2009-12-16 Who are the climate change skeptics

• when: 2009-12-16
• author: Jim Lippard
• source: The Lippard Blog
• topics: global warming denial
• link: http://lippard.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-are-climate-change-skeptics.html
• title: Who are the climate change skeptics?
• summary: “...a 2008 study that examined 141 "English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005" found that over 92% of them were connected to conservative think tanks, either published by them or authored by persons directly affiliated with them...”

Description

an overview of the major players in the global warming denial game (and their interrelationships), including:

• organizations:
  • Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
  • The Heartland Institute
  • Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
  • George C. Marshall Institute
  • Cato Institute
  • Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)
  • Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
  • Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine (OISM)
  • Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
• publications:
  • Access to Energy newsletter
  • OISM Petition Project
• individuals:
  • Anton Uriarte
  • Arthur Robinson
  • Carl Boehme
  • Christopher Monckton
  • Craig D. Idso
  • David Legates
  • Dennis Avery
  • Fred Westall: a biochemistry professor
  • George Carlo
  • George Taylor
  • Gregory Canavan
  • Ian Plimer
  • James J. O'Brien
  • Jane Orient
  • John H. Moore
  • John R. Christy
  • Joseph D'Aleo
  • Kenneth Haapala
  • Klaus Heiss
  • Lubos Motl
  • Martin D. Kamen: a deceased chemist
  • Milan Nikolich
  • Noah Robinson
  • R. Bruce Merrifield: a deceased chemist
  • Robert Balling "despite being often regarded as a skeptic, agrees that there is global warming and that it has a human component, and told me that the IPCC report is the best place for the layman to find accurate information about climate science..."
  • Robert M. Carter
  • Rodney W. Nichols
  • Roy Spencer
  • S. Fred Singer
  • Sallie Baliunas
  • Sherwood B. Idso
  • Warren Anderson
  • William Happer
  • William Kininmonth
  • William O'Keefe
  • Willie Soon
  • Zachary Robinson</let>