



The Online Enviro-critical Community



By William Kay

Table of Contents

356 Enviro-Critical and/or Climate-Sceptical Websites

78 Funded Enviro-Critical Organizations

115 Philanthropic Donors to the Enviro-Critical Movement

2 Concluding Criticisms

Enviro-Critical and/or Climate-Sceptical Websites

(About this List)

The starting place for compiling this list were the blogrolls or links sections of the better known climate-sceptical and/or enviro-critical websites. Many of the websites listed there have blogrolls of their own, which were also surveyed. Overall, about 100 such lists were perused. Only websites appearing on these lists were selected for the list below.

About 20 blogrolls contain over 100 entries each but there is a lot overlapping content. Moreover, the lists tend to be poorly maintained and thus include many broken links and dud sites. They also include websites with little enviro-content.

The Lord Monckton Foundation website has an impressive 300 hyperlinks, but over half of these link not to websites but to individual articles, papers, and data-sets, or to pro-global warming sites including one that calls Lord Moncton a purple crested crackpot. In fairness to Lord Monckton, he is not advertising his list as being exclusively a roll call of enviro-critical/climate-sceptical sites. Only about 70 of his entries fit this definition, which still makes it one of the longest such lists on the Internet.

U Climate is a noble effort to produce a universal climate website collection. The site claims to draw postings from 150 climate sites but actually seems to draw from about 100. Of its 52 skeptical sites, 2 are not sceptical. Nevertheless, U Climate is a great idea and a site worth visiting.

None of the lists perused contain over 90 currently-active, enviro-critical/climate-sceptical websites. The list below is four times longer than any other. This reflects a community that really does not know itself.

True, the list below could be pared back. It includes multiple projects that trace to common sources. For instance, four websites are produced by the Center for Organizational Research and Education; however, in this and other instances, each website is a stand-alone, semi-independent project and thus appears as a separate entry. In other cases where multiple websites replicate a single source, only the presumed master site is listed.

A greater quandary is the dormant website. The exemplar of this phenomenon is World Climate Report. This seminal website is the most common resident on sceptics lists despite being dormant since 2012. Regarding the list below, if a website has not had a fresh posting since 2013, it was usually struck. Applying this rule excluded several dozen websites that appear regularly on sceptics lists.

A still greater quandary relates to websites whose enviro-critical information constitutes only a small portion of the websites overall content. While no strict cut-off line was drawn, this concern excluded scores of websites.

On the other hand, the ultimate list of climate-sceptical/enviro-critical websites is probably over ten times longer than the one offered below . The reasons for this are:

While almost all websites listed below hail from the English-speaking world, the list does contain entries from Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, South Africa, India, Argentina, Venezuela, etc. The Internets limited robot translation services renders sleuthing about in foreign languages problematic. Deeper investigation would no doubt generate many more entries. The Eco Tretas site alone links to 27 Portuguese eco-sceptical sites. Scores of the websites listed below issue forth from the libertarian fountainhead. Libertarians oppose government intervention into the market, and such intervention is precisely what environmentalists aim to increase. There are many libertarian websites. The Atlas Economic Research Foundation alone founded 400 libertarian think-tanks across 80 countries. While many libertarian sites are listed below, a full inventory of such sites, even winnowed to those with significant environmental commentary, was beyond the scope of this project. Similar to the previous point, there exist a large number pro-free-enterprise, limited-government, traditional-values, and/or classical-liberal pressure groups and webzines, each with a substantial Internet presence. Such groups lack the doctrinal purity of outright libertarians and tend to focus on practical political problems. Nevertheless, they all resist environmentalism. The State Policy Network is a coalition of 130 said groups. The Federalist Society has 75 chapters and other offshoots. Only a few representatives of this genre appear on the list below. As well, many Tea Party groups are not listed but could be. Several of the listed sites are part of a little-known, grassroots groundswell opposing wind power  i.e. the form of electrical generation most favoured by climate activists. The European Platform Against Windfarms has 957 member organizations. The North American Platform Against Wind Power links to 120 supporting organizations but includes few from the 50-member Ontario Wind Resistance. Across the globe at least 1,500 structured organizations oppose wind power. One problem here is that some of these organizations are green NIMBY groups sporting names like Forest Ecology Network and Save Our Lakes. While the list below includes a few mainstream media pundits and journalists, as a general rule such persons are not included. Celebs often do not have independent websites and are only contactable through their overlords and hence are incommunicado. Nevertheless, Tom Stossel, Rush Limbaugh, and about 40 others rightly belong on this list. This list does not include any of the hundreds of associations representing the oil, gas, nuclear, coal, pipeline, forestry, fishing, construction, and mining industries. Too often such groups espouse an appeasing Corporate Social Responsibility line. The problem is not, as the enviros allege, that big industrial firms lavish funds onto the enviro-counter movement. The problem is that they are not spending enough to ensure their own survival.

About 150 of the entries below are for simple blogs, meaning web-logs of individuals unconnected to any larger, funding agencies. Some blogs have blossomed into substantial enterprises. Jo Nova was selected top Australian blog in 2014 after receiving 600,000 hits. This website launched The Sceptics Handbook (Volumes 1 and 2), 200,000 copies of which have been distributed. Watts Up With That is the clear champion in this regard. Its 263 million cumulative hits have earned it numerous Internet awards.

Jeff Id relays how in the heyday of the Climate Gate scandal his blog (The Air Vent) peaked at 15,000 hits a day but has since quieted down, in part due to his own divided efforts. Real Sciences producer openly bemoans his inability to attract funders for his site. The Climate Scepticism initiative was launched because its producer felt the climate blogosphere was getting so crowded individual bloggers could no longer maintain visibility. So far this coalition project has attracted seven sceptics  two of whom are too sketchy to make it onto the list below.

Dozens of the website producers have hard copy books on the market and several websites are entirely devoted to advertising recently published books. Presumably all bloggers would welcome greater success in the conventional publishing and media realms, but obscure sites such as Green Corruption Files and No Tricks Zone often make for the most interesting reading.

ABC Newswatch www.abcnewswatch.blogspot.com Accuracy in Media www.aim.org Adam Smith Institute www.adamsmith.org A Chemist in Langley https://achemistinlangley.wordpress.com A Skeptical Mind www.a-sceptical-mind.com Africa Fighting Malaria www.FightingMalaria.org Alan Moran www.regulationeconomics.com Alex Cull https://alexjc38.wordpress.com Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions www.wiseenergy.org American Energy Alliance www.americanenergyalliance.org Americans for Limited Government https://getliberty.org Americans for Prosperity https://americansforprosperity.org Americans for Tax Reform www.atr.org American Elephant http://americanelephant.wordpress.com American Legislative Exchange Council www.alec.org American Policy Center www.americanpolicy.org American Resources Policy Network www.americanresources.org American Spectator www.spectator.org American Thinker www.americanthinker.com An Honest Climate Debate https://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com Andrew Bolt https://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/ Anton Lang https://papundits.wordpress.com Art Horn www.theartofweather.com Atlantic Institute of Market Studies www.aims.ca Atlas Economic Research Foundation www.AtlasUSA.org Aussie Madness www.aussiemadness.com Australian Climate Madness www.australianclimatemadness.com Australian Climate Sceptics Party www.theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.ca Australian Environment Foundation www.aefweb.info Australian TEA Party www.austeaparty.com.au/web/ A walk on the Natural Side www.perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com Ayn Rand Institute https://ari.aynrand.org Barrett Bellamy Climate www.barrettbellamyclimate.com Beacon Hill Institute www.beaconhill.org Bert Kelly Research Centre www.bertkelly.org.au Bjorn Lomborg www.lomborg.com Birdnow’s Aviary www.tbirdnow.mee.nu/ Big Green Radicals www.biggreenradicals.com Bishop Hill (Andrew Montford) www.bishophill.squarespace.com Bread and Butter Science www.breadandbutterscience.com/Index.htm Breitbart Media www.breitbart.com/ Bruderhiem Rural Electrification Association www.bruderheim-rea.ca Bryan Leyland www.bryanleyland.co.nz But Now You Know www.butnowyouknow.net Climate Conservative Consumer www.c3headlines.com Capital Research Center (Greenwatch) www.capitalresearch.org Canada Free Press www.canadafreepress.com Carbon Sense Coalition www.carbon-sense.com Carlin Economics and Science www.carlineconomics.com Catallaxy files www.catallaxyfiles.com Cato www.cato.org Center for Industrial Progress https://www.industrialprogress.com/ Center for Organizational Research and Education https://coreprojects.com Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise www.CDFE.org CFACT www.cfact.org Chemically Green www.chemicallygreen.com Chiefio (Musings of the Chiefio) https://chiefio.wordpress.com Christopher Booker www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/ Citizen Power Alliance www.citizenpowerallianceblog.blogspot.com Citizen’s Alliance for Responsible Energy www.responsiblenergy.org Carboniferous-Period www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html Climate Audit www.climateaudit.org Climate Change Dispatch www.climatechangedispatch.com Climate Change Facts www.climatechangefacts.info Climate Change Predictions www.climatechangepredictions.org Climate Change 101 www.climatechange101.ca Climate Common Sense www.climatecommonsense2.com Climate Conservation Group www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz Climate Contrarian https://climatecontrarian.blogspot.com Climate Debate Daily www.climatedebatedaily.com Climate Depot www.climatedepot.com Climate Dice and Butterfly https://sites.google.com/site/climatediceandthebutterfly/ Climate Edinburgh www.climateedinburgh.blogspot.com Climate, Etc. (Judith Curry) https://judithcurry.com Climate Gate www.theclimategatebook.com Climate Guy www.climateguy.blogspot.ca Climate Lessons www.climatelessons.blogspot.com Climate of Sanity and Freedom www.defyccc.com/search/ Climate Observer (Tisdale) www.climateobserver.blogspot.com Climate of Sophistry www.climateofsophistry.com Climate Realists of Norway www.klimarealistene.com Climate Resistance www.climate-resistance.org Climate Sanity https://climatesanity.wordpress.com Climate Scam www.climatescam.com Climate Science Coalition of America www.climatescienceamerica.org Climate Sense www.climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com Climate Science Blog www.climatescience.blogspot.com Climate Skeptic www.climate-skeptic.com Climate Skeptic Shop www.climateskepticshop.com Climate Scepticism www.cliscep.com Climate Views www.climateviews.com Climate 4 you www.climate4you.com Clive Best www.clivebest.com Club for Growth www.clubforgrowth.org Colder Side of Global Warming www.colderside.com Cooler Heads Coalition www.globalwarming.org Competitive Enterprise Institute https://cei.org Congress of Racial Equality www.CORE-online.org Conscious www.climate.conscious.com.au Cornwall Alliance www.cornwallalliance.org Cosmic Tusk www.cosmictusk.com Coyote Blog www.coyoteblog.com CO2 Coalition www.co2coalition.org CO2 Insanity https://co2insanity.com CO2 Science Magazine www.co2science.org CO2 Web www.CO2web.info Cranky Old Crow https://crankyoldcrow.wordpress.com Crisis and Energy Markets www.caem.org Daniel Ben Ami www.danielbenami.com David Archibald www.davidarchibald.info Defy Climate Cult and Alarmism www.defyccc.com Delingpole www.jamesdelingpole.com Deltoid www.scienceblogs.com/deltoid/ Die Klimaziebel www.klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/ Die Kalte Sonne www.kaltesonne.de Digging in the Clay https://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com Discovery Institute www.discovery.org Don Aitken www.donaitkin.com Don Easterbrook www.myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/index.html Donner und Doria www.donnerunddoria.welt.de/ Dr. Ross McKitrick www.rossmckitrick.com/ Dr. Tim Ball www.drtimball.com Duane Pendergast www.computare.org Ecofascism www.ecofascism.com Ecolopedia www.ecolopedia.fr Eco-Imperialism (Paul Driessen) www.eco-imperialism.com Ecology: Myths and Frauds www.mitosyfraudes.org Ecomyths www.ecomythsmith.blogspot.ca Eco Tretas www.ecotretas.blogspot.com Eco-Tyranny www.eco-tyranny.com EIKE Klima http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu Enthusiasm, Skepticism, etc. https://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com Energy and Environment http://eae.sagepub.com Energy and Environment Legal Institute www.eelegal.org Energy in Depth www.energyindepth.org Energy Matters (Euan Mearns) www.euanmearns.com Environmental Policy Alliance www.environmentalpolicyalliance.org EPA Abuse www.epaabuse.com EPA Facts https://epafacts.com Errors in IPCC Climate Science www.warwickhughes.com EU Referendum www.eureferendum.com European Platform Against Windfarms www.epaw.org Eyes on Browne https://eyesonbrowne.wordpress.com Fair Questions www.fairquestions.typepad.com Federalist Society www.fed-soc.org Fenbeagle https://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com Forecasting Principles www.forecastingprinciples.com Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity www.franklincenterhq.org Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org Free Republic www.freerepublic.com Free to Choose Network www.freetochoosenetwork.org Freedom Foundation of Minnesota www.freedomfoundation.publishpath.com6 Freedom Works www.freedomworks.org Friends of Science www.friendsofscience.org Frontier Centre for Public Policy https://www.fcpp.org Frontiers of Freedom www.ff.org Frontier 2000 www.frontier2000.net Galileo Movement www.galileomovement.com.au Gary Sharp www.sharpgary.org Gelbspan Files www.gelbspanfiles.com Geocraft www.geocraft.com George Marshall Institute www.marshall.org Global Climate Scam www.globalclimatescam.com Global Governance Watch www.globalgovernancewatch.org Global Warming and the Climate www.global-warming-and-the-climate.com Global Warming Hoax www.globalwarminghoax.com Global Warming Issues www.mclean.ch/climate/global_warming.htm Global Warming Policy Foundation www.thegwpf.org Global Warming Skeptics Forum www.globalwarmingskeptics.info Global Warming Solved www.globalwarmingsolved.com GMO Pundit www.gmopundit.blogspot.com Gore Lied www.algorelied.com Green Agenda www.green-agenda.com Green Decoys www.greendecoys.com Green Corruption Files www.greencorruption.blogspot.com Green Spirit www.GreenSpirit.com Greenie Watch www.antigreen.blogspot.com Green World Trust www.greenworldtrust.org.uk Grumpy Denier https://grumpydenier.wordpress.com Habitat 21 www.habitat21.co.uk Harmless Sky www.ccgi.newberyl.plus.com Heartland Institute www.heartland.org Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org Hide the Decline www.hidethedecline.eu Hooterville Gazette www.hootervillegazette.com Hudson Institute www.hudson.org Ice Age Now www.iceagenow.info Ice Cap www.icecap.us I Hate Al Gore www.ihatealgore.com I Love CO2 www.iloveco2.com I Love My CO2 www.ilovemyco2.com Independent Institute www.independent.org Independent Women’s Forum www.iwf.org Inhofe, Senator www.inhofe.senate.gov Institute for Energy Research www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/ Institute for Free Enterprise www.unternehmerische-freiheit.de Institute for Humane Studies at GMU https://theihs.org Institute for Liberty www.instituteforliberty.org Institute for Private Enterprise www.ipe.net.au Institute of Economic Affairs www.iea.org.uk Institu Juan de Mariana www.juandemariana.org Institute of Public Affairs www.ipa.org.au Institu Bruno Leoni www.brunoleoni.it ICSC www.climatescienceinternational.org Jennifer Marohasy www.jennifermarohasy.com John Coleman www.johncolemanblog.com John Locke Foundation www.johnlocke.org/ JoNova www.joannenova.com.au Judith Curry https://judithcurry.com Junk Science www.junkscience.com Ken’s Kingdom https://kenskingdom.wordpress.com Kev Gillett www.kevgillett.net Kill CARB www.killcarb.org Knowledge Problem www.knowledgeproblem.com Landscape and Cycles www.landscapesandcycles.net/ Lavoisier Group www.lavoisier.com.au Looking for Patterns in Instrumental Data www.l4patterns.com Lord Monckton Foundation www.lordmoncktonfoundation.com Luke-warmers https://thelukewarmersway.wordpress.com Mackinac Center for Public Policy www.mackinac.org Manhattan Institute www.manhattan-institute.org Manic Bean Counter https://manicbeancounter.com Mannkal Economics Education Foundation www.mannkal.org Marcel Crok www.staatvanhetklimaat.nl Mark Musser www.rmarkmusser.com Mark Steyn www.marksteyn.com/ Marita Noon https://energymakesamericagreat.org Martin Durkin www.martindurkin.com Master Resource www.masterresource.org Media Research Center www.mrc.org Melanie Philips www.melaniephillips.com Mercatus Center www.mercatus.org Michael James Barker https://michaeljjamesbarker.wordpress.com Michele Malkin www.michellemalkin.com Middlebury Network www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html Minnesotans for Global Warming https://m4gw.com Moderating Climate Change Hysteria www.renewable.50webs.com Mostly Harmless 101 www.mostlyharmless-room-101.blogspot.com MRC Newsbusters www.newsbusters.org My Garden Pond https://mygardenpond.wordpress.com National Association of Scholars www.nas.org National Black Chamber of Commerce www.nationalbcc.org National Center for Policy Analysis www.ncpa.org National Center for Public Policy Research www.nationalcenter.org National Wind Watch www.wind-watch.org New Climate Model www.newclimatemodel.com New Nostramedus of the North www.newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com Next Grand Minimum https://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com New Zealand Climate Science Coalition www.nzclimatescience.net/ Nick Cater Lucky Culture www.luckyculture.com.au Nir Shaviv www.sciencebits.com No B-S here https://tthomas061.wordpress.com No Hot Air www.nohotair.co.uk No Tricks Zone www.notrickszone.com Nofrakkingconsensus www.nofrakkingconsensus.com Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change www.nipccreport.org North American Platform Against Wind Power www.na-paw.org North Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment www.vasee.org Not a Lot of People Know That https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com Numberwatch www.numberwatch.co.uk Observatory ARVAL www.oarval.org Omnilogos www.omnilogos.com Ontario Wind Resistance www.ontario-wind-resistance.org Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine www.oism.org Pacific Legal Foundation www.pacificlegal.org Pacific Research Institute www.pacificresearch.org Paradigm and Demographics www.paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.ca Park Privatization www.parkprivatization.com Paul MacRae False Alarm www.paulmacrae.com/ Perpetual Motion (Colin McInnis) www.colinmcinnes.blogspot.ca Peter O’Neill’s Blog https://oneillp.wordpress.com Pete’s Place www.petesplace-peter.blogspot.com Plants Need CO2 www.plantsneedco2.org Pointman’s https://thepointman.wordpress.com Polar Bear Science https://polarbearscience.com Policlimate www.policlimate.com Pope’s Climate Theory www.popesclimatetheory.com Population Research Institute www.pop.org Popular Technology www.populartechnology.net Power Line www.powerlineblog.com Principia Scientific International www.principia-scientific.org Property and Environment Research Center www.perc.org Quadrant https://quadrant.org.au Rational Optimist www.rationaloptimist.com Real CO2 www.realco2.de Real Science https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com Reason www.reason.org Rebel Media www.therebel.media Redneck USA https://redneckusa.wordpress.com Red State www.redstate.com Resilient Earth www.theresilientearth.com Richard Tol www.richardtol.blogspot.com Ric Werme www.wermenh.com Right Side News www.rightsidenews.com Roger Helmer www.rogerhelmermep.co.uk Roy Spencer www.drroyspencer.com Science and Environment Policy Project www.sepp.org Science and Public Policy Institute www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org SciMed Skeptic https://scimedskeptic.wordpress.com Science Skeptical www.science-skeptical.de Scragged www.scragged.com Sixty Plus Association www.60plus.org Shub Niggurath Climate https://nigguraths.wordpress.com Skeptic’s Corner www.jer-skepticscorner.blogspot.com Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council www.sbecouncil.org Small Dead Animals www.smalldeadanimals.com Solar Cycle 24 www.solarcycle24com.probojards.com Spiked www.spiked-online.com Spiel Climate www.spielclimate.blogspot.com State Policy Network www.spn.org Statistics and Other Things https://statpad.wordpress.com Steve Goreham www.stevegoreham.com Stockholm Initiative www.klimatupplysningen.se Stop These Things www.stopthesethings.com Strata-Sphere www.strata-sphere.com Sunrise’s Swansong https://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com Sunshine Hours https://sunshinehours.wordpress.com Tallbloke’s Talkshop https://tallbloke.wordpress.com Talking About the Weather www.talkingabouttheweather.com Terri Jackson’s Scientific Blog www.scientificqa.blogspot.com Texas Public Policy Foundation www.texaspolicy.com The Air Vent https://noconsensus.wordpress.com The Blackboard www.rankexploits.com The Carbon Sense Coalition www.carbon-sense.com The Climate Bet www.theclimatebet.com The Energy Advocate www.energyadvocate.com The Fraudulent Climate of Hokum Science http://fraudulentclimate.atspace.com/ The Hockey Schtick www.hockeyschtick.blogspot.com The Inconvenient Skeptic www.theinconvenientskeptic.com The Little Skeptic www.littleskepticpress.blogspot.com The Right Climate Stuff www.therightclimatestuff.com The Scientific Alliance www.scientific-alliance.org The Tropical Meteorology Project https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/ The View From Here https://hro001.wordpress.com Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy www.thomasjeffersoninst.org Tim Worstall www.timworstall.com Tom Nelson www.tomnelson.blogspot.com Tory Aardvark www.toryaardvark.com Trust Yet Verify https://trustyetverify.wordpress.com TWAWKI www.twawki.com uClimate www.uclimate.com Undue Influence www.undueinfluence.com Unsettled Climate https://unsettledclimate.org US Action News www.usactionnews.com Virginia Institute for Public Policy www.virginiainstitute.org Washington Legal Foundation www.wlf.org Washington Policy Center www.washingtonpolicy.org Watts Up With That www.wattsupwiththat.com We Are Narrative www.wearenarrative.wordpress.com Weather Action www.weatheraction.com Weather In Canada Observer www.weather-in-canada-observer.com Web Commentary www.webcommentary.com What Really Happened www.whatreallyhappened.com Wind Action www.windaction.org Where is the AGW https://wobleibtdieglobaleerwaermung.wordpress.com Wrong Kind of Green www.wrongkindofgreen.org

Funded Enviro-Critical Organizations

(About this List)

This second list is culled from the first list. It contains the websites of the larger funded organizations devoting significant resources to criticizing the environmental movement.

Before plunging into this list, it is important to remind that between these large funded organizations and the solo-operator blogs, the main list above also contains another 100 entries defying easy classification.

Scores of websites such as Popular Technology and International Climate Science Coalition are well-produced, seemingly professional, collective affairs yet do not appear to be from funded organizations  or at least not funded to the extent of a Fraser Institute or Heritage Foundation.

Another genre of enviro-critical/climate-sceptical website consists of alternative commercial media outlets who, without significant philanthropic or tax-deductible funding, have succeeded in attracting sufficient readership and advertising to employ full-time staff. Examples include: Spiked!, US Action News, American Spectator, American Thinker, Brietbart, Canada Free Press, Rebel Media, and Right Side News. While these are for-profit media businesses, there is no lumping them in with the mainstream media oligopoly. At the same time, they are clearly a class apart from the run-of-the-mill blogs.

Yet another difficult-to-define genre of website belongs to a gallery of academics, writers, and journalists who have acquired quasi-celebrity status, at least within the enviro-counter movement, and yet who remain for the most part independent. We have in mind here the likes of Judith Curry, Ross McKitrick, Nir Shaviv, Richard Tol, Steve Milloy, Jo Nova, Mark Steyn, Paul Driessen, James Delingpole, Marita Noon, Matt Ridley, Michelle Malkin, Marc Morano, Donna Laframboise, Bjorn Lomborg, etc.

Accuracy in Media Adam Smith Institute Africa fights Malaria American Energy Alliance Americans for Limited Government Americans for Prosperity Americans for Tax Reform American Legislative Exchange Council American Policy Center American Resources Policy Network Atlantic Institute for Market Studies Atlas Economic Research Foundation Ayn Rand Institute Bert Kelly Research Centre Capital Research Center Cato Institute Center for Industrial Progress Center for Organizational Research and Education Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Citizens for a Constructive Tomorrow Citizen Power Alliance Club for Growth Competitive Enterprise Institute Congress of Racial Equality Cornwall Alliance CO2 Coalition CO2 Science Discovery Institute Energy and Environment Legal Institute Energy in Depth Federalist Society Franklin Center for Government and Public Accountability Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity Fraser Institute Freedom Works Free to Choose Network Friends of Science Frontier Centre for Public Policy George Marshall Institute Global Warming Research Heartland Institute Heritage Foundation Hudson Institute Independent Institute Independent Women’s Forum Institute for Economic Affairs Institute for Energy Resources Institute for Free Enterprise Institute for Humane Studies (GMU) Institute for Liberty Institute for Private Enterprise Institute of Public Affairs Institute Bruno Leoni John Locke Foundation Lavoisier Society Lord Monckton Foundation Mackinac Center Master Resource Media Research Center Mercatus Center National Association of Scholars National Black Chamber of Commerce National Center for Public Policy Research National Coalition for Policy Analysis National Wind Watch North American Platform Against Wind Power Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine Pacific Legal Pacific Research Population Research Institute Property and Environment Research Center Reason Foundation Sixty 60 Plus Small Business and Entrepreneurial Council Texas Public Policy Foundation Thomas Jefferson Institute Washington Legal Foundation Washington Policy Center

Philanthropic Donors to the Enviro-Critical Movement

(About this List)

A rare hat-tip must go out regarding the third list. The environmental movement devotes substantial resources to monitoring its adversaries. Source Watch maintains a data base of 4,000 Wikipedia-style articles on critics of the environmental movement. Greenpeaces Anti-Environmental Archives warehouses 27,000 documents. Even more useful is the dogged investigative work done by Desmogblog and Conservative Transparency. The list below is drawn mainly from Desmogblog, Source Watch, and Conservative Transparency commentaries on the funding of the groups appearing on the list above.

Many of the groups listed below are run by very private people. If no website is listed alongside the foundation, it is because no website can be found. Those with websites often provide no contact information. Many are contactable only through the regular postal service, and some make it clear they do not read unsolicited requests for money.

Where available and useful, additional information appears alongside the name of the funding agency.

Note: Several donors are not original sources of funds but are intermediaries.

Also note: At least four of these groups (Fairbrook, Rotella, Walton, and Windway) also fund green NGOs.

Abstraction Fund – Rosenwald family (Sears) – Nina Rosenwald www.gatestoneinstitute.org Aequus Institute – Aequus Foundation Alan and Hope Winters Foundation Allegheny Foundation – Scaife family American Action Network https://americanactionnetwork.org American Chemistry Council www.americanchemistry.com American Future Fund www.americanfuturefund.com American Petroleum Institute www.americanpetroleuminstitute.com Armstrong Foundation www.armstrong.com Arthur N. Rupe Foundation www.rupefoundation.org Aurea Foundation – Peter Munk Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Barney Family Foundation www.barneyfamilyfoundation.org Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation Blair Foundation Bochnowski Family Foundation – James J. Bochnowski Bradley Foundation – Harry Bradley www.bradleyfdn.org Brady Education Foundation www.bradyeducationfoundation.org Castle Rock Foundation – Coors family Center for Independent Thought www.centerforindependentthought.org Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation www.charleskochfoundation.org Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust Chase Foundation of Virginia – Derwood Chase Jr. Chiaroscuro Foundation www.chiaroscurofnd.org CIGNA Foundation www.cigna.com Claws Foundation – Free Enterprise Action Fund – Susquehanna Investments – Arthur Dantchuk, Jeffrey Yees, and Alan P. Dye Concerned Women for America www.cwfa.org Cornerstone Foundation www.cstonefoundation.org Crossroads GPS – Republican Party Super PAC DCI Group – Republican Party PR firm www.dcigroup.com Deramus Foundation Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation www.dbdvfoundation.org Donors Capital Fund www.donorscapitalfund.org Donors Trust www.donorstrust.org Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking – William Dunn Dorothy and Joseph Moller Foundation David H. Koch Charitable Foundation www.kochfamilyfoundation.org Earhart Foundation Ed Uihelm Family Foundation Freedom Partners www.freedompartners.org (Koch-related) F.M. Kirby Foundation www.fdnweb.org/kirby/ Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice www.edchoice.org Foundation for Economic Education www.fee.org Fairbrook Foundation – Aubrey Chernick Fairchild-Martindale Foundation George Edward Durell Foundation Gilder Foundation – Richard Gilder Howard Foundation Hickory Foundation – Virginia Gilder Herrick Foundation – Todd Herrick Holman Foundation Independent Women’s Voice www.iwvoice.org Jaquelin Hume Foundation – Hume family (Basic American Foods) JM Foundation www.fndweb.org/jm/ John Templeton Foundation www.templeton.org John W Pope Foundation https://jwpf.org Joyce and David Rumsfeld Foundation www.rumsfeldfoundation.org John Dawson Foundation Joe R. Lee Family Foundation (Clarion Fund) Kovner Foundation www.thekovnerfoundation.org Kantner Foundation www.kantnerfoundation.org Lilian S. Wells Foundation – Marion Wells Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation - Dan Peters Lowndes Foundation – William Lowndes III Leadership Institute www.leadershipinstitute.org Lynn and Foster Friess Family Foundation – connected to www.fosterfriess.com MacLellan Foundation www.maclellan.net Marshall Heritage Foundation My Wireless.org – Act Wireless www.actwireless.org National Association of Manufacturers www.nam.org National Christian Foundation www.nationalchristian.com Neal and Jane Freeman Foundation Newton Becker Foundation Orville and Ruth Merillat Foundation Peter Peterson Foundation www.pgpf.org Paul Singer Foundation https://thepesfoundation.org (Singer heads Manhattan Institute) Philanthropy Roundtable www.philanthropyroundtable.org Philip McKenna Foundation phRMA www.phrma.org Pierre Goodrich Foundation – connected to www.libertyfund.org Ravenal Curry Foundation – Ravenal B. Curry III Reams Foundation Richard Aster Jr. Foundation Richard Devos Foundation www.dbdvfoundation.org (Amway) Reynolds American www.rjrt.com Robert and Marie Hansen Foundation Robert and Star Pepper Foundation Robert P. Rotella Foundation Same Line Foundation Sarah Scaife Foundation – largest of four Scaife foundations Searle Freedom Trust www.searlefreedomtrust.org Sidney Swensrud Foundation Smith Richardson Foundation www.srf.org – Richardson family (Vick’s) State Policy Network - www.spn.org Stiles Nicholson Foundation www.stiles-nicholson.org Stuart Family Foundation - Robert D. Stuart (Quaker Oats) Sweetfeet Foundation TC4 Trust - Koch family The Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation The McWethy Foundation The Randolf Foundation – Richardson family The Robertson-Finley Foundation The Roe Foundation – Thomas Roe (founder of State Policy Network) The Vernon K. Krieble Foundation www.krieble.org Tepper Family Foundation The Weiler Foundation Thewes Family Foundation The Whitcomb Charitable Foundation Walton Family Foundation www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org Wellspring Committee William Donner Foundation www.donner.org William E. Simon Foundation www.wesimonfoundation.org Windway Foundation – Kohler family Woodhouse Family Foundation

Concluding Criticisms

One could spend a long time praising the above websites. Amongst their other accomplishments, the online enviro-critical community have demolished the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) hypothesis and have broadcast this message to millions of people despite concerted opposition from the mainstream media and elite academia. The science is settled  CAGW is a joke.

This leads to one of two principal criticisms of the online enviro-critical community; namely, that too much attention is given to Climate relative to other aspects of environmentalism.

Granted the climate industrial complex is a $1.5 trillion a year monster profoundly warping energy policies around the world, but the global recycling industrial complex also garners at least $200 billion per year. Most recycling, like renewable energy, would not happen, and need not happen, but for the relentless lobbying and lying of the international environmental movement. The online enviro-critical community rarely broaches the topic of recycling, and no websites are exclusively devoted to this topic while scores of enviro-critical websites are dedicated to Climate.

Likewise, only one website listed above (GMO Pundit) focuses on environmentalisms attack on genetically modified foods. Only one website (Population Research Institute) focuses on combatting environmentalisms overpopulation campaign  a massive crusade engendering cultural changes few people dare fathom.

Moreover, land-use policy remains the primary interest of the environmental movement. The economic consequences of this endeavour exceed all other aspects of environmentalism combined. Land-use policy affects housing costs, food prices, resource development, construction activity, and commercial overhead. Environmentalisms sequestration of land materially harms most of the worlds population.

While many of the above websites do take on the land issue, one has to hunt for such articles and essays; and land use is rarely a designated topic, or the sole concern, of a website. The only real example of the latter is the tepid: Park Privatization. The Cato Institute has a sub-section within their Energy and Environment section devoted to Urban Growth and Transportation, which carries articles on point. More germane information is found in the Adam Smith Institutes The Green Noose (urban greenbelts) and in the Institute for Energy Researchs The Economic Effects of Unlocking Federal Lands.

Climate-dedicated outfits like Friends of Science and Global Warming Policy Forum are increasingly straying off the reservation to expose bogus pollution scares and academic perfidy. This is a good thing. The solution is not to let up on the Climate hoax but to expand the overall reach and scope of the online enviro-critical community.

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The second criticism involves political terminology. The three primary political traditions are: Socialism, Conservativism, and Liberalism (or Left, Right, and Centre, respectively). If you find this an oversimplification, then you must surely reject the rigid Liberal-Conservative (or Left-Right) binary into which enviro-criticism is squished.

The above labels are historic terms relating mainly to economic policy. The essence of Socialism remains public ownership of the commanding heights of the economy  at least of the major financial and industrial sectors. Liberalism, or the policy of the Centre, advocates minimal government intrusion into the market and the leaving of economic activity, as much as possible, in private hands. The original Conservatives advocated keeping most property, certainly land, in private hands, but they also demanded strong governmental control of business activity.

During the first half of the 20th century, the most militant, and successful, faction of Europes Conservative movement became known as the fascists. This was not a fringe movement. Circa 1941 fascist regimes ruled every country in Europe save Russia and Britain. While many fascist parties and leaders perished in the Second World War, the political tradition and its base, Europes landed estate, rose from the ashes.

Through Orwellian linguistic manipulation the terms Left and Liberal were appropriated by what had hitherto been called the Conservative movement across much of the English-speaking world. Now we have liberals calling for ever more stringent state regulation. Now we have a radical left dominated by billionaires, aristocrats, and established churches.

Neo-fascism (i.e. environmentalism) is often described as left-liberal but leftism and liberalism is precisely what it opposes. This muddled discourse allows neo-fascists to masquerade as the freedom-loving friends of the common folk. This is a movement that restricts economic freedom in order to suppress what they perceive as unneeded and disruptive growth in full knowledge that such restrictions will immiserate broad swaths of the population.

The enviro-critical movement is almost unanimous in the view that environmentalism is some leftish liberal affair. Red-baiting abounds. Mark Musser and John Ray (Greenie Watch) deserve credit for correctly connecting modern environmentalism to classical fascism, but both insist on sledgehammering the triangular peg of proper political terminology into the binary slot of Cold War anti-communism.

Traditional leftists are found on the main list above (Michael James Barker, Climate Guy, Wrong Kind of Green, Climate Resistance et al.) and their sites make for interesting reading. Wrong Kind of Green, despite being militant environmentalist agitprop, and despite being run by yet another counterfeit Indian, is a treasure trove of dirt on Big Green.

Barkers excellent environment section exposes another part of the problem. Here we have someone who is convinced environmentalism is dominated by reactionary plutocrats with fascist roots, and who is convinced that overpopulation is a myth central to their agenda, but who cannot take the next step and acknowledge that Peak Oil, Acid Rain, Global Warming, and the entire ecological crisis are also myths.

The enviro-critical movement is now almost unanimous in the opinion that environmentalism is a project of certain wealthy elites. This is no secret. The controlling minds of giant philanthropic trusts and major multinational corporations are required by law to make public their contributions to green NGOs, and they usually comply. One could compile a list of 500 extremely wealthy individuals, from Prince Albert to Tom Steyer, who have publically plunged into the green pond. This is not a milieu where one finds radical levellers. These people are obviously not leftists.

Calling actual socialists reds is fair comment. Calling neo-fascists masquerading as leftists reds is aiding and abetting the enemy.



