Ficha técnica
Fundadores:
Vincent Gray
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Peter Holle
Frontier Centre for Public Policy (Canada)
David Rothbard
Estratega del American Petroleum Institute
Craig Rucker
Año de fundación:
1985
Sede actual:
Washington
Filial en Berlín (CFACT-Europe)
Director:
Craig Rucker
Presidente del Consejo Asesor:
Center for the Study of CO2 and Global Change
Asistido por su hijo:
Craig T. Idso
Center for the Study of CO2 and Global Change
Negacionistas de referencia:
Alex Avery
Dennis T. Avery
Relacionada con un mínimo de 9 organizaciones financiadas por ExxonMobil
Negacionista del tabaco
American Enterprise Institute
European Science and Environment Forum
Mont Pélérin Society
E. Calvin Beisner
Dominionista cristiano, teórico del antiecologismo
Acton Institute for the Study of Liberty and Religion
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Cornwall Alliance for Environmental Stewardship
Paul Driessen (Senior Policy Advisor)
Licenciado en Geología
Acreditación en Relaciones Públicas por la Public Relations Society of America
Autor del libro Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death (Eco-imperialismo: poder verde, muerte negra)
Afiliado a los siguientes think-tanks:
Senior Policy Advisor and Senior Fellow Center for the Defence of Free Enterprise (CDFE) – Senior Policy Advisor Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) – Senior Policy Advisor Frontiers of Freedom (FoF) – Senior Fellow Atlas Economic Research Foundation – Senior Fellow Economic Human Rights Project – Director Tech Central Station (TCS) – Contributor The American Conservative Union Foundation – Contributor The Heartland Institute – Expert
Meteorólogo retirado
William Gray
Cato Institute (referencia ultraliberal)
Marc Morano (Director de Comunicación)
Comentarista de Fox News (con Rush Limbaugh)
Afrima que los climatólogos deberían ser flagelados públicamente
Frederick Seitz (fallecido)
Otros:
Jo Kwong
Jay Richards
Director de medios del Acton Institute for the Study of Liberty and Religion
Michael Sanera
John Locke Foundation
Robert A. Sirico
Acton Institute for the Study of Liberty and Religion
Misión declarada:
«Promover una visión positiva en temas de desarrollo y medio ambiente»
Orientación religiosa:
Algunos miembros son activistas en el dominionismo y el reconstruccionismo cristiano
Orientación económica:
Ultraliberal, con conexiones con la Mont Pélérin Society
Agencias de PR:
CDR Communications
Trabaja también para el enigmático Council for National Policy
Medios de comunicación:
ClimateDepot.com (Marc Morano)
Programa radiofónico diario «Just the Facts», por Craig Rucker
Not Evil Just Wrong
Posicionamiento negacionista climático:
El CO2 es bueno para las plantas.
Si existe aumento de temperatura, éste es debido a la variabilidad natural del sistema climático
Otros negacionismos:
DDT
Tabaco
Actividades:
CFACT Campus (Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow)
En un stand alojado en un acto PAC (Political Action Committee) republicano se invitaba a los visitantes a arrojar huevos sobre fotografías de Al Gore y el climatólogo Michael E. Mann.
Origen de la financiación documentada:
Total 2010-2012: $6,800,193
Chase Foundation of Virginia
Donors Capital Fund $325,000 (2005-2010)
Donors Trust $535,500 (2010); $1,189,730 (2011); $3.694,210 (2012)
Donors Capital Fund y Donors Trust son intermediarios que permiten el anonimato de los donantes.
Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking $107,000 (2010-2013)
ExxonMobil $467,000 (2001-2012)
Same Line Foundation
Sarah Scaife Foundation $760,000 (2007-2012)
Otras donaciones registradas:
The Carthage Foundation (Richard Mellon Scaife) $1,145,000 (2001-2009)
The Challenge Foundation
The Robertson-Finley Foundation $15,000 (2008-2012)
Fuentes
Detalle de orígenes de la financiación
Referencias
- Josh Harkinson (2009) – Climate change deniers without borders: how American oil money is pumping up climate change skeptics abroad-and how they could derail any progress made in Copenhagen – Mother Jones, 22/12/2009 – http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/climate-deniers-atlas-foundation
“The Washington, DC-based Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow supports a German affiliate, CFACT-Europe, which put on a conference for climate change skeptics in Berlin earlier this year and protested the climate talks last week. «We want to get rid of this whole climate topic to focus on environmental problems again,» CFACT-Europe director Holger Thuss said before marching with about 30 other demonstrators through downtown Copenhagen. Thuss is reluctant to admit his ties to American donors. «We are not funded by the same people [as CFACT-US],» he said, though CFACT’s president told Mother Jones that he gives the European group «a little bit of support when we can.» Other leaders of foreign think tanks are similarly dodgy. ” - Joseph Romm (2010) – The oily operators behind the religious climate change disinformation front group, Cornwall Alliance – Climate Progress, 19/06/2010 – http://climateprogress.org/2010/06/19/the-oily-operators-behind-the-religious-climate-change-disinformation-front-group-cornwall-alliance/
“The Cornwall Alliance appears to be a creation of a group called the James Partnership, a nonprofit run by Chris Rogers and Peter Stein, according to documents filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. Rogers, who heads a media and public relations firm called CDR Communications, collaborates with longtime oil front group operative David Rothbard, the founder and President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and Jacques Villarreal, a lower level staffer at CFACT, for his James Partnership group. In the past, Rogers’ firm has worked for the Bush administration and for the secretive conservative planning group, the Council for National Policy.” - Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow – CFACT parachutes into Durban Climate Conference – You Tube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9PoOjPa_w
- Graham Readfearn (2012) – How Heartland-style Climate Sceptic Campaigns Play «Hide the Deniers» Using Secretive Fund – Desmogblog, 29/02/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/how-heartland-style-climate-sceptic-campaigns-play-hide-deniers-using-secretive-fund
“In 2010, Donors Trust gave several grants to one of the most overt of all climate science denying organisations, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, which flew a delegation including Lord Christopher Monckton to Durban for last year’s UN climate conference. Some $535,500 went to CFACT’s “Environmental Education Fund”. A further $24,753 went towards the ‘Not Evil, Just Wrong project’. Not Evil Just Wrong is a film that claims regulating greenhouse gas emissions will cripple world economies and hurt the third-world.” - Michael E. Mann (2012) – The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines – Columbia University Press – Penn State Earth System Science Center – ISBN-13: 978-0231152549 – 384 Págs.
“In 2010, for example, [Morano] proclaimed that climate researchers ‘deserve to be publicly flogged’ for speaking out on the threat of human-caused climate change … For a February 2011 video entitled ‘I’m a denier’ and hosted on the Heartland Institute Web site, they even employed a doppleganger to play me dancing around qith a hockey stick … A group known as Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, a sister organization to CFACT, engaged in similar efforts to ridicule me at the time … CFACT ran a booth at the well-known annual conservative event CPAC, at which passers-by were encouraged to hurl eggs at photos of both Al Gore and me.” - Cindy Baxter (2012) – How Heartland lied to me and illegally recorded the lies – Hot Topic, 15/03/2012 – http://hot-topic.co.nz/heartland-lies-and-deceives/
“We now know that Heartland had paid for a number of the deniers who were part of the CFACT team. Heartland money went to the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition that year, and NZCSC members, Owen McShane, Bryan Leyland and Vincent Gray were also on the CFACT team, along with a number of Australian deniers, Prof Robert (Bob) Carter, David Evans and Joanne Nova. Desperate for the attention they weren’t getting, CFACT even offered free Balinese massages to people who attended their event.” - Brendan Demelle (2013) – CFACT Makes Holocaust Reference About UN Climate Process In Poland – Desmogblog, 21/11/2013 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/11/21/cfact-makes-holocaust-reference-about-un-climate-process-poland
“Staying classy as ever, the anti-science Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) sent a fundraising request to its fans this week and made a reprehensible reference to the Holocaust, likening the United Nations’ efforts in international climate negotiations to the Nazi concentration camps. After writing that «there simply is no parallel» between the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and current UN efforts to address climate change, CFACT President David Rothbard went ahead and drew the parallel anyway.”
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