200K Scientists Profess Man Made Climate Change; A Few Dozen Funded by the Fossil Fuel Industry Disagree
There are over 200 professional scientific organizations around the world, mostly funded by membership dues from hundreds of thousands of member scientists. Overwhelmingly, these organizations profess the anthropocentric influence on climate change. On the State of California website, you can link to a list of 197 worldwide scientific organizations that agree with the position that mankind has significant influence over climate change.
The following is just a sample list of a few predominant American institutions and professional organizations that have made public statements affirming the anthropocentric causes of climate change:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Chemical Society
- American Geophysical Union
- American Medical Association
- American Meteorological Society
- American Physical Society
- The Geological Society of America
- U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Contrast that with the dozen or so opposition “think tanks” which are funded primarily by the fossil fuel industry — The vast majority of the climate change “scientific research” performed by these think tanks is funded by Koch Industries or ExxonMobil or both. All in all, there are several dozen scientists who disagree that climate change is man made. Almost all of them work for one of these Koch/ExxonMobil funded organizations.
The Union of Concerned Scientists compiled a list of these think tanks, and explains the extent of each organization’s involvement in trying to dispel the climate change argument. Go to their site if you want to learn the details, but for our purposes, I’ll simply list the organizations along with their primary source of climate research funding.
- American Enterprise Institute (ExxonMobil / Koch)
- Americans for Prosperity (Koch)
- Competitive Enterprise Institute (ExxonMobil)
- American Legislative Exchange Council (ExxonMobil)
- Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University (Koch)
- Cato Institute (Koch)
- Competitive Enterprise Institute (ExxonMobil)
- Heartland Institute (ExxonMobil)
- Donors Trust (Koch)
- Heritage Foundation (ExxonMobil)
- Institute for Energy Research (ExxonMobil / Koch)
- Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (ExxonMobil / Koch)
It is clear that members from organizations such as the American Meteorological Society don’t benefit financially from their positions on climate change. On the other hand, the scientists in organizations like the Cato Institute are dependent on those organizations for their very paychecks. Which groups of scientists do you think have motives other than pure science?