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Deniers: Roger Bate
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Fellow, International Policy Network and Institute of Economic Affairs AEI Visiting Fellow CEI Adjunct Fellow
Bate is the cofounder of the European Science and Environment Forum, a biotech, tobacco, and chemical industry front-group. Ph.D., economics, University of Cambridge, UK MPhil., land economy, University of Cambridge, UK MSc., environmental and resource management, University College, London University, UK B.A., economics, Thames Valley University, UK
[edit] Key Quotes
[edit] 8 January, 2004
"The truth is that we still don't know that the warmer summers of recent years are due to man's handiwork. The variation could be natural and there's no saying that the current trend will continue."
Source: "Where Are the Weapons of Mass Environmental Destruction?" AEOnline 4/29/04
[edit] 1 September, 2001
"The key features of the climate change debate are large degrees of uncertainty and a long time horizon. Although it is fairly well-established that the Earth's atmosphere has warmed somewhat (one degree Fahrenheit) during the past century, it's not clear why this happened. The warming may have been due to human impositions (the burning of fossil fuels and other incidents of industrial growth), or to natural solar or climate variations, or to some of each. Whatever the causes, we don't know if future warming trends will be large or small, or whether the net environmental and economic consequences (including both beneficial and harmful effects) may be large or small."
Source: "Climate's New Model Army," Tech Central Station, 1/8/04
[edit] Key Deeds
[edit] 6 December, 2004
Wrote an article titled "Climate Alarmism and the Poor" stating that developing countries must be included in the Kyoto Protocol because they produce more greenhouse gases than developed countries. "Also, people in repressed nations deserve the chance to become wealthy and develop as we in the west have. If trying to combat climate change becomes the driver for change towards freedom then so be it. These countries will rightly resist any international efforts to curb their use of energy; what we must do is invest in new technologies with them, not export our anti-energy regulations."
Source: Tech Central Station Article - Bate
[edit] Key Events
Return to Rio: Reexamining Climate Change Science, Economics, and Policy
http://www.aei.org/events/filter.all,eventID.669/event_detail.asp
The relationship of Roger Bate to the event: Discussant
Poverty and the Environment: Global Lessons, Local Solutions
http://www.atlasusa.org/highlight_archive/1998/H1998-01-Poverty.html
The relationship of Roger Bate to the event: Speaker
Costs of Kyoto
http://www.cei.org/pdf/2301.pdf
The relationship of Roger Bate to the event: Speaker
[edit] Organizations
Deniers: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Source: [www.CFACT.org Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06]
Deniers: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, AEI
Source: www.aei.org
Deniers: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: CEI website, 3/04
Deniers: George C. Marshall Institute
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Deniers: International Policy Network - North America
Source: P.R. Watch's Disinfopedia
Deniers: Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Bate
Deniers: American Friends of the Institute for Economic Affairs
Source: Institute of Economic Affairs
See also the Sourcewatch page on Roger Bate.