John A. Baden, Ph.D., is head of FREE (Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment), a right-wing think-tank best known for the junkets it hosts each year for Federal Judges and its effort to indoctrinate those judges in Libertarian ideology. FREE receives major funding from Shell, ExxonMobil, General Motors as well as the usual extreme right wing philanthropic funds such as Olin, Castle Rock and Claude Lamb.

John Baden is also a past member of the National Petroleum Council.

I would hardly take his word as unbiased scientific evidence.

Don Firth