# @JunkScience: X profile (context) Hub: [[Users/@JunkScience/@JunkScience|@JunkScience]] · Lists: [[Users/@JunkScience/Chronological List|chronological]] · [[Users/@JunkScience/Topical List|topical]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] · Index: [[X Research]] > [!info] Interactions with [[marshallpittman]] > None found in either direction (searches Nov 3, 2026). Marshall bookmarked this post into "summarize". ## Identity - **Name:** Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) - **Bio (verbatim):** "'Perhaps the most influential climate science contrarian' (Nature). Trump EPA transition. Chairman, @HeartlandInst. Executive Director, @FreeEntProject." - **Joined:** Feb 2009 · **Verification:** blue - Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com: chairman of the Heartland Institute, executive director of the Free Enterprise Project, and a member of Trump's EPA transition team. 155K followers. Posts quote-tweets attacking climate science and mainstream fact-checks, plus energy news. ## Stats (X API, Nov 3, 2026, about 9:50 AM CT) | Followers | Following | Posts (lifetime) | Listed | Media | Likes given | |---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | 155,408 | 75 | 108,494 | 1,614 | 28,664 | 1,588 | ## What they post about Sample: 50 items (24 posts, 18 quotes, 5 threads, 3 reposts), Oct 28, 2026, 7:58 PM CT to Nov 3, 2026, 9:21 AM CT. Themes come from keyword rules, so treat them as approximate. | Theme | Items | Likes | Views | |---|---:|---:|---:| | Climate and CO₂ | 10 | 1,606 | 39,497 | | Energy | 15 | 945 | 29,524 | | Media and fact-checks | 3 | 535 | 16,037 | | Other | 22 | 1,011 | 52,722 | ### Top posts in the sample (by likes; reposts excluded) | Date (CT) | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes / views | |---|---|---| | [Nov 2, 8:51 AM](https://x.com/JunkScience/status/2117268296852464042) | As I've been saying for years, fossil fuel emissions do not explain changes in atmospheric CO2. https://t.co/0w8RPrDo7E Here's a new paper f… | 803 / 14,419 | | [Oct 29, 3:30 PM](https://x.com/JunkScience/status/2115904202236961113) | The oil and gas industry has been making a fortune for more than 167 years—because oil and gas are the lifeblood of our society. In contrast… | 404 / 4,710 | | [Oct 28, 8:16 PM](https://x.com/JunkScience/status/2115613723553313278) | What was so great about pre-industrial CO2 levels? The Earth supports more life today than at any point in the past 20,000 years. https://t.… | 268 / 6,090 | ## Fact-check scorecard | Posted (CT) | Post | Verdict | |---|---|---| | Mon Nov 2, 2026, 8:51 AM CST | [[Users/@JunkScience/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - JunkScience on Fossil Fuels Not Explaining CO2 (2026-11-02)|fossil fuels not explaining CO₂]] | ❌ The Cohler & Soon paper is real and quoted accurately, but its claim that fossil fuels don't explain the CO₂ rise contradicts the carbon mass balance, the Suess effect and the falling O₂ | ## Assessment for source reliability Advocacy source with a long record of disputing mainstream climate and health science (*Nature* called him "perhaps the most influential climate science contrarian"). Check every scientific claim. ## Gaps - The sample covers only the most recent posts returned by the X API (about two pages); older history was not read. - Likes by Marshall can't be checked through the API.