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{{#badges: Climate change}} '''James M. Taylor''' is managing editor of [[Environment & Climate News]], a national monthly publication produced by the Heartland Institute and devoted to "[[sound science]] and free-market environmentalism," which labels the scientific consensus on climate change as "alarmist" with a circulation of approximately 75,000 readers. He is also senior fellow for the [[Heartland Institute]] and the author and coauthor of several articles including "What Climate Scientists Think about Global Warming," "State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis," and "New Source Review: An Evaluation of EPA's Reform Recommendations," each devoted to advancing his climate skeptic viewpoint. <ref name="Bio"> [http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/profile.html?profile=D48A01A1EBE050FE3B85E4D47FFD65E7&directory=3B532E2483EE9165FD810C4DF38DBAEA, "Expert Profile"], the Heartland Institute website, accessed February 2009. </ref> ==The Climate Skeptic==Taylor has criticized climate change science through both his own publications and OP-EDs and the Heartland Institute, which has consistently received funding from ExxonMobil. <ref> Marc Gunther, [http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/25/news/companies/pluggedin_gunther_exxon.fortune/, "ExxonMobil: Profits and Discontent"], CNNMoney.com, May 2007. </ref> While Taylor espouses through Environment and Climate News that climate change is neither a significant nor man-made problem, and that scientists who say it is are environmental extremists, others argue that a "major purpose of the publication has been to look at global warming from industry's perspective" rather than through the viewpoint of real science. <ref> Bill Berkowitz, [http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1567, "Global warming skeptics plot new strategies to combat 'climate alarmists'"], The BuzzFlash Blog, March 2008. </ref>