From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: The Real Cost of Government Mandated Wind and Solar
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 15:38:22 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-05-15 21:26, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> The Real Cost of Government Mandated Wind and Solar
> By Norman Rogers
'Overall, we rate the COâ Coalition as right-biased and questionable due
to its consistent promotion of climate change skepticism, lack of
transparency around funding, selective presentation of data, rejection
of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming, and several
certified failed fact checks.'
'The CO2 Coalition is a successor to the George C. Marshall Institute, a
think tank focusing on defense and climate issues which closed in 2015.
William O'Keefe, a chief executive officer of the Marshall Institute and
former CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, continued as CEO of the
CO2 Coalition. William Happer, an emeritus professor of physics known
for disagreeing with the consensus on climate change, was another CO2
Coalition founder from the Marshall Institute. Happer said the
association with climate contrarianism had negatively affected Marshall
Institute funding, viz: "Many foundations that would normally have
supported defense would not do it because of the Marshall name being
associated with climate". The defense activities of the Marshall
Institute were moved to the Center for Strategic and International
Studies.[3][4][5]
In its first four years, the CO2 Coalition received over $1 million in
contributions from foundations that support conservative causes and from
energy industry officials.[4]'