Not just the Koch Brothers

[Richard D]

A new study conducted by Drexel University's environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement. This study marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted of the sources of funding that maintain the denial effort.

Through an analysis of the financial structure of the organizations that constitute the core of the countermovement and their sources of monetary support, Brulle found that, while the largest and most consistent funders behind the countermovement are a number of well-known conservative foundations, the majority of donations are "dark money," or concealed funding.

The data also indicates that Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, two of the largest supporters of climate science denial, have recently pulled back from publicly funding countermovement organizations. Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to countermovement organizations through third party pass-through foundations like Donors Trust and Donors Capital, whose funders cannot be traced, has risen dramatically.


http://phys.org/news/2013-12-koch-brothers-reveals-funders-climate.html

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1. The Republicon Lie Machine, Inc. (R)

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2. The Bradley Foundation is at least as bad as the Kochs.

Not just climate either.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10847455

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3. This is a great find!

[JHB]

4. Yes, it's important to not just fixate on the Kochs...

...but to recognize the entire RW funding infrastructure. The Kochs have the most visibility now, but there's Scaife, Bradley, Coors family, and others (plus corporations and business groups) who have funded the conservative activist infrastructure.

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5. The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us

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6. K&R Shining the light on these parasites. n/t

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7. Anti-Climate change pseudo-science funding is just as insidious as pro-smoking pseudo-science

It is just people who want to pollute, paying to generate lies that defend their pollution.