Joe Fone
Credentials
- Attended CPIT (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology).1“Joe Fone,” LinkedIn. Accessed July 2021.
Background
Joe Fone works as a Computer Aided Design (CAD) Engineer at Enatel. Previously he worked at Tait Electronics from 1977- 2002. He perceives manmade global warming as just one among many fads supported by scientists and eagerly promoted by the media, but he asserted that this is one that “has become a Frankenstein monster and seems to be out of control.”2“Joe Fone,” LinkedIn. Accessed July 2021. 3“Joe Fone.” Facebook
Stance on Climate Change
June 23, 2009
“The climate science community has been hijacked by vested interest groups, from politicians to environmentalist extremists, who are more concerned with advocacy for their causes than true unbiased scientific endeavor. We can only hope to have begun here to redress the balance, and to ask the questions which vested interests do not want asked.”4Joe Fone. “A Legacy of Vested Interests,” Investigate Magazine, June 23, 2009.
Key Quotes
September 9, 2011
“Despite oft-repeated claims by the IPCC and its fawning apologists that the planet is heading for some kind of apocalyptic meltdown, the actual empirical evidence suggests precisely the opposite. Europe and the United States are buried in record amounts of snow every year, but somehow the alarmists manage to twist even this into ‘evidence’ of manmade global warming.”5Joe Fone. “Filthy Political Lucre,” Scoop Independent News, September 9, 2011.
September 9, 2011
“Everything it seems can be attributed to global warming, everything from acne and declining bat populations to deaf fish and zoonotic diseases (www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm). And in order to dilute growing public scepticism and suspicions that the science is not stacking up, the alarmists shift the goal posts so that “global warming” tends to be downplayed while promoting “climate change” or “climate disruption” and now “climate challenges” to account for the obvious contradictions.”6Joe Fone. “Filthy Political Lucre,” Scoop Independent News, September 9, 2011.
March 12, 2013
“Epicurus understood more about how the earth behaves than the IPCC does two millennia later.”7Kohn Shade. “Book Review: Climate Change: Natural or Manmade?” Bishop Hill, March 12, 2013.
June 23, 2009
“Truth has nothing to do with it. To the politicians, it’s about power; to the AGW scientists, it’s about funding; to the media, it’s a marketable commodity and to the environmentalists, it’s a religious conviction and a need to impose socialist controls. The only people who care about the truth are the sceptics.” 8Joe Fone. “A Legacy of Vested Interests,” Investigate Magazine, June 23, 2009.
Key Deeds
June 15, 2013
Fone teamed up with Tom Harris, Executive Director of International Climate Science Coalition to attack Bill McKibben’s presentation while on tour in New Zealand.9Joe Fone and Tom Harris. “Climate change math doesn’t add up,” Stuff Nation, June 15, 2013.
2012
Authored the book “Climate Change: Natural or Manmade” which argued that humans have no effect on climate change and it is a political scam to get money and attention from the public.
Affiliations
Social Media
- @AGWSceptic on Twitter.
- Joe Fone on LinkedIn
- Joe Fone on Facebook
Publications
No peer-reviewed journals or research papers have been found for Joe Fone.
He’s contributed to Investigate Magazine, Stuff Nation, and New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.10Joe Fone. “A Legacy of Vested Interests,” Investigate Magazine, June 23, 2009. 11Joe Fone and Tom Harris. “Climate change math doesn’t add up,” Stuff Nation, June 15, 2013. 12Joe Fone and Tom Groser. “ Coalition Member Challenges NZ Minister to look at both sides,” New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, August 3, 2012.
Other Resources
Resources
- 1“Joe Fone,” LinkedIn. Accessed July 2021.
- 2“Joe Fone,” LinkedIn. Accessed July 2021.
- 3“Joe Fone.” Facebook
- 4Joe Fone. “A Legacy of Vested Interests,” Investigate Magazine, June 23, 2009.
- 5Joe Fone. “Filthy Political Lucre,” Scoop Independent News, September 9, 2011.
- 6Joe Fone. “Filthy Political Lucre,” Scoop Independent News, September 9, 2011.
- 7Kohn Shade. “Book Review: Climate Change: Natural or Manmade?” Bishop Hill, March 12, 2013.
- 8Joe Fone. “A Legacy of Vested Interests,” Investigate Magazine, June 23, 2009.
- 9Joe Fone and Tom Harris. “Climate change math doesn’t add up,” Stuff Nation, June 15, 2013.
- 10Joe Fone. “A Legacy of Vested Interests,” Investigate Magazine, June 23, 2009.
- 11Joe Fone and Tom Harris. “Climate change math doesn’t add up,” Stuff Nation, June 15, 2013.
- 12Joe Fone and Tom Groser. “ Coalition Member Challenges NZ Minister to look at both sides,” New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, August 3, 2012.
