Does Anyone know - Who Really Founded Real Climate.Org ?

Question

According to Internet Records Found at WHOIS:

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=realclimate.org:

Domain ID:D105219760-LROR

Domain Name:REALCLIMATE.ORG

Created On:19-Nov-2004 16:39:03 UTC

Last Updated On:30-Oct-2005 21:10:46 UTC

Expiration Date:19-Nov-2007 16:39:03 UTC

Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)

Status:OK

Registrant ID:B133AE74B8066012

Registrant Name:Betsy Ensley

Registrant Organization:Environmental Media Services

Registrant Street1:1320 18th St, NW

Registrant Street2:5th Floor

Registrant Street3:

Registrant City:Washington

Registrant State/Province:DC

Registrant Postal Code:20036

Registrant Country:US

Registrant Phone:[phone]

About Environmental Media Services: = (Interesting Read!)

http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/110

Answer 1

I'm fairly certain that everyone who posts here is aware that realclimate is a left-wing political site founded by friends of Gore.

It is the farthest thing from "real"climate science.

Answer 2

No. I don't care.

Answer 3

Nice sleuthing work. But you could have saved some time by reading the site's wikipedia page.

I'm wracking my brain trying to see why this is in the tiniest little bit relevant though. You guys pooh pooh the idea that funding from big oil could possibly taint the credibility of scientific research (and in some ways I agree), but the second you find out that a Blog about climate science is distantly connected with George Soros, it's all part of a massive left wing conspiracy.

I want to take you denialists seriously, I really do. But you make it so hard sometimes.

Answer 4

Oh wow - this is hilarious. Global warming sceptics trying to dig up dirt, but failing miserably!

The founders of Realclimate include Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Rasmus Benestad, Eric Steig, and a couple of others. This is common and very public knowledge, and as usual, the global warming-sceptic community seems to be too lazy to bother to research it properly. Is this an inherent trait of a global warming sceptic? You have to be lazy and filter a couple of hits from Google while ignoring their source?

Oh, and guess what? Unlike the global warming sceptic community they're actually all scientists specializing in various aspects of atmospheric and directly related science. What a surprise!

It's a refreshing change compared to global warming sceptic websites, where I'm not used to reading any commentary from anyone who actually has any qualifications or research on the topic.

EDIT: I was just pondering if there was any depth that global warming sceptics wouldn't sink to in an attempt to discredit scientists like Schmidt and Mann who are quite widely known and respected in their field?

Realclimate.org was founded by these guys, who don't get paid for their contributions, in order to try and combat the huge volume of ignorance, myths, and outright fabrications being peddled by global warming sceptics and fossil fuel industry supporters (or are the two exactly the same??) on the status of climate science.

Answer 5

Gavin is a salaried scientist from NASA.  He is not paid for the time he volunteers on realclimate.org.

Contrast that with the paid skeptics who have no real jobs, but are paid directly from big oil or mining to obfuscate the science.

If Gavin or the other scientists on realclimate.org were actually on staff (i.e. getting paid) with some activist group then the criticisms might have some merit.  But having the domain realclimate.org being paid for by EMS is no different than the Wall-street journal (which publishes op-ed pieces by Lindzen).  As long as neither scientist is paid to advocate a certain position, then there's no issue.

Answer 6

And to think the skeptics get criticized for being funded by big business.  Why don't we hear about the funding provided by George Soros?  Add Soros to the list of people who will be ridiculed for their parts in this hoax.

Answer 7

real climate.org is a front for the radical left environmental movement

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Rea...

Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left

http://www.tides.org/index.php?id=715

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funde...

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbur...

http://mediamatters.org/items/2004092200...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/...

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007...

http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/20...

http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/...

the tides foundation funds the global warming propaganda machine

http://global-warming.accuweather.com/20...

if all the propaganda was coming from one source many would not believe it so the use front organisations

http://www.acton.org/commentary/commenta...

they also provide large amounts of grant money for pro global warming scientist

Answer 8

I believe it was Gavin Schmidt.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=4...

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/4/...

Environmental Media Services hosts the site, but I've never seen any indication they provide any content,