WaPo: AEI Critiques of Warming Questioned-Think Tank Defends Challenging Climate Report

[PhilipShore]

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 5, 2007; Page A04

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/04/AR2007020401213.html


A Washington-based think tank has been soliciting critiques of the just-released international assessment of the evidence on climate change, a move that prompted some academics and environmentalists to accuse the group of seeking to distort the latest evidence for global warming.

Advocacy groups such as Greenpeace and the Public Interest Research Group questioned why the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has offered $10,000 to academics willing to contribute to a book on climate- change policy, an overture that was first reported Friday in London's Guardian newspaper.

AEI visiting scholar Kenneth Green -- one of two researchers who has sought to commission the critiques -- said in an interview that his group is examining the policy debate on global warming, not the science.

"It's completely policy-oriented," said Green, adding that a third of the academics AEI solicited for the project are interested in participating. "Somebody wants to distort this."

[annabanana]

1. The AEI should no longer be given column space.

They have been consistently wrong and they have continually supported policies that are diametrically opposed to the National Interest. They have no clothes. They have been exposed over and over again for the shills they are.

[marmar]

2. Why does the AEI hate humanity so much?

There won't be anything left for them to exploit pretty soon.