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(PARIS) Funding for climate change denial is drying up. The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a US climate change denial group that espouses the "free-market," has lost more than two thirds of its funding in the past two years, according to tax filings reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

In the most recently available CFACT tax filing for the 2014 financial year—filed in late 2015—the group reported receiving grant revenue of $1.5m, down from roughly $2m it had received a year earlier, but representing a massive drop off from the $5.5m in revenue it reported for 2012.

CFACT Grant Funding

CFACT co-organized a failed climate-denial conference along with the coal-funded Heartland Institute this week in Paris, coinciding with the UN COP21 climate summit negotiations taking place on the other side of the city. As CMD reported previously, only about 30 people turned up to the event, leaving large numbers of empty seats in the modestly sized room.

Both Heartland Institute and CFACT have received funding from fossil fuel interests for many years, including significant funds from ExxonMobil. That funding has now apparently ceased.

ExxonMobil now faces the prospect of civil lawsuits and possible criminal penalties, for allegedly suppressing its internal awareness about the serious risk to the environment as well as to shareholder value, from climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has begun an ExxonMobil investigation, issuing the corporation with subpoenas which are still pending.

According to recent parallel investigations published by InsideClimate Newsand by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism/LA Times, ExxonMobil executives were informed by their own scientistsof the serious threat of climate change as far back as the nineteen seventies, with ExxonMobil using this data to inform its own long term planning. Despite this apparent knowledge, ExxonMobil provided significant funding to groups such as Heartland and CFACT which denied the science.

CMD recently provided the New York Attorney General with detailed information about ExxonMobil's funding of another climate change denial group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Both CFACT and Heartland participate in ALEC, and have provided state legislators with climate denial briefings at recent ALEC conferences.

ALEC is another climate denial group facing dwindling support. As CMD recently reported, the giant utility American Electric Powerthis week became the 107th corporation to abandon ALEC since CMD launched the ALEC Exposed project in 2011, joining BP, Shell, Google and others in ceasing financial support.

- See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/12/12997/market-has-spoken-funders-flee-free-market-climate-denial-group#sthash.RlgfAslt.dpuf

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/12/12997/market-has-spoken-funders-flee-free-market-climate-denial-group

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http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/12/08/climate-denialists-paris-claim-they-are-being-shut-out-while-shutting-out-journalists

Professional climate science deniers and delayers have been busy playing the victim card here at the Paris climate change talks.

As we head into the guts of week two, negotiators at the vast Le Bourget venue are heading into the business end of agreeing a global deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst impacts of climate change.

In The Australian, environment editor Graham Lloyd wrote under the headline “Greens want muzzle on ‘climate deniers’” how environment groups wanted “alternative views on climate science silenced in Paris.”

That’s an interesting choice of phrase - alternative view. Try, wrong. There are some people in the world with an “alternative view” on the age and the shape of the planet, or the theory of evolution and the safety of vaccines.

But you wouldn’t expect them to be taken seriously at a major medical conference or the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Reuters also had a story where Heartland Institute communications director Jim Lakely complained that they had to “make their own space and time” to be heard in Paris.  Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow's Marc Morano complained to Politico that the UN saw the denialists as the “turd in the punch bowl”.

The Heartland Institute, which received $736,000 from Exxon between 1998 and 2006, is ever keen to promote climate science denial, holding annual conferences in the US and abroad, launching “alternative” climate reports and comparing anyone who accepts climate science to tyrants and murderers.

So are climate science denialists and “sceptics” really excluded from the United Nations climate process?

The Committee for Constructive Tomorrow has been granted official press conference time and space at previous climate talks in Lima, Warsaw, Durban, Doha and Bonn. 

CFACT communications director Marc Morano, who launched his Climate Hustle denialist documentary in Paris on Tuesday evening, told me they have a press conference planned within the Paris talks, in an official room, for later this week. CFACT has also had an official booth at the Paris talks.

The United Nations has also granted official delegate status to representatives from CFACT and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, another US conservative think tank that refuses to accept the evidence of the severe implications of fossil fuel emissions.

Yet while the likes of CFACT and Heartland cry wolf over their victim status, there’s an apparent hypocrisy in their claims.

When CFACT joined other groups in a room at the aptly-titled Hotel California (as the Eagles sang, ‘what a nice surprise, bring your alibis’) for a day of denialist speeches, the event was initially advertised as being public.

But when journalists from DeSmog turned up, the event suddenly became private and the journalists were excluded.

I had initially been granted a seat for the premiere of the Climate Hustle documentary, but was later declined.  At the screening event last night (more information about that quite bizarre experience to come), I asked again to be allowed in, but was told it was full.

Dr John Cook, a climate communication fellow at the University of Queensland and founder of the SkepticalScience website, was also told he wouldn’t be allowed to actually watch the film, after initially expecting to be allowed in.

The ideologically-motivated climate science denial that Heartland and CFACT promotes cuts no ice here inside the Paris talks. But that’s not to say it has no impact.

Writing in the New Republic, Jonathan Katz points out how the Republican party’s denial of the science in the US could impact on the negotiations. Negotiators, Katz argues, “know better than anyone that the Republican Congress will not approve any climate change deal President Barack Obama puts in front of them.”

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my writeup from hacksinger:

CFACT not in darkside:

Desmog: [“The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was founded in 1985 to pursue a free-market approach to environmental issues. They describe their role as "relentlessly infusing the environmental debate with a balanced perspective on environmental stewardship."

According to Media Matters, CFACT's main focus is promoting what it describes as "destructive environmental policies," and it has "waged a decades-long war on environmental activism." [1]

CFACTis darkside/crypto on the offensive because it is trying to destroy PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups, named specifically as a problem in the Powell Memo, as was its inspiration Ralph Nader (aside from Marxist Marcuse the only enemy to be called by name?). Nader of course was dangerous because he was successfully challenging the nonsense that seat belts and windshields that didn't breaking into bayonet would bankrupt the automobile industry. Such a threat was the car companies paid private investigators to follow him and prostitutes to try to blackmail him; when he won several hundred thousand dollars in damages for this behavior, he promptly used the money to fund the PIRGs, which of course leveraged it to get even more information about corporate malfeasance. So successful and valuable were these, that universities and colleges all over the country started their own, some even getting funding from the student body. Even worse, students were getting the inspiration and skills to move into politics and activism (e.g., U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky(D-IL), Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, and Randy Hayes of the Rainforest Action Network). The right's reaction was to crank up the incubator, often taking the form of funding rightwing newspapers, but also trying to choke off funding the PIRGs as political (as if the Federalist Society was not). [Cautionary ironic tale: CFACT have an award to Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage, who managed to get elected to Congress from Idaho in the 1994 Gingrich takeover by beating up on her opponent for raising the top tax rate from 34 to 36%, (which led to the first balanced budget in decades and the longest economic expansion in US history); LCV in single digits. She attacked Clinton for his affair, despite the fact she had had her own for six years, but she was a lobbyist, and God had forgiven her.

wiki: “During her tenure, she was referred to by her most outspoken critics as a "poster-child for the militias," and in February 1995 she voiced the suspicion that armed federal agents were landing black helicopters onIdahoranchers' property to enforce the Endangered Species Act, in line with a longstanding conspiracy theory. "I have never seen them," Chenoweth said in an interview inThe New York Times. "But enough people in my district have become concerned that I can't just ignore it. We do have some proof."[6]TheLos Angeles Timeseditorialized that during the campaign she gained national attention by "holding 'endangered salmon bakes' during fundraisers, serving canned salmon to ridicule the listing of Idaho salmonas an endangered species." She was quoted as saying in response, "It's the white, Anglo-Saxon male that's endangered today."[7]“ She did honor her promise not to run for a third term, but after retiring she rented a car and drove 300 miles rather than undergo a secondary airport search. Sadly (ironic part:) she died in an SUV when she was thrown out; those in seatbelts had only minor injuries]

In 2009, CFACT hired Marc Morano, a former spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe, to run ClimateDepot.com. According to Morano, the site was designed to offer research and environmental news that questions the theory of man-made global warming.”end ] Koch, Exxon, Scaife funders. Morano: Hansen will inspire eco-terrorism (equals torching SUV's). CFACT sponsors Climate Depot.

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6/15 uk guardian (beware malish ware)

The secretive funders behind America’s conservative movement directed around $125m (£82m) over three years to groups spreading disinformation about climate science and committed to wrecking Barack Obama’s climate change plan, according to an analysis of tax records.

The amount is close to half of the anonymous funding disbursed to rightwing groups, underlining the importance of the climate issue to US conservatives

The anonymous cash flow came from two secretive organisations – the Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund – that have been called the “Dark Money ATM” of the conservative movement.

The funds, which when channelled through the two organisations cannot be traced to individual donors, helped build a network of thinktanks and activist groups. These worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and are mobilising against Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants which are due to be finalised this summer. In many cases, the anonymous cash makes up the vast majority of funding received by beneficiaries – more than comes openly from the fossil fuel industry.

“The conservative thinktanks are really the spearhead of the conservative assault on climate change,” said Riley Dunlap, a sociologist at Oklahoma State University who studies environmental politics. “They write books, put out briefings and open editorials, bring in contrarian scientists ... They are an immense megaphone that amplifies very, very minority voices.”

Organisations funded through the secretive donors operations are also working to roll back measures promoting wind and solar power and block planning for future sea-level rise in state capitals.

To trace how the money was spent, the Guardian obtained annual tax filings made to the US Internal Revenue Service by the Donor’s Trust and Donor’s Capital Fund and cross-checked grantees with organisations associated with the climate change counter-movement.

In 2011, 42% of funding, or $35.7m, went to groups promoting climate denial and opposed to environmental regulations, according to the tax filings.

In the last presidential elections in 2012, when Obama fended off a challenge from Mitt Romney, that figure jumped to 51% of the funds directed through Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund – a total of just over $49m.

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2013, the last year for which tax records are available, 46% of anonymous funding to conservative groups through the two Donors channels, or just over $41 million was spent that way.

Robert Brulle, a professor at Drexel University who first exposed the conservative network of think tanks and activist groups of the climate change counter-movement, said those funds helped hone opposition to regulations.

“It is a well-oiled, complicated, cultural and political machine of the right wing of the conservative movement,” he said.

In 2013, the two organisations took in just over $152m, distributing $90m to a constellation of groups. However, the ultimate sources of those funds were untraceable, an important consideration for companies or individuals wanting to avoid bad publicity for rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.

“All these corporations that were getting bad press realised they can still fund conservative thinktanks,” Dunlap said. “Exxon or BP can still fund one of these things while doing all these great things on climate change to reduce emissions etc.”

Whitney Ball, the chief executive of Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, said the funds were set up to “promote liberty and help like-minded donors preserve their charitable intent”. She said that grants were made at the request of account holders, not the Donors Trust or Donors Capital Fund. “Our role is to ensure that recommended grants are to IRS-approved public charities, and we require that the charities do not rely on significant amounts of revenue from government sources,” she said.

Almost all of the thinktanks and activist groups on the Donors rolls work on a broad range of topics – and in most cases there was no way of tracking what portion of funding went to climate change related work.

But all of the groups have a record of rejecting climate science and fighting environmental regulations.

“You don’t have to be an outright science denier to try to prevent action on climate change,” Brulle said.

“You’ve got gradation – it’s not real; it’s real but we are not sure how much humans are contributing to it; I am not a scientist. There are all sorts of strategies.”

Funds sent through Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund were allocated to 92 organisations that deny climate change or oppose environmental regulations – but only 24 organisations got donations of $1m or more over the past three years.

By far, the biggest overall beneficiary was the Franklin Centre for Government and Public Integrity, which received $22m over the three years. According to its website, the centre “trains and supports journalists working to detect and expose corruption and incompetence in government at the state and local levels”. It runs a network of online conservative websites in state capitals which are generally hostile to clean energy and pro-coal.

In 2011, the anonymous funding through Donors Trust amounted to 95% of Franklin’s budget, according to an investigation by the Centre for Public integrity.

Erik Telford, the president, denied that there was a conflict between the Franklin Centre’s watchdog mission, and its failure to disclose the ultimate source of its funds.

“As is the case with almost any news outlet in America, we have an editorial perspective, with a mission to expose government misdeeds, advance liberty, and look out for the taxpayers’ interest,” he said. “We welcome the support of citizens who believe in our mission, and afford them the right to privacy as established in the supreme court’s 1958 NAACP v Alabama decision.”

The Federalist Society, a networking group for conservative lawyers and justices which calls on states to reject the EPA authority to regulate carbon pollution, received $8.7m over the past three years.

pix: A member of the Boilermakers local 154 Pittsburgh holds a sign at a rally to support American energy and jobs in the coal and related industries at Highmark Stadium in downtown Pittsburgh, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The rally is being held the day before the Environmental Protection Agency conducts public hearings on its new emissions regulations for existing coal fired power plants. Facebook Twitter Pinterest]

Another top recipient, the State Policy Network, a network of ultra-conservative thinktanks, received a total of $8.2m over the last three years.

Thinktanks allied with the State Policy Network have worked with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a pro-business lobby, which has sought legislation to penalise homeowners who install solar panels.

The Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank whose climate expert opposes cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, took in $7.9m over three years. The Heartland Institute, which sent a delegation to Rome in April to try to upstage meetings between the Pope and the United Nations chief Ban Ki Moon on climate change, received $3.8m.

Another big beneficiary of the anonymous funds, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received $4.3m over three years, claims on its website that climate change is its biggest programme.

“CEI questions global warming alarmism,” the website reads. Last year, CEI sued the White House over a video linking the chill Arctic blasts of the polar vortex to climate change. The CEI has also tried – unsuccessfully – to sue climate scientists.

The thinktank would not respond to requests for comment.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow,whose communications director is Marc Morano, took $3.7m from donors in 2012 – its most ever. A year later, however, the organisation received $325,000.

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aug 2011

Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT Campus, the student wing of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, wrapped up its student climate and energy conference, the Truth 2 Power Conference. The Cable, Wisconsin conference was a direct response to the “dangerous agenda” of PowerShift2011. Apparently, finding solutions to effectively fight climate change and ensure a clean energy future are too much for CFACT’s big polluter interests and they had to fight back.

Truth 2 Power sought to teach participants about “the lies associated with the “Global Warming” agenda” and about “innovative and realistic solutions for tomorrows environmental challenges”.

The conference really represents a grab to ensure dirty energy industries stay entrenched.

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incubated:

Coordinator, Client Strategy
Targeted Victory

June 2014 – Present (1 year 3 months)Washington D.C. Metro Area

National Field Coordinator
Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow

June 2013 – June 2014 (1 year 1 month)Washington D.C. Metro Area

Associate
Charles Koch Institute

June 2013 – May 2014 (1 year)Arlington, VA

First Vice-Chairman
Miami University College Republicans

April 2012 – April 2013 (1 year 1 month)Oxford, OH

Chairman - Miami University
Young Americans for Romney

July 2012 – November 2012 (5 months)

Executive Council Member
Kappa Alpha Order - Epsilon Lambda Chapter

November 2011 – November 2012 (1 year 1 month)

Intern
Congressman Denny Rehberg

June 2012 – July 2012 (2 months)Washington D.C.

Employee
Custom Aerosol Packaging

May 2011 – July 2011 (3 months)Piqua, OH

•Packaging aerosol products on assembly line

•Various tasks involving the labeling of aerosol cans and boxes

•Maintained factory cleanliness and safety through various janitorial jobs

Counselor
Nike Tennis Camp

June 2008 – July 2011 (3 years 2 months)Athens, OH

•Provided tennis instruction to students ranging in age from 10-18

•Ensured the safety and well-being of students both on and off court

•Assisted camp directors in managing off-court activities

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bs nuke

Kelvin Kemm also became involved in the development of training programmes, and he regularly lectures at a variety of institutions ranging from schools to the Defence College. He is also a part-time lecturer in the Management of Technology at the UNISA School of Business Leadership. 

Dr Kemm believes that a healthy economy needs a wide appreciation of the role of technology. As a result of this belief, he became interested in the public awareness of technology and has written over 1000 popular interest articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, internationally. 

He has also appeared in radio and TV programmes in South Africa and overseas and is a regular speaker at public events. Dr Kemm has been involved in many video and film productions in the role of creator, designer, scriptwriter and presenter. TV series that he created include: Curiosity Feeds the Cat; Halley's Comet; The Environment and Packaging; and Impact

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Craig Rucker, Executive Director, Co-Founder

A native of Buffalo, New York, who received his Masters of Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany, Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its executive director. For over 20 years, Craig has provided expertise to a wide range of government, academic, media, and industry forums. He serves as co-host of CFACT’s daily national radio commentary called “Just the Facts” that has been airing on some 125 radio stations from coast to coast since 1993. Rucker has written extensively on numerous environmental policy issues, and his work has been featured in such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Rucker has had primary responsibility for helping build CFACT’s Collegians program on more than 40 campuses across the country, and has attended or brought student delegations to major United Nations conferences in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Cancun, and Montreal. Rucker has a wife and four sons, and currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Marc Morano, Director of Communications

Marc Morano currently serves as Communications Director for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and executive editor and chief correspondent for the award-winning ClimateDepot.com, a global warming and eco-news center founded in 2009. Morano spearheaded the 2007 groundbreaking report of 400-plus dissenting scientists and the follow-up 2008 report of 650-plus scientists dissenting from man-made global warming fears; by 2010, a new 321-page “Climate Depot Special Report” listed over 1,000 international scientists who had turned against the UN IPCC. Morano released his “A-Z Climate Reality Check” report at the UN COP17 conference in South Africa in December 2011.

From 1992 to 1996, Morano served as the television reporter/producer for the nationally syndicated “Rush Limbaugh, the Television Show.” He next served as an investigative reporter for Cybercast News Service and as a reporter and producer for the nationally syndicated television newsmagazine “American Investigator.” In 2000, his investigative television documentary “Amazon Rainforest: Clear-Cutting the Myths” created an international firestorm. During his tenure as senior advisor, speechwriter, and climate researcher for U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), he managed the communication operations of the GOP side of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. His Senate website won the coveted 2007 Gold Mouse Award for being the “Best of the Best.” Morano was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in McLean, VA. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at George Mason University.

Duggan Flanakin, Director of Policy Research

Duggan Flanakin is CFACT’s Director of Policy Research as well as a journalist who has served as a policy analyst for CFACT since 1997; he is responsible for many of the articles found on the CFACT website. Mr. Flanakin began his professional career as a science editor with the now-defunct U.S. Bureau of Mines, and from 1989 through 2005 he served as editor of a high-level, Texas-based newsletter that focused on federal and state environmental regulation and policy. Mr. Flanakin has also served as a Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Arkansas Public Policy Foundation. He has written extensively on environmental education issues, the intersection of environmental policy and human rights, the divide between sound science and junk science, and many other topics. In Texas, he is widely respected for major reports that critiqued that state’s consolidated environmental regulatory agency and that laid the framework for a new Texas Environmental Education Partnership that brought diverse interests together to improve the quality of the science in the classroom. Mr. Flanakin holds a B.A. in History from Louisiana State University and an M. A. in Public Policy from Regent University.

Christina Wilson Norman, Development Officer

Christina Wilson currently serves as Development Officer for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. Previously, she served as the Collegians Upper Midwest Regional Director based in Madison, WI, overseeing chapters in the upper Midwest. Christina graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2008 where she obtained her B.A. in Political Science. She was born in South Korea, adopted as an infant and has lived all over the U.S. and Latin America since. During her time abroad she gained a broad cultural viewpoint and true appreciation for America. At UMD, Christina chaired the College Republicans, founded and ran a Pro Life group, founded and ran a conservative newspaper, and chaired her CFACT chapter for 4 years. As the current Development Officer, she’s excited to be able to help CFACT support its efforts fighting radical environmentalism.

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A. Alan Moghissi

Job Titles:

President, Institute for Regulatory Science

Alex Avery

Job Titles:

Director of Research and Education, Center for Global Food Issues / Hudson

Ben Bolch

Job Titles:

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Bryan Leyland

Job Titles:

Electrical and Mechanical Engineer

Christina Wilson Norman

Job Titles:

Development Officer

Christina Wilson currently serves as Development Officer for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. Previously, she served as the Collegians Upper Midwest Regional Director based in Madison, WI, overseeing chapters in the upper Midwest. Christina graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2008 where she obtained her B.A. in Political Science. She was born in South Korea, adopted as an infant and has lived all over the U.S. and Latin America since. During her time abroad she gained a broad cultural viewpoint and true appreciation for America. At UMD, Christina chaired the College Republicans, founded and ran a Pro Life group, founded and ran a conservative newspaper, and chaired her CFACT chapter for 4 years. As the current Development Officer, she's excited to be able to help CFACT support its efforts fighting radical environmentalism.

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Craig Rucker, Founder, Treasurer

Job Titles:

Co - Founder

Executive Director

Member of the CFACT Board of Directors

Secretary

Treasurer

A native of Buffalo, New York, who received his Masters of Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany, Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its executive director. For over 20 years, Craig has provided expertise to a wide range of government, academic, media, and industry forums. He serves as co-host of CFACT's daily national radio commentary called "Just the Facts" that has been airing on some 125 radio stations from coast to coast since 1993. Rucker has written extensively on numerous environmental policy issues, and his work has been featured in such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Rucker has had primary responsibility for helping build CFACT's Collegians program on more than 40 campuses across the country, and has attended or brought student delegations to major United Nations conferences in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Cancun, and Montreal. Rucker has a wife and four sons, and currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

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Craig T. Idso

Job Titles:

Chairman, Board of Directors, Center for the Study

Cyril Boynes

Job Titles:

Director of International Affairs

Darren Gibbs

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Member of the CFACT Board of Directors

Independent Voting Member

David Evans

Job Titles:

Principal, Science Speaks ( Australia )

David Rothbard, Founder, President

Job Titles:

Co - Founder

President

President of the CFACT Board of Directors

David Rothbard co-founded the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) in 1985, and has served as chairman and president of the organization since its inception. He has provided vision, guidance, and oversight to help build CFACT into a global presence, with activities on three continents and the support of more than 50 internationally-recognized scientists and experts. Rothbard has testified before Congress and various state legislatures; is a regular speaker on college campuses and at policy gatherings in the U.S. and around the world; and has led delegations to numerous UN environmental summits including those in Durban, Cancun, Copenhagen, Cairo, Kyoto, Buenos Aires, the Hague, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. He is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, and his work has been printed or critiqued in such publications as Newsweek, the Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Rothbard is also now spearheading the creation of model demonstration projects in impoverished villages in Latin America and Africa. He is a graduate of Fairfield University in Connecticut, with a degree in political science. He and his wife, Kelly, are the proud parents of three daughters in suburban Maryland.

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Dennis T. Avery

Job Titles:

Director, Center for Global Food Issues / Hudson

Donald Waite

Job Titles:

Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine

Doug Dupler

Job Titles:

Editor

Dr. Terrence Flower

Job Titles:

Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Duggan Flanakin

Job Titles:

Director of Policy Research

Duggan Flanakin is CFACT's Director of Policy Research as well as a journalist who has served as a policy analyst for CFACT since 1997; he is responsible for many of the articles found on the CFACT website. Mr. Flanakin began his professional career as a science editor with the now-defunct U.S. Bureau of Mines, and from 1989 through 2005 he served as editor of a high-level, Texas-based newsletter that focused on federal and state environmental regulation and policy. Mr. Flanakin has also served as a Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Arkansas Public Policy Foundation. He has written extensively on environmental education issues, the intersection of environmental policy and human rights, the divide between sound science and junk science, and many other topics. In Texas, he is widely respected for major reports that critiqued that state's consolidated environmental regulatory agency and that laid the framework for a new Texas Environmental Education Partnership that brought diverse interests together to improve the quality of the science in the classroom. Mr. Flanakin holds a B.A. in History from Louisiana State University and an M. A. in Public Policy from Regent University.

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E. Calvin Beisner

Job Titles:

National Spokesman, Cornwall Alliance for Environmental Stewardship

Fr. Robert A. Sirico

Job Titles:

President, Acton Institute

Gerd-Rainer Weber

Job Titles:

Energy and Environmental Policy Expert ( Germany )

H. Sterling Burnett

Job Titles:

Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News / Heartland Institute

Hardy Bouillon

Job Titles:

Professor of Philosophy

Harry Priem

Job Titles:

Emeritus Professor of Isotope and Planetary Geology

Howard Hayden

Job Titles:

Emeritus Professor of Physics

James Bovard

Job Titles:

Author and Lecturer

James M. Beers

Job Titles:

IWMC World Conservation Trust

Jay Richards

Job Titles:

Senior Fellow / Discovery Institute

Jefferson Edgens

Job Titles:

Professor of Political Science, Director of EGSC / East Georgia State College - Augusta

Jeri Goetz

Job Titles:

Member of the CFACT Board of Directors

Independent Voting Member

Jo Kwong

Job Titles:

Director of Economic Opportunity Programs

John Meredith

Job Titles:

Founder, Meredith Advocacy Group / Member, Agenda 21

Joseph D. DeLuca

Job Titles:

Associate Director, Keck Biotechnology Genomics Services / Yale University

Kate Xiao Zhou

Job Titles:

Associate Professor of Political Science

Kelvin Kemm

Job Titles:

Nuclear Engineer / CEO, Nuclear Africa / South Africa

Leon Louw

Job Titles:

Executive Director, Free Market Foundation of South Africa

Lord Christopher Monckton

Job Titles:

Chief

Policy Advisor

Marc Morano

Job Titles:

Communications Director

Director of Communications

Marc Morano currently serves as Communications Director for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and executive editor and chief correspondent for the award-winning ClimateDepot.com, a global warming and eco-news center founded in 2009. Morano spearheaded the 2007 groundbreaking report of 400-plus dissenting scientists and the follow-up 2008 report of 650-plus scientists dissenting from man-made global warming fears; by 2010, a new 321-page "Climate Depot Special Report" listed over 1,000 international scientists who had turned against the UN IPCC. Morano released his "A-Z Climate Reality Check" report at the UN COP17 conference in South Africa in December 2011. From 1992 to 1996, Morano served as the television reporter/producer for the nationally syndicated "Rush Limbaugh, the Television Show." He next served as an investigative reporter for Cybercast News Service and as a reporter and producer for the nationally syndicated television newsmagazine "American Investigator." In 2000, his investigative television documentary "Amazon Rainforest: Clear-Cutting the Myths" created an international firestorm. During his tenure as senior advisor, speechwriter, and climate researcher for U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), he managed the communication operations of the GOP side of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. His Senate website won the coveted 2007 Gold Mouse Award for being the "Best of the Best." Morano was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in McLean, VA. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at George Mason University.

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Michael Sanera

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Director of Research and Local Government Studies / John Locke Foundation

Nick Nichols

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Principal, CounterPoint Strategies, Inc.

Patrick J. Michaels

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Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Paul Driessen

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Senior Policy Advisor

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, Congress of Racial Equality and other nonprofit public policy think tanks. He writes and speaks frequently on energy, the environment, economic development, malaria eradication, human rights, global warming and corporate social responsibility. His articles have appeared in news-papers and magazines and on news and opinion websites in the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Peru, Venezuela, South Africa, Uganda, Bangladesh and other countries. Driessen's studies and analyses have also appeared in Conserving the Environment (Doug Dupler, editor), 2006, part of the Thomson-Gale "Opposing Viewpoints" Series; Redefining Sovereignty: Will liberal democracies continue to determine their own laws and public policies, or yield these rights to transnational entities in search of universal order and justice? (Orin Judd, editor), 2005, Smith and Kraus Global Publishers; and other publications. He is also the author of the book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death, and the report Responsible Progress in the Andes. Paul received his BA in geology and field ecology from Lawrence University and a law degree from the University of Denver College of Law, before embarking on a career that also included tenures with the United States Senate, U.S. Department of the Interior and an energy trade association. He is active in the Public Relations Society of America's Social Responsibility Section; and is a frequent guest on radio talk shows and college campuses, and at business and public policy forums.

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Pauline Mwinzi

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Principal Scientist / Kenya Medical Research Institute

Peter Holle

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Founding President

Richard S. Courtney

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Independent Energy Consultant ( U.K. )

Robert C. Balling

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Professor, Dept. of Geographical Sciences

Robert Novak

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Professor, Dept. of Global Health

Roger Bate

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Director

Roger Meiners

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Professor of Economics and Law

Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan Distinguished Visiting Professor / Pepperdine University

Sherwood B. Idso

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President / Center for the Study

Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin

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Editor in Chief

Steven F. Hayward

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Ronald Reagan Distinguished Visiting Professor / Pepperdine University

Syrulwa Somah

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Executive Director, Lihede, Inc. Associate Professor, North Carolina a & T University

Teresa Ash

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Member of the CFACT Board of Directors

Independent Voting Member

Thomas DiLorenzo

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Department of Economics

Tung-Ching Lee

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Department of Food Sciences

Vincent Gray, Founder

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Founder

Wendell Cox

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Transportation Consultant

William Gray

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Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science