Páginas de referencia:
Intermountain Rural Electric Association
Seth Borenstein – Utilities Paying Global Warming Skeptic – The Associated Press, 27/07/2006 – http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=6021&method=full
“We cannot allow the discussion to be monopolized by the alarmists,” Lewandowski wrote in a July 17 letter to 50 other utilities. He also called on other electric cooperatives to launch a counterattack on “alarmist” scientists and specifically Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” Michaels and Lewandowski are open about the money and see no problem with it. Some top scientists and environmental advocates call it a clear conflict of interest. Others view it as the type of lobbying that goes along with many divisive issues … Donald Kennedy, an environmental scientist who is former president of Stanford University and current editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Science, said skeptics such as Michaels are lobbyists more than researchers … Three top climate scientists said they don’t accept money from private groups. The same goes for the Web site realclimate.org, which has long criticized Michaels. “We don’t get any money; we do this in our free time,” said Realclimate.org contributor Stefan Rahmstorf, an ocean physics scientist at Potsdam University in Germany.”.”
Clayton Sandell and Bill Blakemore – ABC News Reporting Cited As Evidence In Congressional Hearing On Global Warming. Making Money by Feeding Confusion Over Global Warming – ABC News, 03/08/2006 – https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=2242565&page=1
“Intermountain Rural Electric Association is heavily invested in power plants that burn coal, one of the chief sources of greenhouse gasses that scientists agree is quickly pushing earth’s average temperature to dangerous levels.”
Patrick J. Michaels – Logical Science, 01/10/2006 – http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/patMichaels.html
“In 1995 Harpers Magazine author Ross Gelbspan reported that Pat Michaels has received more than $115,000 from coal and energy interests. In 2006 a leaked memo from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) details payments of at least $100,000 and the soliciting of more money for Michaels et al from other coal outlets. Pat Michaels is also a Visiting Scientist with the George C. Marshall Institute and a Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies with the Cato Institute. Both of which receive funding from Exxon Mobil and other oil interests.”
Rick Pilz – Pat Michaels, Virginia “State Climatologist”? A critical perspective on the issues – Climate Science Watch, 01/10/2006 – http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/pat-michaels/
“The Associated Press had reported on July 27, 2006, that the Intermountain Rural Electric Association of Sedalia, Colo., gave Michaels $100,000 and called on other utilities to give more.”
Fred Pearce – Climate change special: State of denial – New Scientist, 01/11/2006 – http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10445-climate-change-special-state-of-denial.html
“Some sceptical scientists are funded directly by industry. In July, The Washington Post published a leaked letter from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA), an energy company based in Colorado, that exhorted power companies to support the work of the prominent sceptic Pat Michaels of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Worried about the potential cost of cleaning up coal-fired power plants to reduce their CO2 emissions, IREA’s general manager, Stanley Lewandowski, wrote: “We believe that it is necessary to support the scientific community that is willing to stand up against the alarmists… In February this year, IREA alone contributed $100,000 to Dr Michaels.”.”
Rick Pilz – Pat Michaels, Virginia “State Climatologist”? A critical perspective on the issues – Climate Science Watch, 01/10/2008 – http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/pat-michaels/
“The Associated Press had reported on July 27, 2006, that the Intermountain Rural Electric Association of Sedalia, Colo., gave Michaels $100,000 and called on other utilities to give more.”
Curtis A. Moore (2009) – A Package for Copenhagen: Existing Authorities in the United States for Responding to Global Warming – Curtis A. Moore, 10/11/2009 – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://healthandcleanair.org/newsletters/HCA_fall09.pdf
“Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) of Sedalia, Colorado, gives Patrick Michaels, a climatologist who disputes the consensus opinion that greenhouses gases are responsible for global warming, $100,000 and helps launch a fundraising campaign for him. Michaels had told Western business leaders the year before that he needed more funds to continue his research and writing. In a July 17 letter to 50 other utility companies, Stanley Lewandowski, IREA’s general manager, writes, “We cannot allow the discussion to be monopolized by the alarmists.” He requests that the other electric cooperatives collaborate on a campaign to discredit “alarmist” scientists and Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth.”
International Climate Change Partnership, 20/01/2010 – http://www.iccp.net/membership.html
“3M Company, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute, Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy, Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, Arkema, Boeing, Carrier, CH2M Hill, Dow Chemical, DuPont, General Electric, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Intel Corporation, Japan Fluorocarbon Manufacturers Association, Kodak, Natsource, United Technologies, World Energy, York International.”
Integrity in Science: Patrick Michaels – Center for Science in the Public Interest, 15/08/2010 “Associate Professor, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. Virginia State Climatologist. Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Received funding from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association [ref] Carbon-emitting industries like oil and coal “fund friendly scientists like Pat Michaels.” [ref] ”Scientific advisor for the Greening Earth Society, which is funded by the Western Fuels Association [ref] Funding from and/or was underwritten by the Western Fuels Association (a consortium of coal interests), German and American coal interests, Cyprus Minerals Company [ref] “Michaels has received more than $115,000 over the last four years from coal and energy interests. World Climate Review, a quarterly he founded that routinely debunks climate concerns, was funded by Western Fuels [ref].”
