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Deniers: Chris Horner
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CEI Senior Fellow Counsel, Cooler Heads Coalition Adjunct Fellow, Frontiers of Freedom
Horner oversees petitions and litigation for the Cooler Heads Coalition, specifically regarding "environment and energy issues, international environmental treaties, and climate policy". He has been particularly vocal in arguing that the National Assessment on Climate Change was illegally produced. He has previously been a guest columnist for Tech Central Station.
Graduate of the Law School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
[edit] Key Quotes
[edit] 29 April, 2005
"Given that the atmosphere inarguably shows no appreciable warming in the 25-year history of satellite and radiosonde measurements (initiated in response to the cooling panic), to assert that runaway global warming is as real as President Bush's re-election is an absurd proposition. This, instead, illustrates how responsibility for the greens' problems lies with unsupportable claims in pursuit of laughably premature and inconsistent scare campaigns."
Source: Washington Times 4/29/05
[edit] 2 May, 2007
"Fear drives the media, and the media drives the hype." "Just switch out warming for cooling, and they`ve written it before." "You get whiplash reading these things."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
[edit] 2 May, 2007
"Since the third U.N. report, for which this [hockey stick graph from Mann] was the smoking gun, there's been a fourth U.N. report. Does anybody see a hockey stick in there anywhere? I can`t see you. It's not in there. Guess what? It's air-brushed out, in classic fashion, and they don't even mention why it's not here. What hockey stick? I didn't see any hockey stick."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
[edit] 2 May, 2007
GLENN BECK: We're joined now by Chris Horner. He is the author of 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming.' Chris, I want to start here. People that are on this special or speak out are always going to be accused of taking money from big oil. How do you respond to that? You're in bed with big oil, they say. HORNER: That's generally employed by people who aren't comfortable with the issues or the facts and they want to change the subject. If industry funding corrupts someone's message, however, I suggest the alarmists have an awful lot of explaining to do. They receive an awful lot more in industry and industry-related funding every year, but let's just make the record. The public record is quite clear: We do not receive lots of money from big oil. And for some reason, that seems to be the claim that the alarmists want to shift the debate onto, even though they know the truth there, too."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
[edit] 2 May, 2007
"The [Bush] administration has done quite a bit right on this issue, but, to their discredit, they boast that they spend so much more on global warming issues than they do AIDS. I think that's disgraceful. This is a political issue because it's been politicized, and we wouldn't even be talking about it right now if it weren't for the politicians."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
[edit] 2 May, 2007
"Obviously, temperatures go up throughout history. The scientific literature is fairly clear, fairly uniform. Temperatures go up; then, CO2 concentrations go up, CO2 does not drive temperature."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
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[edit] 3 October, 2000
"At this point, [the national assessment] is opinion and advocacy, not science."
Source: "Lawmakers, Groups Sue Over National Assessment on Climate Change," Greenwire, 10/5/2000
[edit] 11 May, 2004
CEI lawyer Chris Horner said none of the federal agencies involved in the preparation of the Climate Action Report have taken responsibility for it, even though EPA wrote five of its seven chapters and the State Department submitted the document to the United Nations. "It's like an Abbot and Costello routine. Who's on first?"
Source: Regulations: EPA Reports, Policies Frequent Target of Data Quality Act Challengers",Greenwire, May 11,2004
[edit] 14 July, 2003
"Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will - with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine." "There will be inevitably and likely imminent claims [by environmentalists] that mankind is also causing Plutonian global warming."
Source: CNSnews.com 2003
[edit] 2 May, 2007
"The Kyoto Protocol is probably the best example of something working precisely as it was designed, just to fail."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
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[edit] 8 February, 2007
Author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)" released February 2007 by Regnery Publishing Inc. The book's inside flap explains that Horner "lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites and UN globalists endlessly bleat that "global warming" is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as a dream come true. It's the ideal scare campaign for those who hate capitalism and love big government. For, as Horner explains, if global warming really were as bad as the Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could "solve" it. According to the logic of the greens' own numbers, no matter how much we sacrifice there would still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless well of excuses for the relentless growth of big government."
Source: Amazon.com Horner Book Page 2007
[edit] 2 May, 2007
Appeared on Glenn Beck's May 2, 2007 special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear"
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
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[edit] 16 December, 2004
Horner wrote "Who's The Greatest? Climate change is the 'greatest threat'... except for all the others." for Tech Central Station 12/16/05
Source: Tech Central Station article - Horner
[edit] Key Events
Experts Discuss Why United States Should Withdraw Its Signature From Kyoto; Whatever Happened To Global Warming Anyway?
(Original link, archived story)
The relationship of Christopher C. Horner to the event: Speaker
[edit] Organizations
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: CEI website, 3/04
Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation
Source: Frontiers of Freedom website 5-06
National Center for Policy Analysis
Source: NCPA website 4/04
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Horner
European Enterprise Institute
Source: European Enterprise Institute Website (2006)