Here's How The Mercers Tossed Nearly $4 Million To Climate Liars For 2016 Campaign

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The Mercer family, the secretive GOP megadonors with ties to the alt-right, in 2016 funded several groups that deny climate change is a problem, tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal.

The Mercer Family Foundation, funded by hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and directed by his daughter Rebekah, gave $150,000 to CO2 Coalition in 2016, making the foundation the top donor of this small, Virginia-based nonprofit that promotes the benefits of climate pollution. The Mercers also gave $125,000 to the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a group that questions the link between rising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and global warming.

The Mercers have previously funded groups with some ties to climate misinformation. But these two organizations are solely focused on climate science — denying that fossil fuels drive global warming or that climate change has potentially dire impacts.

“These grants show a distinct interest in climate for the first time,” said Kert Davies, founder and director of the Climate Investigations Center (CIC), a watchdog group that obtained the tax filings and shared them with BuzzFeed News. CIC obtained the Mercer filing through a state information request and the CO2 Coalition one by simply asking the group for it.

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/mercers-gop-climate-change-denial?utm_term=.knyVjBbgb#.mpMErNmgm