Shock! NYT Profiles Climate Depot's Morano: Using Science as a 'Political Battering Ram' -- 'Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign'

Dissenter on Climate Change Takes Fight to the Web - NYTimes.com

As a spokesman for Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Mr. Morano was for years a ceaseless purveyor of the dissenting view on climate change, sending out a blizzard of e-mail to journalists covering the issue. Now, with Congress debating legislation to curb carbon dioxide emissions, Mr. Morano is hoping to have an even greater impact. He has left his job with Mr. Inhofe to start his own Web site, ClimateDepot.com.

The site, scheduled to debut this week, will be a “one-stop shop” for anyone following climate change, Mr. Morano says. He will post research he thinks the public should see, as well as reported video segments and ratings of environmental journalists.

Supporters see Mr. Morano as a crucial organizing force who has taken diffuse pieces of scientific research and fused them into a political battering ram.

“Before Marc, efforts to debunk global warming were scattered and disorganized,” said John Coleman, a weather broadcaster who helped found the Weather Channel and who has called global warming “a scam.”

NYT Profile Related: Climate Clash: Gore Rebuffs Morano 37000 feet over South China Sea in 2007 - 'You all attack me all the time' | Climate Depot

Leslie Kaufman of the NYT writes: "Gore had no memory of the encounter. Mr. Morano does not care. He tells the story anyway." Lest anyone doubts the meeting took place, below is the first time ever public release of the full accounting of the Gore/Morano meeting. The below was written on the airplane immedately after the encounter with Gore in 2007. ]