Listing the Enviro-Critical and/or Climate-Sceptical Websites

Written by William Kay on April 3, 2016. Posted in Current News

Online researcher William Kay provides a comprehensive new list of 356 Enviro-Critical and/or Climate-Sceptical Websites; 78 Funded Enviro-Critical Organizations; 115 Philanthropic Donors to the Enviro-Critical Movement and 2 Concluding Criticisms.

Kay writes: 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 Monckton 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

1. ABC Newswatch www.abcnewswatch.blogspot.com
2. Accuracy in Media www.aim.org
3. Adam Smith Institute www.adamsmith.org 
4. A Chemist in Langley https://achemistinlangley.wordpress.com
5. A Skeptical Mind www.a-sceptical-mind.com
6. Africa Fighting Malaria www.FightingMalaria.org
7. Alan Moran www.regulationeconomics.com
8. Alex Cull https://alexjc38.wordpress.com
9. Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions www.wiseenergy.org
10. American Energy Alliance www.americanenergyalliance.org
11. Americans for Limited Government https://getliberty.org
12. Americans for Prosperity https://americansforprosperity.org
13. Americans for Tax Reform www.atr.org
14. American Elephant http://americanelephant.wordpress.com
15. American Legislative Exchange Council www.alec.org
16. American Policy Center www.americanpolicy.org
17. American Resources Policy Network www.americanresources.org
18. American Spectator www.spectator.org
19. American Thinker www.americanthinker.com
20. An Honest Climate Debate https://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com
21. Andrew Bolt https://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/  
22. Anton Lang https://papundits.wordpress.com
23. Art Horn www.theartofweather.com
24. Atlantic Institute of Market Studies www.aims.ca
25. Atlas Economic Research Foundation www.AtlasUSA.org
26. Aussie Madness www.aussiemadness.com
27. Australian Climate Madness www.australianclimatemadness.com
28. Australian Climate Sceptics Party www.theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.ca
29. Australian Environment Foundation www.aefweb.info
30. Australian TEA Party www.austeaparty.com.au/web/
31. A walk on the Natural Side www.perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com
32. Ayn Rand Institute https://ari.aynrand.org
33. Barrett Bellamy Climate www.barrettbellamyclimate.com
34. Beacon Hill Institute www.beaconhill.org
35. Bert Kelly Research Centre www.bertkelly.org.au
36. Bjorn Lomborg www.lomborg.com
37. Birdnow’s Aviary www.tbirdnow.mee.nu/
38. Big Green Radicals www.biggreenradicals.com
39. Bishop Hill (Andrew Montford) www.bishophill.squarespace.com
40. Bread and Butter Science www.breadandbutterscience.com/Index.htm
41. Breitbart Media www.breitbart.com/
42. Bruderhiem Rural Electrification Association www.bruderheim-rea.ca
43. Bryan Leyland www.bryanleyland.co.nz
44. But Now You Know www.butnowyouknow.net
45. Climate Conservative Consumer www.c3headlines.com
46. Capital Research Center (Greenwatch) www.capitalresearch.org
47. Canada Free Press www.canadafreepress.com
48. Carbon Sense Coalition www.carbon-sense.com
49. Carlin Economics and Science www.carlineconomics.com
50. Catallaxy files www.catallaxyfiles.com
51. Cato www.cato.org
52. Center for Industrial Progress https://www.industrialprogress.com/      
53. Center for Organizational Research and Education https://coreprojects.com
54. Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise www.CDFE.org
55. CFACT www.cfact.org
56. Chemically Green www.chemicallygreen.com
57. Chiefio (Musings of the Chiefio) https://chiefio.wordpress.com
58. Christopher Booker www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/
59. Citizen Power Alliance www.citizenpowerallianceblog.blogspot.com
60. Citizen’s Alliance for Responsible Energy www.responsiblenergy.org
61. Carboniferous-Period www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html
62. Climate Audit www.climateaudit.org
63. Climate Change Dispatch www.climatechangedispatch.com
64. Climate Change Facts www.climatechangefacts.info
65. Climate Change Predictions www.climatechangepredictions.org
66. Climate Change 101 www.climatechange101.ca
67. Climate Common Sense www.climatecommonsense2.com
68. Climate Conservation Group www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz
69. Climate Contrarian https://climatecontrarian.blogspot.com
70. Climate Debate Daily www.climatedebatedaily.com
71. Climate Depot www.climatedepot.com
72. Climate Dice and Butterfly https://sites.google.com/site/climatediceandthebutterfly/
73. Climate Edinburgh www.climateedinburgh.blogspot.com
74. Climate, Etc. (Judith Curry) https://judithcurry.com
75. Climate Gate www.theclimategatebook.com
76. Climate Guy www.climateguy.blogspot.ca
77. Climate Lessons www.climatelessons.blogspot.com
78. Climate of Sanity and Freedom www.defyccc.com/search/
79. Climate Observer (Tisdale) www.climateobserver.blogspot.com
80. Climate of Sophistry www.climateofsophistry.com
81. Climate Realists of Norway www.klimarealistene.com
82. Climate Resistance www.climate-resistance.org
83. Climate Sanity https://climatesanity.wordpress.com
84. Climate Scam www.climatescam.com
85. Climate Science Coalition of America www.climatescienceamerica.org
86. Climate Sense www.climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com
87. Climate Science Blog www.climatescience.blogspot.com
88. Climate Skeptic www.climate-skeptic.com
89. Climate Skeptic Shop www.climateskepticshop.com
90. Climate Scepticism www.cliscep.com
91. Climate Views www.climateviews.com
92. Climate 4 you www.climate4you.com
93. Clive Best www.clivebest.com
94. Club for Growth www.clubforgrowth.org
95. Colder Side of Global Warming www.colderside.com
96. Cooler Heads Coalition www.globalwarming.org
97. Competitive Enterprise Institute https://cei.org
98. Congress of Racial Equality www.CORE-online.org
99. Conscious www.climate.conscious.com.au
100. Cornwall Alliance www.cornwallalliance.org
101. Cosmic Tusk www.cosmictusk.com
102. Coyote Blog www.coyoteblog.com
103. CO2 Coalition www.co2coalition.org
104. CO2 Insanity https://co2insanity.com
105. CO2 Science Magazine www.co2science.org
106. CO2 Web www.CO2web.info
107. Cranky Old Crow https://crankyoldcrow.wordpress.com
108. Crisis and Energy Markets www.caem.org
109. Daniel Ben Ami www.danielbenami.com
110. David Archibald www.davidarchibald.info
111. Defy Climate Cult and Alarmism www.defyccc.com
112. Delingpole www.jamesdelingpole.com
113. Deltoid www.scienceblogs.com/deltoid/
114. Die Klimaziebel www.klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/
115. Die Kalte Sonne www.kaltesonne.de
116. Digging in the Clay https://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com
117. Discovery Institute www.discovery.org
118. Don Aitken www.donaitkin.com
119. Don Easterbrook www.myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/index.html
120. Donner und Doria www.donnerunddoria.welt.de/    
121. Dr. Ross McKitrick www.rossmckitrick.com/
122. Dr. Tim Ball www.drtimball.com
123. Duane Pendergast www.computare.org
124. Ecofascism www.ecofascism.com
125. Ecolopedia www.ecolopedia.fr
126. Eco-Imperialism (Paul Driessen) www.eco-imperialism.com
127. Ecology: Myths and Frauds www.mitosyfraudes.org
128. Ecomyths www.ecomythsmith.blogspot.ca
129. Eco Tretas www.ecotretas.blogspot.com
130. Eco-Tyranny www.eco-tyranny.com
131. EIKE Klima http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu
132. Enthusiasm, Skepticism, etc. https://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com
133. Energy and Environment http://eae.sagepub.com
134. Energy and Environment Legal Institute www.eelegal.org
135. Energy in Depth www.energyindepth.org
136. Energy Matters (Euan Mearns)  www.euanmearns.com
137. Environmental Policy Alliance www.environmentalpolicyalliance.org
138. EPA Abuse www.epaabuse.com
139. EPA Facts https://epafacts.com
140. Errors in IPCC Climate Science www.warwickhughes.com
141. EU Referendum www.eureferendum.com
142. European Platform Against Windfarms www.epaw.org
143. Eyes on Browne https://eyesonbrowne.wordpress.com
144. Fair Questions www.fairquestions.typepad.com
145. Federalist Society www.fed-soc.org
146. Fenbeagle https://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com
147. Forecasting Principles www.forecastingprinciples.com
148. Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity www.franklincenterhq.org
149. Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org
150. Free Republic www.freerepublic.com
151. Free to Choose Network www.freetochoosenetwork.org
152. Freedom Foundation of Minnesota www.freedomfoundation.publishpath.com6
153. Freedom Works www.freedomworks.org
154. Friends of Science www.friendsofscience.org
155. Frontier Centre for Public Policy https://www.fcpp.org
156. Frontiers of Freedom www.ff.org
157. Frontier 2000 www.frontier2000.net
158. Galileo Movement www.galileomovement.com.au
159. Gary Sharp www.sharpgary.org
160. Gelbspan Files www.gelbspanfiles.com
161. Geocraft www.geocraft.com
162. George Marshall Institute www.marshall.org
163. Global Climate Scam www.globalclimatescam.com
164. Global Governance Watch www.globalgovernancewatch.org
165. Global Warming and the Climate www.global-warming-and-the-climate.com
166. Global Warming Hoax www.globalwarminghoax.com
167. Global Warming Issues www.mclean.ch/climate/global_warming.htm
168. Global Warming Policy Foundation www.thegwpf.org
169. Global Warming Skeptics Forum www.globalwarmingskeptics.info
170. Global Warming Solved www.globalwarmingsolved.com
171. GMO Pundit www.gmopundit.blogspot.com
172. Gore Lied www.algorelied.com
173. Green Agenda www.green-agenda.com
174. Green Decoys www.greendecoys.com
175. Green Corruption Files www.greencorruption.blogspot.com
176. Green Spirit www.GreenSpirit.com
177. Greenie Watch www.antigreen.blogspot.com
178. Green World Trust www.greenworldtrust.org.uk
179. Grumpy Denier https://grumpydenier.wordpress.com
180. Habitat 21 www.habitat21.co.uk
181. Harmless Sky www.ccgi.newberyl.plus.com  
182. Heartland Institute www.heartland.org
183. Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org
184. Hide the Decline www.hidethedecline.eu
185. Hooterville Gazette www.hootervillegazette.com
186. Hudson Institute  www.hudson.org
187. Ice Age Now www.iceagenow.info
188. Ice Cap www.icecap.us
189. I Hate Al Gore www.ihatealgore.com
190. I Love CO2 www.iloveco2.com
191. I Love My CO2 www.ilovemyco2.com
192. Independent Institute www.independent.org
193. Independent Women’s Forum www.iwf.org
194. Inhofe, Senator www.inhofe.senate.gov
195. Institute for Energy Research www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/  
196. Institute for Free Enterprise www.unternehmerische-freiheit.de
197. Institute for Humane Studies at GMU https://theihs.org
198. Institute for Liberty www.instituteforliberty.org
199. Institute for Private Enterprise www.ipe.net.au
200. Institute of Economic Affairs www.iea.org.uk
201. Institu Juan de Mariana www.juandemariana.org
202. Institute of Public Affairs www.ipa.org.au
203. Institu Bruno Leoni www.brunoleoni.it
204. ICSC www.climatescienceinternational.org
205. Jennifer Marohasy www.jennifermarohasy.com
206. John Coleman www.johncolemanblog.com
207. John Locke Foundation www.johnlocke.org/
208. JoNova www.joannenova.com.au
209. Judith Curry https://judithcurry.com
210. Junk Science www.junkscience.com
211. Ken’s Kingdom https://kenskingdom.wordpress.com
212. Kev Gillett www.kevgillett.net
213. Kill CARB www.killcarb.org
214. Knowledge Problem www.knowledgeproblem.com
215. Landscape and Cycles www.landscapesandcycles.net/
216. Lavoisier Group www.lavoisier.com.au
217. Looking for Patterns in Instrumental Data www.l4patterns.com
218. Lord Monckton Foundation www.lordmoncktonfoundation.com
219. Luke-warmers https://thelukewarmersway.wordpress.com
220. Mackinac Center for Public Policy www.mackinac.org
221. Manhattan Institute www.manhattan-institute.org
222. Manic Bean Counter https://manicbeancounter.com
223. Mannkal Economics Education Foundation www.mannkal.org
224. Marcel Crok www.staatvanhetklimaat.nl
225. Mark Musser www.rmarkmusser.com
226. Mark Steyn www.marksteyn.com/
227. Marita Noon https://energymakesamericagreat.org  
228. Martin Durkin www.martindurkin.com
229. Master Resource www.masterresource.org
230. Media Research Center www.mrc.org
231. Melanie Philips www.melaniephillips.com
232. Mercatus Center www.mercatus.org
233. Michael James Barker https://michaeljjamesbarker.wordpress.com
234. Michele Malkin www.michellemalkin.com
235. Middlebury Network www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html
236. Minnesotans for Global Warming https://m4gw.com 
237. Moderating Climate Change Hysteria www.renewable.50webs.com
238. Mostly Harmless 101 www.mostlyharmless-room-101.blogspot.com
239. MRC Newsbusters www.newsbusters.org
240. My Garden Pond https://mygardenpond.wordpress.com
241. National Association of Scholars www.nas.org
242. National Black Chamber of Commerce www.nationalbcc.org  
243. National Center for Policy Analysis www.ncpa.org
244. National Center for Public Policy Research www.nationalcenter.org
245. National Wind Watch www.wind-watch.org
246. New Climate Model www.newclimatemodel.com
247. New Nostramedus of the North www.newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com
248. Next Grand Minimum https://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com
249. New Zealand Climate Science Coalition www.nzclimatescience.net/
250. Nick Cater Lucky Culture www.luckyculture.com.au
251. Nir Shaviv www.sciencebits.com
252. No B-S here https://tthomas061.wordpress.com
253. No Hot Air www.nohotair.co.uk
254. No Tricks Zone www.notrickszone.com
255. Nofrakkingconsensus www.nofrakkingconsensus.com
256. Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change www.nipccreport.org
257. North American Platform Against Wind Power www.na-paw.org
258. North Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment www.vasee.org
259. Not a Lot of People Know That https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com
260. Numberwatch www.numberwatch.co.uk
261. Observatory ARVAL www.oarval.org
262. Omnilogos www.omnilogos.com
263. Ontario Wind Resistance www.ontario-wind-resistance.org
264. Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine www.oism.org
265. Pacific Legal Foundation www.pacificlegal.org
266. Pacific Research Institute www.pacificresearch.org
267. Paradigm and Demographics www.paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.ca
268. Park Privatization www.parkprivatization.com
269. Paul MacRae False Alarm www.paulmacrae.com/
270. Perpetual Motion (Colin McInnis) www.colinmcinnes.blogspot.ca
271. Peter O’Neill’s Blog https://oneillp.wordpress.com
272. Pete’s Place www.petesplace-peter.blogspot.com
273. Plants Need CO2 www.plantsneedco2.org
274. Pointman’s https://thepointman.wordpress.com
275. Polar Bear Science https://polarbearscience.com
276. Policlimate www.policlimate.com
277. Pope’s Climate Theory www.popesclimatetheory.com
278. Population Research Institute www.pop.org
279. Popular Technology www.populartechnology.net
280. Power Line www.powerlineblog.com
281. Principia Scientific International www.principia-scientific.org
282. Property and Environment Research Center www.perc.org
283. Quadrant https://quadrant.org.au
284. Rational Optimist www.rationaloptimist.com 
285. Real CO2 www.realco2.de
286. Real Science https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com
287. Reason www.reason.org
288. Rebel Media www.therebel.media
289. Redneck USA https://redneckusa.wordpress.com
290. Red State www.redstate.com
291. Resilient Earth www.theresilientearth.com
292. Richard Tol www.richardtol.blogspot.com
293. Ric Werme www.wermenh.com
294. Right Side News www.rightsidenews.com
295. Roger Helmer www.rogerhelmermep.co.uk
296. Roy Spencer www.drroyspencer.com
297. Science and Environment Policy Project www.sepp.org
298. Science and Public Policy Institute www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org
299. SciMed Skeptic https://scimedskeptic.wordpress.com
300. Science Skeptical www.science-skeptical.de
301. Scragged www.scragged.com
302. Sixty Plus Association www.60plus.org
303. Shub Niggurath Climate https://nigguraths.wordpress.com
304. Skeptic’s Corner www.jer-skepticscorner.blogspot.com
305. Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council www.sbecouncil.org
306. Small Dead Animals www.smalldeadanimals.com
307. Solar Cycle 24 www.solarcycle24com.probojards.com
308. Spiked www.spiked-online.com
309. Spiel Climate www.spielclimate.blogspot.com
310. State Policy Network www.spn.org
311. Statistics and Other Things https://statpad.wordpress.com
312. Steve Goreham www.stevegoreham.com
313. Stockholm Initiative www.klimatupplysningen.se
314. Stop These Things www.stopthesethings.com
315. Strata-Sphere www.strata-sphere.com
316. Sunrise’s Swansong https://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com
317. Sunshine Hours https://sunshinehours.wordpress.com
318. Tallbloke’s Talkshop https://tallbloke.wordpress.com
319. Talking About the Weather www.talkingabouttheweather.com
320. Terri Jackson’s Scientific Blog www.scientificqa.blogspot.com
321. Texas Public Policy Foundation www.texaspolicy.com
322. The Air Vent https://noconsensus.wordpress.com
323. The Blackboard www.rankexploits.com  
324. The Carbon Sense Coalition www.carbon-sense.com
325. The Climate Bet www.theclimatebet.com
326. The Energy Advocate www.energyadvocate.com
327. The Fraudulent Climate of Hokum Science http://fraudulentclimate.atspace.com/
328. The Hockey Schtick www.hockeyschtick.blogspot.com
329. The Inconvenient Skeptic www.theinconvenientskeptic.com
330. The Little Skeptic www.littleskepticpress.blogspot.com
331. The Right Climate Stuff www.therightclimatestuff.com
332. The Scientific Alliance www.scientific-alliance.org
333. The Tropical Meteorology Project https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/     
334. The View From Here https://hro001.wordpress.com
335. Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy www.thomasjeffersoninst.org
336. Tim Worstall www.timworstall.com
337. Tom Nelson www.tomnelson.blogspot.com
338. Tory Aardvark www.toryaardvark.com
339. Trust Yet Verify https://trustyetverify.wordpress.com
340. TWAWKI www.twawki.com
341. uClimate www.uclimate.com
342. Undue Influence www.undueinfluence.com
343. Unsettled Climate https://unsettledclimate.org
344. US Action News www.usactionnews.com
345. Virginia Institute for Public Policy www.virginiainstitute.org
346. Washington Legal Foundation www.wlf.org
347. Washington Policy Center www.washingtonpolicy.org
348. Watts Up With That www.wattsupwiththat.com
349. We Are Narrative www.wearenarrative.wordpress.com
350. Weather Action www.weatheraction.com
351. Weather In Canada Observer www.weather-in-canada-observer.com
352. Web Commentary www.webcommentary.com
353. What Really Happened www.whatreallyhappened.com
354. Wind Action www.windaction.org
355. Where is the AGW https://wobleibtdieglobaleerwaermung.wordpress.com
356. 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.

1. Accuracy in Media
2. Adam Smith Institute
3. Africa fights Malaria
4. American Energy Alliance
5. Americans for Limited Government
6. Americans for Prosperity
7. Americans for Tax Reform
8. American Legislative Exchange Council
9. American Policy Center
10. American Resources Policy Network
11. Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
12. Atlas Economic Research Foundation
13. Ayn Rand Institute
14. Bert Kelly Research Centre
15. Capital Research Center
16. Cato Institute
17. Center for Industrial Progress
18. Center for Organizational Research and Education
19. Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
20. Citizens for a Constructive Tomorrow
21. Citizen Power Alliance
22. Club for Growth
23. Competitive Enterprise Institute
24. Congress of Racial Equality
25. Cornwall Alliance
26. CO2 Coalition
27. CO2 Science
28. Discovery Institute
29. Energy and Environment Legal Institute
30. Energy in Depth
31. Federalist Society
32. Franklin Center for Government and Public Accountability
33. Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
34. Fraser Institute
35. Freedom Works
36. Free to Choose Network
37. Friends of Science
38. Frontier Centre for Public Policy
39. George Marshall Institute
40. Global Warming Research
41. Heartland Institute
42. Heritage Foundation
43. Hudson Institute
44. Independent Institute
45. Independent Women’s Forum
46. Institute for Economic Affairs
47. Institute for Energy Resources
48. Institute for Free Enterprise
49. Institute for Humane Studies (GMU)
50. Institute for Liberty
51. Institute for Private Enterprise
52. Institute of Public Affairs
53. Institute Bruno Leoni
54. John Locke Foundation
55. Lavoisier Society
56. Lord Monckton Foundation
57. Mackinac Center
58. Master Resource
59. Media Research Center
60. Mercatus Center
61. National Association of Scholars
62. National Black Chamber of Commerce
63. National Center for Public Policy Research
64. National Coalition for Policy Analysis
65. National Wind Watch
66. North American Platform Against Wind Power
67. Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine
68. Pacific Legal
69. Pacific Research
70. Population Research Institute
71. Property and Environment Research Center
72. Reason Foundation
73. Sixty 60 Plus
74. Small Business and Entrepreneurial Council
75. Texas Public Policy Foundation
76. Thomas Jefferson Institute
77. Washington Legal Foundation
78. 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.

1. Abstraction Fund – Rosenwald family (Sears) – Nina Rosenwald www.gatestoneinstitute.org
2. Aequus Institute – Aequus Foundation
3. Alan and Hope Winters Foundation
4. Allegheny Foundation – Scaife family
5. American Action Network https://americanactionnetwork.org
6. American Chemistry Council www.americanchemistry.com
7. American Future Fund www.americanfuturefund.com
8. American Petroleum Institute www.americanpetroleuminstitute.com
9. Armstrong Foundation www.armstrong.com
10. Arthur N. Rupe Foundation www.rupefoundation.org
11. Aurea Foundation – Peter Munk
12. Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
13. Barney Family Foundation www.barneyfamilyfoundation.org
14. Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation
15. Blair Foundation
16. Bochnowski Family Foundation – James J. Bochnowski
17. Bradley Foundation – Harry Bradley www.bradleyfdn.org
18. Brady Education Foundation www.bradyeducationfoundation.org
19. Castle Rock Foundation – Coors family
20. Center for Independent Thought www.centerforindependentthought.org
21. Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation www.charleskochfoundation.org
22. Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust
23. Chase Foundation of Virginia – Derwood Chase Jr.
24. Chiaroscuro Foundation www.chiaroscurofnd.org
25. CIGNA Foundation www.cigna.com
26. Claws Foundation – Free Enterprise Action Fund – Susquehanna Investments – Arthur Dantchuk, Jeffrey Yees, and Alan P. Dye
27. Concerned Women for America www.cwfa.org
28. Cornerstone Foundation www.cstonefoundation.org
29. Crossroads GPS – Republican Party Super PAC
30. DCI Group – Republican Party PR firm www.dcigroup.com
31. Deramus Foundation
32. Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
33. Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation www.dbdvfoundation.org
34. Donors Capital Fund www.donorscapitalfund.org
35. Donors Trust www.donorstrust.org
36. Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking – William Dunn
37. Dorothy and Joseph Moller Foundation
38. David H. Koch Charitable Foundation www.kochfamilyfoundation.org
39. Earhart Foundation
40. Ed Uihelm Family Foundation
41. Freedom Partners www.freedompartners.org (Koch-related)
42. F.M. Kirby Foundation www.fdnweb.org/kirby/
43. Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice www.edchoice.org
44. Foundation for Economic Education www.fee.org
45. Fairbrook Foundation – Aubrey Chernick
46. Fairchild-Martindale Foundation
47. George Edward Durell Foundation
48. Gilder Foundation – Richard Gilder
49. Howard Foundation
50. Hickory Foundation – Virginia Gilder
51. Herrick Foundation – Todd Herrick
52. Holman Foundation
53. Independent Women’s Voice www.iwvoice.org
54. Jaquelin Hume Foundation – Hume family (Basic American Foods)
55. JM Foundation www.fndweb.org/jm/ 
56. John Templeton Foundation www.templeton.org
57. John W Pope Foundation https://jwpf.org
58. Joyce and David Rumsfeld Foundation www.rumsfeldfoundation.org
59. John Dawson Foundation
60. Joe R. Lee Family Foundation (Clarion Fund)
61. Kovner Foundation www.thekovnerfoundation.org
62. Kantner Foundation www.kantnerfoundation.org
63. Lilian S. Wells Foundation – Marion Wells
64. Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation – Dan Peters
65. Lowndes Foundation – William Lowndes III
66. Leadership Institute www.leadershipinstitute.org
67. Lynn and Foster Friess Family Foundation – connected to www.fosterfriess.com
68. MacLellan Foundation www.maclellan.net
69. Marshall Heritage Foundation
70. My Wireless.org – Act Wireless www.actwireless.org
71. National Association of Manufacturers www.nam.org
72. National Christian Foundation www.nationalchristian.com
73. Neal and Jane Freeman Foundation
74. Newton Becker Foundation
75. Orville and Ruth Merillat Foundation
76. Peter Peterson Foundation www.pgpf.org
77. Paul Singer Foundation https://thepesfoundation.org (Singer heads Manhattan Institute)
78. Philanthropy Roundtable www.philanthropyroundtable.org
79. Philip McKenna Foundation
80. phRMA www.phrma.org
81. Pierre Goodrich Foundation – connected to www.libertyfund.org
82. Ravenal Curry Foundation – Ravenal B. Curry III
83. Reams Foundation
84. Richard Aster Jr. Foundation
85. Richard Devos Foundation www.dbdvfoundation.org (Amway)
86. Reynolds American www.rjrt.com
87. Robert and Marie Hansen Foundation
88. Robert and Star Pepper Foundation
89. Robert P. Rotella Foundation
90. Same Line Foundation
91. Sarah Scaife Foundation – largest of four Scaife foundations
92. Searle Freedom Trust www.searlefreedomtrust.org
93. Sidney Swensrud Foundation
94. Smith Richardson Foundation www.srf.org – Richardson family (Vick’s)
95. State Policy Network – www.spn.org
96. Stiles Nicholson Foundation www.stiles-nicholson.org
97. Stuart Family Foundation – Robert D. Stuart (Quaker Oats)
98. Sweetfeet Foundation
99. TC4 Trust – Koch family
100. The Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
101. The McWethy Foundation
102. The Randolf Foundation – Richardson family
103. The Robertson-Finley Foundation
104. The Roe Foundation – Thomas Roe (founder of State Policy Network)
105. The Vernon K. Krieble Foundation www.krieble.org
106. Tepper Family Foundation
107. The Weiler Foundation
108. Thewes Family Foundation
109. The Whitcomb Charitable Foundation
110. Walton Family Foundation www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org
111. Wellspring Committee
112. William Donner Foundation www.donner.org
113. William E. Simon Foundation www.wesimonfoundation.org
114. Windway Foundation – Kohler family
115. 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.

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 20^th 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.

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