He has published work for the Greening Earth Society, a PR front group funded by the fossil
fuel interest Western Fuels Association.
Not exact matches
His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much
interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt -
fuelled economic model off which
Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
According to Gelbspan, «Lindzen, for his part, charges oil and coal
interests $ 2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by
Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled «Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus,» was underwritten by OPEC.»
It's is therefore in
Western Europe's and Japan's
interest to convince their main economic competitors not to utilize their inexpensively ex-tractable fossil
fuels.
In 1991, the large coal operation called
Western Fuels was very candid in its annual report, and it said it was going to attack mainstream science, it hired three so called greenhouse skeptics, scientists who didn't believe that this was happening, and they mounted a number of public relations campaigns, one in particular is quite
interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»....
BRANCACCIO:... the Information Council on the Environment, funded by the
Western Fuels Association, which mostly represents coal
interests.
Lindzen told me that he charges $ 2,500 a day to consult for fossil
fuel interests, but for his St. Paul testimony he charged
Western Fuels less than that rate since it required ten days of preparation.
In the article, Gelbspan claimed that Lindzen charged «oil and coal
interests $ 2,500 a day for his consulting services; [and] his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by
Western Fuels and a speech he wrote, entitled «Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus,» was underwritten by OPEC.»
The biomass
fuel supply curve developed by the report's authors is particularly
interesting, and suggests that 100MM + ton CDR from bio-CCS is possible in the
western US largely from waste and residue feedstocks (which hold the potential to be more sustainable than dedicated feedstocks, assuming wastes aren't valued for other competing uses...).
Describing his work with the
Western Fuels Association, Palmer says «We work in the public
interest from end - to - end.»
Palm oil has become a competitor as biofuel not only with rapeseed products but also a real competitor to fossil
fuels controlled by
Western interests.