Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/thinktanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it...
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(In the photo: Stephen McIntyre, who runs climateaudit.org, part of a network of climate change sceptics)
An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.
The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has grown in ferocity since the leak of thousands of documents on the subject from the University of East Anglia (UEA) on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit last December.
Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.
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fullcd
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They fund both sides but the media reports it as one sided, what a surprise
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fullcd
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stolenapples
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We're screwed.
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stolenapples
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Dagum
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Guess who else takes money from Big Oil? The U.N.'s Climate Research Units whose reports provide the Gospel for the church of climatology’s bible.
http://current.com/items/91622968_climategate-cru-looks-to-big-oil-for-support.h...
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Dagum
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lenhart
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Corporations have all the money and they will use the rubric of 'corporate personhood' to BUY politcians. They call it 'free speech'. The more precise term is fascism.
William Shirer's 'The Rise and Falls of the Third Reich' describes a meeting Hitler held with big corporations --I.G. Farben, Krupp et al. I believe some U.S. Corporations were represented. Hitler's deal: you support my wars of aggression and you will get BIG FAT JUICY DEFENSE CONTRACTS.
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lenhart
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jubal
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I saw this coming a decade or two ago. It was inevitable that oil companies would figure out how to buy themselves a grassroots movement.
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jubal
