AFP/Koch's Boy On The Hustings: It's All A Conspiracy, Because I Say So! - NYT

[hatrack]

EDIT

"Now why on Earth would they be wanting to boost gasoline prices with unemployment at 9.1 percent?" Phillips, who's the president of Americans for Prosperity, said to 45 people in Harrisonburg, Va., attending a "Running On Empty" campaign event last month. It's "their global warming agenda," he adds. "They have an ideological agenda that says this: 'We don't want fossil fuels. We don't want people putting gas in their cars and using coal to heat and cool their homes. We want our favorite energy sources, wind, solar, electric . We want those sources, but they're more expensive. So in order to make them competitive, we've got to drive up the cost of traditional fossil fuels.'"

Phillips sees himself as the center of a growing climate opposition. His nonprofit helped make federal cap-and-trade legislation poisonous among conservative candidates. It is trying to energize activists against state-based climate programs, and along the way, it's sowing doubts about the science of global warming.

Americans for Prosperity and its sister foundation are the beneficiaries of Koch Industries Inc. and other oil and gas industry funding sources, though the degree to which those organizations support AFP can't be confirmed because the government doesn't require the disclosure of nonprofit donors.

Ed. - emphasis added.

EDIT

"It's no longer global warming, right?" he said at one event. "What is it now? It's climate change! So if it rains, it's their way. If it snows, it's their way. If it's cold, it's their way. It's climate change now."

EDIT

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/07/12/12climatewire-a-climate-skeptic-builds-a-following-of-true-63403.html

[Name removed]

1. Deleted message

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.