SPPI Sci&Publ Pol Inst

This is not the earlier, pro-public-health <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute%28cellphone%29" title="Science and Public Policy Institute (cellphone)" style="">Science and Public Policy Institute founded by George Carlo</a>; see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute%28disambiguation%29" title="Science and Public Policy Institute (disambiguation)" style="">Science and Public Policy Institute (disambiguation)</a> for the distinction.

I also tend to forget this vs SEPP which is SINGER:

In addition to providing the start-up funding for Big Green Radicals, Bradley gave $85,000 to the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Research_Center" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Capital Research Center</a> (CRC), a group led by former Berman and Company employee Scott Walter. The grant was designated for “general operations,” but it may have been used to support the publication Green Watch. A background document on CRC states that, “Green Watch tracks the money flow to environmental nonprofits and critiques their positions, and those of their allies, including their policymaking ones.” (Capital Research Center GPR, August 19, 2014)Since 2014, the Bradley Foundation has distributed numerous grants to discredit the vast amount of scientific research demonstrating the harmful effects of climate change. In 2014, it gave $65,000 to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_C.Marshall_Institute" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">George C. Marshall Institute</a> (GMI), a right-wing front group largely funded by oil and gas interests. Newsweek <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/global-warming-deniers-well-funded-99775" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">called</a> GMI “a central cog in the denial machine” in 2007.GMI folded in late 2015, so Bradley recommended $50,000 in “seed funding” the following year for its “successor organization,” the CO2 Coalition. The coalition is led by a <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Happer" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">Dr. William Happer</a>, a well-known climate change denier. “We’re doing our best to try and counter this myth that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant. It’s not a pollutant at all,” Happer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Asj-3efMVB8" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 156, 244); text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> at a Heritage Foundation event on energy and climate.Another $10,000 Bradley grant in 2014 for the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSCDGC) went to support its Science & Public Policy Institute (SPPI). A staff recommendation notes that SPPI “has helped demonstrate that no real-world data confirms that floods, draughts [sic], or hurricanes are becoming more frequent or severe, as global-warming alarmists allege. Neither is there any real-world data that sea levels are about to rise precipitously, inundating the world’s coasted [sic] lowlands, as is also often alleged.” (Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change GPR, June 17, 2014)

The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_warming_skeptics" title="Global warming skeptics">global warming skeptics</a> group which appears to primarily be the work of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Ferguson_%28Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute%29" title="Robert Ferguson (Science and Public Policy Institute)">Robert Ferguson</a>, its President; its website draws heavily on papers written by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christopher_Monckton" title="Christopher Monckton">Christopher Monckton</a>.

SPPI describes itself as "a nonprofit institute of research and education dedicated to sound public policy based on sound science." It also proclaims that it is "free from affiliation to any corporation or political party, we support the advancement of sensible public policies for energy and the environment rooted in rational science and economics. Only through science and factual information, separating reality from rhetoric, can legislators develop beneficial policies without unintended consequences that might threaten the life, liberty, and prosperity of the citizenry."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-Our_Mission-0" title="">[1]</a>

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#Background">1 Background</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#Ferguson">1.1 Ferguson</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#Origin_of_SPPI">1.2 Origin of SPPI</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#Funding">2 Funding</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#Personnel">3 Personnel</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#Contact_Details">3.1 Contact Details</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#Other_SourceWatch_Resources">4 Other SourceWatch Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#References">5 References</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#External_Links">5.1 External Links</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2>Background</h2>

<h3>Ferguson</h3>

Prior to founding SPPI in approximately mid-2007, Ferguson was the Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Science_and_Public_Policy" title="Center for Science and Public Policy">Center for Science and Public Policy</a> (CSPP), a project of the corporate-funded group, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom_Institute" title="Frontiers of Freedom Institute" class="mw-redirect">Frontiers of Freedom Institute</a>.

Between March 4, 2005 and May 10, 2006 Ferguson edited a weekly bulletin titled Climate Weekly, then Climate and Environment Weekly and finally Climate and Environment Review, which was published by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Science_and_Public_Policy" title="Center for Science and Public Policy">Center for Science and Public Policy</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

<h3>Origin of SPPI</h3>

The initial media release of the Institute appears to have been issued on June 1, 2007. The release -- supporting the statements made by the then NASA Administrator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Griffin" title="Michael Griffin" class="mw-redirect">Michael Griffin</a> questioning global warming -- also listed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harriette_Johnson" title="Harriette Johnson">Harriette Johnson</a> from the Chicago-based think thank, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a> as a media contact.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a>

From mid-July 2007 SPPI began publishing SPPI eWire, which is identical in content style to CSPP's Climate Weekly, Climate and Environment Weekly and Climate and Environment Review.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a> (SPPI is in the same building as CSPP, though in different offices - SPPI at Suite 299).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a> and CPPR at Suite 2100.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a>

Ferguson founded and named this group approximately eight years after <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_L.Carlo" title="George L. Carlo">George L. Carlo</a> had founded the identically-named, pro-public-health <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute%28cellphone%29" title="Science and Public Policy Institute (cellphone)">Science and Public Policy Institute</a>, to work on issues such as electro-magnetic radiation and health issues.

Ferguson states he was oblivious to the existence of Carlo's group, and that it was only after registering his organization in Virginia that he discovered Carlo's group existed, but by then his group had created the website and printed their stationery.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a>

<h2>Funding</h2>

On its website SPPI does not detail the sources of its funding or outline its approach to disclosure.

<h2>Personnel</h2>

While the SPPI seems primarily to be the work of Ferguson, it also features on it website the work of other prominent climate change skeptics who are involved with one or more other anti-Kyoto treaty groups.

The SPPI website lists its "personnel" as being<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a>:

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Willie_Soon" title="Willie Soon">Willie Soon</a>, Chief Science Adviser</li>

<li>Lord <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christopher_Monckton" title="Christopher Monckton">Christopher Monckton</a> (UK)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Kininmonth" title="William Kininmonth">William Kininmonth</a>, (Australia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Carter" title="Bob Carter">Bob Carter</a> (Australia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Idso" title="Craig Idso">Craig Idso</a>,</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Legates" title="David Legates">David Legates</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_J._O%27Brien&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James J. O'Brien (page does not exist)">James J. O'Brien</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joseph_D%27Aleo" title="Joseph D'Aleo">Joseph D'Aleo</a></li>

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<h3>Contact Details</h3>

Science and Public Policy Institute

209 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Suite 299

Washington, D.C. 20003

5501 Merchants View Square,# 209

Haymarket, VA 20169

Website: <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/" class="external free" title="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/" rel="nofollow">http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/</a>

<h2>Other SourceWatch Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute_%28disambiguation%29" title="Science and Public Policy Institute (disambiguation)">Science and Public Policy Institute (disambiguation)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_warming_skeptics" title="Global warming skeptics">Global warming skeptics</a></li>

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<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-Our_Mission-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-Our_Mission_0-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/our_mission.html" class="external text" title="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/our_mission.html" rel="nofollow">"Our Mission"</a>, Science and Public Policy Institute website, accessed February 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Center for Science and Public Policy, <a href="http://ff.org/centers/csspp/misc/library/index.html" class="external text" title="http://ff.org/centers/csspp/misc/library/index.html" rel="nofollow">"Climate and Environment Weekly Archives"</a>, Center for Science and Public Policy website, accessed February 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Frontiers of Freedom, <a href="http://www.ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20070510/" class="external text" title="http://www.ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20070510/" rel="nofollow">"Climate & Environment Review May 10, 2007"</a>, Frontiers of Freedom website, accessed February 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> Robert Ferguson, <a href="http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/3967" class="external text" title="http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/3967" rel="nofollow">"Scientists Rally Around NASA Chief After Global Warming Comments"</a>, Media Release, June 1, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> Science and Public Policy Institute, <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_ewire_7_12_2007/" class="external text" title="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_ewire_7_12_2007/" rel="nofollow">"SPPI eWire 7/12/2007"</a>, Science and Public Policy Institute website, July 12, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> Science and Public Policy Institute, <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/contact.html" class="external text" title="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/contact.html" rel="nofollow">"Contact"</a>, Science and Public Policy Institute website, accessed February 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> Center for Science and Public Policy, <a href="http://www.ff.org/centers/csspp/misc/contactus.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.ff.org/centers/csspp/misc/contactus.htm" rel="nofollow">"Contact Us"</a>, Center for Science and Public Policy website, accessed February 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> Bob Ferguson, interview with Bob Burton, March 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> Science and Public Policy Institute, <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/personnel.html" class="external text" title="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/personnel.html" rel="nofollow">"Personnel"</a>, Science and Public Policy Institute website, accessed February 2009.</li>

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<h3>External Links</h3>

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Science and Public Policy Institute</h1>

<div class="dablink">For the Science and Public Policy Institute founded in 1994, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlo" title="George Carlo">George Carlo</a>.</div>

The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a United States based organization that describes itself as:

<blockquote>a nonprofit institute of research and education dedicated to sound public policy based on sound science. Free from affiliation to any corporation or political party, we support the advancement of sensible public policies for energy and the environment rooted in rational science and economics. Only through science and factual information, separating reality from rhetoric, can legislators develop beneficial policies without <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequence" title="Unintended consequence" class="mw-redirect">unintended consequences</a> that might threaten the life, liberty, and prosperity of the citizenry.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-0">[1]</a></blockquote>

The Science and Public Policy Institute is not connected to the former Center for Science and Public Policy of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frontiers of Freedom (page does not exist)">Frontiers of Freedom</a>.

The organization's Executive Director is Robert "Bob" Ferguson, who was listed as executive director of the Center for Science and Public Policy in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frontiers of Freedom (page does not exist)">Frontiers of Freedom</a> Foundation 2006 form 990[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] He is also a former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_staff%28politics%29" title="Chief of staff (politics)" class="mw-redirect">Chief of Staff</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressmen" title="Congressmen" class="mw-redirect">Congressmen</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Fields" title="Jack Fields">Jack Fields</a> (1981–1997), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E.Peterson" title="John E. Peterson">John E. Peterson</a> (1997–2002), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi" title="Rick Renzi">Rick Renzi</a> (2002). The chief science adviser to the institute is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon" title="Willie Soon">Willie Soon</a>, PhD an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysicist" title="Astrophysicist" class="mw-redirect">astrophysicist</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoscientist" title="Geoscientist">geoscientist</a>, a skeptic of man made <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming">global warming</a> and proponent of the theory that climate change is caused by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation" title="Solar variation">solar variation</a>. The chief policy adviser is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley" title="Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley">Christopher Monckton</a>, a former special adviser to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>. Further science advisers include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kininmonth%28meteorologist%29" title="William Kininmonth (meteorologist)">William Kininmonth</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M.Carter" title="Robert M. Carter">Robert M. Carter</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Legates" title="David Legates">David Legates</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_D.Idso" title="Craig D. Idso">Craig D. Idso</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_J.O%27Brien&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James J. O'Brien (page does not exist)">James J. O'Brien</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_D%27Aleo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joe D'Aleo (page does not exist)">Joe D'Aleo</a> is the institute's Meteorology Adviser.

The institute has funded a film "Apocalypse? No!" intended to show the errors of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a> documentary, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth" title="An Inconvenient Truth">An Inconvenient Truth</a>. It shows Monckton presenting a slide show to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Union_Society" title="Cambridge Union Society">Cambridge University Union</a> in a vitriolic attack on climate change science.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_note-1">[2]</a>.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>] References</h2>

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-0">^</a> <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/our_mission.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Mission Statement</a>, Science and Public Policy Institute website</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-1">^</a> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article2652851.ece" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Please, sir - Gore's got warming wrong</a>, Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times" title="Sunday Times" class="mw-redirect">Sunday Times</a>, October 14, 2007</li>

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grandia

6 September 07

<h1 class="title"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/the-endocrinologist-the-viscount-of-brenchley-and-the-dc-think-tank">The Oreskes Attack: Background on the Participants</a></h1>

Here is yet more background on the remarkably high-profile battle over a purported paper that has yet to be published, but nevertheless attracted a huge amount of attention from the denier press.

The new paper is said to "update" the <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686">excellent Science article</a> by Dr. Naomi Oreskes who reviewed 928 randomly selected papers on global warming, and found that none questioned the consensus view that human-activity, through the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, is a major contributor the climate change we are now experiencing.

This study has been a sore point for the climate denial industry for a long time. But it seems that a new effort is underway to discredit Oreskes's seminal piece. The latest attack appears to come in collusion among an endocrinologist, a British Lord and a Republican, oil industry-friendly think tank operating in Washington, DC.

The endocrinologist is <a href="http://www.kch.nhs.uk/services/critical-care-surgery/endocrine-surgery">Mr. Klaus Martin-Shulte</a>, who has prepared the paper that presumes to refute Dr. Oreskes's original findings. A consultant in endocrine surgery at King's College Hospital in the UK, Mr. Shulte seems to have spent his professional life comfortably under the radar.

That is, until an article appeared on a site called <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8641">Dailytech </a>about a soon-to-be published paper by Shulte finding that "less than half of all published scientists endorse global warming theory."

Here's where the British Lord and the DC think tank come into play. The British Lord goes by the title of The Third Viscount Lord Monckton of Brenchley (inset), a well-know player in the attack on conventional climate science. Here's <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-and-puzzling-genius-throw-down-gore-debate-gaunlet">some more background</a> on Brenchley.

Brenchley has another role as "Chief Policy Advisor" for a DC-based "think" tank called the <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/personnel.html">Science and Public Policy Institute.</a> In fact, in July of this year Brenchley <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton_papers/consensus_what_consensus_among_climate_scientists_the_debate_is_not_over.html">published a paper</a> in his role with the Science and Public Policy Institute panning Oreskes and her 2004 paper on the scientific consensus on the causes of climate change. A major focal point of Brenchley's argument is the yet-to-be-published article by Mr. Shulte.

So here's the time-line so far: Brenchley and the Science and Public Policy Institute release a report dated July, 2007, containing research findings from a paper that has not yet been published.

Now on the Science and Public Policy Institute's website you can also find <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_reprint_series/open_letter_in_response_to_namoi_oreskes_criticisms.html">"open letters" written by Shulte</a> regarding his research. Seems like the Science and Public Policy Institute has a direct pipeline (no pun intended) to Martin-Shulte.

All starts to seem a little too cozy, doesn't it?

And once you start to look into the background of the Science and Public Policy Institute, the term cozy appears to be too much an understatement.

The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) was founded by a long-time Republican staffer named Robert Ferguson. According to the SPPI website, Ferguson "has 26 years of Capitol Hill experience, having worked in both the House and Senate. He served in the House Republican Study Committee, the Senate Republican Policy Committee; as Chief of Staff to Congressman Jack Fields (R-TX) from 1981-1997, Chief of Staff to Congressman John E. Peterson (R-PA) from 1997-2002 and Chief of Staff to Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ) in 2002."

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1310">Until recently, Ferguson</a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nasa-chief-finds-support-on-yet-another-skeptics-front"> </a><a href="http://www.ff.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=1">worked for an</a> <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=35">oil-industry funded</a> think tank called Frontiers of Freedom. The Frontiers of Freedom are one of the most active groups in the attack on climate science and have received over $1 million in grants from oil giant ExxonMobil.

Ferguson ran the <a href="http://ff.org/centers/csspp/misc/index.html">"Center for Science and Public Policy."</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1310">According to ExxonSecrets, </a>"Ferguson set up the Center for Science and Public Policy in early 2003, after receiving a $100,000 grant from ExxonMobil in 2002. Exxon has continued to fund the Center each year since then, to the tune of at least $50,000 a year."

So what is the relationship between Ferguson, the Science and Public Policy Institute and this new yet-to-be-published study by Mr. Shulte? Who paid for Shulte's research? Anybody?

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SPPI ? – Science and Public Policy Institute (O6c) mid-2007-

scienceandpublicpolicy.org 209 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Suite 299 Washington, D.C. or Haymarket, VA

www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/our_mission.html

―…(SPPI) is a nonprofit institute of research and education dedicated to sound public policy based on sound

science. Free from affiliation to any corporation or political party, we support the advancement of sensible public

policies for energy and the environment rooted in rational science and economics. Only through science and

factual information, separating reality from rhetoric, can legislators develop beneficial policies without

unintended consequences that might threaten the life, liberty, and prosperity of the citizenry….

SPPI meets its educational objectives through timely online publication of white papers, peer-reviewed reprints,

personal briefings, PowerPoint presentations, blog entries, news stories and other educational materials containing

editorials on topics of current concern and digests of recently published peer-reviewed scientific journal art icles

and books.‖

Activities: A.Oreskes, Monckton APS FPS 2008, APS2009 (maybe), A.GATE, A.CRU.Parl.

People: (president) Ferguson; (Chief Policy Advisor) Soon; (Chief Science Advisor) Monckton;

(Science Advisors) William Kinninmonth (AU), Carter (AU), D’Aleo, C.Ids o, Legates, O’Brie n.

Authors of SPPI ―Originals‖ : Scafetta (03/04/10), D’Ale o and Watts (01/23/10), John McLean

(11/20/09), David Evans (10/27/09, Nova‘s husband)), Nils-Axel Morner (10/22/09), Nova (09/24/09),

Nova (07/22/09), David Evans (07./22/09), David Evans (07/03/09), D’Aleo (06/05/09), Nova (02/02/09),

D’Aleo (01/22/09), C.Idso (01/12/09), Knappenberger (10/31/08), John McLean (07/15/08), Richard S.

Courtney (03/12/08), John McLean (11/09/07), D’Ale o (10/14/07), John McLean (09/07/07, 09/06/07),

D’Aleo (07/20/07), Carter (07/19/07), plus numerous pieces by Monckton, Ferguson, SPPI, and ―Staff”,

of which the last two are probably other names For Ferguson.

Organizations: FF/CSPP (CHC member)  SPPI, since Fergusons was ~CSPP.

Funding: unknown, but Ferguson may well have brought ExxonMobil funding from FF/CSPP.

This ‖institute‖ seems to be one person, Robert Ferguson, his website, plus advisors. Think of it as a

recent startup seeking to gain attention and funding. It is certainly a US outlet for Monckton. It seems

akin to GWPF or SEPP, for example. Ferguson had set up an ExxonMobil-funded effort FF/CSPP

2003-2007, then spun off SPPI himself. Those who write “SPPI Original” reports may get paid or may

even help fund SPPI, perhaps. Alternatively, some may be thrilled to publish their work anywhere, since

most of it seems unlikely to pass peer review elsewhere.

SPPI played a large role in a Monckton attack on Naomi Oreskes in 2007[MAS2008]. It was somewhat

involved in APS2009, reprinting a Gould APS-NES piece, via the connection of Viscount Christopher

Monckton‘s article in APS FPS in 2008, and use of quotes from Gould to support that:

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/critical_warming_perspective.html

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/press/proved_no_climate_crisis.html

Also, SPPI published a web piece by Cohen, 08/06/08

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/IPCC_s_case_for_anthropogenic_global_warming_.ht

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint is the SPPI ―Reprint Series‖

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/alt_explanation.pdf Klotzbach, et al

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/east_anglia_climate_data.html IOP to Parliament in UK

Did Ferguson get permission from the authors for all those needed? (Klotzbach, Pielke, Pielke, Christy,

McNider) is copyright American Geophysical Union, but perhaps one of the authors got permission.

Did the IOP give permission to wrap their PDF with SPPI logos and publish it?

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/institute Merriam-Webster says of noun ―institute‖:

“b : an organization for the promotion of a cause : association <a research="research" institute="institute"> <an institute="institute" for="for" the="the" blind="blind">

c: an educational institution and especially one devoted to technical fields ‖

SPPI could be b, but does it do “Science”? Or does it do “Science Bypass” to affect public policy?

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President: Robert Ferguson has 26 years of Capitol Hill experience, having worked in both the House and Senate. He served in the House Republican Study Committee, the Senate Republican Policy Committee; as Chief of Staff to Congressman Jack Fields (R-TX) from 1981-1997, Chief of Staff to Congressman John E. Peterson (R-PA) from 1997-2002 and Chief of Staff to Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ) in 2002. He has considerable policy experience in climate change science, mercury science, energy and mining, forests and resources, clean air and the environment. His undergraduate and advanced degrees were taken at Brigham Young University and George Washington University, respectively. Ferguson served active duty in the US Army from 1966-1970.

Chief Policy Adviser: Lord Monckton, UK: -- Christopher, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, was Special Advisor to Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister from 1982 to 1986. On leaving 10 Downing Street, he established a successful specialist consultancy company, giving technical advice to corporations and governments. Lord Monckton’s knowledge of the science and politics behind “global warming” is noted for its breadth and depth. He has given speeches, lectures, and university seminars in the US and all over the world, is widely consulted by governments, corporations, and professors, and has authored numerous papers on the climate issue for the layman, as well as for the scientific journals. Many of his papers are published at<a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/undefined/" target="_self" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org</a>. His lecture to undergraduates at the Cambridge Union Society on climate change has been released by SPPI as Apocalypse? NO! Currently Lord Monckton has written another major paper, Climate Trends Reconsidered, which demonstrates the startling and ever-growing gap between official predictions of disaster and real-world observations and measurements, all of which – unlike the predictions – are comfortably within the natural variability of the climate.

Science Adviser: William Kininmonth - B.Sc (UWA), M.Sc (Colo State U), M.Admin (Monash U). William Kininmonth is a consulting climatologist who: worked with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for 38 years in weather forecaster, research and applied studies. For 12 years until 1998 he was head of its National Climate Centre; Project Manager of an Australian Government project of assistance to the Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah (1982-85); Australian delegate to the World Meteorological Organization’s Commission for Climatology (1982-1998) and served two periods on its Advisory Working Group (1985-89 and 1993-97). He participated in Expert Working Groups of the Commission and carried out regional training activities in relation to climate data management and climate monitoring; Between 1998 and 2002, consulted to the World Meteorological Organization, including coordinating an international review of the 1997-98 El Niño event and preparation of a WMO publication, Climate into the 21st Century (Cambridge); was a member of Australia’s delegations to the preparatory meetings for the Ministerial Declaration of the Second World Climate Conference (1990) and to the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change (1991-92). William Kininmonth is author of the book, Climate Change: A Natural Hazard (Multi-Science Publishing Co, UK – 2004)

Science Adviser: Robert M. Carter, Ph.D., - Bob Carter is former Head of the School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University (Queensland). He is apalaeontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist of more than thirty years professional experience, and holds degrees from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Cambridge (England). He has held tenured academic staff positions at the University of Otago and James Cook University (Townsville), where he was Professor and Head of School of Earth Sciences between 1981 and1999. Bob has wide experience in management and research administration, including service as Chair of the Earth Sciences Discipline Panel of the Australian Research Council, Chair of the national Marine Science and Technologies Committee, Director of the Australian Office of the Ocean Drilling Program, and Co-Chief Scientist on ODP Leg 181 (Southwest Pacific Gateways). Dr. Carter has more than 95 research papers to his credit.

Science Adviser: Craig Idso, Ph. D., - Now serving as Chairman of the Board of Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, CRAIG D. IDSO is the Center’s founder and former President. Dr. Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University. Dr. Idso's current research focus is on carbon sequestration, but he remains actively involved in several other aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges. Dr. Idso is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Meteorology Adviser: Joe D'Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow - Joseph D’Aleo has over 35 years’ experience in professional meteorology. He was the first Director of Meteorology and co-founder of the cable TV Weather Channel. Mr. D’Aleo was Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and Senior Editor for WSI’s popular <a href="http://intellicast.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.3em;">Intellicast.com</a> web site. He is a former college professor of Meteorology at Lyndon State College. He is the author of a Resource Guide on El Nino and La Nina. Mr. D’Aleo has frequently written about and made presentations on how research into ENSO and other atmospheric and oceanic phenomena has made skillful seasonal forecasts possible as well as the roles cycles in the sun and oceans have played in climate change. He is currently Executive Director of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project.

Doctor David Legates: Professor Legates is a climatologist who specializes in hydroclimatology (water), statistical methods, climate change, and environmental education. His research focuses on precipitation – its measurement, analysis, and assessment of extreme events – as well as statistical evaluation of climatological methodologies. He has earned the Certified Consulting Meteorologist status from the American Meteorological Society and in 1999, he was awarded the Boeing Autometric Award for best paper in image analysis and interpretation. Professor Legates has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and monograph series and has made more than 200 professional presentations. Currently, Professor Legates is the Director of the Delaware Environmental Observing System at the University of Delaware and serves as the Delaware State Climatologist. He also is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and an Adjunct Professor in the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program and the Department of Statistics. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Geography (double major – cum laude) at the University of Delaware in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Climatology from the University of Delaware in 1988. He spent 9½ years as a professor at the University of Oklahoma and 1½ years as a professor at Louisiana State University before returning to the University of Delaware in 1999.

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