"William O'Keefe is chief executive officer of the Marshall Institute."
Oh,yeah. And who is behind that? Couldn't be Exxon, could it?
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FACTSHEET: George C. Marshall Institute, GMI
DETAILS
1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-296-9655
Fax: 202-296-9714
Founded in 1984, The George Marshall Institute primarily focused on defense issues, advocating funding for Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and Star Wars. GMI has since branched out and is one of the leading think tanks trying to debunk climate change.
GMI works on a range of issues, including civic environmentalism, climate change, national defense, bioterrorism, and missile defense. GMI publishes papers and holds "roundtables." Many of these roundtables have featured climate change skeptics such as Roger Bate, Willie Soon, Margo Thorning, and GMI's own Sallie Baliunas. In 1989, the Marshall Institute released a report arguing that "cyclical variations in the intensity of the sun would offset any climate change associated with elevated greenhouse gases." Although it was refuted by the IPCC, the report was used by the Bush Sr. Administration to argue for a more lenient climate change policy. GMI has since published numerous reports and articles attacking the Kyoto protocol and undermining the climate science. GMI is a former member of the Cooler Heads Coalition. GMI used to restrict its funding sources to private foundations and individual donars to avoid conflict of interest, but in the late nineties, then GMI President Jeffrey Salmon wrote, "when the Institute turned its attention to the science of global warming, it decided it would appeal successfully to industry for financial support." This fall, the Institute received its first-ever grant from a corporate foundation-- the Exxon Education Foundation. (http://web.archive.org/web/20020913050409/http://www.marshall.org/funding.htm) According to Media Transparency.org, the Institute received $5,757,803 since 1985 from conservative foundations including the Castle Rock Foundation (Coors), Earhart Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the Carthage Foundation.
KEY QUOTES
"Wise, effective climate policy flows from a sound scientific foundation and a clear understanding of what science does and does not tell us about human influence and about courses of action to manage risk. Many of the temperature data and computer models used to predict climate change are themselves uncertain. Reducing these many uncertainties requires a significant shift in the way climate change research is carried out in the U.S. and elsewhere."
Source: George Marshall Institute website 4/04
KEY DEEDS
12 April, 2004
Sponsored a "Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy" at which Dr. David Legates gave a presentation entitled "Global Warming and the Hydrological Cycle." Legates argued that climate change is unlikely to cause increased extreme weather.
Source: "Global Warming and the Hydrological Cycle," David Legates 4/12/04
FUNDING
George C. Marshall Institute has received $630,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
1999
$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
'support for science and public policy education programs'
Source: ExxonMobil Foundation 1999 IRS 990
2000
$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
general support
Source: ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
2001
$60,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
'climate change work'
Source: ExxonMobil 2001 Annual Report
2002
$80,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
'global climate change program'
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Annual Report
2002
$10,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Awards Dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Annual Report
2003
$95,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Global Climate Change Program
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report
2004
$25,000 Exxon Corporation
Awards Dinner -- Climate Change Activities
Source: Exxon Giving Report 2004
2004
$145,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Climate Change
Source: Exxon Giving Report 2004
2005
$90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)
2005
$25,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Awards Dinner and General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)
KEY PEOPLE
Sallie Baliunas
Senior Scientist; Science Advisory Board Member
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Frederick Seitz
Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Robert Jastrow
Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
William O'Keefe
Chief Executive Officer
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Bruce Ames
Member, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Willie Soon
Senior Scientist
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Margo Thorning
Roundtable Speaker
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Ross McKitrick
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
David R. Legates
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Sherwood Idso
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Craig Idso
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
James R. Schlesinger
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Howard Kleinberg
Research Analyst
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
PEOPLE
Jeff Kueter
President
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Patrick J. Michaels
Author
Source: Marshall Institute Webpage (2006)
Thomas L. Clancy Jr.
Member, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
William Happer
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Willis M. Hawkins
Former member of the Board of Directors (deceased)
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Bernadine Healy
Member, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
John H. Moore
Member, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Robert Sproull
Member, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Chauncey Starr
Member, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Lynn Wallis
Vice President of Operations
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Mark Herlong
Program Director
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Roger Bate
Former Roundtable Speaker
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Henry Miller
Roundtable Speaker
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Michael Gough
Roundtable Speaker
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Stephen McIntyre
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Jeffrey Marsh
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
W. David Montgomery
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Michael E. Canes
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Leonard Bernstein
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Jeffrey Salmon
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Kirill Ya. Kondratyev
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Eric S. Posmentier
Expert
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Gregory Canavan
Scientific Advisor, Board of Directors
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
John Christy
Author
Source: Marshall Institute Website (2006)
Roy W. Spencer
Author
Source: Marshall Institute Website (2006)
James O'Brien
Author
Source: Marshall Institute Website
Richard Lindzen
Author
Source: Marshall Institute Website (2006)
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