Global warming deniers aim to hold New Hamsphire back

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New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has struck a climate change task force to craft an action plan with the goal of finding ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are good for the state’s economy.

Great news for New Hampshire, the solutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions are the same ones that reduce America’s dependence of foreign oil and make the necessary shifts in the economy to make the country a world leader in the development of sustainable energy technology. Any State that gets out ahead on this issue will reap the rewards of new green jobs and less money going out of the country to oil producing nations.

“Currently, imported fossil fuels cost the state more than $1 billion a year, all of which goes out of state since New Hampshire has neither oil reserves nor refineries,” said Robert R. Scott, director of the air resources division at the state Department of Environmental Services.

But a small fringe group (well known to DeSmogBlog) called the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) wants to hold New Hampshire back. One of SEPP‘s members, Joseph D’Aleo claims that Legislation capping greenhouse gas emissions would negatively impact the state’s residents and workers. D’Aleo also claims that warming is due to “natural climate change”

But even D’Aleo’s colleagues at the American Meteorological Society do not support his position:

“The position he [D’Aleo] is taking on these issues are not the position of the American Meteorological Society and are not the position of the bulk of the scientific community,” executive director Keith L. Seitter said.

“We endorse the science that there is climate change. And we endorse statements that it is unequivocal and that there is a very high likelihood that a significant fraction of the warming that has occurred are due to human activities,” Seitter said.

You can go here to find more information in our research database on the Science and Environmental Policy Project and its founder Fred S. Singer. 

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Kevin is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmogBlog.

He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House. Named a “Green Hero” by Rolling Stone Magazine and one of the “Top 50 Tweeters” on climate change and environment issues, Kevin has appeared in major news media outlets around the world for his work on digital campaigning.

Kevin has been involved in the public policy arena in both the United States and Canada for more than a decade. For five years he was the managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com. In this role, Kevin’s research into the “climate denial industry” and the right-wing think tank networks was featured in news media articles around the world. He is most well known for his ground-breaking research into David and Charles Koch’s massive financial investments in the Republican and tea party networks.

Kevin is the first person to be designated a “Certified Expert” on the political and community organizing platform NationBuilder.

Prior to DeSmogBlog, Kevin worked in various political and government roles. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism and a Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Asia Pacific, Foreign Affairs for the Government of Canada. Kevin also worked in various roles in the British Columbia provincial government in the Office of the Premier and the Ministry of Health.

In 2008 Kevin co-founded a groundbreaking new online election tool called Vote for Environment which was later nominated for a World Summit Award in recognition of the world’s best e-Content and innovative ICT applications.

Kevin moved to Washington, DC in 2010 where he worked for two years as the Director of Online Strategy for Greenpeace USA and has since returned to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

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