{"id":4742,"date":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/independent-institute\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:47:29","slug":"independent-institute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/climate\/climate-deniers\/front-groups\/independent-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group<\/span>
$200,000 from Koch foundations, 1997-2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Independent Institute<\/strong> (not to be confused with the Koch-funded Independence Institute<\/a><\/em>) has provided a platform<\/a> to career climate denier and industry consultant S. Fred Singer, who as of 2010 still claimed<\/a> that there is “No Proof Man Causes Global Warming.” In a 2003 report<\/a> published by the Independent Institute and co-authored by Singer and several other scientists with known industry ties, the authors claimed that recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports were “<\/span>misleading, inaccurate, unreliable, or simply wrong.” Singer’s self-contradictory positions on climate change have beenthoroughly documented<\/a>–Singer’s claims have ranged from full denial of global warming evidence<\/a> to claims that the crisis exists but isn’t caused by humans. Singer lambasts<\/a> “deniers” for making “skeptics” look bad.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Independent Institute has promoted<\/a> work by another career climate science denier, Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Institute received $85,000 from ExxonMobil<\/a> from 1998-2007 and is a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a consortium of front groups with significant funding from ExxonMobil, Koch Brother foundations and other fossil fuel, industrial and ideological interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Independent Institute is a member of the State Policy Network<\/a>.
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