This is him, Tom HarrisIf you've posted a blog on the global warming denial industry, you've probably received a comment from Mr. Tom Harris criticizing your piece or your sources. When I learned that I wasn't the only one who had gotten 'the message' from Harris I went to my friends at Sourcewatch.org. Turns out they've got quite a file on the guy.
At his blog: www.clmatechange.blogspot.com, Harris presents himself as a P.Eng. in Thermofluids and Executive Director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project or NRSP.
Do a Sourcewatch check on NRSP and, OMG!, who do you find as this organization's Chairman but noneother than global warming denier generalissimo, Tim Ball. And the hits just keep on comin'. Although NSRP maintains it has no direct connection with the Calgary-based climate change denial cabal, Friends of Science, Dr. Ball is one of that group's loudest spokesmen.
Mr. Harris comes to us fresh from a stint with APCO Worldwide which, if you watched Bob McKeown's piece on the Fifth Estate, is a well-known PR firm associated with Philip Morris and its campaign to deny any link between cigarettes and cancer.
Have some fun. Go to www.sourcewatch.org and run your own searches on Tom Harris, Tim Ball, Friends of Science, Natural Resources Stewardship Project, APCO Worldwide and some guy named Phillip Morris. You'll be glad you did.
With all that time on his hands, maybe he should expand (or recover) his mech engineering background and learn some climatology beyond the 1970 pocketbook guide to weather.
ReplyDeleteAnother blogger searched his writings, and found several claims about the "Heidelberg Appeal". The denialist often point to this as a consensus among scientists that climate change is not accepted (while they fight the concept of consensus). The usual claim is "The Heidelberg Appeal, signed by nearly 4,000 scientists from 106 countries including 72 Nobel Prize winners, warned of the 'irrational ideology' driving global-warming science." or some such group wording. Global warming and climate change were NOT mentioned in the (somewhat lame) 'Heidelberg Appeal'. See
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That's as good as they have, for evidence.
People may want to check out the Open Letter to the Sec Gen of the UN from 100+ climate experts explaining the serious mistakes in the agency's approach to climate change:
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Tom Harris
Oh yes, Fred Singer.
ReplyDeleteYet another denier with fossil fuel industry ties.