Science Deniers

[Guest]

Ross Mckitrick is a well known climate change skeptic and activist with strong connections to several right wing conservative organizations. He is an economist not a climate scientist.

He is using the big tobacco playbook to cast doubt on the science of human caused climate change and regularly speaks and writes for organizations that receive funding and sponsorship from big oil.

Everything he says should be viewed with his political connections in mind.

You can see a description of activities at

https://www.desmogblog.com/ross-mckitrick

Affiliations

Fraser Institute — “Senior Fellow.” and contributor. [40], [3]

George C. Marshall Institute — “Expert.” [41]

Cooler Heads Coalition — Helped publicize McKitrick's book, Taken By Storm. [35]

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) — Promoted Taken By Storm. [35]

Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (now The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation) — Co-author of “A Call to Truth, Prudence and the Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming.” [31]

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) — Member, “Academic Advisory Council” as of March, 2010. GWPF describes him as “instrumental in exposing the fatal flaws of the so-called Hockey Stick.” [42]


Ross Mckitrick spoke at several Heartland Institute Conferences

Heartland Institute's 2009 Climate Conference in New York: funding history of the sponsors

Our research into the listed “sponsors” for the Heartland Institute’s upcoming “International Conference on Climate Change” finds that these organizations have received over $47 million from energy companies and right-wing foundations, with 78% of that total coming from the Scaife Family of foundations.

According to the Media Transparency project the Scaife Family of Foundations is, “financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman of the foundation. According to a recent article, ‘In 1993, the Carthage and Sarah Scaife Foundations…gave more than $17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks.’”

Here’s the breakdown:

ExxonMobil (1998-2006): $6,199,000
Koch Foundations (1986-2006): $4,438,920
Scaife Foundations (1985-2006): $36,868,640

Grand Total: $47,506,560

not a ****ing like
wish they would move that like button away from reply button
you are unbelievable , if i didn't know who you were , i would think you were , fat ralph himself, lol

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So, it's OK then if I question and verify all sources?
There's as much money for as against.
Maybe the good thing about the Greta's is that more people feel it's gone overboard and cool off a little. Pun intended.

Anyone willing to take the bet that Greta's 15 minutes of fame marks the high point of the movement?

[A990]

Anyone willing to take the bet that Greta's 15 minutes of fame marks the high point of the movement?

sadly i'd take that bet.
..to me it looks like their strategy is to increase the agitation/violence to polarize people..

[furrowtickler]

The climate change crowd ..... yup super more intelligent lol ....

I think that’s chuck holding that sign ..

[redleaf]

A great documentary.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NPax7r7Kv2c

Over a barrel. By Vivian Krause

Can someone make this a live link.

[beaverdam]

not a ****ing like
wish they would move that like button away from reply button
you are unbelievable , if i didn't know who you were , i would think you were , fat ralph himself, lol

I was scratching my head when I saw your like, haha,
The very same thing happened to me last week after one of chuckheads posts, which I was also trying to reply to. Spreading those icons would be a good idea.

[A990]

Can someone make this a live link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPax7r7Kv2c&app=desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPax7r7Kv2c&app=desktop

[redleaf]

thanks 990

[FarmJunkie]

Vivian needs to find out who “the Fed” is and then she will have the true answer as to why the Rockefeller’s are involved in funding this initiative. Trudeau is just a dumb puppet for theses people and more over they have a guy in the White House that is playing their game.