The first installment of The Post’s laudable “A Climate for Change” series of editorials pointed out that the debate on climate change has “devolved” and cited a number of reasons why Congress has failed to take action to reduce carbon emissions [“The certainty of climate change,” Aug. 25].
The editorial failed to mention one other key reason: The Koch brothers, Exxon Mobil and other fossil-fuel interests have bankrolled a multimillion-dollar campaign to confuse the public about the reality and seriousness of man-made global warming. The news media have played a role in spreading this disinformation. Since the early 2000s, news organizations have provided a platform for fossil-fuel-industry-funded think tanks, advocacy groups and politicians to make spurious claims about climate science. Reporters have relied on these public officials and groups to provide the “other side.” There is no other side.
How to change the climate on global warming – The Washington Post
The Koch Brothers must be using their money to pay Gaia to not produce any warming for the past 17 years, because I am still waiting on my first paycheck.
The truth is that the oil companies are paying protection money to the eco-nazis, but it isn’t buying much protection.
You have that wrong. The oil companies OWN the eco-nazis!
Enron And BP Invented The Global Warming Industry. I know because I was in the room.
My recent coment on Shell Oil
Oh and do not forget Maurice Strong, chair of the 1972 First Earth Summit and Kyoto.
Even the people at Radio for Peace at the Peace University saw through Maurice Strong and his ties to big business and the big banks.
Where does Maurice Strong stand as a CO2 emitter. Well if you think Al Gore was bad, Strong has him topped by a mile as the biggest source of CO2 emissions in Canada!
Then there is Strong’s life long ties to oil: At age 29, he became president of Power Corporation, he has served as president of energy companies such as Petro-Canada and Ontario Hydro, and on the board of industrial giant Toyota. In 1981 he had moved on to Denver oil promoter AZL Resources
He is a huge political donor, not just in Canada, but in the USA to both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Strong had a history as a conman and swindler long before his involvement with Obama, Gore and the Chicago Climate Exchange Strong has also been caught up in a series of U.N. scandals and conflicts of interest. not to mentions several insider trading scams such as the AZL Resources Lawsuit, the food for oil scandal and the Molten Metal Inc swindle involving Al Gore, tax payer money, lawsuits and a House Committee Investigation
(The Maurice Strong links are five years old and may no longer work.)
Sigh I got kicked into the ether by wordUnimpress again
Here are some of the oil funded green bodies.
ExxonMobil has in 2011 and 2012 funded Michael Mann’s university.
Dana Nuccitelli – Guardian environmental contributor & works for Tetra Tech oil and gas services company.
Universities funded by Koch
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/15/oh-the-pain-kochmachine-is-in-many-american-universities-including-penn-state/
Source of accusations against sceptics for receiving fossil fuel funding.
http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=326
Now where is that oil cheque?
Let’s see…enviro groups have assets in the billions, get gov’t grants out the ears and seek more donations than a Pentecostal preacher holding a revival…on top of being granted nonprofit status.
And, for the most part, the representatives of this group are media darlings with appearances where ever and when ever.
Yet, we are supposed to believe that the message they are trying to get across is failing because a few million is being spent in opposition. That there’s no data, fact or truth to support it? That it’s just that there isn’t enough funding?
Or media coverage…
BP Oil bought into the global warming thing decades ago. They saw the writing on the wall and decided to hedge their bets.
So they’re willing to pay the Danegeld to keep the Vikings at bay.
The problem with Danegeld is that it encourages the Vikings to come back for more next raiding season.
BP, Shell, and a Rockefeller Foundation FUNDED the building of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia. They were in on the ground floor. Heck Major stockholders of Shell (Prince Bernard and Prince Phillip) and the “Grand Old Man” of Shell were presidents of the World Wild Life Fund.
The people with the $$$ and the political power are the ones calling the shots and always have. Everything else is window dressing to keep the sheeple from reaching for Madame Guillotine as they are being driven into a life style that is nasty brutish and short.
The biggest problem for the elite who are buzy shearing the sheeple, is in keeping the sheeple from figuring out they are being sheared and getting nothing in return for their wealth that has been confiscated.
Once you understand that hiding their wealth confiscation is the operating principle of the elite then everything else, including their support for ‘socialism’ becomes understandable.
Fractional Reserve Banking
CAGW
Foreclosuregate
The Bank bailouts
the 2008 food crisis
Grain subsidites
Green Energy Subsidies
massive regulations
mandatory insurance
banning of old products
All funnel money into the pockets of the elite and bar the middle class from becoming competitors. Obamacare with its 50 employee limit does this in spades.
Do these people ever have any proof that (insert flat-earther here) is funding these so-called “confusion” campaigns?
Zero receipts have been produced so far. Why wouldn’t you just take their word for it?
Zero receipts and Greenpeace has done lots and lots of digging.
ROTFLMAO! $4,000 is peanuts to a group like Greenpeace who recently lost ~ £3m in currency speculation. “There was a deficit of € 6.8m against a budgeted deficit of € 2.6m. Much of this came from forward foreign currency contracts which contributed € 3.8m to the additional loss. These were intended to protect GPI from falls in the value of the Euro,. When the Euro strengthened significantly in the last quarter of the year, this measure incurred significant losses.” – COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, Year ended 31 December 2013
Especially when the University doubled the price for state Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Prince William).
The Kochs gave $150,000,000 for a hospital wing in NYC, but didn’t include renewables to power it. So there!!!!
Oops, wrong reply spot, but still good.
Wapo is jealous. They actually earn money, Wapo has not for several years.
“earn money”… how crass of you!
Do the writers at WashPo do any research? There hasn’t been any global warming (according to the RSS and UAH datasets) in nearly 18 years, despite increasing CO2 levels. The entire AGW scare is based on general circulation models (GCMs), not on hard science. Computer modeling isn’t science.
There is no substantitive experimental, observational, or historical data to support the increasingly panicky stories about an impending planetary meltdown. What we should be more concerned about it the collapse in solar activity (the lowest in nearly 200 years), which could foreshadow a long-term global cool-down, which would have a far more serious effect on humanity than the imagined negative impacts of warmer temperatures.
Simple answer…no.
Somewhat longer answer…journalistic research capabilities died years ago. They just use ‘reliable’ sources now, but in this case the reliable sources would probably be thrown out of a used car sales convention for lack of ethics, exaggeration, gross incompetence and less famiiliarity with the truth than anyone else there.
Journalism died in the 1980s when the consultants told businesses they didn’t need middle management. The press got rid of their editors, turning journalists loose to write whatever they wanted to, without adult guidance.
We could use Perry White again.
I worked for Koch Industries for about a year and a half. Lower level employee at an asphalt plant. All we did was provide the material (and sweat) to pave the roads so some earth loving Prius driver could have a smooth drive to his/her anti Koch Bros./capitalism rally.
Koch Bros. tired of it and sold the plant to Holly Industries.
The Union of Censorious Scientists: Stop Quoting ‘Contrarians’ http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/08/29/union-censorious-scientists-stop-quoting-contrarians
I thought it was “the Union of Craptastic Scam-artists”, but then what do I know. ha ha.