Arthur “Art” Robinson is the founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and an Oregon state senator since 2021. He received a PhD in chemistry from the University of California. He was also the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon’s 4th congressional district.
On Climate Change
During his 2020 campaign for Congress, Robinson’s campaign page from 2020 made several claims about climate change: there is no “existential climate environmental crisis,” “Plants grow faster and are more numerous as atmospheric carbon dioxide increases,” and “There has been no increase in violent hurricanes or their wind speed in past 50 years.”
In 2016, he joined the Board of Directors of the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute has repeatedly claimed that climate change is not a crisis, and there is no need to attempt to stop it.
In 1997, Robinson, along with his son and other scientists, started the Petition Project (also known as the Oregon Petition), which rejected both climate change alarmism and global warming itself. A part of the statement reads: “We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written… There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will…cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” The entire article can be read on Robinson’s page on the Heartland Institute’s website. According to a 1998 article by The Seattle Times, Robinson added fake names to the article, including TV characters and pop singers.
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Climate of Denial