Michele Jacob is the Director of Communications at the Manhattan Institute. Prior to that role, which she began in August 2020, she served as the Director of Media Relations for the Manhattan Institute from 2014-2017. She has worked for Perseus Books, Free Press, and Harper Collins Publishers before.
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.
The Manhattan Institute also received $3,182,717 from Koch Foundations from 1997-2017.
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Jonathan Lesser
Climate of Denial