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Plants Need CO2

Steven Mufson – New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change – Washington Post – 25/09/2009 – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404797.html
“Steward has joined forces with Corbin J. Robertson Jr., chief executive of and leading shareholder in Natural Resource Partners, a Houston-based owner of coal resources that lets other companies mine in return for royalties. Its revenues were $291 million in 2008. They have formed two groups — CO2 Is Green designated for advocacy and Plants Need CO2 for education – with about $1 million. Plants Need CO2 has applied for 501(c)(3) tax status, so that contributions would qualify as charitable donations, said Natural Resource Partners general counsel Wyatt L. Hogan, who also serves on the group’s board.”

Diane Farsetta – New Oil and Coal Fronts Greenwash Global Warming – PR Watch, 25/09/2009 – http://www.prwatch.org/node/8582
“Television ads from a new Montana-based group called CO2 Is Green claim: «There is no scientific evidence that CO2 [carbon dioxide] is a pollutant. In fact higher CO2 levels than we have today would help the Earth’s ecosystems.» The ads urge voters to contact their Senators and Representative, «and remind them CO2 is not pollution.» The ads are meant to stoke opposition to climate change legislation. Not surprisingly, the man behind the ads, the lobbying group CO2 Is Green and a related «educational» group called Plants Need CO2 is «a veteran oil industry executive.» H. Leighton Steward was a director at EOG Resources, which was previously named the Enron Oil and Gas Company, and is an honorary director of the American Petroleum Institute. «Now retired, [Steward] says he wants to ‘get the message out there’ that carbon dioxide, which the Supreme Court has ruled a pollutant and which most [sic] scientists regard as a dangerous greenhouse gas, ‘is a net benefit for the planet.'» Steward co-founded the new groups with Corbin J. Robertson Jr., the «chief executive of and leading shareholder in Natural Resource Partners, a Houston-based owner of coal resources.».”

Scott Rosenberg – How Huffington Post aided a demolition job on climate science – Grist, 16/04/2012 – http://grist.org/media/how-huffington-post-aided-a-demolition-job-on-climate-science/
«Sadly, one of Huffington Post’s own contributors wrote the responsible piece on this story. But Shawn Lawrence Otto’s article came two days after Freeman’s piece. Even the sketchy Business Insider post on the same story, which basically reprinted the original press release, provided more context than Freeman’s, since the press release at least mentioned that the letter had been organized by “H. Leighton Steward, chairman of the non-profit Plants Need CO2.” (Steward turns out to be a retired energy exec; you can read all about him here, here, and here.).”

Blanquita Cullum – Former NASA scientists, astronauts admonish agency on climate change position – Science and Public Policy Institute, 10/04/2013 – http://sppiblog.org/news/former-nasa-scientists-astronauts-admonish-agency-on-climate-change-position
“49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden last week admonishing the agency for it’s role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change while neglecting empirical evidence that calls the theory into question. The group, which includes seven Apollo astronauts and two former directors of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, are dismayed over the failure of NASA, and specifically the Goddard Institute For Space Studies (GISS), to make an objective assessment of all available scientific data on climate change. They charge that NASA is relying too heavily on complex climate models that have proven scientifically inadequate in predicting climate only one or two decades in advance. H. Leighton Steward, chairman of the non-profit Plants Need CO2, noted that many of the former NASA scientists harbored doubts about the significance of the CO2-climate change theory and have concerns over NASA’s advocacy on the issue. While making presentations in late 2011 to many of the signatories of the letter, Steward realized that the NASA scientists should make their concerns known to NASA and the GISS.”

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs.
“One prominent member of this group was Corbin Robertson Jr., whose family had built a billion-dollar oil company, Quintana Resources Capital. Robertson had bet big on coal—so big he reportedly owned what Forbes called the «largest private hoard in the nation—21 billion tons of reserves.» Investigative reports linked Robertson to several political front groups fighting efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to control pollution emitted by coal-burning utilities. Almost comically, one such front group was called Plants Need CO2.” (p. 16)