The George C. Marshall Institute, which has a long history of global warming and nuclear weaponry science denial (specifically arguing in favor of SDI or "Star Wars" against the consensus of physicists) has launched a new PR campaign to suggest that scientists are biased in their findings of global climate change due to the fact that there is grant monies to study global climate change.
The president of this institute, Jeff Kueter, has written a non-peer reviewed white paper that purports to compile all the funding sources and recipients. Making the point that ties to the oil companies are often cited as a reason for discrediting climate change deniers such as Richard Linzen, he suggests that there is a lack of equivalent skepticism due to the grant money that goes to climate change science. Ironically, this "study" lacks what all the University studies have: peer review and cited literature. The literature he cites include a report of the American Enterprise Institute and Michael Crighton's book "State of Fear" but not other peer reviewed articles. It is a common tactic to take this discussion safe outside the realm of scientific discussion and rigorous analysis-straight into the public forum. It's pure talking points for those who do not want to see the world make headway against greenhouse gas emissions. What is most troublesome, is that somehow this publication has been linked to by the California Climate Change Portal (bottom of the funding tab), which is a government website meant to aid scientists in addressing this problem. http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/index.html Heads up.
