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To: Northern Marlin who wrote (19068)	9/2/2009 1:28:22 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50383

OK, how about this from the UK Daily Telegraph. It's not a socialist newspaper. telegraph.co.uk Seitz was into controlling the sheeple. No doubt about that. I shall quote from the article directly... the emboldoldment is mine... Shortly before his retirement, however, Seitz became a paid consultant to the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, advising on its research programme. In 2006 an article in Vanity Fair by Mark Haertsgaard alleged that Seitz had helped RJ Reynolds to distribute $45 million in research funding during the 1970s and 1980s for medical studies that "just happened to find no ill effects from smoking cigarettes" and served the interests of the tobacco industry. Seitz, who was quoted in the article as admitting "They didn't want us looking at the health effects of cigarette smoking", subsequently dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous", claiming that the money had gone to fund "basic science". By this time, however, Seitz had acquired something of a track record. In 1984 he had become founder chairman of the George C Marshall Institute, which initially focused on defence issues, advocating funding for President Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative. In the 1990s it branched out to become one of the leading think-tanks trying to debunk the science of climate change. In 1994 Seitz wrote a report entitled Global Warming and Ozone Hole Controversies: a challenge to scientific judgment, in which he questioned the scientific consensus. He followed this up in 1998 with the so-called "Oregon Petition", in which he claimed that climate change is a myth and urged the United States government to reject the 1997 Kyoto agreement "and any other similar proposals". Attached to the document was a paper entitled Research Review of Global Warming Evidence, written by Arthur B Robinson, a biochemist and Christian fundamentalist with no background in climate science, which claimed that, far from posing a danger to humanity, greenhouse gas emissions amounted to "a wonderful and unexpected gift from the industrial revolution by stimulating atmospheric carbon dioxide and increasing plant growth". The paper was co-published by the George C Marshall Institute which, it was subsequently revealed, had received $630,000 from the oil company Exxonmobil since 1998. Soon after the "Petition" was published the NAS took the unprecedented step of issuing a statement refuting the views of one of its former presidents and stating that the conclusions of the review did not "reflect the conclusions of expert reports of the Academy". There was irritation that the cover note, signed "Frederick Seitz, Past President, National Academy of Sciences, USA", seemed designed to give the impression that the paper was an official publication of the academy. In fact, it had never been reviewed by any climate scientist, and had never been accepted for publication by any scientific journal. Nonetheless, the Seitz petition acquired a life of its own and was often quoted by global warming sceptics in the US administration and the press.