Billionaire Conservatives Spend Up To $1bn A Year To Fight Climate Science

CounterCurrents offered 2 great articles about Climate Change that are well worth reading, including great graphs.

Revealing the hidden funding should make every reasonable person question their beliefs.


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Billionaire Conservatives Spend Up To $1bn A Year To Fight Climate Science
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc221213.htm

Not only well-known conservative foundations the largest and most consistent funders behind the climate denial campaign but the majority of donations are "dark money," or concealed funding. A new study by Drexel University 's environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD unravels the systematic efforts to discredit climate science. The first extensive study into the anatomy of the anti-climate effort found the conservative groups may have spent up to $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate crisis.....

Key findings of the study include:

• Conservative foundations have bank-rolled denial. The largest and most consistent funders of organizations orchestrating climate change denial are a number of well-known conservative foundations, such as the Searle Freedom Trust, the John William Pope Foundation, the Howard Charitable Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation. These foundations promote ultra-free-market ideas in many realms.
• Koch and ExxonMobil have recently pulled back from publicly visible funding. From 2003 to 2007, the Koch Affiliated Foundations and the ExxonMobil Foundation were heavily involved in funding climate-change denial organizations. But since 2008, they are no longer making publicly traceable contributions.
• Funding has shifted to pass through untraceable sources. Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to denial organizations by the Donors Trust and Donors Capital has risen dramatically. Donors Trust is a donor-directed foundation whose funders cannot be traced. This one foundation now provides about 25% of all traceable foundation funding used by organizations engaged in promoting systematic denial of climate change.
• Most funding for denial efforts is untraceable. Despite extensive data compilation and analyses, only a fraction of the hundreds of millions in contributions to climate change denying organizations can be specifically accounted for from public records. Approximately 75% of the income of these organizations comes from unidentifiable sources.

Climate Change And The Rise And Fall Of Civilizations
By Emily Sohn

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc221213A.htm

As scientists dig in to ancient sites, they are turning up evidence that changes in climate – both large and small – are at least partly responsible for the rise and fall of many ancient civilizations. Even though Ubar is now located in one of the driest places on Earth, the region was once much wetter and full of underground water sources. Ubar disappeared when water levels dipped so low that a sinkhole formed and enveloped the outpost


A Militarily Resurging Russia
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury221213.htm

A militarily resurging Russia is giving a new twist to global geopolitical game


Are 9/11 Truthers Anti-Semites? An Interview With Elias Davidsson
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal221213.htm

Elias Davidsson is one of these “truthers” who challenges the official narrative on 9/11. He is also concerned about the claim made by some “truthers” that Israel was behind the attacks. He is not, by any means, a sympathizer of Israel . On the contrary, as his writings demonstrate, he not only denounces the oppressive policies of the State of Israel against the Palestinians, but considers that state as inherently dangerous for its neighbors


Kashmir And The Heartless Generals
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar221213.htm

Following BJP’s Prime Ministerial Candidate, Modi’s suggestion to have a debate on Article 370 in Jammu’s Lallkar rally, many articles have appeared in the Indian print media- some in praise & few in denouncement . A common feature in these articles, however is the betrayal of collective amnesia by writers about the history of word “Temporary” appearing before the article


Maruti Suzuki Workers' Protest Continues
By Maruti Suzuki Workers Union

http://www.countercurrents.org/mswu221213.htm

To renew demand for the release of the 148 arrested workers who are in jail for more than 17 months without bail, to press the reinstatement of illegally terminated 2300 workers, Maruti Suzuki workers and their families sat on a day-long mass hunger strike in front of the Gurgaon DC Office and District Court.