> In a speech given to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on
> July 28, 2003, entitled "The Science of Climate Change",[8] Senator James Inhofe
> (Republican, for Oklahoma) concluded by asking the following question: "With all of
> the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made
> global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?" He
> has claimed "some parts of the IPCC process resembled a Soviet-style trial, in
> which the facts are predetermined, and ideological purity trumps technical and
> scientific rigor."[9] Inhofe has suggested that supporters of the Kyoto Protocol
> such as Jacques Chirac are aiming at global governance.[10]
> A Washington Post article describing the views of global warming skeptics quotes
> retired hurricane researcher William M. Gray as having "his own conspiracy
> theory," saying, "He has made a list of 15 reasons for the global warming hysteria.
> The list includes the need to come up with an enemy after the end of the Cold War,
> and the desire among scientists, government leaders and environmentalists to find a
> political cause that would enable them to 'organize, propagandize, force conformity
> and exercise political influence. Big world government could best lead (and
> control) us to a better world!'" In this article, Gray also cites the ascendancy of
> Al Gore to the vice presidency as the start of his problems with federal funding.
> According to him, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stopped
> giving him research grants, and so did NASA.[11]
> Commenting on criticism of the Lavoisier Group by Clive Hamilton, the Cooler Heads
> Coalition notes that "Hamilton accuses the Lavoisier Group of painting the UN's
> global warming negotiations as "an elaborate conspiracy in which hundreds of
> climate scientists have twisted their results to support the 'climate change
> theory' in order to protect their research funding" and adds, "Sounds plausible to
> us."[12]
> A 2007 Minority Report of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and
> Public Works (updated in 2009) originally citing support of 400 "dissenting
> scientists", and growing to 700 dissenting scientists. The report challenges man-
> made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
> Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore.[13] According to Steven
> Dutch in the department of Natural and Applied Sciences at the University of
> Wisconsin - Green Bay in a paper titled, "650 Climate Skeptics?" over 58% of the
> names listed had no climate related qualifications whatsoever and so lacked the
> knowledge to effectively judge the results. Less than 16% were qualified in climate
> science to even voice an opinion on the matter and many of those had quibbles over
> minor matters which did not contradict the global warming theory. At least one of
> these scientists publicly complained that his name was included against his
> knowledge and wishes and in contradiction to his own opinion. [14]
