I thought I'd check out the link.

The Science and Public Policy Institute.

They're 7 guys with various credentials. One was reported to be a co-starter of The Weather Channel.

Their Mission Statement says they're trying to push credible scientific research - yet all I see are statements supporting climate change naysayers. More importantly, I do NOT see statements on why the rest of the research, that has resulted in the vast majority of scientists agreeing in principle on climate change, is wrong.

This is the part that really gets me...

They list a 202 area code phone number (for Washington DC).

Their "contact" is a guy with an address at the UPS store in a strip mall in Haymarket, VA.

Here it is, from their website: Robert Fergueson, 5501 Merchants View Square # 209, Haymarket VA. I Googled it and that's what I found.

Fergueson is supposed to have been the Chief of Staff for three different Republican Congressmen from 1981-2002 (mostly Jack Fields, R-TX from 1981-1997). He supposed to have a lot of *policy* experience in many environmentally related fields. I noted it said *policy* experience. He's said to have served int he Army from'66 to '70 and has an undergraduate degree from BYU and an advance degree from GWU. I'd tried to get more information, but there are a LOT of Robert Ferguesons who are at least semi-famous so there are a LOT of Google results.

A little more digging found this interesting exchange:

Climate Change as Breaking and Local StoryIn Fahys’s Salt Lake Tribune News Reporting | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

In brief, someone from the Salt Lake Tribune, Judy Fayhs, wrote articles that came under attack from Fergueson. Emails went back and forth and there's a lot there. But what I found most interesting was something about SPPI's Chief Policy Adviser: Lord Christopher Monckton. In a phone interview with Fahys, Monckton acknowledged his lack of formal training in the hard sciences - yet defended his qualifications to critique other people's work. Oh - and he had training in architectural sciences that allowed him to build his own home which was still standing. Why THAT was important, I have no idea.

So, the SPPI is run by a guy who was a career political aide for Republicans, with a contact address of a strip mall UPS store, and who's Chief Policy Advisor is a man who admits he hasn't got the scientific background in the area he's critiquing.