Tell me you have a political agenda without telling me you have a political agenda.
* George C. Marshall Institute. Dr. Spencer currently serves as a director at the George C. Marshall Institute, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit that receives substantial funding from oil and gas interests -- including Exxon, which has given the group at least $840,000 since 1998,
according to Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets.org database. The Marshall Institute used to restrict its funding to private foundations and individual donors, but in the late 1990s, after it began working to cast doubt on global warming, the group
made the decisionto accept money from corporations and their foundations.
* Cornwall Alliance. Dr. Spencer is a member of the board of advisors of the Cornwall Alliance, a conservative Christian public-policy group that promotes a free-market approach to environmental stewardship and whose
"Resisting the Green Dragon" campaign portrays the climate-protection movement as a sort of false religion.
The Cornwall Alliance has close ties to a conservative policy group called the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which has received over $580,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998, according to ExxonSecrets.org. Paul Driessen, who played a guiding role in forming the group now known as the Cornwall Alliance, also served as a consultant for ExxonMobil and CFACT, which has also received at least $60,500 from Chevron and $1.28 million from the the foundation of the Scaife family, whose wealth comes in part from Gulf Oil, as Think Progress
reports.
* Encounter Books. Spencer is the author of three books critical of mainstream climate science:
Climate Confusion, published in 2008, and
The Great Global Warming Blunder and
The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama's Global Warming Agenda, both released last year.
All of those works were published by Encounter Books, which is a project of the conservative nonprofit Encounter for Culture and Education. That group's major funders include the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation,
which in turn is controlled by one of the owners of Kansas-based Koch Industries, among the world's richest privately held companies with extensive holdings in oil refineries and pipelines. The Kochs have played a
critical role in funding climate-denial efforts, contributing $24.9 million to organizations that have worked to cast doubt on mainstream climate science.
* Tech Central Station. Spencer served as a columnist and a member of the science roundtable for Tech Central Station. Until 2006, TCS was
run by DCI Group,
a lobbying and public-relations firm that has represented ExxonMobil.
Dr. Spencer has served big oil companies well, who would like nothing more than to see fossil fuels continue being used at an ever-increasing rate to prop up their bottom line and increase profits.
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