First, thanks to everyone at realclimate for all their excellent work; this website goes a long way to help negate the impact of the mostly fossil
fuel funded denier charade, and is especially useful for the interested layperson to stay abreast of current research on global warming.
And straying briefly into more dangerous territory, lukewarmers can and do remain highly critical of the IPCC, the hockey stick, the climategate fiasco, the Lewandowsky nonsense, and the bizarre idea that sceptics are a bunch of «fossil
fuel funded deniers».
Not exact matches
And it's very clear that the Koch Brothers, the largest privately held fossil
fuel interest and major
funders of the public relations campaign to
deny and attack the science of climate change — they have a level of influence now within the Trump Administration unlike anything we've ever seen before.»
Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs
funded by the fossil -
fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or
deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.
In his dispatch from the 2010 ICCC, Stacy praised presentations by climate
deniers like Dr. Wei - hock «Willie» Soon, who for years secretly amassed
funding from fossil
fuel and utility interests like ExxonMobil and Southern Company.
Exxon is by no means the only fossil
fuel source of climate science
denier funding; the Koch brothers are also heavily involved.
ExxonSecrets documents how climate
deniers are
funded through fossil
fuel money laundered through right - wing think tanks:
Also, Inside Climate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil -
fuel funded climate - science
deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.
Fourth Place: The Koch Brothers for
funding the promotion of bad climate science Fourth place goes to fossil -
fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, Inc., who provide substantial
funding to groups and politicians who
deny the science of climate change....
Among the rogues gallery of leading climate change
deniers are (from left to right, top to bottom): Congressman Joe Barton (R - TX), fossil
fuel shill Steve Milloy, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, self - styled «Skeptical Environmentalist» Bjorn Lomborg, scientist - turned -
denier - for - hire Fred Singer, the inimitable Sarah Palin, conservative
funders Charles and David Koch (aka the Koch Brothers), and «swift - boat» architect Marc Morano.
And in this episode of the nation's climate history, once again, the same industry that foresaw the ultimate end of coal as a main
fuel for power generation later supported actions to cast doubt on the science and to stave off policies to address the problem,
funding groups that
deny the scientific consensus and joining the main industry group that opposed participation in the first climate treaty.
The damage being done to 3rd World countries lies in food costs not insignificantly contributed to by green / UN policies of burning of food grain for
fuel, by withholding
funds (World Bank, EU, etc.) for building of cheap fossil
fueled power to these countries, and other ways
denying this vulnerable sector the potential to industrialize.
The Heartland Institute, a climate science
denying fossil
fuel -
funded free market think - tank in the US, recently put the noses of the Chinese Academy of Sciences firmly out of joint with a spectacular piece of overreach.
As the science of man - made climate change has become increasingly certain over the last three decades of work by thousands of researchers, a cadre of
deniers, often
funded by fossil
fuel industries,... Continue reading →
DT has also been a
funder of part - time Smithsonian researcher and climate science
denier Dr Willie Soon, whose other
funding over the last decade has come entirely from the fossil
fuel industry.
It said it would cease
funding nine groups that had
fuelled a global campaign to
deny climate change.
There is a denial industry
funded by the fossil
fuel companies that literally
denies the science, and seeks to confuse the public.
But it is a simple fact that still today that climate change
deniers in Congress receive about four times more fossil
fuel industry
funding than non-
deniers in Congress.
The Heartland Institute, a think tank
funded by the fossil
fuel industry and infamous for backing ACD denial, recently distributed a non-science-based report
denying the scientific consensus on ACD to elected officials.
Robert Balling, Idso's mentor, was one of the leading scientists paid by the Greening Earth Society, the climate science -
denying front group created by the Western
Fuels Association, one of the first and earliest coal industry groups
funding the denial of climate change.
She recently participated in a forum held by the discredited, fossil -
fuel funded George Marshall Institute, which advocates outright climate denial and has
denied the link between tobacco and cancer in the past.
E&E Legal's senior leadership has ties to fossil
fuel interests as well: David Schnare, a fossil
fuel -
funded pundit with connections to the Heartland Institute, State Policy Network, and other front groups; and Chris Horner, a fossil
fuel -
funded climate
denier who works at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
PBS should obviously not be contacting a fossil
fuel -
funded global warming
denying anti-science think tank which has previously compared climate realists to mass murderers for interview suggestions on a climate story.
Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate
denier Willie Soon and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics received more than $ 1 million in
funding from fossil
fuel companies to deliver scientific reports that called into question the scientific conclusion that climate change is the result of burning too much oil, coal and other carbon - emitting
fuel sources.
A leaked email chain reported earlier this week on DeSmog shines a harsh light on the behind - the - scenes coordination between well - known climate
deniers and fossil
fuel funded spindoctors.
A climate change
denier in the back tells the questioner that the fossil
fuel industry is now
funding climate change mitigation.
during a floor speech in which he scrutinized the undue influence of fossil
fuel funded climate
deniers in Virginia.
It is only in Australia, Canada & the USA where the most vitriolic rhetoric is experienced from
deniers, due to the presence of the largest miners & fossil
fuel giants
funding parties, front groups, media &
denier scientists.
The Donors Trust and Donors Capital
Fund, both based in Virginia, are donor - advised
funds that have channeled money from the Kochs, owners of the sprawling conglomerate Koch Industries and outspoken supporters of conservative causes, to groups that
deny the link between fossil
fuels and global warming, the paper says.
The conflict - of - interest scandal involving a climate
denier secretly
funded by the fossil -
fuel industry is spreading to other academics who oppose regulation of climate pollution.
In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil
fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury
denied to renewable energy experts.
Not helping her position in the least was her error of claiming I edit «a site dedicated to proving that climate
denying scientists are not
funded by the fossil
fuel industry» — now you see the error, now you don't.