The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) is a conservative Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

-based non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 whose stated mission is to promote free market

Free market

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 solutions to environmental problems. Its director, Craig Rucker, stated that mankind faces a threat "not from man-made global warming, but from man-made hysteria

Climate change alarmism

Climate change alarmism or global warming alarmism is a critical description of a rhetorical style that stresses the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming to the point where the scale of the problem appears to exclude the possibility of real action or agency by the reader or...

." CFACT produces online articles and radio segments on environmental and consumer subjects. In 2004, CFACT Europe was founded and provides public policy research, analysis, publications and conferences. CFACT also coordinates the work of affiliate chapters, called Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, on U.S. college campuses.

Personnel

CFACT's board of advisors includes the astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas

Sallie Baliunas

Sallie Baliunas is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division and formerly Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. She serves as Senior Scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, DC, and...

, Bernard Cohen, Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Robert Balling

Robert Balling

Robert C. Balling, Jr. is a professor of geography at Arizona State University, and the former director of its Office of Climatology. His research interests include climatology, global climate change, and geographic information systems...

 of Arizona State University, David Maillie, Professor of Biophysics, University of Rochester, Harry Priem, Professor of Planetary Geology, Utrecht University (retired), and several others.

Personnel listed at the CFACT website include President David Rothbard

David Rothbard

David Rothbard is President of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow , a leading public-interest organization he co-founded in 1985...

, Executive Director Craig Rucker, Policy Analyst Paul Driessen, and Father Robert A. Sirico.

Funding

According to CFACT, it is mainly funded by private citizens. Funding also comes from corporations in the energy and automobile industries, as well as foundations. Donors have included ExxonMobil Corporation (which no longer funds CFACT), Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation headquartered in San Ramon, California, United States and active in more than 180 countries. It is engaged in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries, including exploration and production; refining,...

, DaimlerChrysler

DaimlerChrysler

Daimler AG is a German car corporation. By unit sales, it is the thirteenth-largest car manufacturer and second-largest truck manufacturer in the world. In addition to automobiles, Daimler manufactures buses and provides financial services through its Daimler Financial Services arm...

 Corporation Fund, the U.S. Council on Energy Awareness, the Carthage Foundation

Carthage Foundation

The Carthage Foundation is one of the American Scaife Foundations. It is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife. The foundation does not award grants to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards causes focused on public policy at a national and international level. From 1985 to 2003 the...

, and the Sarah Scaife Foundation

Sarah Scaife Foundation

The Sarah Scaife Foundation is one of the American Scaife Foundations. It is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife. The foundation does not award grants to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards causes focused on public policy at a national and international level...

. CFACT does not currently receive grants from Exxon.

Environmental issues

CFACT is a member organization of the Cooler Heads Coalition

Cooler Heads Coalition

The Cooler Heads Coalition was originally a project of the National Consumer Coalition in the United States, a project of the nonprofit organization Consumer Alert. The Cooler Heads Coalition is now financed and operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Its objective is described as...

, which aims at "dispelling the myths of global warming

Global warming

Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

 through sound science and analysis." CFACT chapters have protested in defense of environmentally sustainable oil exploration and in opposition to the Kyoto Protocol

Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , aimed at fighting global warming...

. CFACT supports sustainable drilling in ANWR that meets high standards of respect for wildlife

Arctic Refuge drilling controversy

The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States since 1997...

.

CFACT director Rucker said that it is "abundantly clear that the proponents of global warming have been cooking the science to produce the results they wanted", and that any agreement crafted to lower carbon dioxide emissions would be "all pain, no gain". CFACT started an online petition to this end at AllPainNoGain.org.

Copenhagen Climate Challenge 2009

During the COP15 conference in Copenhagen, CFACT hosted an outside side event in Copenhagen called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge

Copenhagen Climate Challenge

During the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 , there was a rival conference in Copenhagen for sceptics, called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge. which was organised by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow....

. COP15 attracted 33,200 delegates, the side event was attended by 60 people (15 journalists, 18 speakers, 27 audience). According to Lenore Taylor of The Australian

The Australian

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, Professor Ian Plimer

Ian Plimer

Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, academic, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and a director of four mining companies...

was "a star attraction of the two-day event" which also featured Dr. Fred Singer, sea level expert Dr. Nils Axel Morner and others.

External links

• Committee for A Constructive Tomorrow
• CFACT Europe
• Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, the website of CFACT's collegiate affiliates.
• CFACT Board of advisors and personnel - LittleSis.org