TYT: FOR HIRE: Global Warming Skeptics

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Legalized bribery is a huge problem in US politics. But what happens when money has undue influence in the field of science? Greenpeace performed a sting to see if scientists would deny climate change for cash. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/08/greenpeace-exposes-sceptics-cast-doubt-climate-science

“An undercover sting by Greenpeace has revealed that two prominent climate sceptics were available for hire by the hour to write reports casting doubt on the dangers posed by global warming.

Posing as consultants to fossil fuel companies, Greenpeace approached professors at leading US universities to commission reports touting the benefits of rising carbon dioxide levels and the benefits of coal. The views of both academics are well outside mainstream climate science.

The findings point to how paid-for information challenging the consensus on climate science could be placed into the public domain without the ultimate source of funding being revealed.”