Walker, Jl Api

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L.Walker_III">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L.Walker_III</a>

Joe Walker, aka Joseph L. Walker III, was the public relations representative for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Petroleum_Institute" title="American Petroleum Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Petroleum Institute</a> who wrote the 1998 API <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Climate_Science_Communications_Plan" title="Global Climate Science Communications Plan" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Global Climate Science Communications Plan</a> memo laying out plans among the major players to increase public doubt about climate change; the memo was subsequently leaked to the New York Times.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L._Walker_III#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

In 2007, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Society_for_Risk_Analysis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Society for Risk Analysis (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Society for Risk Analysis</a> contracted with Walker to write press releases for papers published in their journal <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Risk_Analysis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Risk Analysis (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Risk Analysis</a>, then edited by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Elizabeth_L.Anderson" title="Elizabeth L. Anderson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Elizabeth L. Anderson</a>, health group VP of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exponent" title="Exponent" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Exponent</a> since mid-2006. One such press release wasEfforts To Boost Climate Change Concern May Have Opposite Effect, Risk Analysis Study Shows<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L.Walker_III#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>, for a paper by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Kellstedt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Kellstedt (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Paul Kellstedt</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sammy_Zahran&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sammy Zahran (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Sammy Zahran</a> and Arnold Vedlitz; the press release appeared Febrary 27, was picked up by columnist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Tierney" title="John Tierney" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Tierney</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York Times</a> on February 29<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L.Walker_III#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Heartland Institute</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change(2008)" title="International Conference on Climate Change (2008)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">global warming skepticism conference</a> started March 2.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L._Walker_III#Walker.27s_response" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Walker's response</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L._Walker_III#Related_SourceWatch_Articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2.1 Related SourceWatch Articles</a></li>

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Walker has said:

The project with which I was involved on climate change for API in 1998, I believe, was never funded and, to the best of my knowledge, never went anywhere.

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I have done no work whatsoever for oil interests since I left API in 1999, and have never done any work at all for coal interests.

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Climate_Science_Communications_Plan_(1998)" title="Global Climate Science Communications Plan (1998)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Global Climate Science Communications Plan (1998)</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L._Walker_III#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> John H. Cushman Jr. (1998-04-26). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/us/industrial-group-plans-to-battle-climate-treaty.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">INDUSTRIAL GROUP PLANS TO BATTLE CLIMATE TREATY</a>. NYTimes.com. Retrieved on 2010-03-20. “Joe Walker, a public relations representative of the petroleum institute who is leading the project, said in an interview that the plan had been under consideration for about two months and was very, very tentative. Mr. Walker said no industry executives had yet been approached to pay for it. But an eight-page memorandum that he wrote shows in detail how some industry lobbyists are going about opposing the climate treaty.”</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L._Walker_III#cite_ref-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Joseph L. Walker (2008-02-27). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/4553" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Efforts To Boost Climate Change Concern May Have Opposite Effect, Risk Analysis Study Shows</a>. E-Wire. Retrieved on 2010-03-20. “McLean, Virginia, Feb. 27 -/E-Wire/-- Mass media efforts to raise American public concern about climate change -- such as Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and the "scientific consensus" media drumbeat - ironically may be having just the opposite effect, according to a new study appearing in the scientific journal Risk Analysis.”</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_L._Walker_III#cite_ref-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> John Tierney (2008-02-29). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/global-warming-paradox/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Global Warming Paradox?</a>. TierneyLab Blog, NYTimes.com. Retrieved on 2010-03-20. “If only the masses could understand the science of global warming, they’d be alarmed, right? Wrong, according to the surprising results of a survey of Americans published in the journal Risk Analysis by researchers at Texas A&M University.”</li>

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