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Tom Harris

Tom Harris and the International Climate Science Coalition

Currently, Harris is the executive director of the think tank, the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC).  The Coalition is an organization scientists, economists, and policy experts who have united to promote a better public understanding of climate science.  In particular the International Climate Science Coalition offers an alternative to science projections and policy recommendation of the United Nations' International Panel on Climate Change.

The ICSC is publishes information which denies the theory of anthropogenic global warming.  Its science and policy advisory boards are filled with climate change skeptics, including:  Tim Ball, David Bellamy, Scott Armstrong, Vincent Gray, Kesten Green, Chris de Freitas, and Nils-Axel Morner. 

The ICSC promotes the Manhattan Declaration, which openly states that "global warming is not a global crisis."  The Declaration goes on further to state, "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."

In 2008 and 2009 the ICSC sponsored the Heartland Instiute's annual International Conference on Climate Change.  The sponsors of the 2009 International Confernce on Climate Change has received over $47 million USD from organizations connected to the oil and gas industry.

Finally, the ICSC is affiliated with several high-profile climate skeptic organizations and websites including the Science and Public Policy Institute, Climate Audit, Climate Audit, and Friends of Science.  Like the ICSC, these groups claim to be founded in science which proves climate change is not happening.  However, despite this rhetoric the reality appears to be different.  For example,  Friends of Science has been exposed as an oil and gas front group.

Tom Harris and the Natural Resource Stewardship Project

Harris was formerly the Executive Director for a Canadian group called the "Natural Resource Stewardship Project," (NRSP) a lobby organization that refuses to disclose its funding sources.

An October 16, 2006 CanWest Global news article on who funds the NRSP, it states that "a confidentiality agreement doesn't allow him [Tom Harris] to say whether energy companies are funding his group."

DeSmog has uncovered information that two of the three directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project are senior executives of the High Park Advocacy Group, a Toronto-based lobby firm that specializes in “energy, environment and ethics.” Prior to forming the NRSP, Harris was employed by the High Park Group.

The NRSP is also home to a prolific climate change "skeptic" named Dr. Tim Ball.