Ken Haapala

Credentials

• MS (Economics), Economic Modeling, Energy Economics. [1]

Background 

Ken Haapala is the Executive Vice President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP [1]). Haapala has contributed to the the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) reports [2].

Haapala regularly contributes to "The Week That Was [3]," a weekly SEPP update on climate news, with a "News You Can Use" section that highlights articles and papers written by climate skeptics. 

Stance on Climate Change 

Happala is an endorser [4] of the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change [5] which declares, among other points, that: [2]

"there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change."

Key Quotes 

"Carbon dioxide is a necessary food for green plants, thus necessary for life on this planet as we generally recognize it. As discussed in the second report, thousands of experiments and observations show that virtually all food crops and green plants thrive better in an atmosphere enriched in carbon dioxide and better resist stress such as draught, or insect attacks. Contrary to EPA claims, Carbon dioxide enrichment, condemned by these regulations, is a benefit to agriculture, humanity, and the planet." [3]

"The EPA has failed to present any compelling physical evidence that man’s emissions of Greenhouse Gases caused the 20th Century warming. Instead, it has relied on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its faulty computer models that are biased, obsolete, and wrong." [3]

Key Deeds 

May 21 - 23, 2012

Haapala was a speaker [6] at the Heartland Institute [7]'s 7th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7).

DeSmogBlog researched the co-sponsors behind Heartland's ICCC7 [8] and found that they had collectively received over $67 million from ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothers [9]and the conservative Scaife family foundations [10].

June 2011 

Speaker [11]at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. 

March 2008

Attended at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change and subsequently signed the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change. [4] [1]

Affiliations 

• Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) [1] — Executive Vice President.
• Philosophical Society of Washington — Past president [12]. 
• Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment (SEEE), Northern Virginia Chapter — Member [13]. 

Publications

Haapala contributed to the "Petition For Reconsideration of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change" (PDF [14]) in February, 2010. The collective reports are the result of a cooperation between the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute [15].      

Haapala's "The Week That Was" series is regularly [16]republished on the WUWT blog. 

He was a contributor to the NIPCC report, "Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate" (PDF) [17]. 

Resources

1. "Endorsers of the Declaration Present at the Conference in New York City [4]." ICSC.

2. "Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change [5]," International Climate Science Coalition.

3. "Ken's EPA Testimony [18]," Northern Virginia Chapter of SEEE, November 18, 2009.

4. ExxonSecrets Factsheet: SEPP. [19]

5. ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Ken Haapala [20].