Science and Public Policy Institute

The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a public policy organization which promotes climate change denial.[1]

Staff

The organization's executive director is Robert Ferguson, and the chief policy adviser is Christopher Monckton. Joe D'Aleo is the institute's Meteorology Adviser. Further science advisers, as listed in 2011, include:

Willie Soon was at one time the chief science advisor.

Publications

The Science and Public Policy Institute funded a film "Apocalypse? No!" intended to show errors in the Al Gore documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. It shows Monckton giving a presentation to the Cambridge University Union.[2]

The SPPI took an interest in the Climatic Research Unit email controversy ("Climategate"). Its position is elaborated in a 45-page paper released in December 2009, titled "Climategate: Caught Green-Handed!: Cold facts about the hot topic of global temperature change after the Climategate scandal, which concluded that global warming is a myth.[3]

Funding

The Institute is operated by The Frontiers of Freedom Foundation, Inc.,[4][5][6] a policy organization founded was founded in 1996 by former Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming.[7] On its website SPPI does not detail the sources of its funding. In 2002, Frontiers of Freedom had a budget of $700,000, with fossil-fuel company Exxon-Mobil donating $230,000 of that sum.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Jennifer 8. Lee (May 28, 2003). "Exxon Backs Groups that Question Global Warming". Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ Jonathan Leake (October 14, 2007). "Please, sir - Gore's got warming wrong". Sunday Times.
  3. ↑ "Climategate: Caught Green-Handed" (pdf). Science and Public Policy Institute.
  4. ↑ Center for Science in the Public Interest, Center for Science and Public Policy/Center for Sound Science and Public Policy page at Integrity in Science (retrieved May 6, 2015)
  5. ↑ Sourcewatch, Frontiers of Freedom (retrieved May 26, 2014)
  6. ↑ Mann, Michael E. (2013). The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231526385. the Center for Science and Public Policy, a project of the industry-funded Frontiers of Freedom (a group that has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from ExxonMobil)
  7. ↑ Malcolm Wallop dies at 78; was Republican U.S. senator, Associated Press (September 15, 2011)

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