Secular Café: NASA Scientists on CO2 - Or, Fun With Sources

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NASA Scientists on CO2 - Or, Fun With Sources Apr 12th 2012, 14:33 Not sure if this should go in Science, but you all may have seen the article today on the Huff Post: NASA Global Warming Stance Blasted By 49 Astronauts, Scientists Who Once Worked At Agency. :eek: Quite a spectacular indictment and a great goddamned headline! What you may not have done, however is dig down to the source of the letter, a H. Leighton Steward, chairman of the "non-profit" Plants Need CO2. "Non-profit" is evidently supposed to mean "pure as the driven snow." So if you don't know what Plants Need CO2 is, or who Steward is: Quote: H. Leighton Steward is the spokesman for front group Plants Need CO2 (the 501(c)(3) backed by coal baron Corbin Robertson) and the registrant of its PlantsNeedCO2.org website. According to its corporate Certificate of Formation, Steward is also a director at oil and gas company EOG Resources, formerly known as Enron Oil and Gas Company, where he earned $617,151 in 2008. Steward also serves as an honorary director of the American Petroleum Institute. According to the "Plants Need CO2" website, Steward is "a geologist, environmentalist, author, and retired energy industry executive" who's interested in "helping to educate the general public and the politicians about the tremendous benefits of carbon dioxide (CO2) as it relates to the plant and animal kingdoms and their related ecosystems and habitats, and the general health of humanity". Steward was previously President, Chairman and CEO of New Orleans-based oil and gas company Louisiana Land and Exploration Company. "Mr. Steward, who joined Louisiana Land in 1982, previously managed Burlington Northern's oil, gas and minerals activities. He also worked for the Shell Oil Company for 16 years. Mr. Steward is a geologist with degrees from Southern Methodist University...[He] is interested in protecting Louisiana's wetlands from erosion and serves with a number of oil industry groups." And that was Fun With Sources!

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