Science and Public Policy Institute

Science and Public Policy Institute

The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a United States based organization that is skeptical of human induced climate change.

It was formerly known as the Center for Science and Public Policy for the Frontiers of Freedom [ [http://ff.org/centers/celpr/press/90520061225.html News Corporation’s Unfair Conduct is Holding Rural America Hostage: Innocent Rural Consumers Will Lose Their Distant Network Signals] , September 5, 2006, Frontiers of Freedom website [http://ff.org/centers/csspp/misc/contactus.htm Frontiers of Freedom- Contact Us] , [http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/contact.html Science and Public Policy Institute- Contact] ] , a conservative think tank founded by former Republican senator Malcolm Wallop [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E1D91131F93BA15756C0A9659C8B63 Exxon Backs Groups That Question Global Warming] , Jennifer B. Lee, May 28, 2003, New York Times] . The institute describes itself as a

nonprofit institute of research and education dedicated to sound public policy based on sound science. Free from affiliation to any corporation or political party, we support the advancement of sensible public policies for energy and the environment rooted in rational science and economics. Only through science and factual information, separating reality from rhetoric, can legislators develop beneficial policies without unintended consequences that might threaten the life, liberty, and prosperity of the citizenry. [ [http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/our_mission.html Mission Statement] , Science and Public Policy Institute website ]

The organization's Executive Director is Robert "Bob" Ferguson, a former Chief of Staff to Republican Congressmen Jack Fields (1981-1997), John E. Peterson (1997-2002), and Rick Renzi (2002). The chief science adviser to the institute is Willie Soon, PhD an astrophysicist and geoscientist, an opponent of man made global warming and advancer of the theory that climate change is caused by solar variation. The chief policy adviser is Christopher Monckton, a former special adviser to Margaret Thatcher and one of the UK's most prominent climate change sceptics. Further science advisers include William Kininmonth, Robert M. Carter, David Legates, Craig D. Idso, all known skeptics of man made climate change, and James J. O'Brien. Joe D'Aleo is the institute's Meteorology Adviser.

The institute has funded a film "Apocalypse No" intended to show the errors of the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth. It will show Monckton, chief policy adviser of the institute presenting a slide show to the Cambridge University Union examining climate change science. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article2652851.ece Please, sir - Gore's got warming wrong] , Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor, Sunday Times, October 14, 2007] .

The New York Times reported that in 2002 Frontiers of Freedom received $230,000 in funding from Exxon. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E1D91131F93BA15756C0A9659C8B63] ] The institute received $90,000 in funding from ExxonMobil in 2006 [ [http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Files/Corporate/gcr_contributions_public06.pdf Public Information and Policy Research funding] , Exxon Mobil corporation, 2006]

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* [http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ Science and Public Policy Institute]


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