A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.”
“There are a number of interests that align to produce the current climate hysteria,” Steve Koonin argued last week during a webinar for Canadian post-secondary students. “The media are indeed a big factor in that.”
The webinar was hosted by the Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank based in Vancouver that has previously received funding from Exxon and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, which is associated with the oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch. For decades, the think tank has disputed whether climate change is a crisis along with questioning whether human activities like fossil fuel production are to blame.
The Fraser Institute featured Koonin — who after working for BP from 2004 to 2009 briefly served in the U.S. Department of Energy and is now a professor at New York University — as part of a free student seminar series “available for all post-secondary students across Canada.”
Koonin’s presentation came just days after Hurricane Otis slammed into the Mexican city of Acapulco, killing 45 people, a disaster that the United States National Hurricane Center says was intensified due to higher water temperatures caused by warmer global temperatures.
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