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"Attorney Hounding Climate Scientists Covertly Funded By Coal Industry" [1]

"Christopher Horner, an attorney who claims that the earth is cooling, is known within the scientific community for hounding climate change researchers with relentless investigations and public ridicule, often deriding scientists as 'communists' and frauds.

Horner is a regular guest on Fox News and CNN, and has been affiliated with a number of think tanks and legal organizations over the last decade. He has called for investigations of climate scientists affiliated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NASA, and inundated climate researchers at major universities across the country with record requests that critics say are designed to distract them from their work.

Horner is a regular guest on Fox News and CNN, and has been affiliated with a number of think tanks and legal organizations over the last decade. He has called for investigations of climate scientists affiliated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NASA, and inundated climate researchers at major universities across the country with record requests that critics say are designed to distract them from their work.

New court documents reveal one source of Horner’s funding: big coal."

Lee Fang reports for The Intercept August 25, 2015. [2]

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"Giant Coal Company Bankruptcy Reveals Secret Ties to Climate Denial, GOP Dark Money Groups" (The Intercept) [3]

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Source: The Intercept [2], 08/26/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/attorney-hounding-climate-scientists-covertly-funded-coal-industry [2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/25/chris-horner-coal/ [3] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/25/coal-giant-bankruptcy-reveals-secret-ties-republican-dark-money-groups/ [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81