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1. Michael Shermer (2009) – Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World. A Skeptic’s take on souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens and other invisible powers that be – Scientific American Magazine – June 2009 –  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skeptic-agenticity
   “The answer has two parts, starting with the concept of “patternicity,” which I defined … as the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise … we did not evolve a baloney-detection device in our brains to discriminate between true and false patterns … we infer agency behind the patterns we observe in a practice I call “agenticity” the tendency to believe that the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents … Together patternicity and agenticity form the cognitive basis of shamanism, paganism, animism, polytheism, monotheism, and all modes of Old and New Age spiritualisms … We are natural-born supernaturalists.“
2. Sally Covington (2005) – Moving Public Policy to the Right: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations 89-115 en Faber, Daniel R., Deborah McCarthy (eds.) – Foundations for Social Change, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield
   “Richard Fink, president of the Charles G. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations…argued that the translation of ideas into action requires the development of intellectual raw materials, their conversion into specific policy products, and the marketing and distribution of these products to citizen-consumers. Grant makers, Fink argued, would do well to invest in change along the entire production continuum, funding scholars and university programs where the intellectual framework for social transformation is developed, think tanks where scholarly ideas get translated into specific policy proposals, and implementation groups to bring these proposals into the political marketplace and eventually to consumers.”
3. Edward L. Bernays – Propaganda – Horace LiveRight, New York, 1926
   “Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons … who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
4. Sharon Beder (2005) – Chap. 6: Corporate propaganda and global capitalism – Selling free enterprise? – En Mark J. Lacy, Peter Wilkin (eds.) (2005) – Global politics in the information age – Manchester University Press – ISBN: 0-7190-6794-4 – http://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/44 – University of Wollongong, Australia
   “Corporations began to adopt the strategies that public-interest activists had used so effectively against them—grassroots organising and coalition building, telephone and letter-writing campaigns, using the media, research reports and testifying at hearings  … Corporations established ‘public affairs’ departments, increased the funding and staffing of those departments, and allocated responsibility for public affairs to a senior company executive, such as a Vice-President … Corporate money was invested in political campaigns but more importantly it was invested in other forms of political influence, particularly those aimed at influencing the political agenda through the dissemination and selling of ideas.”
5. Michael Barker (2006) – Taking the risk out of civil society: harnessing social movements and regulating revolutions – Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Newcastle – 25-27/09/2006 – Peer-Reviewed
   “This fast tracking of what Aeron Davis (2002) referred to as ‘Public Relations Democracy’ undermines democratic principles because it focuses on methods for ‘manufacturing consent’ (Herman and Chomsky 1988), rather than seeking ways by which to engage the public and invite their participation in decision making processes.”
6. María José García Orta (2001) – Mecanismos básicos de la propaganda de guerra en los medios informativos. El ejemplo de Kosovo – Ámbitos 7-8:137-149 – 2º semestre 2001/1r semestre 2002 – Grupo de Investigación en Estructura, Historia y Contenidos de la Comunicación
   “[Su] carga peyorativa ha propiciado la sustitución del término propaganda por eufemismos como ‘publicidad política’ o ‘comunicación política’, pero no ha impedido que los medios de comunicación sigan utilizando recursos propagandísticos en sus informaciones, contribuyendo con su uso a legitimar ciertas acciones.”
7. Michael Barker (2008) – The Liberal Foundations of Environmentalism – Revisiting the Rockefeller-Ford Connection – Capitalism Nature Socialism – Published online 01/06/2008 – http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/417722_788671212_793714624.pdf
   “Realistically speaking, it is unlikely that liberal foundations will be willing proponents or subjects of democratization.170 Therefore, the task that lies ahead of all citizens committed to a participatory and ecological democracy is to develop alternate funding mechanisms for sustaining grassroots activism, so they can break the ‘‘insidious cycle of competition and co-optation’’ set up by liberal foundations.”
8. Union of Concerned Scientists – Global Warming Skeptic Organizations: Global Climate Coalition – http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html
   “The GCC presents itself as a «voice for business in the global warming debate.» The group funded several flawed studies on the economics of the cost of mitigating climate change, which formed the basis of their 1997/1998 multi-million dollar advertising campaign against the Kyoto Protocol.”
9. Ian McGregor Power, Profits and the Planet – Fossil Fuel Corporations Putting Profits Before Planet, Promoting Burning As Usual! – Society of Heterodox Economists Working Paper 2007-08 – School of Management, University of Technology, Sydney
   “The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) was formed in 1989 under the auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), though it was reorganized as an independent entity in 1992. The GCC represents about 40 companies and industry associations, primarily major users of fossil fuels such as the oil, automobile, and electric utility sectors, but also including other energy intense sectors such as cement, aluminium, iron and steel, chemicals, and paper.”
10. Steven Bernstein (2002) – The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism – Columbia University Press, New York – ISBN: 0-231-120937-0 – 329 pp.
    “The Earth Summit institutionalized one major pathway from Brundtland. It entrenched the idea that market forces can be compatible with environmental protection and that a liberal economic order is best suited to achieving environment and development goals.”
11. Jeremy Leggett (1999) – The Carbon War. Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era – Routledge, 2001 – 342 pp – ISBN 0-415-93102-9
12. Al Gore (2007) – Tha Assault on Reason – Peguin Press, 2007 – Edición en español bajo el título: El ataque a la razón – Debate-Random House Mondadori, Barcelona – ISBN: 978-84-8306-753-6 – Octubre 2007 – p. 128
    “Ya se ha vuelto una costumbre que el presidente Bush se fíe de intereses especiales … para obtener información básica sobre las políticas que son importantes para esos intereses. ExxonMobil, por ejemplo, parece haber sido su fuente de información más fiable sobre la crisis ecológica. Las empresas químicas son sus fuentes más fiables sobre si determinados productos son o no perjudiciales para el medio ambiente … sorprendentemente, el presidente parece fiarse más de lo que dicen esos intereses especiales que de la información objetiva que han preparado para él analistas independientes que tienen la misión de proteger el interés público.”
13. Seth Shulman (2008) – Undermining Science. Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration – University of California Press, 2^nd edition – ISBN: 978-0-520-24702-4 – 202 pp. – p. xiv
    “An astonishing 46% of the climate scientists surveyed [sample: 1600] even reported that they or their colleagues ad been personally pressured by Bush administration officials to eliminate the words ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ from official documents, presumably in an Orwellian effort to try to suppress public attention to the issue”
14. Global Climate Coalition – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Climate_Coalition –
    “The group formed in 1989 as a response to several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A major scientific report on the severity of global warming by the IPCC in 2001 led to large-scale membership loss (ref). Since 2002 the GCC has been defunct, or in its own words, «deactivated».
15. Lester R. Brown – The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition – Earth Policy Institute, 25/07/2000 – http://www.earth-policy.org/Alerts/Alert6.htm
    “In rapid succession in the early months of 2000, Daimler Chrysler, Texaco, and General Motors announced that they too were leaving the Coalition. With the departure of GM, the world’s largest automobile company, the die was cast. A spokesman for the Sierra Club quipped, “Maybe it is time to ask the last one out to turn out the lights.””
16. The Global Climate Coalition – http://web.archive.org/web/20060127223742/http://www.globalclimate.org/
    The Global Climate Coalition has been deactivated.  The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming. The Bush administration will soon announce a climate policy that is expected to rely on the development of new technologies to reduce greenhouse emissions, a concept strongly supported by the GCC.”
17. Paul Krugman – Enemy of the Planet – The New York Times 17/04/2006 –http://select.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/opinion/17krugman.html?_r=1 (Accedido el 20/05/2009) “There’s a better reason to excoriate Mr. Raymond: for the sake of his company’s bottom line, and perhaps his own personal enrichment, he turned Exxon Mobil into an enemy of the planet. To understand why Exxon Mobil is a worse environmental villain than other big oil companies, you need to know a bit about how the science and politics of climate change have shifted over the years.”
18. Joseph Romm – Fraudster Bonner’s client is coal industry – Climate Progress 03/08/2009 – http://climateprogress.org/2009/08/03/bonner-client-accce-coal-front-group-fake-letters/
    “When not paying for Astroturf fraud, ACCCE was the top lobbyist on climate change and clean energy last year, spending $10.5 million on powerhouse lobbyists such as the Podesta Group and Guinn Gillespie.”
19. Think Progress – Coal Lobby’s ‘Purest Form of Grassroots’ Delivered By GOP Voter Fraud Company – Think Progress 07/08/2009 – http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/07/sproul-coal-fraud/
    “Even former Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT), during a hearing on voter fraud, admitted that “the difference between ACORN and Sproul is that ACORN doesn’t throw away or change registration documents after they have been filled out.”. After the coal industry was caught red-handed stealing letterhead and forging fake letters in opposition to clean energy reform, they simply blamed their contractor — a firm with a long track-record of providing exact type of astroturfing they were caught doing. Now with the coal industry hiring a firm with a long history of fraud and possible criminal activity (the Bush administration declined to ever investigate Sproul and his Lincoln Strategy firm), it is clear the industry is interested in defeating clean energy with deceit and purchased support.”
20. Andrew C. Revkin – Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate – The New York Times, 23/04/2009 – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/science/earth/24deny.html (Accedido el 20/05/2009)
    “A document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that even as the [Global Climate Coalition] worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.”
21. Andrew C. Revkin – Industry’s Advisers on Climate – Dot Earth. The New York Times – 24/04/2009 – Accesible en http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/industrys-advisers-on-climate/ (Accedido el 25/11/2009)
    “The advisers were equally critical of what they called “contrarian” arguments against significant human-caused climate change. That portion of their report, as I wrote in The Times today, got excised from the primer before other staff at the coalition approved a final version (nothing ever was released publicly).”
22. Global Climate Coalition (GCC), AIAM Technical Committee – Primer on Climate Change Science. Final Draft – 18/01/1996, Internal Note
    “The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied … A large, short term change in climate consistent with model predictions could be taken as proof of a human component of climate change …  Alternative hypotheses do not address what would happen if atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to rise at projected rates.”
23. Spencer Weart (2008) – The Discovery of Global Warming – http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html#contents
    Excelente historia del descubrimiento del cambio climático y sus consecuencias
24. Guy Steward Callendar – The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature, 16/02/1938
    “The dotted line shows the displacement of the mean due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, and it is evident that present temperatures, particularly in the northern hemisphere, are running above the calculated values. The course of the temperature during the next twenty years should afford valuable evidence as to the accuracy of the calculated effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide.”
25. A. Abarbanel and T. McClusky – Is the world getting warmer? – Saturday Evening Post – 01/07/1950
26. Gilbert N. Plass (1956) – The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change – Tellus 8, 140–154- Peer-Reviewed
    “The extra CO2 released in the atmosphere by industrial processes and other human activities may have caused the temperature rise during the present century … The CO2 theory predicts that this warming trend will continue, at least for several centuries …It appears that most of the additional CO2 …will stay there for at least several centuries … the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere will become an increasingly important problem through the centuries … After making allowance for the growth of industrial activity it is expected that this amount of fuel … nearly 40×10¹⁸ g will have added to the atmosphere … and the corresponding temperature rise will be considerably greater than 7 ºC.”
27. Roger Revelle and Hans Suess (1956) – Carbon Dioxide Exchange Between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO2 during the Past Decades – Tellus 9:18-27, 1957- Peer-Reviewed
    “Human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future … This experiment, if adequately documented, may yield a far-reaching insight into the processes determining weather and climate.”
28. James E. Hansen (2008) – Climate Threat to the Planet: The Venus Syndrome – Bjerknes Lecture, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco – 17/12/2008 – NASA Goodard Institute for Space Studies – – Peer-Reviewed
    “The Venus syndrome is the greatest threat to the planet, to humanity’s continued existence… Now the danger that we face is the Venus syndrome. There is no escape from the Venus Syndrome. Venus will never have oceans again.”
29. James Lovelock (2009) – The Vanishing Face of Gaia. A Final Warning – Allen Lane, Penguin Books – 178 pp – ISBN 978-1-846-14185-0 – p. 55
    “It seems that enough of us could survive to carry on our species, but there is an overriding need that reduces the carrying capacity of the Earth even further and that is the requirements of Gaia herself. There is much more to survival than human needs alone… Otherwise, our planet would move inexorably to the intolerably hot and utterly barren equilibrium state, something that eventually would be an average between Mars and Venus.”
30. R.C. Cowen – Are men changing the earth’s weather? – Christian Science Monitor – 04/12/1957
31. Bert Bolin and Erik Eriksson (1958) – Changes in the Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere and Sea due to Fossil Fuel Combustion – The Atmosphere and the Sea in Motion: Scientific Contributions to the Rossby Memorial Volume – Bert Bolin, ed. – New York, Rockefeller Institute Press, 130–14- Peer-Reviewed
32. Charles D. Keeling (1961) – The concentration and isotopic abundances of carbon dioxide in rural and marine air – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta  24:277–298- Peer-Reviewed
    “At locations far removed from terrestrial plants and the influence of cities, the concentration and C¹³ abundance of carbon dioxide in the air are found to be nearly constant; but the O¹⁸ abundance of carbon dioxide, under various circumstances, appears to show a systematic variation with air temperature, ocean water temperature, or season. Extreme values are, concentration: from 0.0303 to 0.0320 volume per cent of original air.
33. Walter Sullivan – Air Found Gaining In Carbon Dioxide; Increase, Noted at Hawaiian Observatory, Is Laid to Fumes From Industry – Variation Is Seasonal – The New York Times 11/09/1961 – http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B11FB3A5912738DDDA80994D1405B818AF1D3&scp=1&sq=%27the+steady+discharge+&st=p
    “Weather researchers, perched uneasily on this sleeping, but far from dead volcano, have found that the air is steadily becoming richer in carbon dioxide … ‘the steady discharge of fumes by smoke stacks, automobile exhaust pipes, jet engines, forest fires, and burning rubbish heaps’.”
34. Spencer R. Weart (1997) – The Discovery of the Risk of Global Warming – Physics Today, American Institute of Physics, Enero 1997 – Center for History of Physics
    “By the early 1960’s much had changed. Many scientists had become seriously concerned that warming might be no mere phase of a modest natural cycle but the onset of an accelerating climb, unprecedented and forebording. This shift in understanding and attention may eventually be regarded as one of our century’s pivotal scientific developments.
    
35. David M. Hart and David G. Victor (1993) – Elites and the Making of US Policy for Climate Change Research, 1957-74 – Social Studies of Science 23: 643-680 DOI: 10.1177/030631293023004002- Peer-Reviewed
    “This hesitancy is interesting. After all, Revelle had noted in his 1957 testimony that a 20% rise in CO2 (which could be expected by about 2000) could cause ‘considerable change’ in the climate … A 1982 retrospective by a high official of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) commented, ‘It is rather surprising that during the 1960s no more interest was shown in expanding monitoring of atmospheric CO2 to other remote places on the globe’. Furthermore, the Kennedy Administration had a demonstrated interest in meteorology … atmospheric models, although they were crude in the early 1960s, pointed in an alarming direction … the mid-1960s appears to have been a fallow period in the scientific history of the greenhouse effect … Very little new scientific information about the prospects of global warming was produced between the late 1960s and early 1970s.”
36. Walter H. Munk (1997) – Tribute to Roger Revelle and his contribution to studies of carbon dioxide and climate change – Colloquium Paper presented at a colloquium entitled ‘Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change’ organized by Charles D. Keeling – National Academy of Sciences, Irvine – 13–15/11/1995 – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 94: 8275–8279 – August 1997 – Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at San Diego
    “The chairman of the University of California Board of Regents at the time was the oil magnate Edwin Pauley … In 1961, when it came time to appoint the first chancellor, the Regents selected Herbert York. It was a major blow to Roger, reminiscent of the long delays in his appointment as Scripps Director.”
37. R. Revelle, W. Broecker, H. Craig, C.D. Keeling and J. Smagorinsky – Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide – In: Restoring the Quality of our Environment: Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel, President’s Science Advisory Committee. Washington: The White House, 1965: 111-133
38. John Walsh (1965) – Weather Modification: NAS Panel Report and New Program Approved by Congress Reveal Split on Policy – Science 147: 274-276 DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3655.274 – 15/01/1965
39. Deborah Day – Revelle: Roger Randall Dougan Revelle Biography – UC San Diego: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, 2008 – http://escholarship.org/uc/item/78d9v14v
    “The House Committee on Science and Astronautics, later renamed the Committee on Science and Technology, and its advisory Panel on Science and Technology had a profound influence on the way legislators viewed science and the way scientists viewed legislators. Panel members were scientists of impeccable reputation. In addition to Revelle, the group included Lee DuBridge, Harrison Brown, Athelstan Spilhaus, and Thomas F. Malone.“
40. Naomi Oreskes – The Long Consensus on Climate Change – The Washington Post 01/02/2007 – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101808.html
    “In a special message to Congress in February 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson noted: «This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through . . . a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.» A second warning came in 1966 … geophysicist Gordon MacDonald, who later served on President Richard Nixon’s Council on Environmental Quality … MacDonald’s committee concluded that increased carbon dioxide might also lead to «inadvertent weather modification.’ In 1978, Robert M. White … later president of the National Academy of Engineering, put it this way: ‘carbon dioxide released …  can have consequences for climate that pose a considerable threat to future society.’”
41. George Marshall – Comment: Why people don’t act on climate change – New Scientist 23/07/2009 – http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327185.900-comment-why-people-dont-act-on-climate-change.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=environment
    “It is now 44 years since US president Lyndon Johnson’s scientific advisory council warned that our greenhouse gas emissions could generate «marked changes in climate». That’s 44 years of research costing, by one estimate, $3 billion per year, symposia, conferences, documentaries, articles and now 80 million references on the internet. Despite all this information, opinion polls over the years have shown that 40 per cent of people in the UK and over 50 per cent in the US resolutely refuse to accept that our emissions are changing the climate. Scarcely 10 per cent of Britons regard climate change as a major problem.”
42. Lynn White, Jr (1967) – The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis – Science 155:1203-1207 DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3767.1203 – 10/03/1967 – http://aeoe.org/resources/spiritual/rootsofcrisis.pdf – Peer-Reviewed
    “I personally doubt that disastrous ecologic backlash can be avoided simply by applying to our problems more science and more technology. Our science and technology have grown out of Christian attitudes toward man’s relation to nature, which are almost universally held not only by Christians and neo-Christians but also by those who fondly regard themselves as post-Christians. Despite Copernicus, all the cosmos rotates around our little globe. Despite Darwin, we are not, in our hearts, part of the natural process. We are superior to nature, contemptuous of it, willing to use it for our slightest whim … What we do about ecology depends on our ideas of the man-nature relationship. More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecologic crisis until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.”
43. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien.; Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (Sweden) – Inadvertent climate modification: report of the study of Man’s impact on climate (SMIC) – Study of Man’s Impact on Climate, Stockholm, 1970 – Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, September 1971 – ISBN-10:0-262-69033-0 – xxi, 308 p – http://catalog.library.ksu.edu.sa/digital/108151.html – Peer-Reviewed
44. Merril Eisenbud (1972) – Inadvertent Climate Modification. Report of the Study of Man’s Impact on Climate (SMIC) – The Quarterly Review of Biology 47: 465-466 – 04/12/1972 – Published by: The University of Chicago Press – http://www.jstor.org/pss/2820791?cookieSet=1 – Peer-Reviewed
45. Earl W. Barrett (1975) – Inadvertent weather and climate modification – Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 6:15–90  doi: 10.1080/10643387509381634 – December 1975 – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Referee: H. E. Landsberg – 363 referencias
    “The old descriptive climatology, concerned mainly with statistics and verbal interpretation of them, is evolving into a new mathematical, or dynamic, climatology with predictive capability based on physical-mathematical processes rather than extrapolation of statistical measure.”
46. Bert Bolin (2007) – The History of Science and Politics of Climate Change. The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change – Cambridge University Press – ISBN: 978-0-521-88082-4 – 277 pp – p. 22
    “The creation of the CAS can be seen as the beginning of the development of a series of global research programmes in the field of the environmental sciences, which have been of fundamental importance for securing resources for global research efforts during the last 40 years. It was through the work of the CAS that the scientific communities in meteorology and climatology became recognised as potential users of satellites developed for peaceful purposes, just as President Kennedy had said a few years earlier.”
47. Brief Summary of the General Debate – United Nations Conference On The Human Environment – Stockholm, 1972 – http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=97 “The concept of «no growth» could not be a viable policy for any society, but it was necessary to rethink the traditional concepts of the basic purposes of growth.”
48. Gerald Ford (1975) – Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of the National Science Board – 21/03/1975 – http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4795
    “The National Science Board has made an important contribution by careful study of a number of the challenges that face our country and the world, including population growth, food supply, energy demands, mineral resource supply, weather and climate modification, and environmental change.”
49. Naomi Oreskes – The Long Consensus on Climate Change – The Washington Post 01/02/2007 – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101808.html
    “Even most scientists don’t know that they — and others — have been communicating concerns about global warming to presidents of both parties since the 1960s.”
50. Philip H. Abelson (1977) – Editorial: Energy and Climate – Science 197:3 – 02/09/1977 – Peer-Reviewed
    “Humanity is in the process of conducting a great global experiment. If unpleasant effects are encountered they cannot be quickly reversed. Although a comprehensive understanding of what is going on may be difficult to attain, prudence requires at least a determined and sustained effort.”
    
51. James Gustave Speth (2008) – George M. Woodwell, Gordon J. MacDonald, Roger Revelle and C. David Keeling (1979) – The Carbon Dioxide Problem: Implications for Policy in the Management of Energy and Other Resources. A Report to the Council on Environmental Quality – July 1979 – Reprinted with a foreword by James Gustave Speth on the occasion of George Masters Woodwell’s 80th Birthday Symposium, Woods Hole Research Center – 24/10/2008
    “The report’s contents were alarming. The report predicted “a warming that will probably be conspicuous within the next twenty years,” and it called for early action: “the time for implementing the policies is fast passing.” The year was 1979, almost three decades ago … I soon presented the report to President Carter”
52. George M. Woodwell, Gordon J. MacDonald, Roger Revelle and C. David Keeling (1979) – The Carbon Dioxide Problem: Implications for Policy in the Management of Energy and Other Resources – A Report to the Council on Environmental Quality – July 1979 – Reprinted with a foreword by James Gustave Speth on the occasion of George Masters Woodwell’s 80th Birthday Symposium – Woods Hole Research Center – 24/10/2008
    “I soon presented the report to President Carter and others in his administration. The new Department of Energy reacted negatively. It was promoting a massive program of synthetic fuels to be made from coal, tar sands, and oil shale, and these synthetic fuels would produce more climate-altering gases than most other energy technologies. DOE promptly produced a counter memorandum.”
53. Dean James Gustave Speth – Time for Civic Unreasonableness – Environment Yale – The Journal of The School Of Forestry & Environmental Studies – Spring 2008
    “The failure to rise to the climate change challenge is part of a larger failure to confront other environmental problems … I was chair of Carter’s Council on Environmental Quality at the time, and this report was our third, and final, major report on the climate-change challenge. For those who cared to look, there was enough information on climate change three decades ago to stir the deepest concerns.”
54. James Hansen et al (1981) – Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide – Science 213:957-966 – 28/08/1981 – NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies – Peer-Reviewed
    “The global temperature rose by 0,2 ºC between the middle 1960’s and 1980, yielding a warming of 0,4 ºC in the past century. This temperature increase is consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect due to measured increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide … Potential effects on climate in the 21^st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part if a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice-sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage”.
55. United Nations Environmental Program (1980) – The Carbon Dioxide-Climate Issue: A Statement – The Environmentalist 1:165-166
    “A continuation of this increase is expected to modify the world climate with significant social, economic and political implications.»
56. Amanda H. Goodall (2008) – Why Have the Leading Journals in Management (and Other Social Sciences) Failed to Respond to Climate Change? – Journal of Management Inquiry, European Section 17:408-420 – December 2008 – Peer-Reviewed
    “Business and management 45/31,000; Economics 286/51,000; Sociology 55/25,000; Political science 67/30,000: 123/137.000= 0,9 ‰. [Datos recogidos entre 1970 y 2006 se las 30 primeras publicaciones sobre ‘management]’”
57. William D. Nordhaus (1977) – Economic growth and climate: The Carbon Dioxide Problem – The American Economic Review 67:341-346 – February 1977 – Peer-Reviewed
    “In contemplating the future course of economic growth in the West, scientists are divided between one group crying ‘wolf’ and another which denies that species’ existence. One persistent concern has been that man’s economic activities would reach a scale where the global climate would be significantly affected. Unlike many of the wolf cries, this one, in my opinion, should be taken very seriously.” – Peer-Reviewed
58. William D. Nordhaus (1977) – Economic growth and climate: The Carbon Dioxide Problem – The American Economic Review 67:341-346 – February 1977 – Peer-Reviewed
    “The outcome just described is the effect of an uncontrolled economy-climate system. The problem is the most extreme imaginable form of external diseconomy-one in which an individual burning a fossil fuel does not take into account the climatic consequences, and thereby affects not only the global climate, but also the climate for hundreds of years in the future.”
59. Spencer Weart (2008) – The Discovery of Global Warming – International Cooperation – http://www.aip.org/history/climate/Internat.htm
    “The Toronto Conference’s report concluded that the changes in the atmosphere due to human pollution «represent a major threat to international security and are already having harmful consequences over many parts of the globe.» For the first time, a group of prestigious scientists called on the world’s governments to set strict, specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That was the Montreal Protocol model: set targets internationally, and let governments come up with their own policies to meet the targets. By 2005, said the experts, the world should push its emissions some 20% below the 1988 level.”
60. Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations 13/12/2007 – UN climate conference taking the World in entirely the wrong direction – Publicado en esa misma fecha por el National Post de Canadá – Accesible en http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=165020
    “Don’t fight, adapt. We should give up futile attempts to combat climate change”
61. Jeremy Leggett – Temperature rises at global warming talks – The Guardian 05/12/1997
62. Marc Bowen (2008) – Censoring Science. Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming – Penguin Group, 2008 – pp. 61:62
    “On the 20^th of January [2003], as it began to appear that Time magazine would let the story flip, Jim gave roughly the same information to an old contact, Andrew Revkin, the lead global warming correspondent for The New York Times. On the 24^th, Larry Travis was hit and severely injured by a truck as he walked across Broadway on his way to work, Jim’s (Hansen) car was also broken into around that time, and the house in New Jersey in which he and Annie had raised their children burned to the ground. Darnell Cain, Jim’s assistant admits to being ‘sufficiently lazy and negligent to not update the NASA public records with Jim’s new address when he moved to Pennsylvania’”
    
63. Joseph Romm – NYT’s Revkin embraces false balance, equates Will’s active disinformation with Gore’s effort to understand and communicate climate realism – Climate Progress 25/02/2009 – http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/25/andy-revkin-al-gore-george-will-false-balance/
    «The lead climate reporter for the New York Times, Andy Revkin, remains stuck in the he-said she-said school of climate journalism that typifies everything wrong with the traditional media’s coverage of the issue of the century. Indeed, if we were to apply his analysis to his own work, then it would be fair to say that there is no difference between Andy Revkin and George Will.»
64. Guy Steward Callendar – The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature -16/02/1938
    “In conclusion it may be said that the combustion of fossil fuel … is likely to prove beneficial  to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power … in any case the return of the deadly glaciers should be delayed indefinitely. As regards the reserves of fuel these would be sufficient to give at least ten times as much carbon dioxide as there is in the air at present.””
65. Walter H. Munk (1997) – Tribute to Roger Revelle and his contribution to studies of carbon dioxide and climate change – Colloquium Paper presented at a colloquium entitled ‘Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change’ organized by Charles D. Keeling – National Academy of Sciences, Irvine – 13–15/11/1995 – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 94: 8275–8279 – August 1997 – Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at San Diego
    “Roger next became Science Advisor to Secretary of Interior Morris Udall and then was appointed Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy at Harvard University, a chair he held for just over a decade. Among his students was Benazir Bhutto and Albert Gore. Gore credited Roger with having aroused his interest in environmental problems.”
66. Deborah Day – Revelle: Roger Randall Dougan Revelle Biography – UC San Diego: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, 2008 – http://escholarship.org/uc/item/78d9v14v
    “The panel held formal sessions and invited the testimony of a large and distinguished group of scientists from 1959 when the panel was created until 1972 when it was disbanded.»
67. The Stockholm Network – Think Tank Details. Spain – http://www.stockholm-network.org/details.php?id=18
    “Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales (FAES, Madrid), Instituto Juan de Mariana (Madrid), Fundació Catalunya Oberta (FCO, Barcelona), Institución Futuro (Navarra), y Poder Limitado (La Coruña).”
68. Kevin Phillips (2008) – American Theocracy. The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century – Viking, The Penguin Group, 2008 – 462 pp – p. 209“… induce red-sate Republican conventions to proclaim United States as a Christian nation, endorse antihomosexual and antiabortion amendments to the Constitution, and urge that the United States withdraw from the United Nations, which they see as an auxiliary of the antichrist.”

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