...This man kick started the first fossil fuel–funded campaigns to attack climate science

        January 29, 2017 DeSmog | United States | climate change: science

Fred Palmer began his anti-science crusade in 1988 after a Sports Illustrated article complained of record temperatures and drought. The goal was to “reposition global warming as theory (not fact)” and spread untruths via the Information Council for the Environment, the Greening Earth Society, and The Heartland Institute.