Source: [1]
John Dale Dunn is a practicing physician and has worked as a civilian emergency medicine faculty physician at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood Texas since 2003.
John Dale Dunn is also a policy advisor for the Heartland Institute and the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).
From 1989 to 1995 he was an instructor on environmental law at Howard Payne University, in Brownwood, Texas from 1989 - 1995. He has been a reviewer for the Annals of Emergency Medicine since 1991 and of Military Medicine since 2006. [1]
"I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality." [2]
"United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-sponsored and funded 'human health effects science' research is unreliable and makes irresponsible and outrageous claims about how air pollution causes thousands of deaths." [3]
May 21 - 23, 2012
Dunn was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7).
DeSmogBlog researched the co-sponsors behind Heartland's ICCC7 and found that they had collectively received over $67 million from ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothers and the conservative Scaife family foundations.
March 8 - 10, 2009
Dunn was a speaker for the International Conference on Climate Change (2009), hosted by the Heartland Institute. His presentation is titled "Human Health Effects of Warming and Cooling." [4]
March, 2008
Dunn was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's First International Conference on Climate Change.
See his speech below: [2]
The Heartland Institute — "Expert" and Policy Advisor. [1]
American Council on Science and Health — Policy Advisor. [5]
According to a search of Google Scholar, Dunn has published a number of papers in medical journals.
He does not appear to have published any papers related to climate, or climate change and human health.
"Heartland Experts: Dr. John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D.", The Heartland Institute. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
"Will human health suffer with Global Warming?", YouTube Video uploaded by user "Bushvision," May 20, 2008.
"John Dale Dunn & Steve Milloy: The EPA’s Faulty Science Can Be Stopped," JunkScience.com, April 20, 2012.
"Proceedings," The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. Archived March 12, 2009.
"Scientific Advisors," American Council on Science and Health. Accessed May 4, 2012.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
THERE’S a section on the Heartland Institute’s website pointing readers to “Stuff We Wish We Wrote”.
After events over the last year or so, the chaps at the fossil fuel-funded “think tank” might want to add a new section with the title “Stuff We Wish We Hadn’t Wrote”.
The Heartland Institute, for those who don’t know, is a Chicago-based group promoting any view or position that argues we shouldn’t do anything about human-caused climate change. They run campaigns, hold conferences...
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