/chris-horner" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Chris Horner</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Myron Ebell</a></li><li>Tom de Weise</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-taylor" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">James Taylor</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Pat Michaels</a></li><li>Austin Smithson</li><li>Brandon Middleton</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/marlo-lewis-jr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Marlo Lewis</a></li></ul>DeSmog also noted that three of the attendees—Myron Ebell, Randy Randol, and Steve Milloy—had all been part of the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Climate_Science_Communications_Plan(1998)" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> Global Climate Science Communications Team in the late 1990s</a>, a group organized by the American Petroleum Institute. According to an <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/documents/Global%20Climate%20Science%20Communications%20Plan%20(1998).pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">early memo</a>, the group said “victory will be achieved when […] Average citizens 'understand' (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the 'conventional wisdom'.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-milloy#s44" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[44]</a><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/06/huffpost-just-published-a-bombshell-story-about-the-epa/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/06/huffpost-just-published-a-bombshell-story-about-the-epa/</a><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="1" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A top <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/impact/topic/epa" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">Environmental Protection Agency</a> official gave a presentation last year at a gathering of some of the most zealous deniers of climate science, highlighting the influence a small, fringe movement hawking crank theories now wields in Washington.  </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="2" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Emails HuffPost reviewed reveal Bill Wehrum, the EPA’s assistant administrator for air and radiation, gave a presentation in early February 2018 at an event organized by the Cooler Heads Coalition, an umbrella group of tax-exempt charities and right-wing nonprofits that includes some of the most ardent proponents of climate change denial.<div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="3" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Three other EPA officials―associate administrator Tate Bennett, senior counsel David Harlow and then-spokeswoman Liz Bowman―attended the confab with Wehrum, the emails show.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="4" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In an email dated Feb. 6, 2018, Myron Ebell, who has led the Cooler Heads Coalition for more than two decades, offered gratitude for the EPA officials’ attendance at the previous day’s event, and invited the group to the next meeting a month later.   </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="5" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“Thanks Bill, David, Liz, and Tate, for coming to Cooler Heads and for your presentation and taking questions, Bill. It was most useful,” Ebell, who led the Trump administration’s EPA transition team, wrote. “We look forward to seeing any or all of you at future meetings.”</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="6" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The EPA declined to comment on the nature of Wehrum’s presentation and whether any officials attended other events with the Cooler Heads Coalition.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="7" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“EPA takes time to meet with stakeholders on a variety of regulatory issues, this is no different,” said EPA spokesman Michael Abboud.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="8" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Ebell did not respond to calls and text messages requesting comment.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="9" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The revelation is not surprising from an administration that’s attempting to eliminate or delay, by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">The New York Times</a>’ estimate, at least 83 environmental regulations, particularly rules to curb climate pollution. The EPA is expected to announce a proposal next week to replace Obama-era power plants rules with a regulation that would, by the agency’s own estimates, allow for enough pollution to cause up to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-climate-rule-power-plant-pollution_n_5b75914ce4b02b415d765571" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">additional 1,400 premature</a> deaths per year by 2030. <div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="10" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“The fact that Bill went to talk to a group like this is the cherry on top of a toxic sundae,” Joseph Goffman, a former senior counsel and associate administrator for climate who served in the Obama-era EPA, said by phone. “It’s the toxicity of the sundae that’s really going to have the damaging impact on people’s lives.”</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="11" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">But the emails show the degree to which top officials at the nation’s leading public health agency have cultivated chummy ties with “fringe conspiracy theorists,” the Sierra Club, which released the records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, said in a statement, calling the relationship “despicable.” </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="12" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“It removes any illusion that the EPA is acting in good faith to ensure the public trust,” said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Drexel University. <div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="13" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Cooler Heads Coalition formed in the late 1990s as mounting evidence of global warming began to fracture the industrial alliance that mobilized a decade earlier to downplay the threat of unfettered greenhouse gas emissions. A year before its merger with oil giant Mobil, Exxon gave $95,000 to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the right-wing think tank where Ebell works, in a grant titled “Global Climate Change Program and other support,” according to <a href="https://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:13;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">documents published</a> by the Climate Investigations Center.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="14" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Yet as the oil industry started distancing itself from widely debunked scientific contrarians, far-right philanthropists and dark-money groups stepped in to fund the Cooler Heads Coalition’s members. The financiers include the Donors Trust, Donors Capital Fund, and the foundations of the oil industrialist Scaife family, the manufacturing scion Bradley family and the Mercers, the Long Island hedge funders who backed President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="15" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">That marked a shift from climate denial as a practical means of protecting carbon-polluting industries toward a new ideological fervor, enshrining opposition to climate science as a key part of anti-government dogma, said Riley Dunlap, a researcher and professor emeritus at Oklahoma State University who tracks climate denial groups.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="16" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“The Cooler Heads Coalition grew out of the frustration that industry was no longer opposing climate change as much as they thought,” Dunlap said. It’s “really a radical group of climate change deniers.”</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="17" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The realities of climate change were clear to scientists even before rising seas started to inundate coastal cities like Miami on sunny days and extreme hurricanes and wildfires devastated Puerto Rico, California and Texas in recent years. At least 97% of peer-reviewed research concludes that emissions from burning fossil fuels, industrial farming and deforestation blanket the planet in gases that trap the sun’s heat in the atmosphere. A <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-015-1597-5" rel="nofollow" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:17;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">2015 paper</a>, meanwhile, found significant flaws in the methodologies, assumptions and analyses used by the 3% of scientists who concluded otherwise.  </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="18" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">At 70%, the vast majority of Americans understand climate change is happening, and 57% recognize humans are the primary driver, according to <a href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us-2018/?est=happening&type=value&geo=county" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:18;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">polling data</a> from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. In October, the United Nations released a dire report warning that, unless world governments slash emissions by nearly half over the next decade, the planet is projected to warm beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit, causing about $54 trillion in damages and killing millions. A month later, the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report by scientists at 13 federal agencies, confirmed the findings.<div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="19" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">That’s done little to sway Wehrum.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="20" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In January, he said he was still on the fence about climate change, telling <a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060118745" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:20;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">E&E News</a>, “I’m trying to figure that out.”  </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="21" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“I’ve had a series of briefings with climate change experts to help me better understand this,” Wehrum told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-climate/u-s-epa-senior-official-falls-short-of-calling-climate-change-a-crisis-idUSKCN1PJ2FQ" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:21;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">Reuters</a> that same month. “Everybody is still exploring the science of climate change.”</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="22" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A former corporate lawyer who lobbied on behalf of clients to weaken air pollution rules, Wehrum has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/politics/epa-coal-emissions-standards-william-wehrum.html" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:22;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">ramped up those efforts</a> since joining the EPA, becoming a chief architect of the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda. He remains in close touch with his former law firm, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/02/13/epa-official-bill-wehrum-stayed-close-touch-with-his-former-law-firm-new-emails-show/?utm_term=.679186e147ee" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:22;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">The Washington Post</a>.</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="23" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“It’s not surprising that Wherum would have been featured at a Cooler Heads Coalition event,” Kert Davies, director of Climate Investigations Center, said by email. “He fits right in with the roster of climate deniers and other charlatans that Cooler Heads has hosted at events over the past two decades.”</div></div></div></div></div>mccain obit:
Kert Davies, originally published on <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/covert-attack-john-mccain-climate-change-exxonmobil-koch-brothers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">ClimateInvestigations.org</a> 
 <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082018/john-mccain-climate-change-leadership-senate-cap-trade-bipartisan-lieberman-republican-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">InsideClimate News</a>’  Marianne Lavelle published a long piece this weekend, chronicling Senator John McCain’s rise and fall as a climate leader.  The story highlights a campaign I worked on in 2000, where we asked all the presidential candidates the simple and still pertinent question, “What’s Your Plan?” on global warming.McCain was one of the only candidates that took it on. He went back to Washington in the middle of 2000, having been defeated by George W. Bush in the primaries, and immediately started holding hearings on climate change science.As always, there is more to the story.  When McCain emerged as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040402004205/http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/04spr/mccain1.asp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">“Captain Climate” </a>in the early 2000s, and introduced the first serious bipartisan legislation to cut emissions, he became the target of a multifaceted attack by anti-regulatory free market organizations.  It turns out, many of these organizations and front groups were quietly being funded by ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers.This pressure may partly explain why McCain <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/11/as-the-world-burns" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">later abandoned climate change</a> when he ran for President in 2008 and <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/11/mccain-slams-horrendous-climate-bill-029747" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">attacked his colleagues’ efforts</a> during the 2009 push for climate legislation.  By that point McCain had succumbed to the now standard Republican talking points on climate.  Oh, and lest we forget, he also picked Sarah Palin as a running mate and starting down the “<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/90075-mccain-palin-revive-drill-baby-drill-slogan-from-08-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Drill, Baby, Drill</a>” path (the opposite of sane climate policy) and the rest is history.  No one has really explained how this turn away from climate leadership really happened. Most commentators attribute it to political choices McCain himself made, without really analyzing the outside pressure that closed in on McCain from 2000 to 2008.  <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082018/john-mccain-climate-change-leadership-senate-cap-trade-bipartisan-lieberman-republican-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">InsideClimate News</a> notes briefly that there was a coordinated effort to oppose McCain’s efforts run by corporate-funded entities.  Climate Investigations Center went back and looked at our records for documentation of the campaign to the kill the <a href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2001/8/post-4be0be1b-0295-42bf-a9e8-f0ed44f1a8aa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McCain-Lieberman climate legislation</a> as it gained momentum. First introduced in 2001 by the two Senators, The Climate Stewardship Act (S.139) was the first national, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution. This bill eventually became the ground-zero target for climate deniers and corporate interests.Unfortunately, a month after the first McCain-Lieberman bill was introduced, the attacks on September 11th changed everything. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/nbctext_102101.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">McCain and Lieberman</a>, a neo-con Democrat at the time, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/on-morning-of-9-11-attacks-mccain-immediately-began-making-the-case-for-iraq-war-4042b28b5f9b/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">were among the first to lead</a> the charge to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, well ahead of the Bush Administration according to many accounts from that time.By 2003, McCain and Lieberman got back to thinking about climate change together and leveraged the first full Senate vote on their bill by <a href="https://theconversation.com/will-john-mccain-be-the-last-republican-leader-in-the-senate-to-address-climate-change-102221" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">forcing Majority Leader Bill Frist’s hand </a>on an energy bill he was trying to pass.The McCain-Lieberman bill garnered surprising support but lost 43-55, well short of the 60 votes needed to avoid an override under Senate rule.  Corporations saw this as a close call and began a concerted effort to kill the momentum in 2004 (see below). In 2005, the bill was renamed The Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act, and in McCain style, stubbornly brought up for another vote where it lost by a bigger margin, 38 Yea to 60 Nay votes.I know for a fact that they got blindsided on this.  They thought they had paved the way for success. In a meeting with a McCain staffer after the second vote, I showed them an ExxonSecrets map (similar to the one below) of the organizations and individuals that worked to kill the bill.  The staffer knew there were various organizations and companies lobbying against the bill, but had no idea the level of coordination, nor the ExxonMobil funding channels.[secrets chart]<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Was the Exxon Denial Machine built to fight Sen. McCain?</h3>It has always been interesting that our database of ExxonMobil climate denial funding shows a dramatic increase in spending after 2000, which coincides with McCain emerging as a climate champion.<img alt="" src="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/exxon%20grants.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: 411px; width: 683px;" />The graph above shows the yearly totals of ExxonMobil’s grants to climate denying non-profit organizations and breaks out the total grants specifically earmarked for climate change between the years of 1997-2006.Conventional wisdom would suggest that corporate polluters thought they were off the hook with the Bush-Cheney victory over Gore-Lieberman.  Yet ExxonMobil’s funding of climate denial organizations ballooned to its highest levels between 2000 and 2005 as the McCain-Lieberman legislation gained momentum. Between 2003-2005, Exxon wrote grants totaling more than $3.3 million dollars each year to climate-denying organizations.The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the leader of the <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition </a>(CHC) and recipient of over $2 million dollars total from ExxonMobil between 1997-2005, aggressively fought Sen. McCain’s climate leadership in the early 2000s. A<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4793357-2004-July-CEI-Myron-Ebell-leaked-email-targeting.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> leaked 2003 email from Myron Ebell</a>, Director of Global Warming Policy at CEI, lays out a target list for lobbying against the “McLieberman” bill. <a href="http://www.climatefiles.com/denial-groups/cei/cei-white-house-congress-energy-policy/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">FOIAed documents</a> show communications in 2003 between Myron Ebell and the Bush White HouseCouncil on Environmental Quality, where Ebell details the campaign against McCain.  CEI also put out <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877869-Cei-Email-103003-1-728.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">press releases</a> against the legislation, held <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877863-Cei-Email-102303-1-728.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">events </a>to debate it, and used the CHC network of climate deniers to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877746-Cei-Email-6904-1-728-1-Not-Duplicative.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">wage their campaign</a>.The Exxon-funded groups were also being funded by the Koch brothers and their foundations.  In January 2003, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031207033457/http://www.cse.org:80/informed/issues_template.php/1238.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">CEI co-authored a letter with the Koch-funded Citizen’s for Sound Economy</a> to the Bush Whitehouse decrying the McCain-Lieberman legislation.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019876-2003-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p41/a289372" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">ExxonMobil gave CEI $465,000 that year</a> according to Exxon documents, the largest Exxon haul by CEI in any year.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450857" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">An unredacted CEI IRS 990</a> for 2003 lists a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450858" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">$100,000 donation from David Koch himself</a> and only $180,000 from ExxonMobil (probably an accounting anomaly).<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">United 4 Jobs, DCI Group and Exxon cash</h3><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">[banner] patriotic hard hat</h3>Following the 2003 vote on McCain Lieberman bill, the corporate forces got their act together.  In 2004, a front group coalition was set up called United4Jobs.org, complete with an American Flag and a hard hat.  Here’s some of what we know:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006080826/http://www.united4jobs.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">The United for Jobs website in 2004 said it was “a project of”</a> the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), which received $50,000 from ExxonMobil in 2004, and the National Association of Neighborhoods, which also received $50,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2004 (<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019878-2004-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p6/a260594" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">including $25,000 earmarked for “Climate Change Issues.”</a>) along with the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council).[bs about]<ul style="font-size: small; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The United4Jobs project was maintained by DCI Group, a public relations company based in Washington, DC.  DCI Group is a long time ExxonMobil contractor and has a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-alford-national-black-chamber-commerce/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">history</a> of setting up front groups for corporate clients, including the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/fossil-fuels-fishy-new-friends" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">fossil fuel industry</a>, even today.  (Bloomberg News’ Zach Mider and Ben Elgin’s recent expose series on DCI Group is worth reading.)
 </li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Proof of the DCI Group’s work on the United4Jobs campaign can be found on the Internet archive WayBack Machine. The contact information of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060502132955/http://www.courierpress.com:80/ecp/ebj_bn_nr_in/article/0,2578,ECP_19931_4591597,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Andrea Saul</a> and other employees at DCI group at the time, can be found on United4Jobs’ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060502132955/http://www.courierpress.com:80/ecp/ebj_bn_nr_in/article/0,2578,ECP_19931_4591597,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">press releases</a>, webpages, and reports.
 </li><li><a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/dci_group_subpoena_exxon_climate_fraud/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Tech Central Station</a> (TCS), was another DCI Group project, built as a corporate op-ed page, funded by a number of companies to get third party voices published on issues they cared about. TCS prominently featured climate change denial content. In 2003, the year Tech Central was launched, ExxonMobil gave a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019876-2003-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p44/a258254" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">$95,000 grant to an organization called “Tech Central Science Foundation</a>” which we presume served as the fiscal agent behind Tech Central Station, though no such Foundation ever registered with the IRS, as far as we know.
 </li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From 2003 to 2005, these two DCI Group’s creations, Tech Central and United4Jobs, were used together to fight the McCain-Lieberman legislation.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4792633-2003-Charles-River-Associates-Tech-Central.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Tech Central Science Foundation</a>, the ExxonMobil funded org, paid Charles River and Associates to produce <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4792633-2003-Charles-River-Associates-Tech-Central.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">a report published in October 2003</a> on the theoretical economic impact of the McCain-Lieberman bill. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040617064632/http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org:80/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-5&CID=8040-060704A" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">United4Jobs pushed that report </a>throughout <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040617064632/http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org:80/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-5&CID=8040-060704A" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">2004 </a>and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006080619/http://www.united4jobs.org/studies/report.aspx?id=7" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">2005</a> claiming repeatedly that one million jobs would be lost if the McCain-Lieberman climate bill was passed and implemented.
 </li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Exxon-funded <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition</a> also pushed the TCS report on McCain-Lieberman in its June 2004 <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877746-Cei-Email-6904-1-728-1-Not-Duplicative.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">newsletter</a>. Published by CEI, the newsletter cites United for Jobs and the American Council for Capital Formation (another Exxon funded organization) as co-releasing the report. ACCF received a large ExxonMobil grant ($255,000) that year including <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019878-2004-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p1/a258280" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">$180,000 earmarked for “climate change”</a>.
 </li><li>Tech Central Station served as a hub for climate science and policy misinformation during this period, much of which was aimed at McCain-Lieberman. TCS’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060317152414/http:/www.tcsdaily.com/sections/science_roundtable.aspx" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Daily Science Roundtable</a> included a slew of climate change deniers such as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Tim Ball</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-c-balling-jr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Robert C. Balling, Jr</a>., <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-legates" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">David Legates</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> Patrick Michaels</a>, Roy Spencer, and others, according to an archived version of their website.
 </li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As CIC has <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/dci_group_subpoena_exxon_climate_fraud/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">previously written</a>, Tech Central and DCI Group ran multiple climate change denial campaigns for ExxonMobil during this period, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115457177198425388" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">attacking Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth”</a> and in June 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina, DCI and Tech Central produced and distributed a canned <a href="https://youtu.be/DXBqe7ngp24" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Video News Release (VNR) </a>declaring that there was no scientific evidence <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr40" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">linking dangerous hurricanes with climate change</a>. The VNR listed “TCS Daily Science Roundtable” as the producer.  VNRs are pre-produced segments designed to look like a news story, contracted generally by corporations, sent out to news stations in hopes of getting them aired as if they were news.  This one was aired on at least one TV station along the Gulf Coast.</li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Kochtopus Tentacles Ensnare McCain</h3><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div>https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Background</h2>The Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC), located online at <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">GlobalWarming.org</a>, describes itself as an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151018180349/http://www.globalwarming.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">“informal and ad-hoc group focused on dispelling the myths of global warming</a>.“ <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[1]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">3]</a>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060427015303/www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=562" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC) was formed on May 6, 1997</a>, under the direction of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Consumer_Coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">National Consumer Coalition</a>—a project of the now-defunct <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consumer Alert</a>—“out of concern that the American people were not being informed about the economic impact of proposals to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”  The CHC is now backed by the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)</a>, as noted on CHC's “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151018180349/http://www.globalwarming.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">About” page</a> which states that the website is “paid for and maintained by” CEI. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[1]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a>, director of global warming and international environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), was listed as the “group leader” when the the Cooler Heads Coalition was initially formed, and appears to maintain an important role. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a>

The Cooler Heads Coalition describes its website as “one of the Coalition’s principal educational outreach activities,” and it regularly releases blog posts questioning man-made climate change. While <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 1.1em;">Consumer Alert</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Consumer_Coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 1.1em;">National Consumer Coalition</a> are now defunct, both groups historically opposed regulations on industry and advocated “free market” consumer solutions. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">]</a> The National Consumer Coalition initially formed CHC in late 1996 as “an on-going coalition of market-oriented national and state-level policy and activist groups, which focus on consumer issues in the policy arena.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">]</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060427015303/www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=562" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to CHC founding documents</a>, GlobalWarming.org, “designed and maintained by Consumer Alert, pools together information from experts both inside and outside of the coalition and serves as a clearinghouse for information on global warming science and policy proposals.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[18]</a>

In addition to their website, founding documents noted that CHC would operate the “The Cooler Heads Newsletter.” CHCmembers would also sponsor a regular series of science and economic briefings on Capitol Hill, featuring “prominent researchers and academicians to discuss scientific and economic research relating to global warming issues. Congressional staff members, policy makers, and the media are invited to these educational sessions.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[18]</a><div>Other activities would include the following:</div><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>“Besides the publications sponsored by the group, individual Cooler Heads members publish research studies, reports, and issue briefs on scientific, economic, and political aspects of global warming policies. Members also sponsor press conferences, rallies, and consumer surveys.</li><li>Members give numerous presentations, sponsor seminars, take part in debates, and appear regularly on television and radio talk shows to discuss global warming issues. Articles and opinion pieces by Cooler Heads members appear in newspapers and magazines around the country and abroad.</li><li>Several Cooler Heads member groups are involved in the global warming treaty negotiations as NGOs (non-governmental organizations) at the United Nations negotiating sessions.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[18]</a></li></ul></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Members</h2><table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="393" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; width: 587px;"><colgroup><col /><col span="5" /></colgroup><tbody><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;">Name</td><td class="rtecenter" style="text-align: center; width: 37px;">2004<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18</a>],<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s20" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a> </td><td class="rtecenter" style="text-align: center; width: 39px;">2007<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;">17</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;">]</a></td><td class="rtecenter" style="text-align: center; width: 34px;">2008<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">16</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">]</a></td><td class="rtecenter" style="text-align: center; width: 38px;">2010<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></td><td class="rtecenter" style="text-align: center; width: 33px;">2015<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></td><td class="rtecenter" style="text-align: center; width: 51px;">2017<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s24" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[24]</a></td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/60-plus-association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">60 Plus Association</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Alexis de Tocqueville Institution</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/America's_Future_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">America's Future Foundation</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Conservative_Union" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Conservative Union</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Energy_Alliance" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Energy Alliance</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Policy_Center" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Policy Center</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/americans-tax-reform" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Americans for Tax Reform</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;">Association of Concerned Taxpayers</td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Security_Policy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Security Policy</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Consumer_Alert" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consumer Alert</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_Against_Government_Waste" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Council for Citizens Against Government Waste</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Defenders_of_Property_Rights" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Defenders of Property Rights</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eagle_Forum" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Eagle Forum</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fraser-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fraser Institute, Canada</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;">Freedom Action</td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/freedomworks" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FreedomWorks</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/frontiers-freedom" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Frontiers of Freedom</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/george-c-marshall-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">George C. Marshall Institute</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heritage Foundation</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/independent-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Independent Institute</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Istituto_Bruno_Leoni" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/john-locke-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Locke Foundation</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/junkscience-com" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">JunkScience.com</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lavoisier_Group" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Lavoisier Group, Australia</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/liberty-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Liberty Institute, India</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/national-center-policy-analysis" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">National Center for Policy Analysis</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/national-center-public-policy-research" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">National Center for Public Policy Research</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pacific_Research_Institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Pacific Research Institute</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senior_Coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Seniors Coalition</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;">Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council</td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 38px;">Y</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Small_Business_Survival_Committee" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Small Business Survival Committee</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tax_Payers_Alliance" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Taxpayers' Alliance, Uk</a></td><td style="width: 37px;" /><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr><tr height="15"><td height="15" style="height: 20px; width: 312px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/advancement-sound-science-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition</a></td><td style="width: 37px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;" /><td style="width: 34px;" /><td style="width: 38px;" /><td style="width: 33px;" /><td style="width: 51px;" /></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>The Cooler Heads Coalition's initial mission was to “dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [2]</a>2004<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Members of the coalition point out that the science of global warming is uncertain, but the negative impacts of global warming policies on consumers are all too real.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Funding</h2>The Cooler Heads Coalition website, GlobalWarming.org. is paid for and maintained by the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>

The majority of Coalition Members have received significant funding from the oil industry and right-wing think tanks. CEIitself <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/competitive-enterprise-institute/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">has received over $1.6 million</a> from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exxon_Mobil" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ExxonMobil</a>, and hundreds of thousands of dollars from <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch foundations</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key People</h2><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooler_Heads_Coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to SourceWatch</a>, former <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)</a> director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marlo_Lewis" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Marlo Lewis</a> was the original Chair of the Cooler Heads Coalition while <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a>, CEI's Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy, directed it. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a>GlobalWarming.org lists the following “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161111235014/http://www.globalwarming.org/contributors/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">contributors</a>,” as of November, 2016: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>William Yeatman — Editor (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161111235015/https://cei.org/expert/william-yeatman" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Senior Fellow at CEI</a>)</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a> — Chairman</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marlo_Lewis" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Marlo Lewis</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/chris-horner" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Chris Horner</a></li><li>Brian McGraw</li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Past Contributors</h3>According to <a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=3419" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Greenpeace Research documents (PDF)</a>, representatives for CHC have also included the following: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>Frances B. Smith</li><li>Jim Lucier</li><li>Damon Ansell</li><li>Jan Faiks</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/craig-rucker" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Craig Rucker</a></li><li>Renee Stykes</li><li>Angella Antonelli</li><li>Joel Bucher</li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-milloy" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Milloy</a></li><li>Don Senese</li><li>Nancy Marzulla</li><li>John Shanahan</li><li>David Ridenour</li><li>Nona Wegner</li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Actions</h2>December, 2015

The Cooler Heads Coalition worked with a number of think tanks and advocacy groups including the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heritage Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">CFACT</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> and Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160413003143/https://www.heartland.org/Cop21" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">battle against a binding agreement at the COP-21 climate conference in Paris</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a>

As part of the effort, members of CHC from the US, Canada, and Europe attended a press conference on December 7 at a Heartland event titled “Day of Examining the Data.” The <a href="https://youtu.be/uZKIUP9EGp8" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">complete video from the event (over 6 hours)</a> is below. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[19]</a>img vid?According to a<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cfact-delegation-headed-to-paris-to-challenge-un-climate-pact-300183654.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> CFACT Press Release</a>, “CFACT is teaming up with the Heartland Institute and the Cooler Heads Coalition to analyze the UN discussions, inject facts, and make available leading scientific and policy experts who offer much-needed balance to the climate debate. They will conduct a series of scientific briefings, press conferences and displays.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s22" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [22]</a>

August 7, 2015<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a>, Chair of the Cooler Heads Coalition, spoke with <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/h-sterling-burnett" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">H. Sterling Burnett</a> of the Heartland Institute on the “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161111235016/http://blog.heartland.org/2015/08/heartland-daily-podcast-myron-ebell-breaking-down-obamas-clean-power-plan/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">extreme costs and minimal benefits [of] President Obama’s clean power plan</a>.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s7" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a>June 19, 2015<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a>, Cooler Heads Coalition Chair, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151018185234/http://www.globalwarming.org/2015/06/19/pope-franciss-climate-encyclical-help-poor-people-by-dismantling-industrial-civilization/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">denounced</a> Pope Francis's <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/06/18/pope-francis-encyclical-sincere-call-climate-action-economic-justice" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Encyclical on the Environment </a>as “scientifically ill-informed, economically illiterate, intellectually incoherent, and morally obtuse.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[8]</a>

According to Ebell,  “It is also theologically suspect, and large parts of it are leftist drivel, albeit couched in the vocabulary of Catholic social teaching” and a “”diatribe against modern industrial civilization.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a>March 4, 2015 <div>The Cooler Heads Coalition's GlobalWarming.org showcased two charts that reported to “[expose] the unsustainability of the European Union’s proposal” to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s9" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [10]</a></div>
According to <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/meet-marlo-lewis-dirty-energy-industry-s-best-friend" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Marlo Lewis,</a> “millions of people could still get hurt along the way before the wretched thing falls apart.”June, 2009

Cooler Heads Coalition members<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151018182856/http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/23/23greenwire-lobbying-frenzy-begins-as-house-climate-bill-he-7715.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> lobbied against the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,”</a> also known as the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a>May 3, 2004

CHC held a congressional and media briefing entitled “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161111235014/http://www.globalwarming.org/2004/05/11/adverse-impacts-of-warming-have-been-exaggerated/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Impacts of Global Warming: Why the Alarmist View is Wrong</a>” on Capitol Hill.

Speakers included well known global warming deniers such as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/madhav-khandekar" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Madhav L. Khandekar</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/nils-axel-morner" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Nils-Axel Morner</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/paul-reiter" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Reiter</a>, and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Michaels</a>. They presented arguments against claims that global warming will cause increases in extreme weather events, sea level rise, vector-borne diseases, and species extinction. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a>May 16, 2003The Cooler Heads Coalition and the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/george-c-marshall-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">George C. Marshall Institute</a> co-sponsored a media briefing by noted climate change denier Willie Soon, in an event titled “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161112054454/https://cei.org/events/was-20th-century-climate-unusual" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Was the 20th- Century Climate Unusual? Exploring the Lessons and Limits of Climate History</a>.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s23" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a>May 14, 2002

CHC held a briefing at the National Press Club, in conjunction with Frontiers of Freedom and the Science and Environmental Policy Project, entitled “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20021019115323/http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0514-108.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Experts Discuss Why U.S. Should Withdraw From Kyoto Treaty</a>.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Publications</h3>The Cooler Heads Coalition publishes a regular “digest” that regularly includes commentary and articles from leading climate change deniers. Samples below:tempest:...
The Free Market Solution: Zoos
AL GORE IS ABOUT TO COME ON THE BIG SCREEN. Fred Smith is eagerly awaiting the moment. We're at a mediapreview of "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary on Gore and global warming (it debuts this week in Washington). Smith is not exactly a Gore groupie. He is the head of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a factory for global warming skepticism.CEI has 28 people on staff, "half a platoon," Smith likes to say. They're in the persuasion business, fighting for the free market. They lobby against government regulations of all kinds. Smith writes articles with titles such as "Eco-Socialism: Threat to Liberty Around the World." These promoters of capitalism don't really operate a commercial enterprise; like any think tank, CEI relies on donations from individuals, foundations and corporations. The most generous sponsors of last year's annual dinner at the Capital Hilton were the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Exxon Mobil, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and Pfizer. Other contributors included <a href="http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=GM&nav=el" target="">General Motors</a>, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council, the Chlorine Chemistry Council and Arch Coal.Smith is short, stocky, bearded. He talks extremely fast and sprinkles his remarks with free market jargon, climate change lingo, historical references and various mysterious words that seem to come from a secret conservatives-only code book.As we wait for the movie to start, I ask him how he would define his political beliefs. "Classical liberal," he says. He explains that civilization is a means for allowing individuals to liberate their energies and their genius -- an emergence from primitive, tribal, collectivist social arrangements. When humans switch from collectivism to private property, he says, "you have greater freedom of ideas." This prompts the thought that the federal government owns way too much land in the West. Much of it should be privatized, he says.Including national parks? I ask."Probably wouldn't touch it for political reasons," he says.The movie begins: Images of a river. Lush foliage. Gore's voice, almost sultry, rhapsodizes about nature. Then we see him take a stage in an auditorium. He is in a suit and tie and looks very much like a candidate for political office. 
"Maybe he is running," Smith says.<div id="body_after_content_column">When Gore shows a big graph of rising CO2, Smith says, "That's a phony scale."The film shows footage from Hurricane Katrina."It was a Category 3 hurricane," Smith says. Not the Cat 5, at landfall, you keep hearing about.Gore reveals that insurance losses because of hurricanes have steadily climbed."That's just dishonest," Smith says. There are more beach houses and so on -- it's just an infrastructure issue.Subsequent visits to the Competitive Enterprise Institute show Smith in his element. The think tank is a warren of offices lined with framed magazine advertisements from the 1950s and earlier. These are images of the Golden Age of American Commerce, when cars were like luxury liners and chemical companies bragged about their mosquito-annihilating concoctions."New Guinea is an island gripped in the vise of high, jagged mountain ranges . . . Choking entangling jungle is everywhere . . . In this appalling setting, aviation made an epic conquest." That's ad copy for the Socony-Vacuum oil company, later known as Mobil.Smith loves this stuff. Those were the days! The message: Free enterprise brings people together and improves their lives. It was the Better Living Through Chemistry era. Smith points out an ad for Weyerhaeuser Timber showing clear-cut forests on a mountainside and two raccoons tussling with one another on the stump of a Douglas fir. Another photo, lower, shows a frame house. You can clearly see that cutting forests benefits people. Nowadays, environmentalists want the benefits without any of the pain. "It's all gain, no pain," Smith says.We pass an asbestos ad."When I was a kid, this was called the miracle mineral," he says.Although Smith can be rambling and digressive, he has a team of analysts who know the global warming topic inside and out and can quickly produce the latest nugget of potentially contradictory evidence (Greenland melted faster in the 1920s!). What rankles them most of all is the suggestion that global warming is a problem that must be fixed by the government, top down, through regulations. Let the free market work its genius, they say. Countries with thriving economies will, in the long run, be more adaptive to climate change and will find more technological solutions than countries that hamstring themselves by clamping down on greenhouse emissions.Smith's office has a grand view of Farragut Square and the Washington Monument in the distance. A man named Chris Horner, general counsel of the Cooler Heads Coalition, joins us, as does, popping in and out, Marlo Lewis, a CEI policy analyst who works on climate change. They lapse several times into the Secret Code."Terrible toos," Horner says. I'm confused. He explains that it's shorthand for environmental doom and gloom."Terrible toos. Too many people, using too many resources."Smith has a different equation: "Less people, less affluence, less technology: We call that death, poverty and ignorance."They believe the rise of carbon dioxide may be a symptom of global warming, not the cause. Look at the chart Gore used:Didn't it look like the warming comes before the CO2 increase?Lewis says the snows of Kilimanjaro have been in retreat since the 1880s. The climate there is not getting warmer, it's getting drier. Just won't snow.They see economic growth as an all-purpose cure for environmental problems. Rich societies are environmentally resilient; poor societies have dirty power plants and sooty huts. Government regulations aren't necessary. I ask Lewis if he thinks the Clean Air Act is a good idea. "It depends," heanswers. There follows a complicated riff from Smith about common law property rights and English fishermen suing upstream polluters in the 19th century.Smith takes an abrupt detour into the issue of endangered species. The solution is to let the private sector handle it. They should be privatized, like pets or livestock. Dogs, cats, chickens, pigs: These creatures won't ever go extinct.I want to make sure I understand what he is saying, so I begin to ask a question: "For endangered species, people should --""-- own them," Smith says.But isn't there a difference between animals that live in zoos and animals that live in the wild?"Yes and no," Smith says. " 'Zoo' is a pejorative term that PETA has turned into an animal slavery community. A zoo is nothing more than an elaborate ark."What's unnatural, Smith says, is wilderness. The so-called wilderness of early America used to be inhabited by Indians, and they changed their environment. "They burned down trees, they burned forests, they ran buffaloes over cliffs. They were not dancing with wolves," he says. "Wilderness is the least natural part of this planet."Human beings, in his view, are not apart from nature but very much of it, and thus whatever human beings do is natural. Environmentalists view human activity as a blemish, and animal activity as noble and good. If Manhattan had been built by termites, environmentalists would make it a World Heritage Site, Smith says. If the Grand Canyon had been the result of coal mining, he says, "Al Gore would say, 'This is horrible.'"Horner talks about baselines used in climate trends. Why start in 1860? That was the end of the Little Ice Age. Of course the world has warmed since then. That's cheating with the baseline. At one point Horner refers to the "cooling" since 1998 -- a record-breaking year with a major El Niño event in the Pacific. He admits he is being disingenuous."We're playing the baseline game," Horner says.And then -- I'm not even sure how it comes up -- Smith says we can solve the problem of gorillas being killed in Africa. They're caught in the middle of a civil war among African tribes. The solution: Evacuate them. Airlift them out, like soldiers caught behind enemy lines."We've got lots of land."For the gorillas, he means."Build a Jurassic Park in CentralAmerica."Horner says that perhaps we are getting off track.And Then There's Hitler
LET US BE HONEST about the intellectual culture of America in general: It has become almost impossible to have an intelligent discussion about anything.Everything is a war now. This is the age of lethal verbal combat, where even scientific issues involving measurements and molecules are somehow supernaturally polarizing. The controversy about global warming resides all too perfectly at the collision point of environmentalism and free market capitalism. It's bound to be not only politicized but twisted, mangled and beaten senseless in the process. The divisive nature of global warming isn't helped by the fact that the most powerful global-warming skeptic (at least by reputation) is President Bush, and the loudest warnings come from Al Gore.Human beings may be large of brain, but they are social animals, too, like wolves, and are prone to behave in packs. So when something like climate change comes up, the first thing people want to know is, whose side are you on? All those climatic variables and uncertainties and probabilities and "forcings" and "feedback loops," those cans of worms that Bill Gray talks about, get boiled down to their essence. Are you with us or against us?Somehow Hitler keeps popping into the discussion. Gore draws a parallel between fighting global warming and fighting the Nazis. Novelist Michael Crichton, in State of Fear , ends with an appendix comparing the theory of global warming to the theory of eugenics -- the belief, prominently promoted by Nazis, that the gene pool of the human species was degenerating due to higher reproductive rates of "inferior" people. Both, he contends, are examples of junk science, supported by intellectual elites who will later conveniently forget they signed on to such craziness.And Gray has no governor on his rhetoric. At one point during our meeting in Colorado he blurts out, "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews."When I opine that he is incendiary, he answers: "Yes, I am incendiary. But the other side is just as incendiary. The etiquette of science has long ago been thrown out the window."In a media-saturated world, it's hard to get anyone's attention without cranking the volume. Time magazine recently declared that Earth looks like a planet that is sick (cover headline: "Be Worried. Be Very Worried"). Vanity Fair published a "worst-case scenario" photo illustration of Manhattan drowned by an 80-foot sea-level rise, the skyscrapers poking up from what has become part of the Atlantic Ocean. That's not inconceivable over the course of many centuries, but the scientific consensus (IPCC, 2001) is that by 2100 sea level will have risen somewhere between three and 34 inches from its 1990 level.The news media -- always infatuated with doom (were it not for the obvious ramifications for ratings and circulation, the media would love to cover the End of the World) -- struggle to resist the most calamitous-sounding climate scenarios. Consider the January 2005 survey of thousands of climate change models that showed a very wide range of possibilities. One model at the very extreme had a worst-case-scenario warming of 11 degrees Celsius -- which is nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit."The world is likely to heat up by an average of 11ºC by the end of the century, the biggest-ever study of global warming showed yesterday," the London Evening Standard reported online. This would cause "a surge in sea levels threatening the lives of billions of people."Wrong, but whatever.The skeptics feed on alarmism. They love any sign that global warming is a case of mass hysteria. Someone like Myron Ebell, an analyst at CEI, freely admits that, as an advocate in a politicized battle, he tries to make "the best case against alarmism." Everyone, on both sides, is arguing like a lawyer these days, he says. "What is going on right now is a desperate last-ditch Battle of the Bulge type effort by the forces of darkness, which is relying heavily on the lockstep/groupthink scientific community."The president's science adviser, John Marburger, thinks the politicized debate has made it almost impossible to talk sensibly about the issue. "There seems to be the general feeling that somehow the administration doesn't feel that climate change is happening," he says. "That's completely wrong." The administration just doesn't think the problem can be solved with the "magic wand" of regulation.Marburger recently declined to go on "60 Minutes" to address allegations thatfederal scientists were being muzzled and government reports rewritten by the White House to minimize concerns about global warming. "In general the public discourse on this has gotten completely off the track, and we're never going to straighten it out on '60 Minutes,'" Marburger says.This issue forces Americans to sort through a great deal of science, technology and economics, all of it saturated in divisive politics. Many Americans haven't really tuned in. A Gallup poll in March showed that global warming is far down the list of concerns among Americans -- even when asked to rank their environmental worries. More Americans were worried about damage to the ozone layer. No doubt some people have the two issues confused. Both involve air, and emissions of some kind, and some worrisome global effect. But the ozone issue, while hardly solved, has at least been seriously addressed with a global ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).Climate change takes place on time scales of decades and centuries. In a 24-hour information society, it is hard to keep the year 2100 in mind. But these changes are happening at a geologically rapid pace. For roughly the past 10,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age, human beings have enjoyed a relatively stable, comfortable "interglacial" period, during which they've invented everything from agriculture to moon rockets. Nomadic bands of hunters and gatherers have given way to more than 6 billion people, largely urbanized and energy-hungry. Pressure on ecosystems is immense. Biologists warn of a "sixth extinction" -- the sixth mass extinction of species since the rise of multicellular organisms about 600 million years ago. The most recent mass extinction, 65 million years ago, was apparently caused by a mountain-size object striking Earth. Human civilization, in this view, is like an asteroid hitting the planet.The expansion of human civilization is an experiment on a global scale: What happens when a species obtains not only intelligence but technology? Do intelligent, technological species tend to survive for a long time -- or bring their environment crashing down around them?The Hurricane Conference
BILL GRAY HAS THE HONOR of delivering the closing remarks at the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando. It's mid-April, and we're at a fancy hotel on International Drive, a main street for the tourist industry that has sprouted from the orange groves and cow pastures of central Florida. Gray seems to be everywhere, constantly talking, popping out to the terrace by the pool to give TV interviews, holding forth without any hint of fatigue. He has three media assistants following him around. They are working under contract for TCSDaily, a Web site that is a nexus of anti-global-warming arguments.They set up two news conferences. At both events, Gray gives his standard arguments about global warming, bracketing a dispassionate discussion of the upcoming tropical storm season by his young protege, Phil Klotzbach. The two are a sight to behold: Gray, the white-haired titan, thunderous, outraged, and Klotzbach, red-haired, freckled, very calm, very mild, looking so much younger than his 25 years."I think there's a lot of foolishness going on," Gray says as he stands before a bank of 10 TV cameras and a couple of dozen journalists.Hurricanes aren't getting worse -- we're just in an uptick of a regular cycle. But the alarmists won't let anyone believe that."The world is boiling! It's getting worse and worse!" Gray shouts. "Hell is approaching."He was a paperboy in Washington in the 1940s, he says. There were stories back then about global warming. But then it got cooler, for decades, and by the mid-1970s the story had changed, and scientists were warning of -- yes -- an Ice Age! Gray shows a slide of magazine covers in the mid-1970s (Science Digest, 1973; Newsweek, 1975) fretting about the Cooling World.The core of Gray's argument is that the warming of the past decades is a natural cycle, driven by a global ocean circulation that manifests itself in the North Atlantic as the Gulf Stream. Warm water and cool water essentially rise and fall in a rhythm lasting decades. "I don't think this warming period of the last 30 years can keep on going," he says. "It may warm another three, five, eight years, and then it will start to cool."Gray's crusade against global warming "hysteria" began in the early 1990s, when he saw enormous sums of federal research money going toward computer modeling rather than his kind of science, the old-fashioned stuff based on direct observation. Gray often cites the ascendancy of Gore to the vice presidency as the start of his own problems with federal funding. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stopped giving him research grants. So did NASA. All the money was going to computer models. The field was going off on this wild tangent.Numerical models can't predict the future, he says. They don't even pretend to predict the weather in the coming season -- "but they make predictions of 50 or 100 years from now and ask you to believe the Earth will get warmer."The modelers are equation pushers."They haven't been down in the trenches, making forecasts and understanding stuff!"The news media are self-interested."Media people are all out for Pulitzer Prizes!"The IPCC is elitist."They don't talk to us! I've never been approached by the IPCC."He spots a famous meteorologist in the back of the room. It's Neil Frank, formerdirector of the National Hurricane Center."Neil, have they ever approached you?""No," Frank answers.A TV reporter asks Gray a key question: "What if you're wrong?""We can't do anything about it if I'm wrong. China and India are going to burn fossil fuels."After Gray finishes, he gives more interviews. Frank, waiting in the wings, tells me he agrees with Gray."It's a hoax," he says. He says cutting carbon emissions would wind up hurting poor people. I ask if he thinks more CO2 in the air would be a good thing."Exactly! Maybe we're living in a carbon dioxide-starved world. We don't know."Skeptics and Conspiracies
THE SKEPTICS DON'T AGREE with one another. They will privately distance themselves from other skeptics ("I think he's full of beans") while maintaining a certain public solidarity against the Forces of Fear. Pat Michaels, the U-Va. climatologist, doesn't even want to be called a skeptic."I believe in climate change caused by human beings," Michaels says. "What I'm skeptical about is the glib notion that it means the end of the world as we know it."John Christy, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says: "We're skeptical that the observations we see now are indicating catastrophic change. And we're skeptical of our capability to truly understand the climate system, how it works, and so on, and therefore predict its evolution."Of all the skeptics, MIT's Richard Lindzen probably has the most credibility among mainstream scientists, who acknowledge that he's doing serious research on the subject. Lindzen contends that water vapor and clouds, which will increase in a warmer world because of higher rates of evaporation, create "negative feedbacks" that counter the warming trend. "The only reason the models get such a big response is that, in models, the most important greenhouse substances, which are water vapor and clouds, act to take anything man does and make it worse," he says. Observations show otherwise, he says.Lindzen argues that the climate models can't be right, because we've already raised CO2 and methane dramatically, and the planet simply hasn't warmed that much. But Isaac Held, a NOAA modeler, says Lindzen is jumping the gun, because the greenhouse gases take time -- decades, centuries -- to have their full impact. Indeed, we've already made a "commitment" to warming. We couldn't stop global warming at this point if we closed every factory and curbed every car. The mainstream argument is that we could minimize the increase, and reduce the risk of a dangerous, unstable, white-knuckle climate change.Held studied under Lindzen years ago and considers him a friend and a smart scientist -- but highly contrarian."There're people like [Lindzen] in every field of science. There are always people in the fringes. They're attracted to the fringe . . . It may be as simple as, how do you prove you're smarter than everyone else? You don't do that by being part of the consensus," Held says.The most vocal partisans in the climate change debate often describe their opponents as part of a conspiracy, of sorts. Both sides think the other side has a monetary or political incentive to skew the data. But there are people in this battle who fervently believe in what they say. Bill Gray says he takes no fossil-fuel money. He's simply sick and tired of squishy-minded hand-wringing equation-pushing computer jocks who've never flown into a hurricane!Gray has his own conspiracy theory. He has made a list of 15 reasons for the global warming hysteria. The list includes the need to come up with an enemy after the end of the Cold War, and the desire among scientists, government leaders and environmentalists to find a political cause that would enable them to "organize, propagandize, force conformity and exercise political influence. Big world government could best lead (and control) us to a better world!"Gray admits that he has a dark take on human nature: "I have a demonic view on this."The most notorious example of climate change conspiracy-mongering is in Crichton's State of Fear . The villain is the director of an environmental organization. He's in league with radical environmentalists who kill people at the drop of a hat as part of a plot to trigger natural disasters that will somehow advance the theory of global warming. The novel's fans include the president of the United States, who met with Crichton in the White House.There's a certain kind of skeptic who has no patience for the official consensus, especially if it has the imprimatur of a government, or worse, the United Nations. They focus on ambiguities and mysteries and things that just don't add up. They say the Official Story can't possibly be true, because it doesn't explain the [insert inexplicable data point here]. They set a high standard for reality -- it must never be fuzzy around the edges."They argue not as scientists but as lawyers," says Pieter Tans, who runs a lab at NOAA in Boulder, Colo., where he examines bottles of air taken from monitoring stations all over the planet. "When they argue, they pick one piece of the fabric of evidence and blow it up all out of proportion . . . Their purpose is to confuse, so that the public gets the idea that there is a raging scientific debate. There is no raging scientific debate."Some of the anomalies cited by the skeptics go away over time. Remember that graph showing the world's temperature leveling off and actually cooling from 1940 to 1975, even as the industrial economies of the planet were going full blast? The mainstream climate scientists think one factor may have been air pollution -- aerosols pumped out by smokestacks, dimming sunlight before it reached the surface. In the early 1970s, governments passed air pollution controls, such as the Clean Air Act, that required scrubbers on smokestacks. The skies cleared. And the temperature has been racing upward ever since.What about the Medieval Warm Period? If human industry causes warming, why were the Vikings sailing around the North Atlantic to godforsaken places like Greenland and setting up farming communities 1,000 years ago? Many scientists answer that the Medieval Warm Period wasn't a global phenomenon. You can't draw global conclusions from the experience of the North Atlantic."There is this misperception that global change is a spatially uniform and smooth in time process," says Kerry Emanuel, an atmospheric scientist at MIT. "In fact that's not true. There's all kind of variability. You can find places in the world where the temperature has gone down for the past 50 years. When you're looking for a signal in a very noisy record you do as much averaging as possible."So what about all those fears, back in the 1970s, of a coming Ice Age? It was a minor issue among serious climate scientists. One paper commonly cited by skeptics as an example of Ice Age doomsaying merely stated that, absent any human-driven global warming, an Ice Age might return in 20,000 years.The most famous anomaly, long cited by skeptics, was the satellite data. It didn't show the warming of the lower atmosphere.It flatly contradicted the surface measurements. Earlier this month, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program announced that a re-analysis of the data resolved most of the discrepancy. Anomaly gone. Arch-skeptic Fred Singer says there's still some inconsistency, but the advocates of the consensus view of global warming feel vindicated. ("Game over," one environmentalist told The Washington Post.)Scientists are argumentative by nature. They're supposed to be. They're supposed to attempt to disprove the hypotheses and claims of their fellow scientists. Theories are hazed unmercifully. And when they emerge from that trial-by-skepticism, they are all the more respected.Certain skeptics -- really, they're optimists -- have scored debate points by noting that prophesies of doom have often slammed into a wall of human resourcefulness. But you can't solve a problem if you spend decades failing to perceive it. Humans adapt best when worried.Or at least not in denial.Back in Orlando
Climate change is generating headlines almost daily -- (e.g., "Peril to Walrus Young Seen As Result of Melting Ice Shelf") -- but it is also abstruse in its specifics, so journalists rely on "experts" to tell them where the truth lies. Someone like Bill Gray seems to be a fully credentialed authority figure. But when you press him on his theory of how thermohaline circulation has caused recent warming of the planet and will soon cause cooling, he concedes that he hasn't published the idea in any peer-reviewed journal. He's working on it, he says.The Web site Real Climate, run by a loose group of climate scientists, recently published a detailed refutation of Gray's theory, saying his claims about the ocean circulation lack evidence. The Web site criticized Gray for not adapting to the modern era of meteorology, "which demands hypotheses soundly grounded in quantitative and consistent physical formulations, not seat-of-the-pants flying."The field has fully embraced numerical modeling, and Gray is increasingly on the fringe. His cranky skepticism has become a tired act among younger scientists. "It's sad," says Emanuel, who has vowed never again to debate Gray in public.When I ask Gray who his intellectual soul mates are regarding global warming, he responds, "I have nobody really to talk to about this stuff."That's not entirely true. He has many friends and colleagues, and the meteorologists tend to share his skeptical streak.I ask if he has ever collaborated on a paper with Richard Lindzen. Gray says he hasn't. He looks a little pained."Lindzen, he's a hard guy to deal with," Gray says. "He doesn't think he can learn anything from me."Which is correct. Lindzen says of Gray: "His knowledge of theory is frustratingly poor, but he knows more about hurricanes than anyone in the world. I regard him in his own peculiar way as a national resource."In Orlando, the national resource has the honor of closing the hurricane conference with a speech. He and Klotzbach go through their usual routine. Gray talks of global warming foolishness, untrusty numerical models, underappreciated ocean circulation, overly dramatized CO2 increases, the crazy complexity of the weather."It becomes an absolute can of worms!"He seems to be running out of steam just a little bit. He's given so many interviews, he might have lost a little velocity on his fastball. But everyone claps at the end. He throws in a final few words:"Don't believe everything you read in the paper! This whole business about global warming --"But he steps from the mike, and his final words are inaudible.In 20 years, he likes to say, the world will have cooled, and everyone will know he was right all along. When that happens, he says, he hopes someone will put flowers on his grave.Adapting to Uncertainty
Let us say a word in praise of uncertainty. It is a concession to an interesting and complicated planet that is full of surprises. The fog of uncertainty surrounding climate change is routinely cited as a reason to wait before making cuts in greenhouse emissions. But if we wait for that fog to break, we'll wait forever.Isaac Held, the NOAA climate modeler, is the first to admit that the models aren't perfect. "Clouds are hard," he says. The models on his computer screen are incomprehensible to the untrained eye. But Held argues that the models are conservative. For global warming to be less of a problem than is currently anticipated, all the uncertainties would have to break, preferentially, toward the benign side of things.Moreover, we don't even know all the things that we don't know. James Hansen, the prominent NASA scientist, points out that the models don't realistically include ice sheets and the biosphere -- all the plants and animals on Earth. The global climate surely has more surprises for us."Our models were not predicting the ozone hole in 1980 when it was discovered," Held says. Scientists are haunted by the realization that if CFCs had been made with a slightly different type of chemistry, they'd have destroyed much of the ozone layer over the entire planet.Hansen thinks we have less than 10 years to make drastic cuts in greenhouse emissions, lest we reach a "tipping point" at which the climate will be out of our control. Hansen may be a step ahead of the consensus -- but that doesn't mean he's wrong. In the brutally hot summer of 1988, Hansen testified before Congress that the signal of global warming could already be detected amid the noise of natural climate variation. Many of his colleagues scoffed. They thought he'd gotten ahead of the hard data. Judy Curry, a Georgia Tech climate scientist, says: "I thought he was playing politics. But, damn it, he was right."Curry, who believes the skeptics have mounted a "brilliant disinformation campaign," thinks climate change is being held to a different standard than other societal threats. The skeptics want every uncertainty nailed down before any action is taken."Why is that standard being applied to greenhouse warming and not to other risks, like terrorism or military risks or avian flu?" she asks.Mainstream climate scientists readily accept that there is natural variation in the system. For example, greenhouse gases alone can't melt the Arctic at the alarming rate that has been observed recently. Americans sorting through this issue may feel constrained by all the unknowns. Perhaps they need to adapt to uncertainty, to see uncertainty as the norm, and not as a sign of scientific failure.Or as an excuse to do nothing.Our Friend CO2
Ten years ago, Fred Smith says, the Competitive Enterprise Institute had contributions from companies across the board in the petroleum industry. It still gets money fromExxon Mobil, the biggest and most hard-line oil company on the climate change issue, but many of its donors have stopped sending checks."They've joined the club."The club of believers in global warming.The executives don't understand "resource economics." They lack faith in the free market to solve these issues. And they go to cocktail parties and find out that everyone thinks they're criminals."Or their kids come home from school and say, 'Daddy, why are you killing the planet?'"Smith never sounds morose, though. He's peppy. He thinks his side is still winning the debate. Look at the polls: Americans don't care about global warming.He'd like to get people believing once again in good old-fashioned industrial activity. CEI has created a new public-service TV spot. Smith and several colleagues gather round as we watch it on a computer monitor. The ad begins with images of people picnicking in Central Park on a beautiful day. A child is shown blowing the seeds of a dandelion. A woman's voice, confident, reassuring, says that all these people are creating something that's all around us:"It's called carbon dioxide," she says, "CO2."There's an image of an impoverished woman hacking the ground with a hand tool."The fuels that produce CO2 have freed us from a life of backbreaking labor."We see kids jumping out of a minivan. There are politicians out there who want to label CO2 as a pollutant, the narrator says. We return to the child blowing the dandelion seeds."Carbon dioxide: They call it pollution. We call it life."End of ad."It should always bring a tear to your eye," Fred Smith says, delighted.Joel Achenbach is a Magazine staff writer. He will be fielding questions and comments about this article at 11 a.m. Tuesday at washingtonpost.com/liveonline.may 2006 wapo
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GlobalWarming.org is a project of the Cooler Heads Coalition, formerly a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition, but now run as an informal and ad-hoc group focused on dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. Coalition members will also follow the progress of the international Global Climate Change Treaty negotiations.This website is paid for and maintained by the <a href="http://www.cei.org/">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>.<hr /><h3>The History of the Cooler Heads Coalition</h3>The <a href="http://www.consumeralert.org/ncc/index.htm" target="blank">National Consumer Coalition</a> was formed by Consumer Alert in late 1996 as an on-going coalition of market-oriented national and state-level policy and activist groups, which focus on consumer issues in the policy arena. NCC’s issue work was done by its sub-groups of which Cooler Heads was one. Each sub-group focuses on a specific issue, such as internet privacy, global climate change, and health care, and includes experts from the member organizations who study that issue. Since then, Consumer Alert and the NCC have ceased operation, but the Cooler Heads Coalition has remained and continues its mission.<h3>Members</h3>nyt on trans team:mug-shot posters, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/a-stunt-by-environmental-activists-targets-climate-skeptics">pasted</a> on walls and lampposts around Paris by an activist group during the United Nations climate talks last year, were hardly flattering. They depicted Myron Ebell, a climate contrarian, as one of seven “climate criminals” wanted for “destroying our future.”But in his customary mild-mannered way, Mr. Ebell, who directs environmental and energy policy at the <a href="https://cei.org/">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, a libertarian advocacy group in Washington, brushed it off.“I’ve gotten used to this over the years,” he <a href="https://youtu.be/WoFkzdKaj_M">told an interviewer</a> at the talks. “But I did go out and get my photo taken with my poster, just so I have it as a memento.”In looking for someone to follow through on his campaign vow to dismantle one of the Obama administration’s signature <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about global warming." class="meta-classifier">climate change</a> policies, President-elect <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Donald J. Trump." class="meta-per">Donald J. Trump</a> probably could not have found a better candidate for the job than Mr. Ebell.Mr. Ebell, who revels in taking on the scientific consensus on global warming, will be Mr. Trump’s lead agent in choosing personnel and setting the direction of the federal agencies that address climate change and environmental policy more broadly.Mr. Ebell, whose organization is financed in part by the coal industry, has been one of the most vocal opponents of the linchpin of that policy, the Clean Power Plan.Developed by the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/environmental_protection_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Environmental Protection Agency." class="meta-org">Environmental Protection Agency</a>, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/clean-power-plan-existing-power-plants">the plan</a> is a far-reaching set of regulations that, by seeking to reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation, could result in the closing of many coal-burning power plants, among other effects.Mr. Ebell has said that the plan, which has been tied up in the courts since it was finalized in 2015, is illegal. In the interview in Paris last year, he said he hoped whoever was elected president would “undo the E.P.A. power plant regs and some of the other regs that are very harmful to our economy.”As the person Mr. Trump has chosen to lead the transition at the E.P.A., Mr. Ebell, 63, will be in a position to begin to do just that.Mr. Ebell, who did not respond to a request for an interview, grew up on a ranch in Oregon. He got his undergraduate degree at Colorado College and master’s at the London School of Economics, where he studied under the conservative political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. He has described himself as “sort of a contrarian by nature and upbringing,” and has said he was very strongly influenced by the “question authority” ethos of 1960s and ’70s counterculture“I really think that people should be suspicious of authority,” he told an interviewer last year. “The more you’re told that you have to believe something, the more you should question it.”Mr. Ebell leads the <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/about/">Cooler Heads Coalition</a>, a loose-knit group that says it is “focused on dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis.” He has been one of the nation’s most visible climate contrarians, known for dispensing memorable sound bites on cable news shows and at events like the annual conferences sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based group that rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change.=ref, just rebranded cei cee blog:<a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/about/">http://www.globalwarming.org/about/</a>

seems to be back under cei control:---may digest sample :AnnouncementsRegistration is now open for theHeartland Institute’s 9th International Conference on Climate Change, July 7-9, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Click here to learn more.In the NewsObama’s Climate Change Diversion Frank Beckmann, Detroit News, 9 May 2014Confessions of a “Lukewarmist” Christopher Snow Hopkins, National Journal, 8 May 2014 National Climate Assessment Report Raises False Alarm Paul C. Knappenberger, Washington Times, 7 May 2014 Bird Vaporization at Ivanpah: Solar Enters Wind Territory Wayne Lusvardi, Master Resource, 7 May 2014Oil’s Bright Future Robert Bryce, Bloomberg View, 7 May 2014 Has Global Warming Made Heat Waves Deadlier in Sweden? Marlo Lewis, GlobalWarming.org, 6 May 2014The “Cure” for Climate Change Is Far Worse than the Disease Nicolas Loris, The Foundry, 6 May 2014Video: Charles Krauthammer Calls Obama’s Climate Policy “Economic Suicide, Global Do-Goodism” National Review Online, 6 May 2014News You Can UseDefense Department’s Big Biofuel Bill The Department of Defense (DOD) paid $150 per gallon for 1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market price for standard carbon-based fuels, according to a Government Accountability Office report released on Wednesday....Inside the BeltwayMyron EbellEPA’s Scandals Go Far Beyond PornThe House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing this week at which it was revealed that one senior civil servant at the Environmental Protection Agency spent much of his office time watching pornography over the internet. The career employee admitted to the EPA’s Inspector General’s Office (OIG) that he spent two to six hours a day watching porn videos. This included four straight hours at a site called, Sadism Is Beautiful, according to news reports....Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) asked the EPA officials testifying whether this conduct was illegal and whether the civil servant had been fired. Yes, it is illegal, but Deputy  Administrator Robert Perciasepe admitted that he had not been fired and confirmed that he was still being paid over $120,000 a year and in addition had received performance awards in cash. Deputy Assistant Inspector General Allan Williams also testified about other misconduct that has been revealed by the OIG’s wider investigation launched after the John Beale scandal came to light.For example, the director of the EPA’s Office of Administration, Renee Page, ran a retail business out of her office and had hired 17 family members over the years as paid interns. Page received a $35,000 Presidential Rank performance award. These are some of the juicy bits, but the really explosive testimony came from Deputy Inspector General Patrick Sullivan: The EPA OIG’s Office of Investigations is being impeded from fulfilling its responsibilities by actions of the EPA’s internal Office of Homeland Security (OHS), a unit within theOffice of the Administrator. OHS is overseen by Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, who serves as Chief of Staff to Administrator Gina McCarthy. 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MARSHALL INSTITUTE</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.heartland.org/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">HEARTLAND INSTITUTE</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.independent.org/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.brunoleoni.it/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">ISTITUTO BRUNO LEONI, ITALY</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.johnlocke.org/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://junkscience.com/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">JUNKSCIENCE.COM</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.lavoisier.com.au/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">LAVOISIER GROUP, AUSTRALIA</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.libertyindia.org/about.htm" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">LIBERTY INSTITUTE, INDIA</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.ncpa.org/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.pacificresearch.org/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.692em;"><a href="http://www.sbecouncil.org/home/index.cfm" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL</a> <a href="http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">TAXPAYERS’ ALLIANCE, UK</a></li></ul></li></ul>=Cooler Heads Coalition and its website, <a class="external text" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.globalwarming.org/index.php" href="http://www.globalwarming.org/index.php">globalwarming.org</a>, were revived by <a title="Consumer Alert" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert">Consumer Alert</a>'s <a title="National Consumer Coalition" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Consumer_Coalition">National Consumer Coalition</a> in April 2004. The website and group were formed in May 6, 1997, "to dispel the myths of <a title="Global warming" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_warming">global warming</a> by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis." <a title="Consumer Alert" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert">Consumer Alert</a> and <a title="National Consumer Coalition" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Consumer_Coalition">National Consumer Coalition</a> are industry friendly groups that oppose regulations on industry and advocate "<a class="mw-redirect" title="Free market" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_market">free market</a>" consumer solutions.According to its relaunch press release, "The new web site contains a searchable archive of the Cooler Heads Newsletter, dating back to 1996, and offers users the chance to subscribe to the newsletter. This bi-weekly publication analyzes climate change news and events through scientific, economic and political perspectives." <a class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.boston.com/dailynews/096/wash/Global_Warming_Web_Site_OfferP.shtml" href="http://www.boston.com/dailynews/096/wash/Global_Warming_Web_Site_OfferP.shtml">[1]</a>Its website states: "The risks of global warming are speculative; the risks of global warming policies are all too real." <a class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=562" href="http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=562">[2]</a>Orginally the group was closely tied to the <a title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, and still features many of its industry-friendly analyses of ecological issues. Former CEI director <a title="Marlo Lewis" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marlo_Lewis">Marlo Lewis</a> chaired the Cooler Heads Coaltion. <a title="Myron Ebell" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Myron_Ebell">Myron Ebell</a>, CEI's Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy, directed it. In March 2001, the nonprofit <a class="new" title="Clean Air Trust (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clean_Air_Trust&action=edit&redlink=1">Clean Air Trust</a> named Ebell its "clean air villain of the month," citing his "ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide."<h2>Members</h2><ul><li><a title="60 Plus Association" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=60_Plus_Association">60 Plus Association</a></li><li><a title="Alexis de Tocqueville Institution" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution">Alexis de Tocqueville Institution</a></li><li><a title="American Conservative Union" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Conservative_Union">American Conservative Union</a></li><li><a class="new" title="American Highway Users Alliance (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Highway_Users_Alliance&action=edit&redlink=1">American Highway Users Alliance</a></li><li><a title="American Legislative Exchange Council" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></li><li><a title="American Policy Center" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Policy_Center">American Policy Center</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Americans for Sovereignty (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Sovereignty&action=edit&redlink=1">Americans for Sovereignty</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Americans for the Preservation of Liberty (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_the_Preservation_of_Liberty&action=edit&redlink=1">Americans for the Preservation of Liberty</a></li><li><a title="Americans for Tax Reform" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Tax_Reform">Americans for Tax Reform</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Association of Concerned Taxpayers (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_of_Concerned_Taxpayers&action=edit&redlink=1">Association of Concerned Taxpayers</a></li><li><a title="Center for Science and Public Policy" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Science_and_Public_Policy">Center for Science and Public Policy</a> of <a title="Frontiers of Freedom" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom">Frontiers of Freedom</a></li><li><a title="Center for Security Policy" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy">Center for Security Policy</a></li><li><a title="Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a></li><li><a title="Christian Coalition of America" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christian_Coalition_of_America">Christian Coalition of America</a></li><li><a title="Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Alliance_for_Responsible_Energy">Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy</a> (New Mexico)</li><li><a title="Citizens for a Sound Economy" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Coalitions for America (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coalitions_for_America&action=edit&redlink=1">Coalitions for America</a></li><li><a title="Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a></li><li><a title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a></li><li><a title="Consumer Alert" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert">Consumer Alert</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Council for America (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_America&action=edit&redlink=1">Council for America</a></li><li><a title="Defenders of Property Rights" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Defenders_of_Property_Rights">Defenders of Property Rights</a></li><li><a class="new" title="English First (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=English_First&action=edit&redlink=1">English First</a></li><li><a title="FreedomWorks" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FreedomWorks">FreedomWorks</a></li><li><a title="Frontiers of Freedom" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom">Frontiers of Freedom</a></li><li><a title="George C. Marshall Institute" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_C.Marshall_Institute">George C. Marshall Institute</a></li><li><a title="Heritage Foundation" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a></li><li><a title="Maine Heritage Policy Center" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center">Maine Heritage Policy Center</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Maryland Taxpayers Association, Inc. (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Maryland_Taxpayers_Association,Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1">Maryland Taxpayers Association, Inc.</a></li><li><a title="National Center for Policy Analysis" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis">National Center for Policy Analysis</a></li><li><a title="National Center for Public Policy Research" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research">National Center for Public Policy Research</a></li><li><a title="National Taxpayers Union" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union">National Taxpayers Union</a></li><li><a title="Pacific Research Institute" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Research_Institute">Pacific Research Institute</a></li><li><a title="Population Research Institute" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Population_Research_Institute">Population Research Institute</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Rhode Island Wiseuse (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rhode_Island_Wiseuse&action=edit&redlink=1">Rhode Island Wiseuse</a></li><li><a title="Rio Grande Foundation" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rio_Grande_Foundation">Rio Grande Foundation</a> (New Mexico)</li><li><a class="mw-redirect" title="Seniors Coalition" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Seniors_Coalition">Seniors Coalition</a></li><li><a title="Small Business Survival Committee" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Small_Business_Survival_Committee">Small Business Survival Committee</a></li><li><a title="The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Advancement_of_Sound_Science_Coalition">The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition</a></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" title="The Independent Institute" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Independent_Institute">The Independent Institute</a></li><li><a class="new" title="Tradition, Family, Property, Inc. (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tradition,Family,Property,Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1">Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.</a></li></ul> <h2>Contact information</h2>The Cooler Heads Coalition
c/o Consumer Alert
1001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite 1128
Washington, D.C. 22036
Telephone: (202)467-5809 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (202)467-5809      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Fax: (202)467-5814
Web: <a class="external free" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.globalwarming.org/index.php" href="http://www.globalwarming.org/index.php">http://www.globalwarming.org/index.php</a>
  <h2>External links</h2><ul><li>FreedomWorks, "<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.freedomworks.org/informed/issues_template.php?issue_id=2287" href="http://www.freedomworks.org/informed/issues_template.php?issue_id=2287">Cooler HeadsCoalition: A Joint Letter to the U. S. Senate on Global Warming Amendments to the Energy Bill</a>," June 21, 2005.</li><li>"<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.nonprofitwatch.org/edf/ncppr.php" href="http://www.nonprofitwatch.org/edf/ncppr.php">Testimony of David A. Ridenour</a>", Appearing before the House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs on Early Action Crediting, July 15, 1999. (<a class="new" title="David A. Ridenour (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_A._Ridenour&action=edit&redlink=1">David A. Ridenour</a>, the Vice President of The <a title="National Center for Public Policy Research" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research">National Center for Public Policy Research</a> was also representing the Cooler Heads Coalition).</li><li>Joel Achenbach, "<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305.html">The Tempest:</a> As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth's climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback", The Washington Post Magazine, May 28, 2006.</li></ul><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooler_Heads_Coalition">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooler_Heads_Coalition</a>===MASHEY?CHC – Cooler Heads Coalition (O5b) ($ likely, indirect)
www.globalwarming.org lists Authors
www.globalwarming.org/about lists current members, most of which are advocacy organizations.
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooler_Heads_Coalition
cei.org/gencon/014,03358.cfm
www.freedomworks.org/publications/cooler-heads-coalition
Activities: A.HOCKX
Organizations: CEI; (members) AdTI, ALEC, ATR, CFACT, FF/CSPP, Fraser, FreeWork, GMI,
Heartland, Heritage, junkscience.com (TASSC via Milloy), Lavoiser, NCPA, PRI, SPPI (essentially,
via Ferguson move), TII … shown horizontally in Table A.6.2.1.
People: Ebell, Horner, M.Lewis; (authors) D’Aleo, Fran.Smith, Georgia,
The CHC has been generally been run by CEI people, and the website paid for by them. Funding is
especially obscure, but some can be inferred from that of member organizations, thus indirectly from family
foundations and ExxonMobil. It might also be funded through CEI, with other organizations doing little
but adding their names Sometimes people gave affiliations as CEI, other times CHC. CHC has a more
complex history than coverable her. Sourcewatch seems to list all entities that have ever been members.
10/11/01 CHC sponsored McKitrick at US Congress.
www.uoguelph.ca/_{rmckitri/research/co2briefing.pdf}02/27/03 CHC sponsored McKitrick at Senate Everett Dirksen Building., email mebell AT cei.org
cei.org/gencon/014,03358.cfm
$1,000s 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Totals
Exxon-MMAN 35 35 72 125 90 70 40 432
Foundations 50 50 100 125 200 150 80 160 180 300 1070
Unknown 96 157 123 322 417 604 1719
Revenue 331 379 328 572 667 944 1498 3221
ExxonMobil-% 11% 19% 38% 16% 10% 4% 13%
Foundations % 60% 40% 24% 28% 27% 32% 33%
Unknown % 29% 41% 38% 56% 63% 64% 53%
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11/18/03 CEI//CHC (Ebell) cosponsored a visit from M&M, introduced McIntyre to GMI.
<a href="http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/188.pdf">www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/188.pdf</a>
Ebell: ―As you probably all know, we have done a lot of these. I think this is one o f the most interesting ones,
because I think we are just at the beginning of what I think will be a ma jor controversy.‖
McIntyre: “My name is Steve McIntyre. I‘d like to e xp ress my appreciation to Marshall Institute and CEI for
paying my expenses down here.‖
Inhofe lawyer Hogan showed surprising interest in tree-ring statistics:
―Question: Aloysius Hogan. I have heard questioning of the statistical and methodological practices associated
with a number of papers and I would like to get an opinion from you both about the level of statistical and
methodological analysis among normal peers. Are the people who are doing the peer review really qualified in
those areas as statisticians or they are just educated laymen?
McKitrick: Now are you talking about the journal peer review or the IPCC review process?
Question: I am talking about the peer review for four or five different cases‖
02/10/05 GMI/CEI held panel: Inhofe (EPW), Ebe ll, O’Kee fe, Horne r, Andrew Whee le r (EPW).
<a href="http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/300.pdf">www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/300.pdf</a>
―The Senator will present four short speeches questioning the four pillars on which the alarmist view of climate
change is based: the 2001 National Academy of Sc iences report, the IPCC‘s reliance on M ichael Mann‘s
discredited ―hockey stick‖ model, the Arctic c limate impact assessment report, and the fla wed data produced by
climate models.‖
05/11/05 GMI/CEI/CHC Cosponsored M&M again.
www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/316.pdf [GMI2005a]
06/21/05 CHC/FreeWork sent letter to US Senate, including Fred.Smith, Ebell, Ferguson, others.