The Billionaires Who Finance Global Warming Denial: A report published by Greenpeace

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The Billionaires Who Finance Climate Science Denial
March 31, 2010

The second largest private corporation in the U.S., owned by two of the ten richest people in the country, is spending millions to block action on climate change.

The following are excerpts from the Executive Summary of Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine, published in March 2010 by Greenpeace.



Most Americans have never heard of Koch Industries, one of the largest private corporations in the country, because it has no Koch-branded consumer products, sells no shares on the stock market and has few of the disclosure requirements of a public company.

Although Koch intentionally stays out of the public eye, it is now playing a quiet but dominant role in a high-profile national policy debate on global warming. Koch Industries has become a financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition. This private, out-of-sight corporation is now a partner to ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and other donors that support organizations and front-groups opposing progressive clean energy and climate policy.

In fact, Koch has out-spent ExxonMobil in funding these groups in recent years. From 2005 to 2008, ExxonMobil spent $8.9 million while the Koch Industries controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of the ‘climate denial machine’. …

This report focuses on activities by Koch Industries and its affiliates, as well as the family-and company-controlled foundations which fund organizations that spread inaccurate and misleading information about climate science and clean energy policies. Included is research on the company and the Koch brothers, two of the top ten richest people in the United States.

You can download the full report in PDF format at:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries

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1. K & R. n/t

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2. Rachel Maddow Video

props to Hissyspit:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x450444

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3. Typical right-wing Republicon propaganda ploy

Why do republicons HATE truth?