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Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey (pictured) has an arts degree in philsophy and economics and formerly worked as a journalist at the business magazine Forbes. He has cast doubt on ozone depletion, global warming, limits to growth, species extinction, the dangers of DDT use, biotechnology and stem cell research.

In 2006 Bailey wrote an article entitled 'Confessions of an Alleged ExxonMobil Whore' in which he explains that he had stopped being a climate change denier and "that the balance of the evidence pretty clearly indicates that humanity is contributing to global warming chiefly by means of loading up the atmosphere with extra carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels". However he asserts that the ExxonMobil funding of the organisations he was affiliated with and was paid by (and his small holding of ExxonMobil shares) were not the reason he had been a denier.

His books include:

• Liberation Biology: The Scientific And Moral Case For The Biotech Revolution (2005)
• Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death (2002), an edited collection
• Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet (2000), an edited collection covering populatoin growth, global warming, fisheries, energy, endocrine disrupting chemicals and biodiversity.
• The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World's Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement (1995), an edited collection covering food production, pesticides, global warming, resource scarcity, environmental causes of cancer, deforestation, biodiversity, water use, ocean management, and air quality.
• Eco-scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse (1993), which criticises environmentalists for “their faulty analyses, their wildly inaccurate predictions, their heedless politicization of science, their opportunism, and their courtship of the media”

He has been

• an adjunct analyst at the Competitve Enterprise Institute (CEI)
• an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute
• a contributer to Reason magazine published by the libertarian Reason Foundation, which attacks environmentalists and defends industries such as tobacco that the Foundation receives funds from

Links

• 'Ronald A. Bailey', PowerBase
• 'Ronald Bailey', Wikipedia
• 'Ronald Bailey', Reason Foundation