Climategate: Leaked docs: Heartland Institute think tank pays climate contrarians very well

Full story here at Ars, usually on Ars I recommend reading the comments thoroughly, since the comments sections on Ars often has more and deeper information than the main article, though with a controversial topic like this one, there might be more noise and less information than usual.

Seems like Ars comments are up to par, found this link on first comment http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/jul/19/climate-change-wiki-heartland-institute

Video of Peter Ward lecture on Earth's mass extinctions

Here is the link to his lecture.

Peter Ward is a paleontologist.  I have been reading his books for a decade or so, he focuses on Mass Extinctions (Dinosaur die off is the Mass Extinction most people are familiar with) the study of which is a hobby of mine.

Here is a short bio of his from the University of Washington webite, he is faculty there.

Here is a list of some of his books Peter Ward books