Larry Bell

Larry Bell is a weekly columnist for Forbes Magazine with no evident climate expertise who writes columns dismissing climate science,. He is listed as author of a Jan. 2011 book titled Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax, published through the Greenleaf Book Group, a vanity press.

Background
Bell appears to have no background in climate science. His Forbes blurb states that "Weekly columnist Larry Bell is a professor at the University of Houston and author of Climate of Corruption"; his University of Houston professorship is in "Space Architecture", where he is director of the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) - an institution funded by the Sasakawa Foundation, which was founded by Ryoichi Sasakawa, "rightist and gambling figure" who was "the last living member of a group accused after World War II of the most serious war crimes" (and "gave millions of dollars to charity"). ; the foundation is chaired by Sasakawa's son.

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 * Belden H. Bell, a Heritage Foundation trustee (as is Steve Forbes), may be a relative. (Larry Bell, who is in a position to know, disagrees, saying in email "I am not familiar with Belden Bell and seriously doubt that we share a family tree. Bell seems like a relatively common name.  Also doubt that he knows of me"; but multiple attempts to confirm this with Belden Bell have been unsuccessful. )