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Reaction to Balling's views on global warming[

In the December 1995 issue of Harper's Magazine, Ross Gelbspan described Balling and other global warming skeptics as "extraordinarily adept at draining the [global warming] issue of all sense of crisis."[25] Climate of Extremes was reviewed in Foreign Affairs by Richard N. Cooper, who concluded that "Even if the authors have cherry-picked their scientific papers, this book is a useful antidote to the heavy dose of hype to which the public is regularly subjected."[23] By contrast, The Satanic Gases, another Balling-Michaels collaboration which was published in 2000, received a scathing review fromAmerican Scientist.Reviewer John Firor argued that the book "does not fulfill" its claim (on the dust jacket) that global warming predictions are "simply wrong", that Michaels and Balling criticized the Kyoto Protocol without having read it, and that they quoted a well-known scientist out of context.[26] After Balling wrote an article for TCS Daily harshly criticizing An Inconvenient Truth as scientifically inaccurate,[27] his article was itself criticized as inaccurate by Judd Legum, who said that the article used "misleading scientific arguments." Legum's critique was endorsed by geochemist Eric Steig, a contributor to RealClimate, who said that "All those points are accurate," and that "Some of them could probably have been stronger; that is, Balling is even more wrong that Legum indicates."[28]

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mccain obit:

Kert Davies, originally published on ClimateInvestigations.org 

InsideClimate News’ Marianne Lavelle published a long piece this weekend, chronicling Senator John McCain’s rise and fall as a climate leader. The story highlights a campaign I worked on in 2000, where we asked all the presidential candidates the simple and still pertinent question, “What’s Your Plan?” on global warming.McCain was one of the only candidates that took it on. He went back to Washington in the middle of 2000, having been defeated by George W. Bush in the primaries, and immediately started holding hearings on climate change science.

As always, there is more to the story.  When McCain emerged as “Captain Climate”in the early 2000s, and introduced the first serious bipartisan legislation to cut emissions, he became the target of a multifaceted attack by anti-regulatory free market organizations.  It turns out, many of these organizations and front groups were quietly being funded by ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers.

This pressure may partly explain why McCain later abandoned climate change when he ran for President in 2008 and attacked his colleagues’ efforts during the 2009 push for climate legislation.  By that point McCain had succumbed to the now standard Republican talking points on climate.  Oh, and lest we forget, he also picked Sarah Palin as a running mate and starting down the “Drill, Baby, Drill” path (the opposite of sane climate policy) and the rest is history.

No one has really explained how this turn away from climate leadership really happened. Most commentators attribute it to political choices McCain himself made, without really analyzing the outside pressure that closed in on McCain from 2000 to 2008.

InsideClimate News notes briefly that there was a coordinated effort to oppose McCain’s efforts run by corporate-funded entities.  Climate Investigations Center went back and looked at our records for documentation of thecampaign to the kill the McCain-Lieberman climate legislation as it gained momentum. First introduced in 2001 by the two Senators, The Climate Stewardship Act (S.139) was the first national, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution. This bill eventually became the ground-zero target for climate deniers and corporate interests.

Unfortunately, a month after the first McCain-Lieberman bill was introduced, the attacks on September 11th changed everything. McCain and Lieberman, a neo-con Democrat at the time, were among the first to lead the charge to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, well ahead of the Bush Administration according to many accounts from that time.

By 2003, McCain and Lieberman got back to thinking about climate change together and leveraged the first full Senate vote on their bill by forcing Majority Leader Bill Frist’s handon an energy bill he was trying to pass.

The McCain-Lieberman bill garnered surprising support but lost 43-55, well short of the 60 votes needed to avoid an override under Senate rule.  Corporations saw this as a close call and began a concerted effort to kill the momentum in 2004 (see below). In 2005, the bill was renamed The Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act, and in McCain style, stubbornly brought up for another vote where it lost by a bigger margin, 38 Yea to 60 Nay votes.

I know for a fact that they got blindsided on this.  They thought they had paved the way for success. In a meeting with a McCain staffer after the second vote, I showed them an ExxonSecrets map (similar to the one below) of the organizations and individuals that worked to kill the bill. The staffer knew there were various organizations and companies lobbying against the bill, but had no idea the level of coordination, nor the ExxonMobil funding channels.

[secrets chart]

Was the Exxon Denial Machine built to fight Sen. McCain?

It has always been interesting that our database of ExxonMobil climate denial funding shows a dramatic increase in spending after 2000, which coincides with McCain emerging as a climate champion.

The graph above shows the yearly totals of ExxonMobil’s grants to climate denying non-profit organizations and breaks out the total grants specifically earmarked for climate change between the years of 1997-2006.

Conventional wisdom would suggest that corporate polluters thought they were off the hook with the Bush-Cheney victory over Gore-Lieberman.  Yet ExxonMobil’s funding of climate denial organizations ballooned to its highest levels between 2000 and 2005 as the McCain-Lieberman legislation gained momentum. Between 2003-2005, Exxon wrote grants totaling more than $3.3 million dollars each year to climate-denying organizations.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the leader of theCooler Heads Coalition(CHC) and recipient of over $2 million dollars total from ExxonMobil between 1997-2005, aggressively fought Sen. McCain’s climate leadership in the early 2000s. Aleaked 2003 email from **Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming Policy at CEI, lays out a target list for lobbying against the “McLieberman” bill. FOIAed documents show communications in 2003 between Myron Ebell and the Bush White HouseCouncil on Environmental Quality, where Ebell details the campaign against McCain.  CEI also put out press releases against the legislation, held eventsto debate it, and used the CHC network of climate deniers to wage their campaign.

The Exxon-funded groups were also being funded by the Koch brothers and their foundations.  In January 2003, CEI co-authored a letter with the Koch-funded Citizen’s for Sound Economy to the Bush Whitehouse decrying the McCain-Lieberman legislation.  ExxonMobil gave CEI $465,000 that year according to Exxon documents, the largest Exxon haul by CEI in any year.An unredacted CEI IRS 990 for 2003 lists a $100,000 donation from David Koch himself and only $180,000 from ExxonMobil (probably an accounting anomaly).

United 4 Jobs, DCI Group and Exxon cash

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Following the 2003 vote on McCain Lieberman bill, the corporate forces got their act together.  In 2004, a front group coalition was set up called United4Jobs.org, complete with an American Flag and a hard hat.  Here’s some of what we know:

The United for Jobs website in 2004 said it was “a project of” the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), which received $50,000 from ExxonMobil in 2004, and the National Association of Neighborhoods, which also received $50,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2004 (including $25,000 earmarked for “Climate Change Issues.”) along with the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council).

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Kochtopus Tentacles Ensnare McCain

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_K._Glassman

James K. Glassman is the founding executive director of former president George W. Bush's "action-oriented think tank," the George W. Bush Institute, which will be located at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, along with Bush's presidential library. ^[1] After accepting the think tank position, Glassman told the Dallas Morning News that he was "a serial entrepreneur in the public policy space." ^[2]

Glassman previously served as the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs under George W. Bush. His predecessor was Karen Hughes.[3] Glassman previously served as the chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees U.S. government-funded international broadcasting.[4][5]

Glassman was the founder and long-time "host" of Tech Central Station, a corporate-sponsored, Internet opinion site published by the Republican firm DCI Group until October 2006.[1] He is best known for his prediction that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would reach 36,000 during the last bull market. He was a bit high.

Glassman was also previously a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focused on "Social Security, economics, technology, politics, federal budget, interest rates, stock market, taxes, and education." Glassman also worked as a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service. According to his State Department bio, Glassman received the American Legislative Exchange Council's Warren Brookes Award for distinguished journalism. ^[5]

In 2004, Glassman founded Investors Action, a non-profit advocacy group which claims to promote the interests of small investors -- "America's 53 Million Investing Families," who own stocks, bonds, CDs, money-market funds, and homes.[6]

A former employee complimented Glassman by saying: "He's conversant in many different topics ... and he also knows how to talk like an expert on something even if he doesn't know anything about it."[7]

Broadcasting U.S. propaganda

In April 2007 a White House media release announced that "the President intends to nominate James K. Glassman, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, for the remainder of a three-year term expiring 8/13/07 and an additional three-year term expiring 8/13/10." President Bush also nominated Glassman to be BBG Chair, to replace controversial Chair Kenneth Tomlinson.[9]

In an August 2007 interview, Glassman said of his role as BBG Chair: "I am, first and foremost, a journalist. I have worked in newspapers, magazines, Internet, and television for nearly 40 years. The BBG's entities cannot perform their functions unless they are rock-solid, hard-core journalistic organizations. So, one way I can contribute is to help build and enforce high journalistic standards." ^[10]

In a September 2007 Wall Street Journal op/ed, Glassman referred to U.S.-funded international broadcasting as not "propaganda," but "journalism with purpose." In particular, he presented Middle East broadcasts as important to winning "hearts and minds" in the region:[11]

"In Iraq alone, 71% of adults tune in each week to Alhurra and Radio Sawa, both broadcasting 24 hours a day. Before 9/11, neither of these networks existed. Radio Sawa, which took over in 2002 where the Voice of America's Arabic radio broadcasts left off, uses an approach that mixes a well-researched music format with news and public affairs to appeal to the vast younger audiences in a region where two-thirds of the people are under 30 years old.""Alhurra has been running stories that jihadist-leaning media like Al Jazeera often ignore or distort. When President Bush spoke at the National Islamic Center in Washington, Alhurra covered it live. Recently, Alhurra has reported on freedom of the press in Yemen and allegations of torture of suspects by the Egyptian police; it has also held televised Town Hall Meetings in Washington and Cairo examining the impact of terrorism throughout the world."

On public diplomacy

In July 2003, Glassman was named as a member of the "Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World," which was chaired by Ambassador Edward Djerejian.[12] Members volunteered three months of their time, and in October 2003 released a report titled, "Changing Minds, Winning Peace: A New Strategic Direction for U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Arab & Muslim World (PDF)."

In December 2003, after touring the Middle East and other Arab countries as part of the Advisory Group, Glassman told the New York Times: "I was really shocked by the level of animosity over our policies toward Israel and the Palestinians, even in places like Turkey." ^[13]

In a February 2005 column, Glassman defined public diplomacy as "the promotion of the national interest by informing, engaging and influencing people around the world. ... Of course, policy counts most, and many foreigners simply disagree with our policies - in Iraq, on the environment, on trade. But we have a better chance of winning them over if we explain ourselves well." ^[14]

In an October 2008 "exit interview" about his time as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Glassman said, "I have definitely put more emphasis on ideological engagement, or the war of ideas" than his predecessors. He admitted there are problems with the phrase "war of ideas," explaining: "What we're talking about is engaging at the level of ideas rather than at the level of gunpowder. But there is the implication of 'us' against 'them', which we're trying to get away from, frankly. We think our enemies have this maniacal view of the world where there are just two sides. And our view of the world is, in fact, quite different. What we're saying is that there is one pursuit that we are adamantly opposed to and that involves using violence to impose your will on other people, and killing civilians in the process. Whereas the rest of it, the other alternatives, are manifold and glorious. We think that individuals have lots and lots of choices and it should be left to their imagination and free societies to make those choices." ^[15]

On Iraq

In February 1991, Glassman wrote in Roll Call: ^[16]

Now is the time for Congress to vote a substantial tax on gasoline at the pump. The reasons for the good timing are obvious: Gas prices are relatively low, and there's a war going on that the US, one way or another, will have to pay for.While the primary reason for that war is to stop aggression and to demonstrate to the world the importance of the rule of law and humanity, there's little doubt that its urgency has been increased by the small matter of petroleum.

In an April 2003 column in Capitalism Magazine, Glassman ridiculed the "Stop the War on Iraq" peace protests planned that month. He wrote: ^[17]

Actually, the military might and presidential resolve of the United States are already stopping the war in Iraq. Stopping it by destroying its regime. This is not what Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Howard Dean, Jacques Chirac, Jude Wanniski, Pat Buchanan, Wallace Shawn, Robert Novak and their pals had in mind, but it is the best way to end a war - by defeating an enemy that threatened the peace of the world, a regime that oppressed, tortured and killed its own people.

Glassman went on to call the protesters "clueless," saying "they should be apologizing" because:

Before the war, they told us that 500,000 Iraqis would be killed in Dresden-like bombing, that we would precipitate an eco-catastrophe by pushing Saddam to set fire to his oil wells, that millions of people would flee the country, that thousands of our own troops would be killed, that the Arab "street" would rise up, that terrorist attacks would resume ferociously on our homeland, that Iraqis would tenaciously resist our colonization of their land, that we would become bogged down in urban warfare, and on and on.In fact, none of that has happened. It has been a war unmatched in history, with relatively few civilian and allied casualties and the prime objectives - control of the capital and the destruction of Saddam's regime - achieved in only a few weeks.

Glassman has argued against a federal excise tax increase on cigarettes by concluding that smokers actually save society money by dying earlier than nonsmokers. In a 1998 article in the Weekly Standard, Glassman wrote:

"Understand that careful analysis by Harvard's Kip Viscusi and other scholars has found that, already, smokers save society 32 cents per pack, because they die earlier and don't incur Social Security costs. Taxes, on average, provide another 53 cents. So, someone smoking a pack a day already contributes about $310 a year to the general welfare..."[1]

In a March 2003 column on investing, Glassman cautioned: "While the most likely reaction of the markets to the start of military action in Iraq is a rise in stock prices, it's far from sure." He went on to praise tobacco company stock: ^[2]

A standout is Altria Group, the new name for Philip Morris Cos., which makes cigarettes (Marlboro, Benson & Hedges) and owns 84 per cent of the world's second-largest food company, Kraft (Maxwell House, Jell-O). Altria trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of less than eight and yields 6.6 per cent. Clearly, tobacco companies carry risks, but profits have been rising year after year, and the dividend has gone from 21 cents US a share in 1986 to $2.56 US currently.

On Katrina

In a September 2005 editorial for the Financial Post, Glassman wrote that, with regards to Hurricane Katrina, "the response ofenvironmental extremists fills me with what only can be called disgust. They have decided to exploit the death and devastation to win support for the failed Kyoto Protocol, which requires massive cutbacks in energy use to reduce, by a few tenths of a degree, surface warming projected 100 years from now."

He continued, "Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces." [3]

Affiliations

Glassman's biographical note on the AEI website lists his professional career as:

Books

Contact information

Website: http://www.jameskglassman.com

E-mail: jglassman AT aei.org

Articles and resources

Related SourceWatch articles

References

  1. Jump up↑ "A Deal that Deserves to Die," James Glassman. The Weekly Standard, April 20, 1998.
  2. Jump up↑ James K. Glassman, "There's no certainty war will lift stocks: History rarely repeats itself, especially if investors think it will," Calgary Herald (Alberta, Canada) via the Washington Post, March 9, 2003.
  3. Jump up↑ James K. Glassman, "Exploiting disaster: Environmentalists and some media link Katrina to climate change, but there is no shred of scientific basis to the claim," Financial Post, September 2, 2005.

External resources

Articles by Glassman

Note: Many of the articles posted to the AEI website list the publication date as January 1, 2000. However, it appears this relates to the date of posting to the web, not the original date of publication.

External articles

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http://mediamatters.org/tags/james-glassman

As President, George W. Bush waged war on PBS. Kenneth Tomlinson, who Bush appointed to chair the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, launched a campaign to tilt PBS to the right, including an inept "study"that attempted to demonstrate PBS's alleged leftward tilt by labeling Republican Senator Charles Grassley a "liberal." And Bush wanted to slash funding for public broadcasting.

Now comes the announcement that PBS will air a new television series hosted by the Executive Director of the George W. Bush institute:

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http://www.bushcenter.org/people/james-k-glassman

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James K. Glassman

Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute

James K. Glassman is a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute andChairman at Public Affairs Engagement, LLC.  He is also the Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute.

He served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs from June 2008 to January 2009, leading the government-wide international strategic communications effort. Among his accomplishments at the State Department was bringing new Internet technology to bear on outreach efforts, an approach he christened “Public Diplomacy 2.0.”

From June 2007 to June 2008, Glassman was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). He directed all non-military, taxpayer-funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Alhurra TV.  Glassman was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., from 1996 to 2008, specializing in economics and technology.

He has been moderator of three weekly television programs:Ideas in Action and TechnoPolitics on PBS and Capital Gang Sunday on CNN.

Glassman has had a long career as a journalist and publisher. He served as president of Atlantic Monthly, publisher of the New Republic, executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report, and editor and co-owner of Roll Call, the Congressional newspaper. Between 1993 and 2004, he was a columnist for the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune and continues to write regularly for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and Forbes. Shortly after graduating from college, he started Figaro, a weekly newspaper in New Orleans. His articles on finance, economics, and foreign policy have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and various other publications.

Glassman has written three books on investing, and in April 2012 was appointed to the Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Intel Corporation and a senior advisor to AT&T Corporation and SAP America, Inc.

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http://www:{.**sourcewatch:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}:**.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station

Tech Central Station (TCS) describes itself as a web site "where free markets meet technology". TCS publishes daily original commentary, news and analysis, focused on economics, business, foreign affairs, technology, science, the environment, trade, and culture. Some contributors are associated with conservative think tanks including International Policy Network (IPN), the Sustainable Development Network (SDN), the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and the Scientific Alliance.

Contents

   * 1 History

   * 2 Featured Authors

   * 3 Funding

   * 4 Contact Information

   * 5 Related SourceWatch Resources

   * 6 External links

History

Started in 2000 by James K. Glassman, TCS was published byDCI Group. Some DCI Group clients were also sponsors of TCS. DCI Group is a Republican public affairs consulting and lobbying firm based in Washington DC.

In October 2006 O'Dwyers PR Daily reported that the DCI Group had sold its TCSDaily online journal to the editor of the site Nick Schulz. On its website, TCS states that "on September 19, 2006, DCI Group LLC announced the sale of TCS Daily to its editor, Nick Schulz. As part of this process, our previous sponsorship agreements have expired. Updates about the transition in ownership will be posted on this page as they are available." [1]

Featured Authors

   * Kendra Okonski - During the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, Okonski wrote an article for the TechCentralStation web site, stating that "Africans are sacrificed on the altar of trendy green delusions." Okonski works as co-ordinator for the London-based IPN and as the press contact for the SDN. She formerly worked with the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). [1]

   * Paul Georgia writes on climate change issues, but gets basic physics wrong, indicating that either Tech Central Station's editors do not know basic science or that they do not review submitted pieces. Further lack of focus on scientific principles (as opposed to dogmatic or metaphysical ones) is evidenced by articles promoting the doctrine of Intelligent design. [2]

   * Alan Oxley is a writer and editor of TechCentralStation's Asia-Pacific pages.

   * Sandy Szwarc

Funding

Current & past funders include:

   * AT&T

   * ExxonMobil

   * General Motors Corporation

   * Intel Corporation

   * McDonald's

   * Microsoft

   * NASDAQ

   * National Semiconductor

   * PhRMA

   * Qualcomm

In October 2006, two US Senators, Olympia Snowe, (R-Maine), and Jay Rockefeller, (D-W.Va.) wrote to ExxonMobil's chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, asking that it "end any further financial assistance" to groups "whose public advocacy has contributed to the small but unfortunately effective climate change denial myth." The Senators singled out TechCentralStation as one such group. They wrote that "we are convinced that ExxonMobil's long-standing support of a small cadre of global climate change skeptics, and those skeptics' access to and influence on government policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy". [3]

Contact Information

Tech Central Station

P.O. Box 33705

Washington, DC 20033

Phone: 800-619-5258

Fax: 202-572-6278

web site: www.techcentralstation.com

email: info AT techcentralstation.com

Related SourceWatch Resources

   * DCI Group

   * Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI

   * TSE Enterprises

External links

   * "Tech central station," Wikipedia

   * Andy Rowell and Bob Burton, “Rising Rhetoric on Genetically Modified Crops", PR Watch, Volume 10 No 1, First quarter 2003.

   * Nicholas Confessore, "Meet the Press: How James Glassman reinvented journalism--as lobbying", Washington Monthly, December 2003.

   * Pamela Jones, "A MS FUD Source Confirmed", Groklaw, November 2003.

   * Tim Lambert, "Tech Central Station flunks Physics," Deltoid, May 11, 2004.

* "EDITOR'S NOTE: Digging deeper into criticism of 'Super Size Me,'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 20, 2004: "Glassman was identified as a resident fellow at theAmerican Enterprise Institute (a well-known and respected conservative Washington think tank) and as host of a Web site called TechCentralStation.com, whose publicist distributed the piece to newspapers. What we did not know when we prepared the article for publication was that McDonald's is one of the 'sponsoring corporations' of TechCentralStation.com. A reader made us aware of that Tuesday afternoon.

In a telephone interview, Glassman emphasized that the Web site openly acknowledges the sponsorship connections to McDonald's (along with AT&T, ExxonMobil Intel and others) on its 'About Us' page. 'We don't have anything to hide on that score,' he said. Glassman also said he had never been paid by or received any compensation from McDonald's and that writing about "Super Size Me" was not a conflict of interest. Reminded that TechCentralStation.com had failed to note the McDonald's sponsorship when it distributed Glassman's commentary about the movie and McDonald's, Glassman said, 'I'll make sure that's absolutely clear in the future'" [4]

   * "DCI Sells TCSDaily", O'Dwyers PR daily, October 27, 2006. (Sub req'd).

Retrieved from "http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station"

Categories: Media | Global warming skeptics

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Tech Central Station (TCS) is a now-defunct on-line magazine that served as a platform for a number of high profile hawks and neoconservatives, many of whom played key roles building public support for an aggressive “war on terror” in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

TCSDaily, the offshoot of TCS, began publishing in early 2010 on the website of Ideas in Action, a weekly TV program produced by the George W. Bush Institute and Grace Creek Media, and hosted by TSC founder James Glassman.[[1]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn1)

A veteran journalist and former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy in the George W. Bush administration, Glassman was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He co-authored (with Kevin A. Hassett) the ill-timed 1999 book, Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market, which erroneously predicted the stock market was “undervalued” and would continue to rise sharply in ensuing years.[[2]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn2)

Glassman launched Tech Central Station (TCS) in 2000 as a "virtual think tank," covering everything from the war in Iraq to Milton Friedman's views on health care reform. Its original mission statement read: "The explosion of dazzling technological advances over the last two centuries has brought with it a host of thorny political and public policy questions.

The collision of technology and public policy has enormous implications for our lives and our future. Tech Central Station is here to help provide the right answers to many of those questions with the news, analysis, research, and commentary you need to understand how technology is changing and shaping our world, and how you can make sense of it all."[[3]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn3) Early TCS contributors included Carol Adelman, Ken Adelman, Henry Cooper, N**ewt Gingrich, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, William Schneider Jr., and James Woolsey.

TCS had significant corporate support. Its website, which is no longer accessible, stated, "Tech Central Station is supported by sponsoring corporations that share our faith in technology and its ability to improve modern life. Smart application of technology—combined with pro free market, science-based public policy—has the ability to help us solve many of the world's problems, and so we are grateful to AT&T, ExxonMobil, General Motors Corporation, Intel, McDonalds, Microsoft, Nasdaq, National Semiconductor, PhRMA, and Qualcomm for their support. All of these corporations are industry leaders that have made great strides in using technology for our betterment, and we are proud to have them as sponsors."[[4]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn4)

In December 2003, the Washington Monthly, described TCS as "journo-lobbying"—a new innovation in lobbying "driven primarily by the influence of industry. Lobbying firms that once specialized in gaining person-to-person access to key decision-makers have branched out. The new game is to dominate the entire intellectual environment in which officials make policy decisions, which means funding everything from think tanks to issue ads to phony grassroots pressure groups."[[5]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn5)

According to the Washington Monthly,soon after ExxonMobil enlisted as a sponsor, TCS began running articles attacking the Kyoto accord and the science of global warming. After the pharmaceutical lobby PhRMA hired TCS's parent company, DCI Group (a public affairs firm), TCS columnists wrote editorials and articles arguing against legislation that would allow the reimportation of drugs from Canada.[[6]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn6)

In 2006, TCS was purchased by its then-editor Nick Schulz, becoming TCSDaily.[[7]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn7) In 2008, Schulz, a former political editor on Fox News, became a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, editing AEI’s in-house magazine The American.[[8]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn8) As of 2010, TCSDaily was being published under the auspices of Ideas in Action.[[9]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn9)  

Ideas in Action is described as a “weekly series on ideas and their consequences.” Appearing on PBS affiliates as well as internet channels such as RIGHTNETWORK, the program typically features rightist political figures commenting on both domestic and foreign affairs.

Guests have included Jeffrey Gedmin, a former AEI scholar who heads Radio Free Europe; Dan Senor, cofounder with William Kristol and Robert Kagan of the Foreign Policy Initiative; AEI’s Thomas Donnelly; Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security; former secretary of state George Shultz now based at the Hoover Institution; and former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson.[[10]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_edn10)

The Right Web Mission

Right Web tracks militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.

Sources

[ [1]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)Ideas in Action, http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/; Danny Shea, “George W. Bush Institute to Co-Produce Public Television Show ‘Ideas in Action,’” Huffington Post, December 22, 2009,  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/22/george-w-bush-institute-t_n_400777.html.

[[2]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref) ; James K. Glassman and Kevin A. Hassett, Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market, Three Rivers Press, 2000.

[[3]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)TechCentralStation.com, http://www.techcentralstation.com/ [no longer available].

[[4]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)TechCentralStation.com, http://www.techcentralstation.com/ [no longer available].

[[5]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)Nicholas Confessore, "Meet the Press," Washington Monthly, December 2003.

[[6]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)Nicholas Confessore, "Meet the Press," Washington Monthly, December 2003.

[[7]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)Nick Schuhlz, “Something Old and Something New,” TCSDaily, September 19, 2006, http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2006/09/something-old-something-new-1.html.

[[8]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)AEI, "AEI Scholars & Fellows: Nick Schulz," http://www.aei.org/scholar/136.

[[9]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)Ideas in Action, “TCSDaily,” http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/.

[[10]](http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station#_ednref)Ideas in Action, “Episodes," http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/episodes/2010/10/north-korea-dissidents-fight-for-freedom.html.

http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tech_Central_Station

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FACTSHEET: Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station, TCS

DETAILS

1133 21st St NW Suite M100 c/o Ralph R Brown Washington, DC 20036

Phone: 202-546-4242

Tech Central Science Foundation was formed in late November 2002 (Form 990). The Foundation appears to be a funding arm of the free-market news site, TechCentralStation.com.

ExxonMobil gave the Foundation $95,000 in 2003 for "Climate Change Support." According to Guidestar.org, a nonprofit research tool, the Foundation had 2003 income of $150,000 and $110,903 in assets. The Foundation commissioned a study by Charles River Associatesalleging that the costs of the McCain-Lieberman bill of 2003 would be a minimum of $350 annually per household through 2010, rising to $530 per household by 2020, and could rise to as high as $1,300 per year per household.

Related information: Tech Central Station was launched in 1999 as "a cross between a journal of Internet opinion and a cyber think tank open to the public" (TCS news release). According to Washington Monthly,TCS is published by the DCI Group, "a prominent Washington public affairs firm specializing in P.R., lobbying, and so-called 'Astroturf' organizing, generally on behalf of corporations, GOP politicians, and the occasional Third-World despot."TCS shares office space, staff and ownership with DCI Group. ("Meet the Press" Washington Monthly, December 2003.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.confessore.html) Corporate funders of Tech Central Station include AT&T, Avue Technologies, The Coca-Cola Company, General Motors Corporation, Intel, McDonalds, Merck, Microsoft, Nasdaq, PhRMA, and Qualcomm (Tech Central Station website).

KEY QUOTES

27 April, 2004

"The core issue underlying all climate policy debates is whether politicians and bureaucrats should have the power to regulate America into a condition of energy poverty. The Edison Electric Institute surely believes government should not have such power, which is why it opposes Kyoto and other carbon cap-and-trade schemes. Yet EEI, beguiled by the prospect of turning "voluntary" reductions into easy cash, is leading the charge for transferable credits -- a political force multiplier for the Kyoto agenda of climate alarmism and energy suppression. This is about as sensible as selling the rope by which one will be hanged. The nation's premier electric industry lobby can and should do better."

Source: "Et Tu, Edison?" TCS 4/27/04

29 April, 2004

"There is also enough scientific doubt about the nature and pace of climate change to avoid committing to blueprints like Kyoto that have little effect, except to reduce economic growth. The practicable approach to climate change is research and development of technologies which will contribute positively to reduction of greenhouse gases. They will not have the dramatic effect hoped for by the designers of the Kyoto blueprint. Just as well. But they will be more effective. Poor countries can't afford fancy research and development, but wealthier countries can. Making Asia prosperous is a surer bet."

Source: "Prosperity First," TCS 4/29/04

KEY DEEDS

16 November, 2004

Letter to Sen. McCain November 16, 2004 on Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment Press Release Source: Tech Central Station Climate Experts Respond to Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Tuesday November 16, 10:41 am ET Recent Warming Trend is Unexceptional Compared to Natural Variability in Centuries Past

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Today 11 climate experts sent a letter (please see below) to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) who is the Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee and is holding a full committee hearing this morning to hear testimony on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). In the letter, the climate experts respond to statements made in the ACIA that temperature changes in the Arctic provide an early indication of global warming. The signers of the letter point out that sediment and ice core samples show that the arctic has experienced past warming that can not be attributed to greenhouse gas concentrations. There is also a history of strong year-to-year variability of Arctic temperatures. The letter also calls for the need for advances in Arctic climate science in both models and measurements in order to assess a more complete picture of Arctic climate understanding. The following climate experts signed the letter: R. Tim Patterson, PhD, Professor of Geology at Carleton University; Tim Ball, PhD, Retired - Professor of Climatology at University of Winnipeg; Anthony Lupo, PhD, Professor of Atmospheric Science at University of Missouri - Columbia; David Legates, PhD, Associate Professor in Climatology at University of Delaware; Pat Michaels, PhD, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; George Taylor, M.S. Meteorology; Gary D. Sharp, PhD Scientific Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study; Roy W. Spencer, PhD Principal Research Scientists, The University of Alabama in Huntsville; Jon Reisman, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy; University of Maine at Machias/ Maine Public Policy Institute Scholar, Willie Soon, PhD, Science Director, Tech Central Station and Sallie Baliunas, PhD, Enviro- Science Editor, Tech Central Station.

Source: Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA

FUNDING

Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station has received $95,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

2003

$95,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Climate Change Support

Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report

KEY PEOPLE

James K. Glassman

Host of Tech Central Station

Source: TCS website 5/06

Iain Murray

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Murray

Sallie Baliunas

Enviro-Sci Host, Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Baliunas

Robert C. Balling Jr.

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Balling

David R. Legates

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Legates

Paul Reiter

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Reiter

Willie Soon

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Soon

Patrick J. Michaels

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Michaels

George H. Taylor

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Taylor

Roy W. Spencer

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Spencer

Marlo Lewis Jr.

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Lewis

Bob Carter

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Article - Carter

Alan Oxley

Host, Asia/Pacific; Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Oxley

Carlo Stagnaro

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Stagnaro

Vincent Gray

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Article - Gray

C.C. Kraemer

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Article - Kraemer

Robert E. Davis

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Article - Davis

Charles C. Francis

President/Director

Source: Tech Central Science Foundation 990

Steven F. Hayward

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Article - Hayward

Roger Bate

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Bate

Sandy Liddy Bourne

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Bourne

Paul Driessen

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Dreissen

Michael Fumento

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Fumento

Pete Geddes

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Geddes

Paul Georgia

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Georgia

James S. Gilmore III

"Big Shot" Interviewee

Source: Tech Central Station Big Shot - Gilmore

Dick Armey

"Big Shot" Interviewee

Source: Tech Central Station Big Shot - Armey

Ronald Bailey

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Bailey

Newt Gingrich

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Gingrich

Kenneth Green

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Green

Christopher C. Horner

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Horner

Richard Lindzen

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Bio Lindzen

Steven Milloy

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Milloy

Richard Perle

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Perle

Donald Rumsfeld

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station

Patricia "Lynn" Scarlett

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Scarlett

Malcolm Wallop

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Wallop

Sen. James Inhofe

favorite

Source: Tech Central- Glassman 12/03

Tim Patterson, PhD

Signed letter to Sen.McCain Nov 2004 on Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment

Source: Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA

Anthony Lupo, PhD

Source: Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA

Tim Ball, PhD

signed TCS letter to McCain 10-16-04

Source: Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA

James N. Schulz

Vice President, Tech Central Science Foundation

Source: Tech Central Science Foundation 990

Ralph R. Brown

Secretary, Tech Central Science Foundation

Source: Tech Central Science Foundation 990

Douglas M. Goodyear

Director, Tech Central Science Foundation

Source: Tech Central Science Foundation 990

Justin M. Peterson

Vice President, Tech Central Science Foundation

Source: Tech Central Science Foundation 990

Steven P. Greiner

Treasurer/Director, Tech Central Science Foundation

Source: Tech Central Science Foundation 990

Laurie A. Pieper

Assistant Treasurer, Tech Central Science Foundation

Source: Tech Central Science Foundation 990

Charles Francis

Co-Founder

Source: TCS Website (2006)

PEOPLE

Kendra Okonski

Writer

Source: Kendra Okonski - Sourcewatch

Henry Miller

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Miller

Walter Cunningham

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Cunningham

Gary D. Sharp

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station - Science Roundtable

James J. O'Brien

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station - Science Roundtable

Jon Reisman

Science Roundtable Member

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Reisman

Duane D. Freese

Columnist

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Freese

James Pinkerton

Columnist

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Pinkerton

Michael De Alessi

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Alessi

Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Crews

James V. DeLong

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - DeLong

Ben Lieberman

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Lieberman

Sally Satel MD

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Satel

Joel Schwartz

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Schwartz

Benjamin Zycher

Contributing Writer

Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Zycher

Nick Schulz

Editor-in-Chief

Source: TCS website 5/06

SOURCES

ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report

Public Information and Policy Research

http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4389

Tech Central Station

Murray's description and links to articles on Tech Central Station

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biomurrayiain.html

"Et Tu, Edison?" TCS 4/27/04

Article by Marlo Lewis

http://www.techcentralstation.org/042704G.html

"Prosperity First," TCS 4/29/04

Article by Alan Oxley

http://www.techcentralstation.org/042904A.html

Tech Central Bio Lindzen

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biolindzenrichard.html

Tech Central- Glassman 12/03

Glassman describes Inhofe's work at COP-9 - breakfast interview

http://www.techcentralstation.com/121103F.html

Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Today 11 climate experts sent a letter (please see below) to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) who is the Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee and is holding a full committee hearing this morning to hear testimony on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). In the letter, the climate experts respond to statements made in the ACIA that temperature changes in the Arctic provide an early indication of global warming. The signers of the letter point out that sediment and ice core samples show that the arctic has experienced past warming that can not be attributed to greenhouse gas concentrations. There is also a history of strong year-to-year variability of Arctic temperatures.

The letter also calls for the need for advances in Arctic climate science in both models and measurements in order to assess a more complete picture of Arctic climate understanding. The following climate experts signed the letter: R. Tim Patterson, PhD, Professor of Geology at Carleton University; Tim Ball,PhD, Retired - Professor of Climatology at University of Winnipeg; Anthony Lupo, PhD, Professor of Atmospheric Science at University of Missouri - Columbia; David Legates, PhD, Associate Professor in Climatology at University of Delaware; Pat Michaels, PhD, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; George Taylor, M.S. Meteorology; Gary D. Sharp, PhD Scientific Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study; Roy W. Spencer, PhD Principal Research Scientists, The University of Alabama in Huntsville; Jon Reisman, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy; University of Maine at Machias/ Maine Public Policy Institute Scholar, Willie Soon, PhD, Science Director, Tech Central Station and Sallie Baliunas, PhD, Enviro- Science Editor, Tech Central Station.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news/index_mail.shtml?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-16-2004/0002459044&EDATE=

Tech Central Station Bio - Baliunas

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobaliunassallie.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Murray

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biomurrayiain.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Balling

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioballingrobert.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Legates

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biolegatesdavid.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Miller

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biomillerhenry.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Reiter

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioreiterpaul.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Soon

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biosoonwillie.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Michaels

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biomichaelspatrick.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Cunningham

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biocunninghamwalter.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Taylor

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biotaylorgeorge.html

Tech Central Station - Science Roundtable

http://www.techcentralstation.com/scienceroundtable.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Spencer

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biospencerroy.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Reisman

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioreismanjon.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Lewis

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biolewismarlo.html

Tech Central Station Article - Carter

http://www.techcentralstation.com/050504A.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Oxley

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biooxleyalan.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Freese

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biofreeseduane.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Pinkerton

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biopinkertonjames.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Stagnaro

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biostagnarocarlo.html

Tech Central Station Article - Gray

http://www.techcentralstation.com/040804E.html

Tech Central Station Article - Kraemer

http://www.techcentralstation.com/022504D.html

Tech Central Station Article - Davis

http://techcentralstation.com/051205D.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Alessi

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioalessimichael.html

Tech Central Station Article - Hayward

Don't Worry, Be Happy article 04/22/04

http://www.techcentralstation.com/042204B.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Bate

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobateroger.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Bourne

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobournealexandra.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Crews

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biocrewsclyde.html

Tech Central Station Bio - DeLong

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biodelongjames.html

Tech Central Science Foundation 990

http://www.guidestar.org/Documents/2002/412/066/2002-412066654-1-Z.pdf

Tech Central Station Bio - Dreissen

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biodreissenpaul.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Fumento

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biofumentomichael.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Geddes

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biogeddespete.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Georgia

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biogeorgiapaul.html

Tech Central Station Big Shot - Gilmore

http://www.techcentralstation.com/021600D.html

Tech Central Station Big Shot - Armey

http://www.techcentralstation.com/030100D.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Bailey

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobaileyron.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Gingrich

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biogingrichnewt.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Green

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biogreenkenneth.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Horner

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biohornerchristopher.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Lieberman

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioliebermanben.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Milloy

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biomilloysteven.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Perle

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioperlerichard.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Satel

http://techcentralstation.com/biosatelsally.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Scarlett

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioscarlettlynn.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Schwartz

http://www.techcentralstation.com/bioschwartzjoel.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Wallop

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biowallop.html

Tech Central Station Bio - Zycher

http://www.techcentralstation.com/biozycherbenjamin.html

TCS website 5/06

http://www.techcentralstation.com

TCS Website (2006)

http://www.tcsdaily.com/Article.aspx?id=120905I

Kendra Okonski - Sourcewatch

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kendra_Okonski

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=112

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wiki

TCS Daily is an online magazine with commentary and analysis on current news from a free-market perspective.

TCS is an initialism that now stands for "Technology, Commerce, Society"; when the Web site was founded in 2000, those three letters stood for its original name, "Tech Central Station."

The journal was originally published by DCI Group, a lobbying and PR firm based in Washington, D.C.. In 2006, it was sold to Nick Schulz, who had been its editor since 2001.[1] Before the sale, it was "hosted" by James K. Glassman, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and syndicated columnist. In 2006, he left TCS to become editor of The American; Schulz, while continuing to operate TCS, followed Glassman to The American and soon replaced him as that magazine's editor.

In its original incarnation, TCS was primarily funded by sponsors that included AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, ExxonMobil, General Motors Corporation, McDonalds, Merck, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and PhRMA. However, according to the website, the sale of the journal in 2006 rendered all previous sponsorships expired.[1]

 References

  1. ^ ^a ^b Nick Schulz, "Something Old, Something New," TCS Daily, September 19, 2006.

[edit] External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCS_Daily"

Categories: Online magazines | American magazines

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desmog update

Looks like former tobacco spin doctorDoug Goodyear's DCI Group is getting with the times and letting loose it's controversial TCSDaily project. As many know, the ExxonMobil sweetheart TCSDaily has been a bastion of the climate change denial movement for quite some time now.

You also may remember that DCI Group was embroiled in a bit of controversy lately over a YouTube Al Gore spoof video they produced and posted under the guise of 29-year old amatuer filmmaker.

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4 August 06

ABC News: Gore spoof video linked to Republican/Exxon Spinster

Tags: Al Gore, DCI group, Dci Group, doug goodyear, Doug Goodyear, General, youtube

ABC newsis reporting that a popularYouTube.com video mocking Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, first purported to be created by a 29-year old, was actually created by the PR firm, DCI Group. ABC also rightly reports that the infamous climate change "skeptic" funder ExxonMobil is a DCI client. Coincidently, the DCI group  is responsible for the creation of "Tech Central Station," a forum for climate change deniers that just so happens to have received funding directly from Exxon for so-called "climate change support."

Exxon denies they had anyting to do with the video and ABC reports a DCI representative as stating:

"We do not disclose the names of our clients, nor do we discuss the work we do on behalf of our clients."

This is yet another in a long list of examples of underhanded PR spin being used to attack the scientific consensus on climate change - it is also an extremely amateurish and immature example of PR in general. DCI's unwillingness to disclose the client footing the bill for this sad little video means they're probably raring up for some damage control on this one. This is a bad PR move on the part of DCI, by covering up their client they are only drawing more attention to the story and making themselves and Exxon look all that more guilty.

Of course, questionable PR tactics by DCI are not surprising, when you consider that DCI's current CEO, Doug Goodyear, was also heavily involved as a PR consultant in RJ Reynold's efforts to manufacture a grassroots campaign against tougher tobacco laws.

I guess when it comes to PR and climate change, we just have to keep "smoking" these guys out of their holes. Sorry, bad pun, had to be done.

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