HL Climate Change Thread: Fare the well old world
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The epitome of tin foil status right here
ahomeplateslugger
Superstar
that's scary....
The Institute of Physics journal is tinfoil status?
nikkas are so blinded by their political biases it's sad sometimes. We're already having some the hottest years on record and people still are insistent that it's a liberal conspiracy that all of the world's scientists are in on.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/billion-dollar-climate-denial-network-exposed/
A network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible.
An extensive study into the financial networks that support groups denying the science behind climate change and opposing political action has found a vast, secretive web of think tanks and industry associations, bankrolled by conservative billionaires.
"I call it the climate-change counter movement," study author Robert Brulle, who published his results in the journal Climatic Change, told the Guardian. "It is not just a couple of rogue individuals doing this. This is a large-scale political effort."
His work, which is focused on the United States, shows how a network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible for conservative opposition to climate policy. Almost 80 percent of these groups are registered as charitable organizations for tax purposes, and collectively received more than seven billion dollars between 2003 and 2010.
Among those named as key nodes of the network were the American Enterprise Institute, which claims to have no institutional position on climate change, and the Heritage Foundation, which campaigns on a number of issues.
However, Brulle admitted that tracing the funding back to its original sources was difficult, as around three-quarters of the money has been routed through trusts that assure anonymity to their donors.
While it was not always possible to separate funds designated strictly for climate-change work from overall budgets, Brulle said: "This is how wealthy individuals or corporations translate their economic power into political and cultural power."
He added: "They have their profits and they hire people to write books that say climate change is not real. They hire people to go on TV and say climate change is not real. It ends up that people without economic power don't have the same size voice as the people who have economic power, and so it ends up distorting democracy."
A network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible.
An extensive study into the financial networks that support groups denying the science behind climate change and opposing political action has found a vast, secretive web of think tanks and industry associations, bankrolled by conservative billionaires.
"I call it the climate-change counter movement," study author Robert Brulle, who published his results in the journal Climatic Change, told the Guardian. "It is not just a couple of rogue individuals doing this. This is a large-scale political effort."
His work, which is focused on the United States, shows how a network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible for conservative opposition to climate policy. Almost 80 percent of these groups are registered as charitable organizations for tax purposes, and collectively received more than seven billion dollars between 2003 and 2010.
Among those named as key nodes of the network were the American Enterprise Institute, which claims to have no institutional position on climate change, and the Heritage Foundation, which campaigns on a number of issues.
However, Brulle admitted that tracing the funding back to its original sources was difficult, as around three-quarters of the money has been routed through trusts that assure anonymity to their donors.
While it was not always possible to separate funds designated strictly for climate-change work from overall budgets, Brulle said: "This is how wealthy individuals or corporations translate their economic power into political and cultural power."
He added: "They have their profits and they hire people to write books that say climate change is not real. They hire people to go on TV and say climate change is not real. It ends up that people without economic power don't have the same size voice as the people who have economic power, and so it ends up distorting democracy."
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This is not a surprise.
Dusty Bake Activate
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And the climate change deniers a.k.a. modern-day flat earthers claim that the real monied conspiratorial agenda is the climate science establishment.
That is the primary tactic of the modern right anyway: accuse the opposition of doing exactly what you're doing. It's a damn effective tactic at rallying the ignorant to your side because to a non-educated person, it just looks like two sides saying the same thing about each other, and they just go with the one that validates their pre-conceived bias.
That is the primary tactic of the modern right anyway: accuse the opposition of doing exactly what you're doing. It's a damn effective tactic at rallying the ignorant to your side because to a non-educated person, it just looks like two sides saying the same thing about each other, and they just go with the one that validates their pre-conceived bias.
Yeah, I agree... but a lot of these clowns think there's no money involved in denying climate change and that the entire climate movement is some corrupt liberal plot to increase government regulations. It's good to have more solid proof.
Paid_Propagandist
I shill sparingly
*ponders obligatory statement to distance myself from these ''distorting democracy'' ways*
Those dirty rotten b*stards!
Those dirty rotten b*stards!
the cac mamba
Veteran
Itll go away shortly after they find a more clean solution. The world obviously isnt going to end.
u mean like these
the cac mamba
Veteran
Bomberman
Like a C4.
It's a shame how profit and money can even dilute scientific research. Another reason why you have to always consider the source. Even then, with enough money, it's really hard to find people who can't be bought.