Iain Murray
Credentials
- MBA, Project Management, University of London (1994).1โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- MA, Classics, University of Oxford (1988).2โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
Background
Iain Murray is Vice President for Strategy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) where he also directs the Center for Economic Freedom. Murray is originally from the United Kingdom, and emigrated to the United States.3โIain Murray,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/6Hr28 4โIain Murray,โ The Heartland Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UJ9WR
Before joining CEI in 2003, Murray worked as Director of Research for the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS). He has also worked for the British Department of Transport on railroad privatization. According to a CEI press release, Murray joined CEI’s โGlobal Warming Projectโ in 2003, where he served as the editor of โCooler Heads,โ the newsletter of the Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC). Murray was also a visiting fellow at the UK think tank Civitas.5โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si 6(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
Murray has connections to a wide range of conservative and libertarian think tanks, including the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), where he is a member FEE โFaculty Network,โ and the Adam Smith Institute where he is a visiting fellow. He formerly worked for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as an associate editor, according to his profile on LinkedIn.7โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si 8โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
Murray formerly wrote a weekly column at the now-defunct Tech Central Station titled โData Dump,โ where he regularly wrote articles skeptical of climate change.9(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
Murray has consistently advocated for Britain to leave the European Union (Brexit).10โBritainโs Time for Choosing,โ National Review, June 22, 2016. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Bzvrc
Stance on Climate Change
June 22, 2006
In an article for the National Review Online titled โ25 Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore,โ Murray makes a number of claims about climate change and extreme weather:11โGorey Truths,โ Natioal Review, June 22, 2006. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/k5jhB
โ1. Carbon Dioxideโs Effect on Temperature. The relationship between global temperature and carbon dioxide (CO2), on which the entire scare is founded, is not linear. Every molecule of CO2 added to the atmosphere contributes less to warming than the previous one. [โฆ]โ
โ2. โKilimanjaro. The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting not because of global warming but because of a local climate shift that began 100 years ago. [โฆ]โ
โ3. Glaciers. Glaciers around the world have been receding at around the same pace for over 100 years. [โฆ]โ
โ4. The Medieval Warm Period. Al Gore says that the ‘hockey stick’ graph that shows temperatures remarkably steady for the last 1,000 years has been validated, and ridicules the concept of a ‘medieval warm period.’ Thatโs not the case.โ
โ5. The Hottest Year. Satellite temperature measurements say that 2005 wasn’t the hottest year on record โ 1998 was โ and that temperatures have been stable since 2001 (p.73). [โฆ]โ โCites data from climate change denier John R. Christy.
โ6. Heat Waves. The summer heat wave that struck Europe in 2003 was caused by an atmospheric pressure anomaly; it had nothing to do with global warming. [โฆ]โ
โ7. Record Temperatures. Record temperatures โ hot and cold โ are set every day around the world; thatโs the nature of records. [โฆ]โ โ Cites data from climate change denier Patrick Michaels.
โ8. Hurricanes. There is no overall global trend of hurricane-force storms getting stronger that has anything to do with temperature.โ
โ9. Tornadoes. Records for numbers of tornadoes are set because we can now record more of the smaller tornadoes [โฆ]โ
โ10. European Flooding. European flooding is not new [..]โ
โ11. Shrinking Lakes. Scientists investigating the disappearance of Lake Chad (p.116) found that most of it was due to human overuse of water. [โฆ]โ
โ12. Polar Bears. Polar bears are not becoming endangered. [โฆ]โ
โ13. The Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream, the ocean conveyor belt, is not at risk of shutting off in the North Atlantic [โฆ]โ
โ14. Invasive Species. Goreโs worries about the effect of warming on species ignore evolution. [โฆ]โ
โ15. Species Loss. [โฆ] We have documentary evidence of only just over 1,000 extinctions since 1600.โ โ Cites Bjorn Lomborg and the late Julian Simon.
โ16. Coral Reefs. Coral reefs have been around for over 500 million years. This means that they have survived through long periods with much higher temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations than today.โ
โ17. Malaria and other Infectious Diseases. Leading disease scientists contend that climate change plays only a minor role in the spread of emerging infectious diseases.โ โ Cites an article in the Lancet, by Paul Reiter.
โ18. Antarctic Ice. There is controversy over whether the Antarctic ice sheet is thinning or thickening. Recent scientific studies have shown a thickening in the interior at the same time as increased melting along the coastlines.โ โ Cites Wibjรถrn Karlรฉn.
โ19. Greenland Climate. Greenland was warmer in the 1920s and 1930s than it is now.โ โCites Petr Chylek.
โ20. Sea Level Rise. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does not forecast sea-level rises of ’18 to 20 feet.’โ [โฆ]
โ21. Population. Al Gore worries about population growth; Gore does not suggest a solution. Fertility in the developed world is stable or decreasing.[โฆ]โ
โ22. Energy Generation. A specific example of this is Goreโs acknowledgement that 30 percent of global CO2 emissions come from wood fires used for cooking (p. 227). If we introduced affordable, coal-fired power generation into South Asia and Africa we could reduce this considerably and save over 1.6 million lives a year. This is the sort of solution that Gore does not even consider.โ
โ23. Carbon-Emissions Trading. The European Carbon Exchange Market, touted as ‘effective’ on p. 252, has crashed.โ
โ24. The ‘Scientific Consensus.’ On the supposed ‘scientific consensus’: Dr. Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California, San Diego, (p. 262) did not examine a โlarge random sampleโ of scientific articles. [โฆ]โ โ Cites a letter by Benny Peiser.
โ25. Economic Costs [โฆ] All of the current proposals in Congress would cost the economy significant amounts, making us all poorer, with all that that entails for human health and welfare, while doing nothing to stop global warming.โ
July 10, 2003
Writing at Tech Central Station, Murray claimed global warming may not be a bad thing and the scientific consensus on man-made climate change was a โhighly questionableโ premise:12Iain Murray. โEnvironmentalists for Enron,โ Tech Central Station, August 19, 2003. Archived August 31, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/5uzvx
โThere are many feasible scenarios for how climate change may effect economic interests [โฆ] climate change may not be detrimental (a little warming will probably be good for the world as a whole),โ Murray wrote, claiming that the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) was ignoring such possibilities.13Iain Murray. โEnvironmentalists for Enron,โ Tech Central Station, August 19, 2003. Archived August 31, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/5uzvx
May 27, 2003
Writing at Tech Central Station, Murray argued we are โstill at the theory levelโ with regards to climate change:14[Iain Murray. โConsensus Cons,โ Tech Central Station, May 27, 2003. Archived November 23, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/I9toZ
โIn the case of global warming, however, we are necessarily still at the theory level. Like it or not, we cannot perform experiments with climate. There is no parallel Earth to act as a control. So we can only progress by developing theories into models. These models can themselves only be tested by comparison with observed data and, as we see regularly, the models and the data often do not agree.
โFor instance, data from satellite and weather balloons indicate that certain areas of the atmosphere are not warming as the models suggest they should. Some suggest that this means that the data, not the models, are inadequate. As there exist many questions as to the fit between the models and the data it cannot truly be said that a scientific consensus has emerged that they are accurate. All we have is a theoretical consensus that may or may not stand up to the tests the theories need to be subjected to. 15[Iain Murray. โConsensus Cons,โ Tech Central Station, May 27, 2003. Archived November 23, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/I9toZ
On Species Extinction
Research finding danger of mass species extinctions is โan area of research prone to wild exaggerations,โ Murray has claimed on more than one occassion. Mike Catanzaro, now an energy aide in the Trump Administration, once cited Murray’s work at CEI to counter Al Gore’s claims of species extinction due to global warming.16Iain Murray. โTigers and Rhinos and Pandas, Oh My!โ Tech Central Station, May 28, 2002. Archived November 2, 2003. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/GUg6q 17fโVirtually Extinct,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 8, 2004. Archived January 6, 2018. 18Michael Catanzaro. โโStabilizationโ Undefined,โ Human Events, January 8, 2004. Archived February 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mYhNX
Key Quotes
June 2, 2015
Writing at the Foundation for Economic Education, Murray suggested that the answer to poverty is eliminating regulations on fossil fuels:19Iain Murray. โThe Poor Need Affordable Energy,โ Foundation for Economic Education, June 2, 2015. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/guybV
โ[S]ome Western governments are working to increase energy costs, purportedly to combat global warming.
โWhat they are really combating is prosperity.โ
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โAmerica should free up federal lands to energy development, rather than pickle them in regulatory aspic. Europe could enjoy its own energy boom by approving hydraulic fracturing.
โReducing artificially high energy costs is the first step in tackling fuel poverty. In America, the market is alleviating the burden of energy costs on poor households, even as the government goes the wrong way. That shows us the way forward for tackling the much greater problem in the developing world.โ20Iain Murray. โThe Poor Need Affordable Energy,โ Foundation for Economic Education, June 2, 2015. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/guybV
June 25, 2013
Writing at the National Review in an article criticizing President Obama’s plan to cut carbon pollution, Murray declared:21โObamaโs Climate Plan: Itโs for the Kidz,โ National Review, June 25, 2013. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/S41BA
โIt is all the more silly because reducing ‘carbon pollution’ in the U.S. will have essentially no effect on global warming, even if you take the CO2-warming link as a given.โ
September 20, 2010
Writing of Climategate at The Washington Examiner, Iain Murray lamented that high profile climate change deniers were not included in panels to investigate the scientists involved (who were cleared of all wrongdoing in multiple independent investigations):22โIain Murray: Climategate inquiry glosses over the facts,โ Washington Examiner, July 20, 2010. Archived August 24, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fd6Yj 23โDebunking Misinformation About Stolen Climate Emails in the ‘Climategate’ Manufactured Controversy,โ Union of Concerned Scientists.
โ[T]he conclusions of those inquiries are as specious as the science they were supposed to investigate,โ Murray complained, adding โ[T]he hearings did not include testimony from the most severe critics of the hockey stick graphic, such as Canadians Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, who could have explained exactly why the e-mails did suggest impropriety.โ
December 8, 2009
Iain Murray wrote an article at the New York Post claiming that the โClimategateโ emails was reason to delay the endangerment finding on CO2:24Iain Murray. โAn EPA power grab,โ New York Post, December 9, 2009. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/AmiNr
โThe e-mails do not disprove that the world has been warming, or that fossil fuels have something to do with it โ but they do cast doubt on whether the current warming is in any way unusual,โ Murray and Lewis wrote.
โThat is an important consideration in deciding whether the current warming endangers human health and welfare. EPA’s decision to simply ignore it and press forward with its endangerment finding represents a premature rush to judgment. Thus, the finding is a purely political move.โ25Iain Murray. โAn EPA power grab,โ New York Post, December 9, 2009. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/AmiNr
April 2008
โThe dogmatic ideologies and restrictive policies pushed on us by the environmental Left have harmed nature more than helped it,โ Murray said, according to a review of his book, The Really Inconvenient Truths.26โThe Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Donโt Want You to Know About โ Because They Helped Cause Them,โ Conservative Book Club. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/agipl
Speaking at an event hosted by The Heritage Foundation, where he also promoted his new book, Murray said:27โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
โIt is time to challenge the divine right of environmentalism.โ
Inside his book, Murray claims that polar bears are doing just fine. (See a review of the science here)28Iain Murray. The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals, Regnery Publishing, April 22, 2008.
โโ[P]olar bear numbers are actually increasing and that all populations bar one appear unaffected by global warming,โ Murray wrote.
January 31, 2005
Writing at Tech Central Station, Murray called on IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri to resign:29Iain Murray. โA Dishonest Broker?โ Tech Central Station, January 31, 2005. Archived October 26, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Uv2b5
โThe IPCC is on the verge of losing that substantial credibility it yet possesses. If anything useful is to be salvaged from the IPCC process, Dr. Pachauri has to go and the organization needs to reinvent itself free from the biases and self-affirmation exercises that currently plague it. If Dr. Pachauri really wants to be the honest broker, he should do the honest thing and resign,โ Murray wrote.
June 9, 2005
Murray wrote at Tech Central Station:30Iain Murray. โThe Pickett’s Charge of Climate Alarmism,โ Tech Central Station, June 9, 2005. Archived November 27, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4p81K
โClimate alarmists in the scientific community now face a long retreat, while the victory of the President Bush’s position on the issue seems assured. [โฆ] The scientists should retire from the battlefield now. They have picked the wrong fight at the wrong time. Their intervention has done nothing to alter the political landscape except confirm that it is economists, not scientists, who are the most important figures in deciding whether anything will be done now about global warming. The alarmists will fight on, as Lee did after Gettysburg for two more years, but barring unforeseen political events, their war is lost.โ
November 26, 2003
โWind power may well be the least environmentally-friendly idea ever proposed by environmentalists,โ Murray wrote at Tech Central Station. He concluded the article by suggesting that โThe anti-wind forces are right in several ways.โ31Iain Murray. โGreen Civil War,โ Tech Central Station, November 26, 2013. Archived December 12, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/DBFN4
September 22, 2003
Writing at the fossil-fuel-industry-sponsored Tech Central Station, Murray claimed that concerns about glaciers are โalarmist.โ32โAre We All ‘Damn Fools’?โ Tech Central Station, September 22, 2003. Archived November 18, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bDPfa
โ[A] review of the recent scientific evidence on glaciers suggests that, as is so often the case with global warming, much of the concern is overwrought, poorly based or simply alarmist,โ Murray claimed, concluding:
โYet from the point of view of the world’s need for more potable water, it might be regarded as a good thing that less freshwater be locked up in glaciers. If they are melting, whether naturally or for anthropogenic reasons, it would clearly be a good thing if we can harness the freshwater runoff to the general benefit of humanity. However, as should be clear from those figures, it is pretty unlikely that the resource is going to disappear. The scientific evidence suggests that the damn fools are not those supposedly melting the ice, but those who believe every alarmist warning that melting is a serious problem.โ
2001
Writing at Technopolitics, Murray claimed that Kyoto โdid not take account of a crucial scientific factโ:33Iain Murray. โEurope Emits C02, U.S. Cleans It Up.โ Technopolitics, April 13, 2001. Archived May 10, 2001. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bzU1i
โCarbon dioxide is not really a pollutant, as the Environmental Protection Agency has labeled it. It is a vitally important contributor to plant life, which uses much of the gas in the atmosphere. Geographic areas with large amounts of plant life therefore act as ‘carbon sinks,’ sucking in carbon dioxide from the air,โ Murray wrote.
May 28, 2002
โTo the extent that the UNEP researchers have toned down the claims of Myers, Wilson and Ehrlich, they are to be congratulated. What they have done instead, however, is to play up the threats to the ‘cuddly’ animals โ mammals and birds โ and thereby maximize media attention,โ Murray wrote at Tech Central Station in an article suggesting that mass extinction predictions were exaggerated.34Iain Murray. โTigers and Rhinos and Pandas, Oh My!โ Tech Central Station, May 28, 2002. Archived November 2, 2003. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/GUg6q
Key Deeds
August 24, 2016
Co-writing with Rory Broomfield at CEI, Murray authored a 102-page โroadmap for British Exit from the European Unionโ titled โCutting the Gordian Knot.โ35Iain Murray and Rory Broomfield. โCutting the Gordian Knotโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute Issue Analysis No. 7. (August 2016).
โBy following this road map after leaving the EU, the UK will have set itself on the road to becoming once again a global economic powerhouse,โ the authors wrote. In a section on โEnvironment,โ Broomfield and Murray urged a repeal of rules that regulate chemicals:36Iain Murray and Rory Broomfield. โCutting the Gordian Knotโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute Issue Analysis No. 7. (August 2016).
โOne rule Westminster should do its utmost to repeal is the directive on Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), the most wide-ranging and restrictive in the world on chemical innovation and use. It requires chemical companies to prove their products are safe, rather than requiring governments prove they are harmful.โ37Iain Murray and Rory Broomfield. โCutting the Gordian Knotโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute Issue Analysis No. 7. (August 2016).
They cite a 2006 study by CEI senior fellow Angela Logomasini, who has consistently promoted the โthe life-enhancing value of chemicals and manages SAFEChemicalPolicy.org. Her background is in government and congressional studies rather than any scientific field.38โAbout,โ SAFEChemicalPolicy.org. Archived March 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vlsYV 39โAngela Logomasini, Ph.D.โ LinkedIn. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
โOverall, the UK will benefit substantially from a reduction in regulation, a better fisheries management system, a market-based immigration system, a free market in agriculture, a globally focused free trade policy, and a shale gas-based energy policy.โ the authors conclude.40โAbout,โ SAFEChemicalPolicy.org. Archived March 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vlsYV
March 9, 2009
Murray was a speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s 2009 International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC2). His speech was titled โTracing Alarmist’s Methods Back to Their Roots.โ View his PowerPoint, and the video below:41โIain Murray, ICCC2,โ Climateconferences.heartland.org. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
DeSmog researched the funding behind Heartland’s Second International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC2) and found sponsor organizations, including Murray’s Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), had received over $47 million in funding from energy companies and right-wing foundations, with 78% of that total coming from Scaife Family foundations.42โHeartland Institute’s 2009 Climate Conference in New York: funding history of the sponsors,โ Desmog.
April 2008
Iain Murray published his book, The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You To Know AboutโBecause They Helped Cause Them published by conservative publisher Regnery Publishing. He talked about his book on CSPAN’s โBook TV.โ43โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
In the book, he claims that Liberal environmentalists have harmed the environment and tried to cover it up, while offering tips on how Conservatives can โreclam the environmental issueโ with free-enterprise, private-property solutions. His talk was hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.44โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
Murray concluded with comments on global warming.45โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
โI think, what we’ve been seeing, with they hysteria that’s been building up surrounding global warming is a repeat of the DDT model.
Carbon dioxide has replaced DDT. Fossil fuel use is the enemy. Anyone defending fossil fuel use is evil or a shill or something bad.โ
โ[โฆ] Let’s for a moment assume that global warming is a problem. The decarbonization is not an efficient strategy to combat it.
So, what would I suggest as a conservative approach to the global warming issue? I would suggest one based on three ideas. One is improved technology to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions. Second is an adaptation strategy. And third is a resiliency strategy.โ46โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
For his strategy, Murray suggested removing regulations on emitting facilities and cutting regulatory performance standards which he claimed โact as a barrier to developing better performance.โ47โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
โWe should also introduce a geoengineering research program separate from energy R&D and climate science as research programs,โ Murray suggested.48โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
โAn important factor in this would be to abolish all subsidies to energy companies. Coal, oil, alternative energy. Reducing emissions quickly without introducing a carbon tax. We should repeal the ethanol program in its entirety.โ49โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
He concluded that, โfor adapation, we should introduce an adaptation fund or program to be based on the successful AIDS and communicatable deseases program that has worked so well in Africa.โ50โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
March 3, 2008
Murray was a speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s First International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1). His speech was titled โAssuming the Worst: A No-Regrets Approach to Global Warming.โ51โThe 2008 International Conference on Climate Changeโ (PDF), The Heartland Institute. PDF created November 15, 2011.
Affiliations
- Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) โ Vice President for Strategy & director of Center for Economic Freedom.52โIain Murray,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/6Hr28
- Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) โ Member of FEE Faculty Network.53โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- The Heartland Institute โ Expert.54โIain Murray,โ The Heartland Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UJ9WR
- Adam Smith Institute (ASI)โ Visiting fellow. Murray is not currently listed on ASI website.55โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- American Enterprise Institute (AEI) โ Associate Editor (2004 โ 2006).56โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- American Friends of the Taxpayers Alliance โ Board chairman (2014).57โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) โ Former Director of Research.58โAbout the Statistical Assessment Service,โ Statistical Assessment Service. Archived June 2, 2002.
- Tech Central Station (TCS) โ Contributor.59โIain Murray,โ Tech Central Station. Archived January 2, 2006. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/u2W3s
- Cherish Freedom Trust โ Board member (2011).60โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- Global Britain โ Board member.61โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- Young Britons Foundation โ Board member.62โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- The Federalist Society โ Contributor.63โIain Murray,โ The Federalist Society. Archived December 29, 2017.
- Civitas โ Former visiting fellow.64(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
- Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC) โ Former editor, โCooler Headsโ newsletter.65(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
Social Media
Publications
According to his profile at FEE, Murray regularly appears on Fox News, CNN Headline News, the BBC and Al-Jazeera, among other broadcast network. His op-eds have appeared in The National Review, The Providence Journal and Fox News. He has also written a number of books including:66โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- Stealing You Blind: How Government Fatcats Are Getting Rich Off of You
- The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Wonโt Tell You About โ Because They Helped Cause Them.
Murray’s profile at CEI lists over 1,000 publications in a variety of news sources. View a complete listing of Murrays publications here (.xlsx), and some examples below:
- WH on Global Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Spending Money on That Anymore’
- Obama’s Climate Plan: It’s for the Kidz
- All Aboard the Climate Gravy Train
- Global Warming Goes Gaga
- Climategate Inquiry Glosses Over the Facts
- The Senate’s Global-Warming Circus
- Climategate and the Scientific Elite
- The Climate Peer-Review Process: Hopelessly Broken
- ClimateGate Whitewash
- Climategate Whitewash
- Climategate: This Time It’s NASA
- The Real Climate Confusion
- An Authoritarian Climate
- The Geopolitics of Climate: Cutting Through the Spin on International Climate Agreements
- Tom Vilsack: Climate change efforts spell opportunity for American agriculture
- Global-Warming Policies Are the Real National-Security Threat
- British Government Pays Lobbyists to Lobby It on Climate Change
- 10 Cool Global Warming Policies
- The real cost of global warming cures
- Global Warming: The Backlash Begins
- The Calculation of Climate Change Risk in the Provision of Insurance
- Liveblog of Al Gore Climate Hearing
- EU Climate Agreement All Smoke and Mirrors
- Obama’s promises on climate change clash with reality
- Global Warming: It isn’t a hoax and it isn’t a crisis
- Global Warming Economics
- Bush’s Global Warming Surrender
- Global Warming Round-up
- Global Warming: What Should Texas Do?
- Climate Alarmism for Fun and Profit
- Global warming roundup
- The Great Global Warming Round-up
- Global warming round-up
- Global warming latest
- Global Warming Round-up
- Global warming round-up
- The Union of Concerned Scientists: Its Jihad against Climate Skeptics
- Global Warming Round-up
- Greenpeace – climate obstructionists!
- Sen. Inhofe Calls Climate Action Partnership What It isโฆ
- What do economists really think about global warming
- Just how widespread is misrepresentation in climate science?
- Eco-Censorship: The Effort to Thwart the Climate Change Debate
- Stern went beyond global warming alarmists’ ‘consensus’
- White House Wobbles on Warming?
- Global Warming FAQ
- Global Warming FAQ: What Every Citizen Needs to Know About Global Warming
- Climate Policy Needs a Stern Review
- What Every European Should Know About Global Warming, by Iain Murray
- Surrender Monkeys in the Senate: Senate Republicans follow the French president’s lead on global warming, by Iain Murray
- The Pickett’s Charge of Climate Alarmism
- Science Fiction: Michael Crichton Takes a Novel Approach to Global Warming Alarmism
- Cooling Blair’s Climate Crusade
- Global Warming not a Cost-effective Target
- Global Jockeying over Global Warming
- State Attorneys General Sue Utilities over Global Warming
- Climate Consensus: Scarce resources should be spent where they’ll do the most good.
- The Unthinking in Pursuit of the Unthinkable: Disingenuous global-warming nonsense
- Warming Warning off Message in America
- An Improved Climate
Tech Central Station
Murray has written a number of articles at the now-defunct Tech Central Station (laterTCSDaily), a news outlet historically boasting corporate sponsors including AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, ExxonMobil, General Motors Corporation, McDonalds, Merck, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and PhRMA. While in operation, TCS regularly published articles by climate change deniers.67โA Message from TCS Daily,โ Ideas in Action, December 30, 2010. Archived December 28, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/EpcQe 68โAbout TCS Daily,โ Tech Central Station. Archived December 30, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QCpUc
- ‘LordD have MerCIe Vpon Vs’
- $6.1 Million Men
- A Dishonest Broker?
- A Setback, Not a Defeat
- Abusing Substance Abuse Data
- Abusive Behavior
- Adolf Lomborg?
- Are Fast Foods Addictive?
- Are We All โDamn Foolsโ?
- Behind Books, Not Bars
- Bioethics Panel Illustrates Scientific Ethics’ Complexity
- Casualties of the Press
- Climate Policy Needs a Stern Review
- Conflicting with Reality
- Consensus Cons
- Consensus, Truisms and Straw Men
- Cooling Blair’s Climate Crusade
- Demonizing Drink
- Discriminate Deaths
- Don’t Count On It
- Down the Tube
- Drinking Problems
- Driven to Drink
- Dubious Data Awards
- End the โMad Cowโ Madness
- Environmentalists for Enron
- Epidemiology Beyond Its Limits
- Europe Adds Headache to Blair’s Post-Election Hangover
- Europe’s New ‘New World’?
- Extreme Measures
- Finding the Truth about Kyoto in a Lie by Bill Clinton
- Flights of Fancy
- Gateway to Heaven?
- Get Shorty
- Gouging? No Such Thing
- Green Civil War
- Hard Cell
- Hating Why They Hate Us
- Heart of the Matter
- Herbal Maladies
- Here We Go Again
- How Gov’t Can Help: By Getting Out of the Way
- How to Cripple an Economy
- Hybrid Hubris?
- Is Breast Best for Tests?
- Is the Case for Euthanasia Dying?
- Journalistic Balancing Act?
- Junking Junk Science
- Life or Death Decision?
- Mad Cow Madness
- Mad Cows, Scientists and Politicians
- More Drugs, Less Crime?
- Nationalizing Science
- New Scientist, Old Problem
- Nuclear Medicine
- Obesity: a Sign We’re Doing Things Right
- Oh, To Be In England
- Paper Tigers
- Polluting the Debate
- Positively False
- Pots and Kettles
- Push Me, Poll You
- Rude Awakening for Hybrid Dreamers
- Science Loses Some Friends
- Scientific Prejudice
- Sex Still Sells
- Sic Transit Maria Landrieu
- Slaughtering the Fatted Calf
- Son et Lumiรยฏรยฟรยฝre Over French Heat Wave
- Spice Up G8 with No Regrets
- Statistical Traffic Wreck
- Substance Abuse, Science Abuse,
- The Bill That Wouldn’t Die
- The Kyoto End-Game Begins
- The Limits of Rationality
- The Pickett’s Charge of Climate Alarmism
- The Problem with Prison
- The Return of Scientism
- The Road to Milan
- The Temperance Movement Is Back
- This Christmas, a Red-Green Split?
- Tigers and Rhinos and Pandas, Oh My!
- Tory Climate Change
- TV in the Dock
- Union Citation Blues
- Violent Couch Potatoes?
- Virtually Extinct
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
- Who Killed Kyoto?
- Why We Need Sound Science Rules
- Worried Warriors?
- Your Money and Your Life
Other Resources
- โIain Murray,โ Sourcewatch.
Resources
- 1โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 2โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 3โIain Murray,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/6Hr28
- 4โIain Murray,โ The Heartland Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UJ9WR
- 5โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- 6(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
- 7โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- 8โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 9(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
- 10โBritainโs Time for Choosing,โ National Review, June 22, 2016. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Bzvrc
- 11โGorey Truths,โ Natioal Review, June 22, 2006. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/k5jhB
- 12Iain Murray. โEnvironmentalists for Enron,โ Tech Central Station, August 19, 2003. Archived August 31, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/5uzvx
- 13Iain Murray. โEnvironmentalists for Enron,โ Tech Central Station, August 19, 2003. Archived August 31, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/5uzvx
- 14[Iain Murray. โConsensus Cons,โ Tech Central Station, May 27, 2003. Archived November 23, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/I9toZ
- 15[Iain Murray. โConsensus Cons,โ Tech Central Station, May 27, 2003. Archived November 23, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/I9toZ
- 16Iain Murray. โTigers and Rhinos and Pandas, Oh My!โ Tech Central Station, May 28, 2002. Archived November 2, 2003. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/GUg6q
- 17fโVirtually Extinct,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 8, 2004. Archived January 6, 2018.
- 18Michael Catanzaro. โโStabilizationโ Undefined,โ Human Events, January 8, 2004. Archived February 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mYhNX
- 19Iain Murray. โThe Poor Need Affordable Energy,โ Foundation for Economic Education, June 2, 2015. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/guybV
- 20Iain Murray. โThe Poor Need Affordable Energy,โ Foundation for Economic Education, June 2, 2015. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/guybV
- 21โObamaโs Climate Plan: Itโs for the Kidz,โ National Review, June 25, 2013. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/S41BA
- 22โIain Murray: Climategate inquiry glosses over the facts,โ Washington Examiner, July 20, 2010. Archived August 24, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fd6Yj
- 23โDebunking Misinformation About Stolen Climate Emails in the ‘Climategate’ Manufactured Controversy,โ Union of Concerned Scientists.
- 24Iain Murray. โAn EPA power grab,โ New York Post, December 9, 2009. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/AmiNr
- 25Iain Murray. โAn EPA power grab,โ New York Post, December 9, 2009. Archived January 6, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/AmiNr
- 26โThe Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Donโt Want You to Know About โ Because They Helped Cause Them,โ Conservative Book Club. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/agipl
- 27โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 28Iain Murray. The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals, Regnery Publishing, April 22, 2008.
- 29Iain Murray. โA Dishonest Broker?โ Tech Central Station, January 31, 2005. Archived October 26, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Uv2b5
- 30Iain Murray. โThe Pickett’s Charge of Climate Alarmism,โ Tech Central Station, June 9, 2005. Archived November 27, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4p81K
- 31Iain Murray. โGreen Civil War,โ Tech Central Station, November 26, 2013. Archived December 12, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/DBFN4
- 32โAre We All ‘Damn Fools’?โ Tech Central Station, September 22, 2003. Archived November 18, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bDPfa
- 33Iain Murray. โEurope Emits C02, U.S. Cleans It Up.โ Technopolitics, April 13, 2001. Archived May 10, 2001. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bzU1i
- 34Iain Murray. โTigers and Rhinos and Pandas, Oh My!โ Tech Central Station, May 28, 2002. Archived November 2, 2003. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/GUg6q
- 35Iain Murray and Rory Broomfield. โCutting the Gordian Knotโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute Issue Analysis No. 7. (August 2016).
- 36Iain Murray and Rory Broomfield. โCutting the Gordian Knotโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute Issue Analysis No. 7. (August 2016).
- 37Iain Murray and Rory Broomfield. โCutting the Gordian Knotโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute Issue Analysis No. 7. (August 2016).
- 38โAbout,โ SAFEChemicalPolicy.org. Archived March 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vlsYV
- 39โAngela Logomasini, Ph.D.โ LinkedIn. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 40โAbout,โ SAFEChemicalPolicy.org. Archived March 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vlsYV
- 41โIain Murray, ICCC2,โ Climateconferences.heartland.org. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 42
- 43โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 44โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 45โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 46โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 47โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 48โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 49โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 50โThe Really Inconvenient Truths,โ C-SPAN, April 29, 2008. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 51โThe 2008 International Conference on Climate Changeโ (PDF), The Heartland Institute. PDF created November 15, 2011.
- 52โIain Murray,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/6Hr28
- 53โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- 54โIain Murray,โ The Heartland Institute. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/UJ9WR
- 55โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- 56โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 57โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 58โAbout the Statistical Assessment Service,โ Statistical Assessment Service. Archived June 2, 2002.
- 59โIain Murray,โ Tech Central Station. Archived January 2, 2006. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/u2W3s
- 60โIain Murray,โ LinkedIn. Accessed December 29, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 61โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- 62โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- 63โIain Murray,โ The Federalist Society. Archived December 29, 2017.
- 64(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
- 65(Press Release). โIain Murray Joins CEI Global Warming Project,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 10, 2003. Archived January 5, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RpP4N
- 66โIain Murray,โ Foundation for Economic Education. Archived December 29, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ch1si
- 67โA Message from TCS Daily,โ Ideas in Action, December 30, 2010. Archived December 28, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/EpcQe
- 68โAbout TCS Daily,โ Tech Central Station. Archived December 30, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QCpUc