Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement: Smithsonian

Climate Criminals

Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement

The overwhelming majority of climate scientists, international governmental bodies, relevant research institutes and scientific societies are in unison in saying that climate change is real, that it's a problem, and that we should probably do something about it now, not later. And yet, for some reason, the idea persists in some peoples' minds that climate change is up for debate, or that climate change is no big deal.
 
Actually, it's not “for some reason” that people are confused. 

There's a very obvious reason. There is a very well-funded, well-orchestrated climate change-denial movement, one funded by powerful people with very deep pockets. In a new and incredibly thorough study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle took a deep dive into the financial structure of the climate deniers, to see who is holding the purse strings.

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Video: Busting Climate Change Myths \ Answers with Joe/ You Tube

Earth Day was this weekend, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at some of the most common myths promoted by climate change skeptics and see what the science has to say about it. Links to supporting material below.


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Cave Experiment: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

More about the fossil fuel industry and tobacco companies using the same tactics:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Peter Doran's Climate Science Survey: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c... Climate change consensus same as smoking and cancer: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Why CO2 alone won't help plants grow: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... Lori Fenton's paper on Mars warming: https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...

On the single cause fallacy that climate change in the past is the reason why it's changing now: https://www.skepticalscience.com/clim...

Sulphur Dioxide trends in relation to volcanic activity: https://www.epa.gov/air-trends/sulfur...
An article about Debbie Dooley: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/bu...
Military Times article about pentagon planning for climate change: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/yo...
Exxon Mobil new CEO embracing the carbon tax: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
Study on Exxon Mobil scientists and internal communications: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22...

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How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches: NYT

Who are the climate criminals?

Type the words “climate change” into Google and you could get an unexpected result: advertisements that call global warming a hoax.

“Scientists blast climate alarm,” said one that appeared at the top of the search results page during a recent search, pointing to a website, DefyCCC, that asserted: “Nothing has been studied better and found more harmless than anthropogenic CO₂ release.”

Another ad proclaimed: “The Global Warming Hoax — Why the Science Isn’t Settled,” linking to a video containing unsupported assertions, including that there is no correlation between rising levels of greenhouse gases and higher global temperatures.

(In reality, the harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions linked to human activity, like rising temperatures and melting sea ice, have been acknowledged by every major scientific organization in the world.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists: Why is ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Denier Groups?- Allegations

"A decade after pledging to end its support for climate science deniers, ExxonMobil gave $1.5 million last year to 11 think tanks and lobby groups that reject established climate science and openly oppose the oil and gas giant’s professed climate policy preferences, according to the company’s annual charitable giving report released this week."

"ExxonMobil’s history of deceit

There is ample evidence that Exxon was fully aware of the danger its products pose to the planet since the 1980s and likely even earlier. Nonetheless, the company helped initiate a fossil fuel industry-backed climate disinformation campaign in 1998, a year before it merged with Mobil."

Elliott Negin, senior writer | August 31, 2018, 12:42 pm EST 

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