Brandon Fuller

Climate Change Denial Groups in Denial Brandon Fuller

Brandon Fuller is the vice president of research and publication at the Manhattan Institute. Before working at the Manhattan Institute, he was the deputy director and research scholar at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. At the Manhattan Institute, Fuller writes on policy issues related to housing, land use, transportation, immigration, and economics. He has published articles in City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s quarterly publication, as well as The Federalist and Forbes.

The official stance of the Manhattan Institute (MI) on climate change is that while the institute and its senior fellows do accept climate science, they do not believe that suggested solutions are, or will be effective. They focus solely on the economic impact of climate change policies, and not the environmental impact. Despite disagreeing with proposed climate change solutions, they do not provide any policy suggestions of their own.

The Manhattan Institute believes that people, specifically politicians, exaggerate the problem of climate change. According to the Institute, politicians frame climate change in a way that makes it seem much worse than it actually is, and that there are other problems that deserve our attention.. Since climate change isn’t definite, according to the Institute, policy proposals should focus on issues that pose definite problems now, like the overuse of antibiotics.

Some of his recently published articles on the Manhattan Institute’s website include “The Best Data We’ve Got: The Economy Is More Uncertain Than Ever,” How to Avoid an Economic Catastrophe,” and “Don’t Fear Driverless Cars.” In one article, he wrote that “there is considerable uncertainty” regarding the effects of climate change.

One of Fuller’s recent retweets on his Twitter account focuses on a new report from an intentionally unnames environment NGO that “attack[ed] advanced nuclear” and “adds nothing to the outdated talking points that anti-nuclear environmentalists have made for decades.”

The Manhattan Institute also received $3,182,717 from Koch Foundations from 1997-2017.