Green, Ken

==AEI, the Fraser Institute and the Reason Foundation have all received significant funding from <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">ExxonMobil</a>.fraser paper, exxon $?Tim Ball

Dr. Tim Ball, one of the first Canadians to hold a Ph.D. in climatology, wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of

London (England) using the remarkable records of the Hudson’s Bay Company to reconstruct climate change from

74 to 952. He has published numerous articles on climate change and its impact on the human condition. Dr Ball

has served on numerous committees at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels on climate, water resources, and

environmental issues. He was a professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years. He has written

a regular column on weather in the agricultural magazine, Country Guide, for 4 years. He is currently working as

an environmental consultant and public speaker based in Victoria and has written, with Dr Stuart Houston, 8th

Century Naturalists on Hudson Bay, a book on the science and climate of the fur trade (McGill-Queens University

Press, 2003). Kenneth Green

Dr. Kenneth Green is Chief Scientist and Director of the Fraser Institute Risk and Environment Centre. He has

written numerous articles, monographs, encyclopedia chapters, and textbooks on the science and policy of climate

change, and served as an expert reviewer for the landmark report of the 200 United Nations’ Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as well as for a special IPCC report on aviation and climate change. Dr Green is

the author of Global Warming, Understanding the Debate, a textbook that was recommended by the US National

Science Teachers Association. He holds a doctoral degree in environmental science and engineering from the University

of California, Los Angeles. Steven Schroeder

Dr Steven Schroeder is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University

in College Station, Texas. He is currently researching global climatic changes in the upper air over the last

few decades, focusing on identifying and correcting for changes in instrument types to determine correct trends of

water vapour in the atmosphere. Dr Schroeder has a doctoral degree in meteorology from Texas A&M University and

a master’s degree in operations research from the United States Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton, Ohio.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Chip Knappenberger of New Hope Environmen...looks legit, turned down 10K$2000 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013%3C3337%3ADVITWV%3E2.0.CO%3B2===<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Other_SourceWatch_Resources">SourceWatch</a>Kenneth P. Green is a resident scholar at the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a> (AEI), where he "studies public policy related to energy and the environment."<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_note-Bio-0" title="">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Career_summary">1 Career summary</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Other_affiliations">1.1 Other affiliations</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Education_and_early_career">2 Education and early career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Reason_Foundation_.281994-2002.29">3 Reason Foundation (1994-2002)</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Fraser_Institute_.282002-2005.29">4 Fraser Institute (2002-2005)</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#American_Enterprise_Institute_.282006-.29">5 American Enterprise Institute (2006-)</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Articles_and_Resources">6 Articles and Resources</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#Other_SourceWatch_Resources">6.1 Other SourceWatch Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#References">6.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#External_links">6.3 External links</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2>Career summary</h2>

According to his AEI biography, Kenneth Green has held the following positions<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_note-Bio-0" title="">[1]</a>:

<ul>

<li>Resident Scholar, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a>, 2006-</li>

<li>Executive Director, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Literacy_Council" title="Environmental Literacy Council">Environmental Literacy Council</a>, 2005-2006</li>

<li>Chief Scientist, Director of Centre for Studies in Risk, Regulation, and Environment, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute" title="Fraser Institute">Fraser Institute</a>, 2002-2005</li>

<li>Chief Scientist, Director of Environmental Program, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundation" title="Reason Foundation" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Reason Foundation</a>, 1994-2002</li>

<li>Environmental Program Analyst/writer, Hughes Aircraft Company Corporate Office, 1990-1994</li>

</ul>

AEI, the Fraser Institute and the Reason Foundation have all received significant funding from <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a>.

<h3>Other affiliations</h3>

<ul>

<li>Green has been an advisor for the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_on_Science_and_Health" title="American Council on Science and Health">American Council on Science and Health</a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> since 2003.</li>

</ul>

<h2>Education and early career</h2>

Kenneth Green earned the following degrees:

<ul>

<li>D.Env. (Doctor of Environmental Science and Engineering), University of California, Los Angeles, 1994</li>

<li>M.S. (Genetics), San Diego State University, 1988</li>

<li>B.S. (Biology), University of California, Los Angeles, 1983</li>

</ul>

He was Environmental Program analyst/writer for the Hughes Aircraft Company from 1990 to 1994.

<h2>Reason Foundation (1994-2002)</h2>

<h2>Fraser Institute (2002-2005)</h2>

Kenneth Green held the positions of Chief Scientist and Director of Centre for Studies in Risk, Regulation, and Environment at the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute" title="Fraser Institute">Fraser Institute</a> from 2002 to 2005. While at the Institute, Kenneth Green published many anti-Kyoto and climate change skeptical articles, notably the "Science Isn't Settled: The limitations of climate change models",<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a> together with <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball" title="Tim Ball">Tim Ball</a> and Steven Schroeder. He contributed an article called "Kyoto Krazy" to the Fraser Forum for January 2003, entitled The Politics, Science and Economics of Kyoto.<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_note-Krazy-3" title="">[4]</a>

This latter article contains a representative statement of Kenneth Green's position on climate change as of 2003: "But other scientists, in both Canada and the United States, have shown that the threat of global warming is overstated by the United Nations (McKitrick and Essex, 2002). Indeed, scientists such as Harvard University’s <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sallie_L._Baliunas" title="Sallie L. Baliunas">Sallie L. Baliunas</a> explain that most observed global warming has been a natural, and largely beneficent phenomenon, primarily related to the increase of energy output from the sun (Soon, Baliunas et al., 2001)."<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_note-Krazy-3" title="">[4]</a>

As reported in the Vancouver Sun<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a>: "The Fraser Institute received $120,000 US from ExxonMobil in 2003-'04, according to the company's annual report. [Fraser Institute President Michael] Walker said the funding paid for the work of researcher Ken Green."

<h2>American Enterprise Institute (2006-)</h2>

<h2>Articles and Resources</h2>

<h3>Other SourceWatch Resources</h3>

<ul>

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

<li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change_skeptics" title="Climate change skeptics" class="mw-redirect">Global warming skeptics</a></li>

<li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tanks" title="Think tanks">Think tanks</a></li>

<li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Literacy_Council" title="Environmental Literacy Council">Environmental Literacy Council</a></li>

<li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute" title="Fraser Institute">Fraser Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundation" title="Reason Foundation">Reason Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_on_Science_and_Health" title="American Council on Science and Health">American Council on Science and Health</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-Bio-0">↑ <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_ref-Bio_0-0" title="">1.0</a> <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_ref-Bio_0-1" title="">1.1</a> <a href="http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.112,filter.all/scholar.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.112,filter.all/scholar.asp" rel="nofollow">"Kenneth P. Green: Resident Scholar"</a>, American Enterprise Institute, accessed October 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.acsh.org/about/pageID.89/default.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.acsh.org/about/pageID.89/default.asp" rel="nofollow">Scientific Advisors</a>. American Council on Science and Health. Retrieved on 2010-01-12.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.fraserinstitute.org/researchandpublications/publications/2979.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www.fraserinstitute.org/researchandpublications/publications/2979.aspx" rel="nofollow">"Science Isn't Settled: The limitations of climate change models"</a>, July 1, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Krazy-3">↑ <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_ref-Krazy_3-0" title="">4.0</a> <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_ref-Krazy_3-1" title="">4.1</a> Kenneth Green, <a href="http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.Web/product_files/Kyoto%20Krazy-Green.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.Web/product_files/Kyoto%20Krazy-Green.pdf" rel="nofollow">"Kyoto Krazy"</a>, Fraser Institute, January 2003, pages 6-7.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> Peter O'Neil, <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4399cb65-c847-4d63-ac8c-21c045ec90ed&k=50786" class="external text" title="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4399cb65-c847-4d63-ac8c-21c045ec90ed&k=50786" rel="nofollow">"Climate-change "skeptics hopeful Harper accepts their view"</a>, Vancouver Sun, October 16, 2006.</li>

</ol>

</div>

<h3>External links</h3>

<ul>

<li>"<a href="http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.112,filter.all/scholar.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.112,filter.all/scholar.asp" rel="nofollow">Kenneth P. Green, Resident Scholar</a>", American Enterprise Institute, undated, accessed January 2007.</li>

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American Enterprise Institute attacks the Third Assessment Report

Early copies of the TAR were leaked long before they were finalised and published, prompting an early attack

by the denial industry.

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research’s69 ($2.1 million from ExxonMobil since 199870)

Kenneth Green was central to this strategy. He wrote several articles over the year before the TAR was

released, attacking the models and labelling the process political.71

He wrote in 2001 that ‘IPCC, a political organisation, produces the policy guidance documents that dominate

international policy discussions. The reports of the IPCC are portrayed as scientific documents. Yet IPCC

reports are outlined by governmental representatives … The process departs dramatically from standard

scientific methodology and publishing procedures. Document architects only selectively include relevant studies.

The peer review process is, at best, a fig leaf.’72

Green called the Summary for Policymakers a ‘derivative document’ which condenses and expresses IPCC

findings ‘in a language suitable for moderately educated readers’.73

According to Green, the summaries were loaded with ‘speculative scenarios’ and not reflective of the full

reports. He argued that the summary document ‘has not been peer-reviewed. Its author is anonymous,

63 IPCC Third Assessment Report Summary for policymakers page 3 http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/

64 Report from Greenpeace participant at the meeting.

65 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ceq/foia_extreme.html document entitled extreme_weather_ceq_10.pdf

66 http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1012

67 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ceq/foia_extreme.html document entitled extreme_weather_ceq_10.pdf page 23

68 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ceq/foia_extreme.html document entitled extreme_weather_ceq_10.pdf page 2

69 http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=9

70 http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=9

71 Kenneth Green, ‘Politics foils objective UN Climate Change Report – again’, Tech Central Station, 26 February 2001.

http://www.tcsdaily.com/printArticle.aspx?ID=022601F

72 Kenneth Green, ‘Science Matters – Even for the Environment’, Tech Central Station, 5 February 2001.

http://www.tcsdaily.com/printArticle.aspx?ID=020501E

73 Kenneth Green, ‘Mopping up After a Leak: Setting the Record Straight on the ‘New’ Findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC)’, Reason Public Policy Institute, 29 October 2000. http://www.rppi.org/ebrief105.html

the document is created independent of the actual report, and the summary is so short that issues were overly

simplified.’74

Writing in his role as Director of Environmental Programs for another front group, the Reason Public Policy

Institute75, Green summarised what we know as the key denier attacks on the IPCC in an October 2000 briefing

report:76 - attack the models, attack the objectivity, claim that the IPCC is ‘political’ rather than ‘scientific’, attack

the data and attack the scientists.

...

The AEI hoped to find a scientist - at a rate as high as $10,000 for 10,000 words - whose review ‘thoughtfully

explores the limitations of climate model outputs as they pertain to the development of climate policy.’

It would appear that the idea behind the recruitment drive seems to be an effort to find academic scientists with

a low-profile or non-existent record of talking to the press about global warming. That way, the AEI would be

able to use an ‘unblemished’ critic’s credentials to support their arguments.

The story hit the media at the time of the AR4’s first report release in February 200788. Professor Steve

Schroeder of Texas A&M University turned down the offer. He told the Washington Post89 that he ‘worried his

contribution might have been published alongside ‘off-the-wall ideas’ questioning the existence of global

warming.’

The letter’s authors were the AEI’s chief climate lobbyists Kenneth Green 90 and Steven F Hayward 91.

Both have a long history of connections with a number of the front groups funded by industry.

Hayward’s list includes the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, ($530,000 from Exxon92 since 1998),

the Heritage Foundation ($585,000 from Exxon93 since 1998) and Reason magazine ($381,000 from Exxon

since 199894).

Green, a visiting scholar at AEI, is contributing author on Tech Central Station ($95,000 from Exxon since

1998), but set up by Exxon’s PR firm, DCI 95, the Executive Director of the Environmental Literacy Council,

a group heavily funded by oil and other extractive industries96 to infuse industry propaganda into classrooms),

Chief Scientist at the Fraser Institute 97 ($120,000 from Exxon since 2003) and Director of the Environmental

Program at Reason Public Policy Institute. (See map, above). Green, to this day, is a widely-quoted

‘independent’ source on climate and energy in Washington.

Fraser Institute launches ‘independent’ assessment