[1][2] Trained as an electrical engineer, he has often promoted views at odds with the scientific consensus on climate change, falsely asserting that there is a lack of agreement among scientists and arguing that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has various beneficial effects.
He has repeatedly inserted climate change denial language into DOI’s scientific reports, which are used to make decisions on matters like water and mineral rights.
[3][1] At a Heartland-organised conference in 2017, he posited a correlation between rising CO2 levels and life expectancy and GDP, saying "we’re actually living in the best of times, and carbon dioxide and fossils fuels are a good part of that.
"[3] Goklany has argued that while "hysteria over global warming" is fueled by concerns of increased worldwide hunger and driving species to extinction, the proposed use biofuels and ethanol would only make both issues worse.
"[7] In 2021, Climate Feedback fact-checked an article by Breitbart which repeated inaccurate and misleading claims made by Goklany in a post for the Global Warming Policy Foundation.