S. Fred Singer
S. Fred Singer's early career includes a string of respected positions in the progress and advancement of science. Somewhere along the line, it seems something changed. His efforts apparently turned to advocacy of the agenda of the tobacco and the fossil fuel industry. The latter part of his career seems to fall in the vein of what might be called a sort of serial denialism with respect to his positions on second hand smoke and human caused global warming.
S. Fred Singer
Fred Singer has been arguing that global warming is 'all bunk'. To give some perspective on whether or not you should trust what he is saying, one should know that he has also argued that second hand smoke is not unhealthy. His perspectives and related connections are well illustrated in 'The Denial Machine'.
His organization The Science and Environmental Policy Project has been used as a platform to support his assertions. The fact that 'second hand smoke' and 'human caused global warming' are well understood scientifically to be 'dangerous' for varied reasons, seems to have been missed entirely by Singer.
One of the efforts that may be seen more as a plot to subvert, or misrepresent, was Singer's extraordinary effort to associate his perspectives with Roger Revelle, who was a very well respected scientist. His persistence in this effort enabled him to subvert the views of Roger Revelle and exploit that misrepresentation to fit his own views and/or agenda. This has come to be known as the Revelle Gore Story, because it was used to discredit the work of Al Gore in relation to perspectives on global warming.
Singers manipulations led to a tremendous amount of misunderstanding regarding Roger Revelle's perspectives and understanding pertaining to the dangers of human caused global warming.
