the real climate stuff
<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps">NASA</span> Speaker?</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also a speaker at the London event and scheduled to appear in Italy is <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas Wysmuller</a>, a member of the <span class="caps">ICG</span>advisory committee. </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Italy conference program, Wysmuller’s affiliation is listed as “<span class="caps">NASA</span> <span class="caps">TRCS</span> Climate Group,” which could be easily mistaken as a legitimate group at the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> space agency.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, the letters “<span class="caps">TRCS</span>” stand for <a href="http://www.therightclimatestuff.com/home.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Real Climate Stuff</a> and is a group of retired <span class="caps">NASA</span> employees who reject the risk of human-caused climate change.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other speakers linked to 2016's London conference and also listed to appear in Rome are <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/nicola-scafetta" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Nicola Scafetta</a> of Italy, Albrecht Glatzle of Paraguay, Jan-Erik Solheim of Norway, and Fabio Pistella of Italy.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mörner, Solheim, and Glatzle also attended the 2016 <span class="caps">UN</span> climate talks in Marrakech as a group. One <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/11/19/skeptical-scientists-crash-un-climate-summit-praise-trump-for-bringing-science-back-again/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate science denial website quoted Glatzle</a> as supporting President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw from the <span class="caps">UN</span> Paris climate agreement. </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That trio, plus Monckton, are also founders of a group known as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/clexit" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Clexit</a>, which claims: “The world must abandon this suicidal Global Warming crusade. Man does not and cannot control the climate.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps">WMO</span> “Not Involved”</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller</font></b></p><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Credentials</font></h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps">B.A.</span> with a dual major in sociology and political science, and a concentration in meteorology at <span class="caps">NYU</span>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></font></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Wysmuller is the owner of <a href="http://www.colderside.com/Colderside/Home.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Colderside.com</a> which he <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-wysmuller/31/759/23b" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">describes</a> as part of the “Public Policy industry.” He gives regular speeches on “The Colder Side of Global Warming.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wysmuller has worked as a meteorologist for the Royal Dutch Weather Bureau in Amsterdam and was an intern at <span class="caps">NASA</span>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wysmuller<a href="http://www.colderside.com/Colderside/Home.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> gives regular lectures</a> on Global Warming to universities, high schools, and public/private organizations.</font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stance on Climate Change</font></h2><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There has been a stunning disconnect involving land temperatures globally and <span class="caps">CO2</span>, whether man-made or naturally sourced. The oceans continue to warm, while the surface record flatlines… . It is obvious that the surface records are <span class="caps">NOT</span> going up - they are basically in a 0.2C flatline …” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></font></p></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Quotes</font></h2><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If <span class="caps">CO2</span> is to be considered a major driver of temperatures, it is doing a counterintuitive dance around the numbers.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></font></p></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Deeds</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 23, 2017</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wysmuller was a<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Climate%20denier%20Paris%20withdrawal%20petition.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> signatory of a petition (<span class="caps">PDF</span>) </a>organized by <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/27/climate-denier-richard-lindzen-300-scientists-trump-usual-parade-non-experts" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Lindzen </a>of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cato-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cato Institute </a>urging <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">President Donald </a>Trump to pull the United States out of the United Nations international convention on climate change (<span class="caps">UNFCCC</span>). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>In just a few weeks, more than 300 eminent scientists and other qualified individuals from around the world have signed the petition below,” Lindzen wrote in the letter. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/27/climate-denier-richard-lindzen-300-scientists-trump-usual-parade-non-experts" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">DeSmog investigated the list</a>, and found that only a small handful of the signatories could be considered “even remotely ‘qualified’ or ‘eminent’ — but not in the field of climate science.” The list included individuals “interested in climate,” and one signatory who only identified as an “emailer who wished to sign the petition” while some signers provided no affiliation or address whatsoever. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 5, 2017</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Wysmuller was a signatory to a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cornwall Alliance</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170119211552/http://cornwallalliance.org/landmark-documents/open-letter-supporting-scott-pruitt-for-epa-administrator/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> open letter supporting Scott Pruitt for <span class="caps">EPA</span> Administrator</a> under the Trump administration. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Mr. Pruitt has also demonstrated understanding of and open-mindedness toward scientific insights crucial to the formulation and implementation of environmental regulation. He is prepared to hear all sides in debates over the risks and benefits of various activities that come under the purview of the <span class="caps">EPA</span>,” reads the letter.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On January 12, 2017,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/13/mapping-epa-nominee-scott-pruitt-many-fossil-fuel-ties" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> Senate Democrats raised conflict of interest concerns</a> regarding Scott Prutt's fossil fuel ties. Pruitt had spent years working to combat the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an open letter to the Office of Government Ethics, members of the Senate's environmental panel commented:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>During his tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma, Mr. Pruitt has blurred the distinction between official and political actions, often at the behest of corporations he will regulate if confirmed to lead <span class="caps">EPA</span>,” the letter said. “Public reporting based on documents produced by Freedom of Information Act requests illustrate how Mr. Pruitt and members of his staff have worked closely with fossil fuel lobbyists to craft his office's official positions.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt was <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/18/scott-pruitt-gets-grilled-fossil-fuel-ties-epa-hearing" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">further grilled on his fossil fuel ties at his confirmation hearing on January 18</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some notable signatories of the Cornwall Alliance letter, as of January 5, 2017, included:</font></p><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tim Ball</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/charles-battig" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Charles G. Battig</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/calvin-beisner" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">E. Calvin Beisner</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/h-sterling-burnett" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">H. Sterling Burnett</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kenneth_Chilton" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kenneth Chilton</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donn-dears" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donn Dears</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/john-droz" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">John Droz</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_E.Enstrom" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">James E. Enstrom</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_Farah" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Joseph Farah</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-goreham" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Steve Goreham</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jay_Grimstead" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jay Grimstead</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/william-happer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">William Happer</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Land" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Richard Land</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-legates" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">David Legates</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Richard S. Lindzen</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-lupo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Anthony R. Lupo</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rod_Martin" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rod D. Martin</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-j-sadar" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Anthony J. Sadar</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Willie Soon</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Roy W. Spencer</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1023" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">David J. Theroux</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-wanliss" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">James A. Wanliss</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-watts" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Anthony Watts</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_W.Wood" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Peter W. Wood</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Thomas H. Wysmuller</font></a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Benjamin_Zycher" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Benjamin Zycher</font></a></li></ul><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 11-12, 2015</font></span></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Wysmuller was a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630170131/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">speaker</a> on Panel 13: “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715162156/http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/63606452" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Right Climate Stuff</a>,” at the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>’s Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (<span class="caps">ICCC10</span>) in Washington, D.C., with <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/harold-doiron" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hal Doiron</a> and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/walter-cunningham" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Walter Cunningham</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View Thomas Wysmuller’s Panel 13 presentation at the Heartland Institute’s <span class="caps">ICCC10</span>, below: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">[vid]</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 7 - 9, 2014</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Wysmuller was a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714154246/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">speaker</a> at the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>’s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (<span class="caps">ICCC9</span>) in Las Vegas, Nevada. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s9" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeSmogBlog has done in-depth research on the other speakers and sponsors from Heartland's <span class="caps">ICCC9</span>, which can be found <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160136/http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March, 2013</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 15, 2013, Thomas Wysmuller, alongside <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/walter-cunningham" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Walter Cunningham</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/harold-doiron" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Harold Doiron</a>, and Heartland President <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/joseph-bast" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Joseph Bast </a>spoke at a panel discussion where they explain “why they are urging government agencies to cease their ‘unbridled advocacy’ of Anthropogenic Global Warming <span class="amp">&</span> Return Integrity to the Scientific Method.” [<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;">10]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2013, <span class="caps">TRCS</span> issued a summary of its findings as follows (<a href="http://www.heartland.org/press-releases/2013/03/08/apollo-7-astronaut-walter-cunningham-headline-right-climate-stuff-event-cp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">according to a press release</a> issued by <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Heartland Institute</a>):</font></p><ol style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The science that predicts the extent of anthropogenic global warming is not settled science.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no convincing physical evidence of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Computer models need to be validated before being used in critical decision-making.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because there is no immediate threat of global warming requiring swift corrective action, we have time to study global climate changes and improve our prediction accuracy.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span class="caps">U.S.</span> government is over-reacting to concerns about anthropogenic global warming.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A wider range of solution options should be studied for global warming or cooling threats from any credible cause.</font></li></ol><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 21 - 23, 2012</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wysmuller was a <a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">speaker</a> at the Heartland Institute's Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (<span class="caps">ICCC7</span>).</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Heartland press release implies that he was a “Former <span class="caps">NASA</span> scientist,” although <a href="http://www.colderside.com/Colderside/Home.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">according to his website</a>, his highest position was as an intern. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 28, 2012</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wysmuller was one of 49 former “<span class="caps"><span class="caps">NASA</span></span> scientists” to sign an <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-11/news/31322407_1_climate-change-nasa-scientists-gavin-schmidt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">open letter to <span class="caps"><span class="caps">NASA</span></span> and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (<span class="caps"><span class="caps">GISS</span></span>)</a> to cease they describe as “unbridled advocacy of <span class="caps"><span class="caps">CO2</span></span> being the major cause of climate change.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We believe the claims by <span class="caps"><span class="caps">NASA</span></span> and <span class="caps"><span class="caps">GISS</span></span>, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated,” the letter stated.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>SkepticalScience</em> <a href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/NASA-climate-denialist-letter.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">published a critique</a> of the letter which was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/12/attacks-climate-science-nasa-staff" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">republished in <em>The Guardian</em></a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s7" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affiliations</font></h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Colderside.com </strong>— Owner, 1999 to Present.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">NAL</span> <span class="caps">JSC</span> Climate Group </strong>— Member, 2011 – 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Walt Whitman Birthplace Association</strong> — Vice-President, 2008 - 2011.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Delta Dental of New York </strong>— Member, Board of Directors (1998 – 2011)</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>New Netherland Museum </strong>— Vice Chair, 1986 – 2011.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">NYU</span> Alumni Association</strong> — Former president, 1990 - 1992.</font></p></li></ul><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Source: </strong><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-wysmuller#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Publications</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a search of Google Scholar, Thomas Wysmuller has not published any articles in peer-reviewed journals on any subject.</font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Resources</font></h2><ol style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s1" id="s1" />“<a href="http://www.iconsf.org/archive/icon28/guest.php?rid=30&id=133" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sci-Tech Track: Thomas Wysmuller</a>,” iconsf.org. Accessed May 7, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s2" id="s2" />“<a href="http://www.colderside.com/Colderside/Home.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Colder Side of Global Warming©</a>,” Homepage. Accessed May 7, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s3" id="s3" />“<a href="http://www.colderside.com/Colderside/Temp%26_CO2.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Recent Temperature and <span class="caps">CO2</span> Disconnect</a>,” <em>The Colder Side of Global Warming</em>. Accessed May 7, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s4" id="s4" />“<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9418654.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Former <span class="caps">NASA</span> Scientists, Astronauts to Attend Heartland Institute Climate Conference, May 21 - 23 in Chicago</a>,” <em><span class="caps">PRW</span>eb</em>, April 19, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s5" id="s5" />Gus Lubin. “<a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-11/news/31322407_1_climate-change-nasa-scientists-gavin-schmidt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">49 Former <span class="caps"><span class="caps">NASA</span></span> Scientists Send A Letter Disputing Climate Change</a>,” <em>Business Insider</em>, April 11, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s6" id="s6" />“<a href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/NASA-climate-denialist-letter.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="caps"><span class="caps">NASA</span></span> Climate 'Skeptics' Respond with Science! Just Kidding</a>,” <em>SkepticalScience</em>, April 12, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s7" id="s7" />“<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/12/attacks-climate-science-nasa-staff" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Attacks on climate science by former <span class="caps"><span class="caps">NASA</span></span> staff shouldn't be taken seriously</a>,” <em>The Guardian</em>, April 12, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s8" id="s8" />“<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-wysmuller/31/759/23b" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Tom Wysmuller</a>,” Profile at LinkedIn. Accessed May, 2012.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s9" id="s9" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160136/http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Return of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest</a>,” </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">DeSmogBlog</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">, July 7, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.</span></font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;"><a name="s10" id="s10" /></span><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">Jim Lakely. “</span><a href="https://www.heartland.org/press-releases/2013/03/08/apollo-7-astronaut-walter-cunningham-headline-right-climate-stuff-event-cp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 17.6px;">Apollo 7 Astronaut Walter Cunningham to Headline 'Right Climate Stuff' Event at <span class="caps">CPAC</span> 2013</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">,” The Heartland Institute, March 8, 2013.</span></font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s11" id="s11" /><span style="line-height: 1.1em;">“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630170131/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Speakers</a>,” Heartland Institute. Archived June 30, 2015.</span></font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s12" id="s12" /><span style="line-height: 1.1em;">“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715162156/http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/63606452" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Panel 13: The Right Climate Stuff with Walter Cunningham, Tom Wysmuller, and Hal Doiron</a>,” Heartland Institute, June 12, 2015. Archived July 15, 2015.</span></font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="s13" name="s13" />“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170119211552/http://cornwallalliance.org/landmark-documents/open-letter-supporting-scott-pruitt-for-epa-administrator/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Open Letter Supporting Scott Pruitt for <span class="caps">EPA</span> Administrator</a>,” <em>Cornwall Alliance</em>, January 5, 2017. Archived January 19, 2017. Archive.is <span class="caps">URL</span>: <a href="https://archive.is/xMash" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/xMash</a></font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="s14" name="s14" />Ben Jervey. “<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/13/mapping-epa-nominee-scott-pruitt-many-fossil-fuel-ties" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mapping <span class="caps">EPA</span> Nominee Scott Pruitt's Many Fossil Fuel Tie</a>s,” <em>DeSmog,</em> January 13, 2017.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="s15" name="s15" />Ben Jervey and Steve Horn. “<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/18/scott-pruitt-gets-grilled-fossil-fuel-ties-epa-hearing" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="caps">EPA</span> Nominee Scott Pruitt Gets Grilled on Fossil Fuel Ties at Confirmation Hearing,”</a> <em>DeSmog</em>, January 18, 2017.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Climate%20denier%20Paris%20withdrawal%20petition.pdf" id="s16" name="s16" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span><span class="caps">PETITION</span>” (<span class="caps">PDF</span>),</a> February 23, 2017. Richard Lindzen. <span class="caps">PDF</span> Archived at DeSmog.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="s17" name="s17" />Graham Readfearn. “<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/27/climate-denier-richard-lindzen-300-scientists-trump-usual-parade-non-experts" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Climate Science Denier Richard Lindzen's List of 300 “Scientists” Sent to Trump Is the Usual Parade of Non-Experts</a>,” <em>DeSmog</em>, February 27, 2017.</font></p></li></ol></div></div></div><div id="block-views-posts-by-rogue-block" class="block block-views last even" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-top: 1.5em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);"><h2 class="block__title block-title" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related Posts</font></h2><div class="view view-posts-by-rogue view-id-posts_by_rogue view-display-id-block view-dom-id-fd6bfed92e6c79a56050aea2542390a4"><div class="view-content"><div class="item-list"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/05/31/wmo-eu-reject-omics-conference-hijacked-climate-science-deniers" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exclusive: UN, EU Agencies Reject Ties to Conference Hijacked by Climate Science Deniers</font></a></span></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="padding: 1.5em 0px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="field-label" style="text-transform: uppercase; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TAGS: </font></div><div class="field-items" style="display: inline;"><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/913">global warming</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/939">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2540">desmogblog</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2560">global warming blog</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2654">denial industry</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3068">climate change denier</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4046">global warming research</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4047">climate misinformation</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5721">smogger</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/6886">climate change skeptic</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7705">climate denialism</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7706">denial database</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/9062">Heartland Institute Seventh International Conference on Climate Change</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/9088">Thomas Wysmuller</a></div></div></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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