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Wiki – Arthur G. Randol III – Sourcewatch, 02/01/2010 – https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arthur_G._Randol_III
“Arthur G. Randol III, known as Randy Randol, was a lobbyist/senior environmental advisor at ExxonMobil until retiring at the end of 2003. … In 1998, Randol was a member of the 1998 Global Climate Science Communications Team whose leaked memo laid out plans for a climate disinformation campaign. In 2001, Randol lobbied for the removal of Robert Watson as IPCC head.[2], [3]; Watson was replaced with Rajendra Pachauri a year later. The memo, titled «Global Climate Science – Issues for 2001», can be seen on the NRDC’s website. ”
Ver: Cómo se sustituye a un presidente del IPCC
Factsheet: Arthur G (Randy) Randol – Exxon Secrets – https://exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1366
“President, American Energy Freedom Center. Former lobbyist, ExxonMobil worked for Exxon and ExxonMobil for 25 years. Randy was a major contributor to the National Coal Council … Prior to his retirement from ExxonMobil in December 2003, Randol was the senior environmental advisor in Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Washington office. His responsibilities included all environmental issues pending before the United States Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency … Before returning to Washington in 1997, Randol was manager, Public Affairs, of the Houston-based Exxon Chemical Company, which has major operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East … Manager, Nuclear Fuel, Potomac Electric Power Company; and Senior Nuclear Fuel Engineer for Nuclear Fuel Services (Getty Oil Company). Randy received degrees from the University of Notre Dame (BSME-Nuclear Option) and the University of Florida (MSE, PhD in Nuclear Engineering). ”
ExxonMobil Helps Form ‘Global Climate Science Team’ – History Commons – http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=global_warming_tmln_1#global_warming_tmln_1
“People involved in devising the strategy included Jeffrey Salmon of the George C. Marshall Institute; Steven Milloy, who later becomes a FoxNews.com columnist; David Rothbard of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which has received $252,000 from ExxonMobil; Myron Ebell of Frontiers of Freedom, also funded with money ($612,000) from the oil giant; and ExxonMobil lobbyist Randy Randol. Representatives of the Exxon Corporation, the Chevron Corporation, and the Southern Company, were also involved.”
Union of Concerned Scientists (2007) – Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air. How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science – Union of Concerned Scientists – http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=GlobalClimateScienceTeam#GlobalClimateScienceTeam»ExxonMobil helps create the Global Climate Science Team (GCST), a small task force that is charged with discrediting the scientific consensus opinion that greenhouse gases are warming the planet. Members of the task force include ExxonMobil’s senior environmental lobbyist, Randy Randol; the American Petroleum Institute’s public relations representative, Joe Walker; and Steven Milloy, who heads a nonprofit organization called the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.»
Bill Chameides – Exxon Changes its Tune – Climate 411, 22/02/2007 – Environmental Defense Fund – http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2007/02/22/exxon_reversal/
“For more than a decade, Exxon has been a major player in a campaign to spread doubt about global warming. We know this for a fact because a 1998 internal Exxon memo titled «Global Climate Science Communications: Action Plan» was leaked to the press. The stated goal of the plan, whose authors include Randy Randol of Exxon Corp, Sharon Kneiss of Chevron Corp, and Joseph Walker of the American Petroleum Institute, was to change the American public’s view that global warming was a threat”
Tim Dickinson (2007) – The Secret Campaign of President Bush’s Administration To Deny Global Warming – Rolling Stone, 20/06/2007 – http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15148655/the_secret_campaign_of_president_bushs_administration_to_deny_global_warming
“Industry swiftly took advantage of its new friend in the White House. In a fax sent to the CEQ on February 6th, 2001 – two weeks after Bush took office – ExxonMobil’s top lobbyist, Randy Randol, demanded a housecleaning of the scientists in charge of studying global warming. Exxon urged CEQ to dump Robert Watson, who chaired the IPCC, along with Rosina Bierbaum and Mike MacCracken, who had coordinated the National Assessment. Exxon’s wish was the CEQ’s command.”
Brian Angliss – We Berate, You Deride – A look at Steven J. Milloy’s current affiliates and backers – Scholar & Rogues, 28/11/2007 – http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/we-berate-you-deride-a-look-at-steven-j-milloys-current-affiliates-and-backers/
“It’s important to understand that Mr. Milloy’s connections with the AEI, CEI, Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, and through them to the Randolph Foundation, Philanthropy Roundtable, Donors Capital Fund and Trust, the Phillips Foundation, PERC, et al doesn’t mean that Mr. Milloy is the guiding force behind these connections. He is a single thread, albeit an important one, in an intricate tapestry of denial and misrepresentation of science in the service of conservative ideology. Through the deep pockets of his various corporate and conservative supporters over the years, he’s become a very effective conservative soldier in the war for the minds, and votes, of the people.”
Curtis A. Moore (2009) – A Package for Copenhagen: Existing Authorities in the United States for Responding to Global Warming – Curtis A. Moore, November 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
“One method the institute would employ to measure the plan’s progress would be to count the number of news reports that express uncertainty about the issue of global warming. People involved in devising the strategy included Jeffrey Salmon of the George C. Marshall Institute; Steven Milloy, who later becomes a FoxNews.com columnist; David Rothbard of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which has received $252,000 from ExxonMobil; Myron Ebell of Frontiers of Freedom, also funded with money ($612,000) from the oil giant; and ExxonMobil lobbyist Randy Randol. Representatives of the Exxon Corporation, the Chevron Corporation, and the Southern Company, were also involved. [American Petroleum Institute, 4/1998; New York Times, 4/26/1998; Mother Jones, 5/2005].”
Wiki – Global Climate Science Communications Plan (1998) – Sourcewatch, 02/01/2010 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Climate_Science_Communications_Plan_%281998%29
“The memo, written by the American Petroleum Institute’s Joe Walker, named the following members as having contributed to the development of the plan: A. John Adams, John Adams Associates; Candace Crandall, Science and Environmental Policy Project; (Crandall’s involvement was subsequently disputed) David Rothbard, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow; Jeffrey Salmon, The Marshall Institute; Lee Garrigan, Environmental Issues Council; Lynn Bouchey and Myron Ebell, Frontiers of Freedom; Peter Cleary, Americans for Tax Reform; Randy Randol, Exxon Corp.; Robert Gehri, The Southern Company; Sharon Kneiss, Chevron Corp; Steve Milloy, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition; Joseph Walker, American Petroleum Institute.”
James Lawrence Powell (2011) – The Inquisition of Climate Science – Columbia University Press – National Science Board – ISBN-13: 978-0231157186 – 240 Págs.
“By 1997 … Exxon took the opposite track, ramping up its campaign of denial. The first step was to invent and underwrite a new group, the Global Climate Science Team, wich included Jeffrey Salmon of the Marshall Institute; Myron Ebell, then with the Frontiers of Freedom Institute, Randy Randol of ExxonMobil; Stephen Milloy of the Advanced of Sound Science Coalition (funded by Philip Morris); and Joseph Walker of the American Petroleum Institute. In April 1998, Walker presented the team with an action plan that defined success in a section titled ‘Victory will be achieved When’ …”
Case Study: Dr. Willie Soon, a Career Fueled by Big Oil and Coal – Greenpeace USA, 01/10/2011 – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/CASE-STUDY-Dr-Willie-Soon-a-Career-Fueled-by-Big-Oil-and-Coal/
“Who was this “A Team”? The letter was addressed to “Bob, Randy, Walter, Sallie and Dave”. From other correspondence, it seems possible that “Bob” is Australian sceptic Bob Carter, as Dr. Soon worked with Carter. “Sallie” is clearly Dr. Sallie Baliunas, “Dave” is likely David Legates. There is no prominent “A-team” type scientist or climate sceptic called Randy – except ExxonMobil’s lobbyist Randy Randol, who was heavily involved with the Exxon-funded deniers. Equally, there is no “Walter” in the climate denial field – except Walt Bucholtz, ExxonMobil’s Government Relations & Issues Advisor, the man responsible for doling out Exxon’s funding grants to deniers and front groups.”
George Monbiot – We need to know who funds these thinktank lobbyists – The Guardian, 20/02/2012 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/20/who-funds-thinktank-lobbyists
“The climate change deniers it funds have made similar claims to independence. For example, last year Fred Singer told a French website: «Of course I am not funded by the fossil fuel lobbies. It’s a completely absurd invention.» The documents suggest that the institute, funded among others by the coal company Murray Energy, the oil company Marathon and the former Exxon lobbyist Randy Randol has been paying him $5,000 a month.”
Stephen Lacey – World’s Largest Mining Firm: ‘In A Carbon Constrained World, Coal Is Going To Decline. And Frankly It Should.’ – Climate Progress, 04/12/2012 – http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/04/1279761/worlds-largest-mining-firm-in-a-carbon-constrained-world-coal-is-going-to-decline-and-frankly-it-should/
“Speaking to investors and analysts on Monday, the Chief Executive of BHP Billiton’s coal division explained how the company is reinforcing infrastructure around its coal export terminal in Queensland, Australia because of increases in extreme weather that threaten the facility. BHP Billiton is one of the largest producers of aluminum, copper, thermal coal, metallurgical coal, nickel, silver and uranium. The Australian company also owns and operates the Hay Point Services Coal Terminal, a coal facility that makes up a large portion of the biggest coal port in the world. And now that facility is under threat from intensifying extreme weather, says BHP executive Marcus Randolph. His comments were reported in the Australian Financial Review after the company’s presentation on its sustainability strategy:…”
Chris Hedges – Why Noam Chomsky Is Such an Effective Thorn in the Side of the Corporate State – Alter Net, 16/06/2014 – http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-noam-chomsky-such-effective-thorn-side-corporate-state
“The rise of powerful populist movements in the early 20th century meant that the business class could no longer keep workers subjugated purely through violence. Business interests had to build systems of mass propaganda to control opinions and attitudes. The rise of the public relations industry, initiated by President Wilson’s Committee on Public Information to instill a pro-war sentiment in the population, ushered in an era of not only permanent war but also permanent propaganda. Consumption was instilled as an inner compulsion. The cult of the self became paramount. And opinions and attitudes, as they are today, were crafted and shaped by the centers of power. “A pacifist population was driven to become war-mongering fanatics,” Chomsky said. “It was this experience that led the power elite to discover that through effective propaganda they could, as Walter Lippmann wrote, employ “a new art in democracy, manufacturing consent.’ ” Democracy was eviscerated. Citizens became spectators rather than participants in power. The few intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, who maintained their independence and who refused to serve the power elite were pushed out of the mainstream, as Chomsky has been.”
Graham Readfearn – The Millions Behind Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center US Think Tank – Desmogblog, 24/06/2014 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center“The main trustee at Randolph is Heather Higgins, the president and CEO of Independent Women’s Voice and the chairman of its sister organization Independent Women’s Forum. Higgins is the daughter of R. Randolph Richardson, a member of the family that sold Vick Chemical Company to Procter & Gamble for $1.2 billion. Staff writers of both organisations regularly express scepticism about the science of human-caused climate change and cite Lomborg’s views approvingly. A recent article from IWF senior fellow Vicki Alger claimed “a majority of scientists believe that global warming is largely nature-made” — ignoring several studies that show the vast majority of research from scientists studying climate change believe exactly the opposite. IWF funders include the Charles R. Lambe Foundation, controlled by Charles Koch, and Donors Trust, a fund for conservative philanthropists that has pushed millions into organisations promoting climate science denial and fighting laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions.”
Graham Readfearn, The Millions Behind Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center US Think Tank – Desmogblog, 24/06/2014 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center“Also on the board of trustees at Randolph is Polly Freiss, the daughter-in-law of conservative Christian businessman Foster Freiss. Foster Freiss put more than $2 million into Republican Senator Rick Santorum’s 2012 run for his party’s nomination for the presidency. Freiss also bankrolled conservative news outlet The Daily Caller, which regularly publishes articles supporting the views of climate science denialists. On his personal web page, Freiss promotes climate science denial sourcesincluding Climate Depot and The Heartland Institute. Friess’s website has also promoted Lomborg’s views. Foster Freiss and his daughter Polly attended the Koch brother’s secretive 2010 strategy meeting in Aspen, along with Heather Higgins and a host of other conservative activists.”
Suzanne Goldenberg – ExxonMobil tried to censor climate scientists to Congress during Bush era – The Guardian, 25/05/2016 – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/25/exxonmobil-climate-change-scientists-congress-george-w-bush
“On 29 January 2001, nine days after Bush’s inauguration, Arthur Randol, a former senior environmental advisor at Exxon, telephoned Nicky Sundt, then communications director for the research program, to inquire about the future of the lecture series. A few days earlier, Sundt had emailed a survey to congressional staffers seeking suggestions for the next lecture series. Exxon had not been on his distribution list, and Sundt said he was surprised to receive a call from Randol. “I thought it was very unusual, if not inappropriate, for a fossil fuel lobbyist to be calling me directly days after the administration was sworn in only directly to instruct me on how we would be communicating to the Congress on climate change,” Sundt told the Guardian. “This is ExxonMobil reaching into the federal government science apparatus and seeking to influence the communication of science.” Sundt, who now directs the WWF-US climate science programme (although he said he was not speaking on behalf of the organisation), said he made notes of the phone call.”
Graham Readfearn – Donald Trump’s Aide at EPA Myron Ebell Meets with Who’s Who of Climate Science Deniers – Desmogblog, 13/12/2016 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/13/exclusive-myron-ebell-donald-trump-s-aide-epa-meets-who-s-who-long-serving-climate-science-deniers
“But details of the gatherings have been made public by some of the climate science denialists who attended. The attendee list reads like a who’s who of the climate science denial industry. Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts, of the far-right One Nation party, who is in the U.S, revealed he had given a speech at a CEI meeting with Ebell. Roberts wrote the meeting was a gathering of the Cooler Heads Coalition and then listed some of the participants … They included Marc Morano, Randy Randol, Steve Milloy, Chris Horner, Craig Rucker, Patrick Michaels, Ken Haapala and James Taylor.”
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