President Donald Trump has said that there are “scientists on both sides of the issue” when it comes to human-caused climate change. The side that denies its existence is now giving him an award.

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness is presenting Trump with what it calls the Edward Teller Award for the Defense of Freedom, which, according to the Tucson-based group, recognizes “extensive, selfless and effective work in defense of our nation.”

In a letter addressed to Trump, the group’s president, Jane Orient, wrote that Trump’s work in “opposing the failed hypothesis of human-caused climate change” spurred Doctors for Disaster Preparedness to honor him.

Orient commended Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, a 2015 agreement between 195 nations that aims to slow the potentially disastrous effects of climate change.

The award will be presented at Doctors for Disaster Preparedness’s 37th annual meeting, which will take place at the DoubleTree Reid Park Hotel in Tucson from July 19 to July 21. Orient said she hasn’t heard from any members of the Trump team about whether or not a representative will attend to receive the award.

According to the U.S. government’s most recent climate assessment report, climate change could cause an annual average increase in temperature of 9 degrees without “major reductions” in emissions of greenhouse gases, but Orient doesn’t buy it.

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She says the climate assessment report was written by alarmist holdovers from past administrations that Trump hadn’t yet purged from the 13 federal departments and agencies that contributed to the report.

Orient does believe climate change is putting millions of lives in danger, but only because unwarranted fear about its effects is driving investment in solar and wind energy instead of fossil fuels. Orient says no amount of investment in renewable energy will be able to feed the power grid, and that, without reliable electricity, people will die.

That’s a fringe view in the scientific community, one of many held by Orient, who has leadership roles in three organizations — all based in the same Tucson office — that refute the existence of catastrophic human-caused climate change: Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, Physicians for Civil Defense and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Orient is the primary person working at the Tucson headquarters for the groups, though she said she wouldn’t call herself an employee because she doesn’t get paid.

Still, the shoestring operation brings in thousands of dollars in donations from supporters around the country. Orient said Doctors for Disaster Preparedness has hundreds of dues paying members nationwide, and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has hundreds more.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons operates a political action committee that has donated more than $230,000 to Republican candidates since 1998, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which compiles FEC data.

Arizona politicians who have received funds from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons include Arizona Republican Party chairwoman Kelli Ward ($7,000 total) and former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake ($7,000 total).

Orient is affiliated with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, a small organization run by failed congressional candidate Art Robinson, who FiveThirtyEight dubbed “the grandfather of alt-science.”

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, run by Robinson and his family on their ranch near Cave Junction, Oregon, shares an interest in nuclear energy with Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, which advocates for lowering standards related to radiation exposure and increased investment in nuclear power.

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In addition to Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord, Orient’s letter to Trump says the award, named for a nuclear physicist who assisted with the production of the first atomic bomb and led the development of the hydrogen bomb, is being given to Trump because of his “proposals regarding hydrocarbon and nuclear energy.”

On its website, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness subscribes to an outlier view among scientists that low-level doses of radiation could be healthy and that “radiation phobia” in the wake of a dirty-bomb detonation could cause unnecessary injuries, suicides, abortions and mental health issues.

Under Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency pursued a rule change that critics said could lead to higher levels of radiation exposure for workers at nuclear plants, oil and gas drilling sites, medical settings and people who live near contaminated sites, the Associated Press reported.

Orient is adamant that small doses of radiation are beneficial and that concerns about meltdowns at nuclear power plants prevent the U.S. from investing in nuclear energy.

“The Teller Award had more to do with the Paris Climate Accord, but if he really encourages nuclear power, this would be a tremendous boon to our country,” Orient said of Trump.