H. Sterling Burnett
Burnett and the National Center for Policy Analysis
Burnett is listed as a "Senior Fellow" at a Dallas, Texas-based think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). According to an archived NCPA bio, Burnett "specializes in issues involving environmental policy and gun policy."
In a May 2006 Fox News interview, Burnett compared Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebells' films. Burnett stated:
You don't go see Joseph Goebbels' films to see the truth about Nazi Germany. You don't want to go see Al Gore's film to see the truth about global warming."
The NCPA has received over $540,900 from oil giant ExxonMobil.
The NCPA also has a history with tobacco company Philip Morris. For example, in a 1998 Philip Morris document titled "Third-party public policy activity," the NCPA is listed as an anti-government regulations group that "will write op-eds."
According to his bio, Burnett has also been employed at other think tanks well-known for their connections to the oil-industry and their willingness to attack the scientific evidence for human-caused global warming. These organizations include, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow and the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
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