Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks

[Robert]

According to an article in today's Guardian:

Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned.
The funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of thinktanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising "wedge issue" for hardcore conservatives.
By 2010, the dark money amounted to $118m distributed to 102 thinktanks or action groups which have a record of denying the existence of a human factor in climate change, or opposing environmental regulations.
The money flowed to Washington thinktanks embedded in Republican party politics, obscure policy forums in Alaska and Tennessee, contrarian scientists at Harvard and lesser institutions, even to buy up DVDs of a film attacking Al Gore.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network

 

[metalman]

Polar Bear (Ice Cube Molds)

 

[metalman]

 

[cecilia]

It is also possible the Kochs continued to fund their favourite projects using the anonymity offered by Donor Trust.

well, DER

 

[redrumloa]

According to an article in today's Guardian:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network

For once money is put to good use.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

If it's oil related and shady, the Kochs are in it.

 

[faethor]

If people have been following the anti-climatologists it shouldn't be of any surprise that they're well funded. To try to hide this they've been playing Rovian tactics of blaming your opposition for what you, yourself are doing. That other profiteers besides the oil and gas industries have been funding against climatologists is no real surprise.

 

[faethor]

In science-worthy related news. On 2/12 NASA launched Landsat 8. It greatly improves our ability to track and monitor the environment. This will allow us to track aerosols in the air along with cirrus clouds. It also will report on water quality and consumption rates.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77283.html

 

[ilwrath]

In science-worthy related news. On 2/12 NASA launched Landsat 8. It greatly improves our ability to track and monitor the environment. This will allow us to track aerosols in the air along with cirrus clouds. It also will report on water quality and consumption rates.

Excellent! I'm glad this one looks like it was successfully launched. I'm still bummed about the losses of Glory and OCO in launch failures over the past couple years. Getting good data from a space perspective is crucial for truly assessing the environmental outlook.