In his first episode on Fox Business Channel, Stossel mocked scientists for warning about climate change. Stossel disagrees with scientific consensus on the subject of global climate change, rejecting the notion that it will have net negative consequences, pointing to assertedly warmer periods in human history. Part of his criticism of environmentalists who advocate that the public should be worried about the issue is that they tend to receive more public attention, donations, and government funding than those who argue that the public should not be concerned. He points to groups like the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and to activists such as Rachel Carson and