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Appendix C: Backgrounds of the Contributors to the Programme

3.	He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Cato Institute (see http://tinyurl.com/3xnmpa).
4.	Until at least June 2004, he was an Adjunct Fellow of the Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation (see http://tinyurl.com/2xhdem and http://tinyurl.com/2orgp6).
5.	He is an E-Team Adjunct Scholar at the National Center for Policy Analysis (see http://tinyurl.com/26lp95).
6.	He is a Research Fellow of, and is sponsored by, the *Independent Institute* (source http://tinyurl.com/2f7t78). He has also written reports on behalf of The Independent Institute, e.g. New Perspectives in Climate Change: What the EPA Isn’t Telling Us, July 28, 2003, http://tinyurl.com/34rp8y.
7.	He is on the Board of Advisors of the Environmental Conservation Organization (see http://tinyurl.com/2x68el). [Note: After this complaint was submitted, the ECO website appears to have been shut down. We originally linked to their “Who we are” page, which was then located at http://www.eco.freedom.org/whoweare.html. The new link is to an archive of their “Who we are” page, which was archived by the Wayback Machine on 15 April 2007.]
8.	He is a Featured Expert of the Centre for the New Europe (see Singer, S.F., Climate Policy – from Rio to Kyoto: A Political Issue for 2000 and Beyond, Centre for the New Europe: PDF file at http://tinyurl.com/3atp5b).
9.	He is a Featured Expert of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (see Singer, S.F., 2000, The Road from Rio to Kyoto: How Climate Science was Distorted to Support Ideological Objectives, published in Environmental Law and Property Rights, Washington, DC, http://tinyurl.com/2pjbf4, PDF).
10.	He was a Robert Wesson Endowment Fund Fellow and Featured Author of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace between 1997–99 and 2001–02 (source: Singer, S.F., Letter to the editor, Washington Post, February 12, 2001, http://tinyurl.com/39nm8b).
11.	Singer has also been involved in campaigns to promote the views of the tobacco industry (see http://tinyurl.com/yloyf2).

C.11 Professor Patrick Michaels

In 2004 Michaels co-authored a paper which purported to show that a half of the warming measured by weather stations was explained by economic factors, but which included the basic mathematical error of mixing up degrees with radians (see http://tinyurl.com/2e2t4h).

Michaels has also written several other papers claiming to demonstrate that global warming is not occurring, which have been shown to have some similar flaws and to use cherry-picked data (see http://tinyurl.com/2jf7l4).

In Congressional testimony in June 2003, Professor. John Holdren, who is Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, at Harvard University, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, told the US Senate Republican Policy Committee, that:

Michaels … has published little if anything of distinction in the professional literature, being noted rather for his shrill op-ed pieces and indiscriminate denunciations of virtually every finding of mainstream climate science. [See PDF file at http://tinyurl.com/386rf9.]

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