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NCPPR

Mr. John K. Carlisle

July 13th, 2011

Posted in: Environment/Transportation Policy, Housing/Urban Redevelopment/Planning

Director, Environmental Policy Task Force , National Center for Public Policy Research 

777 N. Capital Street, NE, Suite 803

Washington DC

20002 

Work Fax: (202) 483-6902 

Email: jcarlisle@nationalcenter.org 

Home: (703) 486-1557 

Website: http://www.nationalcenter.org 

Biography

NCPPR is a free-market think-tank emphasizing regulatory reform.

Promotes market-based environmental policies through op-eds, policy papers, radio and television interviews, and task-force meetings with other free-market groups as well as congressional staff in order to address legislation. 

Academic Background

B.A.: North Carolina State University (Political Science).

M.A.: Boston College (Political Science) 

Publications or Presentations

"Urban Sprawl? The Campaign Against the American Dream," National Policy Analysis, No. 235, Apr. 1999.

"The Sun Is to Blame for Global Warming," National Policy Analysis, No. 203, Jun. 1998.

"Nature Not Man to Blame for Salmon Population Decline," National Policy Analysis, No. 254, Jul. 1999. 

Issue Specialities

Environment, global warming, greenhouse gasses, endangered species, urban sprawl, smart growth, regulation. 

Calvert Index

Environment/Transportation Policy

Housing/Urban Redevelopment/Planning 

Editor of Organization Trends and Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center

Carlisle was formerly with the National Center for Public Policy Research.

ORGANIZATIONS

**Capital Research Center and Greenwatch**

Source: Capital Research Center website 4/04

SOURCES

Capital Research Center website 4/04http://www.capitalresearch.org

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wikispooks

Like many of the right wing think tanks it works closely many others and the Wise Use groups. According to CLEAR: NCPPR “is considered to be the DC-based think tank most closely associated with the grassroots environmental backlash movement … In effect, the NCPPR appears to act as a bridge between the DC-based think tank element of the backlash movement, including such groups as the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy, and the activist element, including Chuck Cushman's League of Property Rights Voters and American Land Rights Association, and Myron Ebell's Frontiers of Freedom Institute. NCPPR convenes regular ‘strategy lunches’ that feature a who's who of conservative activists and members of Congress.[2]”

Contents

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Funding

According to the NCPPR “In 2002 The National Center had income of $6,674,575 and expenses of $6,899,509 …Our audited figures show that most -- 81.5% in 2002, 93% in 2001, 93% in 2000, 88% in 1999 and 80% in 1998 -- of The National Center's funding comes from small gifts from individuals”[3]

From 1985 to 2002 the NCPPR received some $1,689,100 from 36 grants from just 7 foundations[4]:

Philip Morris has also funded the Center. In 1998 Amy Ridenour wrote to Philip Morris: “Last year Philip Morris was kind enough to support the National Center for Public Policy Research’s website operations with a grant of $25,000. We are writing today to thank you for that support and request that Philip Morris make a grant to the National Center in the amount of $25,000 to permit us to continue our website and Internet operations through 1998”[5]. Other Center projects have been funded by RJ Reynolds[6]. It has also received some $80,500 from Exxon since 1998[7].

Links to Republicans

Co- sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, in January / Feb 2003 in Virginia where David Almasi, the ED from the Center spoke.[8]

In September 2000, the National Center For Public Policy Research and the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) presented their first “Friend of American Freedom Award” to Idaho Congressman Helen Chenoweth-Hage[9], a long-term Wise Use and anti-environmental activist, whose anti-green and anti-government speeches are distributed by the Militia of Montana[10].

Staff

According to internal tobacco industry documents Ridenour is described in a 1995 memo by the Philip Morris tobacco company as “a willing ally”. A Philip Morris states that she had just called his office ‘offering to use any information we can provide [regarding] the current anti-tobacco onslaught . . .. Tom Borelli and I have both been in touch with Amy on various issues and are awaiting proposals for use of an internet website as an accessible repository of PM-related information’”[13]. Philip Morris later provided funding for the website.

Cohen also set up the No More Scare website with Cato Institute “junkman” Steven Milloy. He is also a co-editor of "The Fear Profiteers" along with “The Junkman” Steve Milloy, John Carlisle(now Capital Research Center and ex-National Center for Public Policy Research; Michael Gough, Michael Fumento from the Hudson Institute and Henry Miller from the Hoover Instituteand Elizabeth Whelan from ACSH[17]

Issues

The NCPPR is also a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition and works with the CEI on climate issues. The NCPPR also runs the following “information” centers:

They perpetuate the same old “myths “ and “facts” about environmental issues:

“There is no serious evidence that man-made global warming is taking place”. The footnotes for the section on climate change include references to the same self-perpetuating number of climate sceptics: James K. Glassman (AEI ) and Sallie Baliunas (George C. Marshall); Richard Lindzen (known climate sceptic from MIT; and the Heritage Foundation[19]. The site also has a testimony by Dr. Fred Singer from The Science & Environmental Policy Project, affiliated to Frontiers of Freedom which states “Contrary to the conventional wisdom and the predictions of computer models, the Earth's climate has not warmed appreciably in the past two decades”[20]

The Earth Day site attacks the environmental movement and uses references from the usual suspects: Ron Arnold from the Center for the Defence of Free Enterprise; www.consumerfreedom.com, the front organisation of tobacco and food lobbyist Rick Berman and international contrarian Bjorn Lomborg. One of the facts put out is: “There are many indications that carbon dioxide does not play a significant role in global warming”. One of the many myths is that “Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is dangerous to the environment and would only provide the United States with six months of oil.[21]”

“Envirotruth.org”

The NCCPR also sponsors the website “Envirotruth.org” which was created by Amy Ridenour on 6 December 2002. It has sections on Biotech food, Chlorine, Climate Change, PVC and Perchlorate. It urges people to contact President Putin to “Say no to Kyoto”[22].

The site also has a “Eco-terrorist” section which includes articles such as “Is Greenpeace a tool of state-sponsored eco-terrorism”? [23] The site is an extension of NCPPR’s strategy to use the rhetoric of anti-terrorism to attack environmentalists[24]. To that end it links to ActivistCash.com, a front website run by food and tobacco lobbyist Rick Berman[25].

References

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Global Warming:Enjoy it While You Can

By John CarlisleCopyright 1998 National Center for Public Policy ResearchNational Policy Analysis Paper #194 (April 1998)

Policymakers have been arguing for nearly a decade over what to do about global warming. Noticeably missing from this debate has been any mention of the fact that natural fluctuations in the Earth's temperature, not Man, is the likely explanation for any recent warming.

Proponents of the global warming theory repeatedly cite a 1.5 degrees F temperature increase over the last 150 years as evidence that man-made CO2 is dangerously heating up the planet and will cause huge flooding, severe storms, disease and a mass exodus of environmental refugees. Based on this, the Clinton Administration and its environmental allies want Congress to ratify a treaty that will hike consumer prices 40 percent and cost the American economy $3.3 trillion over 20 years. But the apocalyptic predictions on which they justify these drastic steps are totally unsubstantiated and ignore some fundamental truths about the Earth's climatic behavior.

The fact is, the planet's temperature is constantly rising and falling. To put the current warming trend in perspective, it's important to understand the Earth's geological behavior.

Over the last 700,000 years, the climate has operated on a relatively predictable schedule of 100,000-year glaciation cycles. Each glaciation cycle is typically characterized by 90,000 years of cooling, an ice age, followed by an abrupt warming period, called an interglacial, which lasts 10,000-12,000 years. The last ice age reached its coolest point 18,000 to 20,000 years ago when the average temperature was 9-12.6 degrees F cooler than present. Earth is currently in a warm interglacial called the Holocene that began 10,700 years ago.

Although precise temperature readings over the entire period of geologic history are not available, enough is known to establish climatic trends. During the Holocene, there have been about seven major warming and cooling trends, some lasting as long as 3000 years, others as short as 650. Most interesting of all, however, is that the temperature variation in many of these periods averaged as much as 1.8 degrees F, .3 degrees F more than the temperature increase of the last 150 years. Furthermore, of the six major temperature variations occurring prior to the current era, three produced temperatures warmer than the present average temperature of 59 degrees F while three produced cooler temperatures.

For example, when the Holocene began as the Earth was coming out of the last Ice Age around 8700 B.C., the average global temperature was about 6 degrees F cooler than it is today. By 7500 B.C., the climate had warmed to 60 degrees F, 1 degrees F warmer than the current average temperature. However, the temperature fell again by nearly 2 degrees F over the next 1,000 years, settling at an average of 1 degrees F cooler than the current climate.

Between 6500 and 3500 B.C., the temperature increased from 58 degrees F to 62 degrees F. This is the warmest the Earth has been during the Holocene, which is why scientists refer to the period as the Holocene Maximum. Since the temperature of the Holocene Maximum is close to what global warming models project for the Earth by 2100, how Mankind faired during the era is instructive. The most striking fact is that it was during this period that the Agricultural Revolution began in the Middle East, laying the foundation for civilization. Yet, Greenhouse theory proponents claim the planet will experience severe environmental distress if the climate is that warm again.

Since the Holocene Maximum, the planet has continued to experience temperature fluctuations. In 900 A.D. the planet's temperature roughly approximated today's temperature. Then, between 900 and 1100 the climate dramatically warmed. Known as the Medieval Warm Period, the temperature rose by more than 1 degrees F to an average of 60 degrees or 61 degrees F, as much as 2 degrees F warmer than today. Again, the temperature during this period is similar to Greenhouse predictions for 2100, a prospect global warming theory proponents insist should be viewed with alarm. But judging by how Europe prospered during this era, there is little to be alarmed about. The warming that occurred between 1000 and 1350 caused the ice in the North Atlantic to retreat and permitted Norsemen to colonize Iceland and Greenland. Back then, Greenland was actually green. Europe emerged from the Dark Ages in a period that was characterized by bountiful harvests and great economic prosperity. So mild was the climate that wine grapes were grown in England and Nova Scotia.

The major climate change that followed the Medieval Warm Period is especially critical as it bears directly on how to assess our current warming period. Between 1200 and 1450, the temperature plunged to 58 degrees F. After briefly warming, the climate continued to dramatically get colder after 1500. By 1650, the temperature hit a low of 57 degrees F. This is regarded as the coldest point in the 10,000-year Holocene geological epoch. That is why the era between 1650 and 1850 is known as the Little Ice Age. It was during this time that mountain glaciers advanced in Switzerland and Scandinavia, forcing the abandonment of farms and villages. Rivers in London, St. Petersburg and Moscow froze over so thoroughly that people held winter fairs on the ice. There were serious crop failures, famines and disease due to the cooler climate. In America, New England had no summer in 1816. It wasn't until 1860 that the temperature sufficiently warmed to cause the glaciers to retreat.

The significance of the Little Ice Age cannot be overestimated. The 1.5 degrees F temperature increase over the last 150 years, so often cited as evidence of man-made warming, most likely represents a return to normal temperatures following a 400-year period of unusually cold weather. Even the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the chief proponent of the Kyoto Protocol global warming treaty signed in December 1997, concludes that: "The Little Ice Age came to an end only in the nineteenth century. Thus, some of the global warming since 1850 could be a recovery from the Little Ice Age rather than a direct result of human activities."

Leading climate scientist Dr. Hugh Ellsaesser of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory says we may be in for an additional 1.8 degrees F of warming over the next few centuries, regardless of Man's activities. The result would be warmer nighttime and winter temperatures, fewer frosts and longer growing seasons. Since CO2 stimulates plant growth and lessens the need for water, we could also expect more bountiful harvests over the next couple of centuries. This is certainly not bad news to the developing nations of the world struggling to feed their populations.

Thus, far from being a self-induced disaster, global warming is the result of natural changes in the Earth's climate that promises to yield humanity positive benefits. In the geological scheme of things, the warming is not even that dramatic compared to the more pronounced warming trends that occurred during the Agricultural Revolution and the early Middle Ages. Moreover, there is strong evidence that this long-needed warming is moderating. All things considered, global warming should be viewed for what it is: A gift from the often fickle force of Nature. Enjoy it while you can.

John Carlisle is director of the Environmental Policy Task Force, a project of The National Center for Public Policy Research. Comments may be sent to him at JCarlisle@nationalcenter.org.

National Policy Analysis Paper #194 published April 1998 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 300 Eye St. NE #3, Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-1286, Fax 202/543-4779, E-Mail info@nationalcenter.org, Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited.