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Commercial Sites

• Weather Action. Weather prediction using secret sunspot theory.

Non-governmental Organizations

• "Cooler Heads." From the "astroturf" group, Consumer Watch.
• American Petroleum Institute Global Climate
• Borderland Sciences. Some seriously weird stuff.
• Cato Institute.
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. The Idso family's site.
• Citizens for a Sound Economy. A multifunction "astroturf" group.
• Climate Information Project. Anti-Kyoto Treaty site, but supports arguments with pseudoscientific arguments.
• Coalition for Vehicle Choice.
• Competitive Enterprise Institute.
• Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.
• European Science and Environment Forum. May be defunct.
• Fraser Institute.
• Frontiers of Freedom Inst.
• George C. Marshall Institute.
• Global Climate Coalition.
• Global Climate Information Project.
• Global Warming Cost A Western Fuels Assoc. astroturf group.
• Greening Earth Society. A Western Fuels Assoc. astroturf group.
• Heartland Institute.
• Heritage Institute.
• National Center for Public Policy Research
• Oregon Inst. of Science & Medicine. Global Warming Petition Project. Access to Energy magazine.
• Paragon Foundation.
• Science & Environmental Policy Project. S.F. Singer and Unification Church.
• Sovereignty International. Particularly hilarious "science tutorial."
• Statistical Assessment Service. A stealth lobbying group pretending to be a "nonpartisan, nonprofit" statistics watchdog. Shares offices and staff with CMPA.
• Steven Milloy - "The Junkman." A tobacco industry front site has branched out. Formerly "The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition."
• Unification Church. and its Paragon House Publishers.
• Western Fuels Association, Inc.
• fossilfuels.org Yes. Another Western Fuels front.

Publications

• 21st Century Science and Technology. A Lyndon LaRouche publication.
• Energy and Environment. Pretends to be a peer-reviewed journal, but publishes really bad crank papers.
• Access to Energy
• Journal of Borderland Research.
• Reason Digest Science Magazine.
• Reason.
• The Coming Global Superstorm, by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.
• The New Australian.
• World Climate Report of Patrick Michaels and Western Fuels Assoc.
• Quackgrass Press.
• Tech Central Station.
• West Texas Geological Society position paper.

Societies

• AAPG Ad-hoc Committee on Global Climate Issues. "Petroleum" vs. "Geology." "Petroleum" wins here.

Tutorials and FAQs

• A (Solar-based) New Alternative to Theories of Global Warming.
• Bjarnason, "Is the Earth warming? - Things are not always what they seem".
• Globale Erwärmung? Die Sonne ist schuld! Global Warming? The Sun is Guilty! (in German)
• John Daly's "Still waiting for the greenhouse." A dumping ground for arguments too dumb for anyone else. (Except maybe "Energy and Environment.")
• Puchalsky's sci.env selections
• Ted Holden. Catastrophism. Carboniferous Man.
• Tom Segalstad. CO2 and the "Greenhouse Effect" Doom
• William Connolley: Was an Ice Age predicted in the 70s? Examines the widely-circulated myth. (This is an anti-crank site.)

Web Indexes

• "skepticism.net" Gullibles pretending to be sceptics. Mainly links to crank and lobyist sites.Jul 17, 2003
• Brian Carnell. "Skepticism" isn't of much use if you don't know any of the science.
• Media Transparency. Tracks the funding efforts of some of the foundations and organizations listed here. (This is an anti-crank site.)

Paul D. Farrar

Last updated 17 Jul 03