A copy of the AEI letter Offering $10,000 Payments Only For Views Critical Of The IPCC Report

[PhilipShore]

Think Progress

A copy of the AEI letter can be read http://websrvr80il.audiovideoweb.com/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2007/aeiletter.pdf">HERE

[DeepModem Mom]

1. K&R

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. talk about a smoking gun.

if this does not put a stake into the heart of this evil organization, I don't know what will.

just like a poisonous snake threatening a kindergarten, their heads must be chopped off, burried in concrete, encased in 6 inches of armor quality steel alloy, placed into orbit and directed into a rapidly decaying orbit around the sun. And even then, we need eternal vigilence to insure that they don't come back to haunt us again.

[NashVegas]

3. Did You Notice the Date on That Letter?

July 6. As of July 6, they were attempting to have contrary opinions published concurrently to the report's release.

Interesting, no?

[PhilipShore]

4. In 2006, TAMU University president Robert M. Gates was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Defense

Texas A&M University
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University

Texas A&M University, often called A&M or TAMU for short, is the flagship<3> institution of the Texas A&M University System. Texas A&M's triple designation as a Land-, Sea-, and Space-Grant institution reflects a broad range of research, with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. Working in partnership with state agencies such as the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M has a direct presence in every county in the state.<4>

On December 18, 2006, former Texas A&M University president Robert M. Gates was sworn in as the 22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Texas A&M also has two international facilities, a multi-purpose center in Mexico City, Mexico and Santa Chiara Study Abroad Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Additionally, the A&M System includes Texas A&M at Qatar, a branch campus located in Education City in Doha, Qatar devoted to engineering disciplines.

[rman]

5. Bribery, corruption

Occasionally it comes to light, and sometimes something is actually done about it. Not enough, but it's better than nothing. We'll see where this one goes.

[Shoelace]

6. the 2 signers, Steven F. Hayward, Kenneth Green (Exxon pops up again)

FACTSHEET: Steven F. Hayward
DETAILS
F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, AEI
Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute Adjunct Fellow, Ashbrook Center

AEI-environment, law, the presidency, political economy. One of AEI's most vocal climate change skeptics and environmental regulation opponents. Author of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published each year on Earth Day.

Formerly worked at the Heritage Foundation and was a contributing author to Reason magazine in the 1990s. His books include: Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders; The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Liberal Order, 1964-1980 and Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity

Famous quote: 22 April, 2004
"So welcome to Earth Day, 2004. Not only has global warming theory all but evaporated, but the Earth -- and particularly the United States -- are in far better shape than eco-activists would have us believe. In fact, recent U.S. environmental trends have nearly all been positive."
Source: Tech Central Station Article - Hayward
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=46

Kenneth Green held the positions of Chief Scientist and Director of Centre for Studies in Risk, Regulation, and Environment at the Fraser Institute 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", together with Tim Ball 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.

As reported in the Vancouver Sun 2: "The Fraser Institute received $120,000 US from ExxonMobil in 2003-'04, according to the company's annual report. Walker said the funding paid for the work of researcher Ken Green."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Green

As you can see, Exxonmobil pays the rent for the Fraser Institute, responsible recently for the firing of one of the leading Environmental people in the Harper regime in Canada.

Nice bunch of right wingers, these!


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