Myron Ebell
Myron Ebell (born in Baker County, Oregon[1]) is an American public policy advocate. He is the Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit public policy organization founded in 1984 by Fred L. Smith, Jr. Ebell directs and oversees all aspects of energy policy education and advocacy for CEI. He is also a contributor to the Cooler Heads Coalition, an ad hoc policy group that works on the economics, science, and risk analysis associated with climate issues. He is a vocal opponent of conventional Global Warming advocacy.
Ebell is President-Elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency transition team.[2]
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Education
Ebell graduated from Colorado College with a B.A. and obtained an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. He did graduate work at the University of California at San Diego and at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University.[1]
Global warming
Media appearances
Ebell has appeared as a guest on numerous television shows, including the ABC Evening News, NBC Nightly News, PBS News Hour, BBC Newsnight, BBC World, CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, ITN, Voice of America, Televisa, Sky TV, Al Jazeera, PBS’s NOW, Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier, O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity and Colmes. He has spoken frequently on a variety of BBC radio news shows and on hundreds of radio talk shows.[3]
For a period of years up until 2005, Ebell published the "Cooler Heads Project" Newsletter, dedicated to highlighting controversies in the climate science field, as well as reports on political and legislative activities related to climate science.
Myron Ebell gave an interview in England on BBC radio Today program the morning after the US re-election of George W. Bush in which Ebell criticized David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. King was to later claim on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation program that he was "stalked" by Ebell, but was not asked to provide any evidence.[4]
Ebell has been part of the delegation of observers from the Competitive Enterprise Institute to the annual Congress of Parties negotiating the Kyoto Protocol.
Writings
Ebell's writings have appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Forbes, London’s Guardian, Standpoint Magazine, Riverside Press Enterprise, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Environmental Law Forum.[5]
In a piece in Forbes December 2006 he wrote: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
[R]ising sea levels, if they happen, would be bad for a lot of people. But a warming trend would be good for other people. More people die from blizzards and cold spells than from heat waves. Increased death rates usually persist for weeks after the unusually cold temperatures have passed, which suggests that the cold is killing people who would otherwise live into another season at least... [M]odest climatic improvement would be to have fewer and less severe big winter storms... This promising scenario of milder winters... comes with a catch, however... Given our obvious preference for living in warmer climates as long as we have air-conditioning, I doubt that we're going to go on the energy diet that the global warming doomsters urge us to undertake.
Other writings
Myron Ebell has been a harsh critic of the Environmental Protection Agency, saying that it unfairly infringes on land owner's property rights, as well as going against the protection of rare species by encouraging land-owners to make their property uninhabitable for such species to escape regulation.[6]
Previous work
Myron Ebell was an early staff member of Senator Malcolm Wallop's Frontiers of Freedom Institute between 1996 and 1999, when he joined the CEI.
References
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External links
- globalwarming.org
- Myron Ebell Climate - a blog tracking everything Myron Ebell does and says
- Myron Ebell Timeline at History Commons
- Official CEI bio
- List of publications
- 'Some Like It Hot' Article
- Video clips of key moments on the last session of the Climate Change Conference in Bali, December 2007 and interviews with Hilary Benn and Myron Ebell on Channel4 News: "Bali: a deal of sorts".
