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{{#Show badges: | Climate change | Front groups | CoalSwarm}}The '''Galileo Movement''' is a a [[climate change deniers|climate sceptic denier]] lobby group set up to oppose carbon pricing, based in [[Australia]]. On its website the group states that "our objective is to expose misrepresentations pushing a 'price on carbon dioxide'."<ref>The Galileo Movement [http://www.galileomovement.com.au/galileo_movement.php "The Galileo Movement"], Galileo Movement organizational website, accessed May , 2011</ref> In August 2011, the ''Scientific American'' magazine openly derided the group, describing it as "drawing from a deep history of denial and distortion" and relying on irrelevant facts while omitting pertinent ones.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=galileo-movement-fuels-australia-climate-change-divide |title='Galileo Movement' Fuels Climate Change Divide in Australia: Scientific American |first=Douglas |last=Fischer |work=scientificamerican.com |year=2011[last update] |accessdate=17 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-carbon-dioxide-is-greenhouse-gas |title=Why Carbon Dioxide Is a Greenhouse Gas: Scientific American |first=Douglas |last=Fischer |work=scientificamerican.com |year=2011 [last update] |accessdate=17 August 2011}}</ref>

Founded in 2011 ostensibly by retirees [[John Smeed]], an engineer, and [[Case Smit]], a hygienist, the group launched its website in May, 2011. The group's patron is conservative Australian broadcaster, [[Alan Jones]].<ref>Galileo Movement [http://www.galileomovement.com.au/who_we_are.php#H "Patron"], Galileo Movement website, accessed May , 2011.</ref>

The group blames global warming on anything but man-made emissions: variations in solar radiation, ocean-atmosphere oscillations, deviations in the Earth's orbit, and mountain-building continental drift and associated volcanic eruptions — -- all dismissed by mainstream science.<ref>Giles Parkinson & Sophie Vorrath [http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/green-deals-solar-strikes-back "Green Deals: Solar strikes back"], ''Climate Spectator'', blog, May 19, 2011.</ref> It warns of "climate police" having the right to intrude into people's lives in Australia, and suggests that the global warming "movement" has parallels with Hitler, Stalin and Mao who convinced their people to murder their fellow countrymancountrymen. Its "panel of experts" include News Ltd blogger [[Andrew Bolt]], climate sceptic denier blogger [[Jo Nova]], and prominent sceptics deniers [[Bill William Kininmonth]], [[Bob Carter]], [[Ian Plimer]], [[David Flint]], and [[Christopher Monckton]]. ==Personnel==Project Leader: [[Malcolm Roberts]], is a businessman and mining industry consultant with a degree in geology.<ref>[http://www.conscious.com.au/__documents/additional%20material/Personal%20declaration%20of%20interests.pdf "Malcolm Roberts's declaration of interests"], ''Conscious.com.au'' (Blog), May 17, 2011.</ref>

Sources of funding are unknownHowever, although Smeed and the month before Smit claim to be funding told the ''Noosa News'' that [[Gina Rinehart]], the Movement themselves. Smeed Chairman of [[Hancock Prospecting]] Pty Ltd (HPPL) and Smit organised and underwrote its coal subsidiary [[Hancock Coal]], had agreed to fund part of the 2010 Australian costs of a tour to Australia of climate sceptic, [[Christopher Monckton]]. Smit, forking one of the tour organisers, said that they wrote to Rinehart when the organiser of the Perth leg of the tour could no longer help out . Smit said that "She said, ‘I’ll get my office to organise it’. So Gina Rinehart’s office is the $115,000 costcontact for the Perth event."<refname="Monck">{{cite web|url=Owen Jacques, [http://www.couriermailnoosanews.com.au/newsstory/breaking-news2010/01/26/abbottbillionaire-meetsbacks-lordmonckton-of-the-climate-scepticstour/story-e6freonf-1225826496243|accessdate=2011-05-19|title=Abbott meets lord of the climate sceptics | "Billionaire backs Monckton tour"], ''Courier MailNoosa News''|date=2011-05-19|quote=The $115,000 cost has been picked up by two retireesJanuary 26th, scientist Case Smit and engineer John Smeed}}2010.</ref> The retirees claim to have funded this from their own pockets.

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