Thanks, I knew some of that, but you’ve added a few more.
I am *delighted* to have Robinson obtain the exposure and disclosure he will get by running for office… I don’t think he quite knows what he is in for. Maybe he can appear on Rachel Maddow’s show…

1) nit: it is OISM, not OSIM. You might want to correct the typoes.

2) more serious suggestion: you might want to consider the likelihood that the OISM petition project was really driven by the George C. Marshall Institute (GMI), i..e,:
Frederick Seitz (who signed the cover letter of the petitions).
Sallie Baliunas & Willie Soon … almost certainly wrote most of the paper
[Recall that GMI ally Fred Singer has a long history of petitions].

The 1998 start of this was synchronous with the 1998 GCSCT project run by the American Petroleum Institute, which involved GMI & Singer.

My conjecture is that Robinson knew Seitz, the OISM was a convenient front to launder the memes, make it look as a separate effort. (After all, up to that point, how much had Robinson had to do with climate anti-science … unlike GMI, which had been at it since ~1990). Funding flows are still murky, but mabye soem fo that will come out in a political campaign.

(This is all included in Crescendo to Climategate Cacophony.. Look up OISM, GCSCT, GMI, Robinson.

However, there is one other strange connection.

3) For a truly bizarre/painful experience, one can watch George Gilder, at Telecosm 2007, introduce (Arthur’s son) Noah Robinson , who then gives an talk that well-illustrates cherry-picking, strawmen, and silly unsourced charts in which correlations are asserted or denied by eyeball). It is amusingly is hosted by the Discovery Institute [i.e., “Intelligent Design”], of which Gilder is a Senior Fellow. To assess Gilder, just watch the first few minutes of that video.
Some people listen to Gilder, who thinks Art Robinson is “legendary”.

4) Gilder has long worked with Steve Forbes (Forbes Magazine), who cites in “Fantasy Fears”George’s daughter Mary Ellen Tiffany Gilder, a medical student, who wrote another poor piece on AGW, “The Gospel According to Gore”, hosted at OISM.

5) People also might want to look up Dr. Jane Orient, and Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.