Tom Fiddaman's Climate/Energy/Environment Bookmarks

Caution. I have done the credible critics a disservice by lumping in some real whackos here - my apologies to Richard Lindzen et al., who really belong in the Mostly Science section above.

Alternate Hypotheses, Constructive Criticism

Richard Lindzen's Publications: Most recent articles at the bottom, including the adaptive iris paper and responses. Includes .pdf's of nearly everything. Starting here and tracing citations is a good way to explore the field.
Senate Testimony of Richard Lindzen, May 2, 2001: A good general survey of the debate. This statement has mysteriously disappeared from the online congressional record. Hope that's not a regular occurence.
Testimony of Richard S. Lindzen Before the House Committee on Science CO2 and global climate: Is history bunk?: Article from Nature on paleoclimatic CO2-temperature links.
Cloud Cover & Cosmic Rays: Try a Google search for more on this topic.
Satellite-Surface Temperatures: A 5yr old articles, but with links to newer data etc. A group at LLNL has recently reanalyzed the satellite data, with conflicting results.
Solar Irradiance Greenhouse Warming Fact, Hypothesis, or Myth

The Western Fuels Club

I recently reviewed my skeptics bookmarks and did a little background checking. Turns out a large fraction of my links came from a small group of critics with close ties to the Western Fuels Association (a major coal industry group). You can view this as you prefer (coal industry hires science hacks to muddy the waters? marginalized geniuses turn to industry for funding?). Several sources document the close ties among these groups: Union of Concerned Scientists, the CLEAR project (very extensive page), and Namebase.org.

Direct Links

Western Fuels Association: See also: WESTERN FUELS FILES SUIT IN WYOMING AGAINST TURNING POINT PROJECT FOR COMMERCIAL DEFAMATION
The Greening Earth Society: According to CLEAR, "Greening Earth Society and Western Fuels are essentially the same organization. Both are located at the same office suite in Arlington, VA. They share the same leader, Fred Palmer, several WFA board members serve as the board for GES, and they have the same "manager of communications and governmental affairs," Ned Leonard. Leonard and Palmer are both registered lobbyists for Western Fuels Association."

World Climate Report - What's Hot

Funded through Greening Earth.
FossilFuels.org: Another Greening Earth Society production.

Close Ties

Unlike the direct spinoffs of Western Fuels, these critics are actually worth reading. However, they move in alarmingly tight circles.

Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

Publishes the online journal CO2 Science with reviews of climate-related literature. Worth a look, but appears to have an axe to grind. "In 2001 [chairman] Dr. [Craig] Idso resigned his position as Center President to serve as Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy [self-proclaimed world's largest coal company] in St. Louis, Missouri, but returned the following year to take a more active role in the Center's continued growth and development." Funded at one time by the conservative Sarah Scaife Foundation. According to CLEAR, "It must be stressed that there is currently no evidence to indicate financial support of the Center by Western Fuels or Greening Earth, but there is plenty of circumstantial evidence that at the very least a working relationship exists. Both Idso brothers have been on the Western Fuels payroll at one time or another. ..."

GlobalWarming.org

"A project of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition." Climate critic Patrick Michaels is on the Advisory Council of the NCC (see next item).

Patrick Michaels

Fred Singer: President of SEPP - the The Science & Environmental Policy Project. SEPP has an apparently distinguished board and some worthwhile materials, but also links prominently to the discredited Leipzig Declaration and climate petition at the whacko Oregon Institute (below).
Robert Balling: Head of the Office of Climatology at ASU, which has ties to Western Fuels and the Idsos. Projects at the OoC have been funded by Exxon, Greening Earth, and
Sallie Baliunas: Astrophysicist writing on solar variability and climate. This note documents Baliunas' links to Marshall, Greening Earth, and Western Fuels. Colleague Willie Soon also publishes with the Idsos of the Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and has ties to the Greening Earth Society.

The Marshall Institute - Climate Change

Others

Global Climate Coalition Climate Science Issues: A defunct industry group. " The Global Climate Coalition has been deactivated. The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming. The Bush administration will soon announce a climate policy that is expected to rely on the development of new technologies to reduce greenhouse emissions, a concept strongly supported by the GCC. The coalition also opposed Senate ratification of the Kyoto Protocol that would assign such stringent targets for lowering greenhouse gas emissions that economic growth in the U. S. would be severely hampered and energy prices for consumers would skyrocket. The GCC also opposed the treaty because it does not require the largest developing countries to make cuts in their emissions. At this point, both Congress and the Administration agree that the U.S. should not accept the mandatory cuts in emissions required by the protocol. "
Welcome to the Climate Change Debate: A listserve and archive of articles & links. I don't follow the list; the site resources are a little on the critical side, but with a healthy effort at balance.

Whackos

They Said It ! Dietze Carbon Model Calculations Little Warming with new Global Carbon Cycle Model Science Has Spoken_ Global Warming Is a Myth - Althouse Press - Access to Energy Newsletter Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine Quackgrass Press_ Outside links

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