"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort
A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to organizations that deny global warming are funneled through third-party pass-through organizations that conceal the original funder
Scientific American
By
Douglas Fischer
Dec 23, 2013
Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine
The Koch Brothers: Funding $67,042,064 to groups denying climate change since 1997
Your sources lack Credibility.
LOLOL.....oh....really?
An article published in Scientific American about a peer-reviewed published scientific study done at Drexel University, tracing the cash flow from the vested interests in fossil fuels to the front groups and 'think tanks' attacking climate science, is somehow, in your crackpot 'deny-o-verse', not a credible source. You are either completely bamboozled by the propaganda or you're a paid troll.
You can't refute any of the information in either article about the well funded propaganda campaign to deny the reality of AGW for economic reasons, so you try to idiotically dismiss the information by dissing the sources because they convey accurate information that blows away your rightwingnut denier cult myths and delusions.
What precisely have I denied? The earth has warmed and the earth has cooled.. What is in question is, what is the real cause? The science has not been done. Only political hacking has been done to forward an agenda.
You are denying the conclusions of the world scientific community, which are based on mountains of very clear physical evidence and scientific data, decades of intensive research by tens of thousands of scientists in many countries, and the laws of physics. Those conclusions are that mankind's activities have increased atmospheric CO2 levels by 43% so far (and still rising fast) and that increase in a powerful greenhouse gas has caused global temperatures to rapidly rise and that increase in temperatures is causing long established climate patterns to also rapidly change. The science HAS been done no matter what lies your rightwingnut puppetmastenrs tell you. The cause IS known and it is the extra CO2 mankind has been pumping into the air at a rate of tens of billions of tons a year for many years. Unfortunately, stopping those carbon emissions that are killing the planet threatens the profits and stock prices of the the most profitable industry on Earth so, in spite of the danger unchecked AGW/CC poses to everyone, the greed-heads are funding this AGW denial propaganda campaign that has got you so confused.
Here the position statement of the American Geophysical Union, ("
a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 62,000 members from 144 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics. The geophysical sciences involve four fundamental areas: atmospheric and ocean sciences; solid-Earth sciences; hydrologic sciences; and space sciences.")
Are you now going to embarrass yourself by claiming that the AGU "
lacks credibility"? LOLOL. I wouldn't put it past you. You really seem to be THAT clueless.
AGU Position Statement - Human‐Induced Climate Change Requires Urgent Action
Aug 2013
Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years. Rapid societal responses can significantly lessen negative outcomes.
Human activities are changing Earth’s climate. At the global level, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat‐trapping greenhouse gases have increased sharply since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel burning dominates this increase. Human‐caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8°C (1.5°F) over the past 140 years. Because natural processes cannot quickly remove some of these gases (notably carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere, our past, present, and future emissions will influence the climate system for millennia.
Extensive, independent observations confirm the reality of global warming. These observations show large‐scale increases in air and sea temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric water vapor; they document decreases in the extent of mountain glaciers, snow cover, permafrost, and Arctic sea ice. These changes are broadly consistent with long‐ understood physics and predictions of how the climate system is expected to respond to human‐caused increases in greenhouse gases. The changes are inconsistent with explanations of climate change that rely on known natural influences.
Climate models predict that global temperatures will continue to rise, with the amount of warming primarily determined by the level of emissions. Higher emissions of greenhouse gases will lead to larger warming, and greater risks to society and ecosystems. Some additional warming is unavoidable due to past emissions.
Climate change is not expected to be uniform over space or time. Deforestation, urbanization, and particulate pollution can have complex geographical, seasonal, and longer‐term effects on temperature, precipitation, and cloud properties. In addition, human‐induced climate change may alter atmospheric circulation, dislocating historical patterns of natural variability and storminess.
In the current climate, weather experienced at a given location or region varies from year to year; in a changing climate, both the nature of that variability and the basic patterns of weather experienced can change, sometimes in counterintuitive ways ‐‐ some areas may experience cooling, for instance. This raises no challenge to the reality of human‐induced climate change.
Impacts harmful to society, including increased extremes of heat, precipitation, and coastal high water are currently being experienced, and are projected to increase. Other projected outcomes involve threats to public health, water availability, agricultural productivity (particularly in low‐latitude developing countries), and coastal infrastructure, though some benefits may be seen at some times and places. Biodiversity loss is expected to accelerate due to both climate change and acidification of the oceans, which is a direct result of increasing carbon dioxide levels.
While important scientific uncertainties remain as to which particular impacts will be experienced where, no uncertainties are known that could make the impacts of climate change inconsequential. Furthermore, surprise outcomes, such as the unexpectedly rapid loss of Arctic summer sea ice, may entail even more dramatic changes than anticipated.
Actions that could diminish the threats posed by climate change to society and ecosystems include substantial emissions cuts to reduce the magnitude of climate change, as well as preparing for changes that are now unavoidable. The community of scientists has responsibilities to improve overall understanding of climate change and its impacts. Improvements will come from pursuing the research needed to understand climate change, working with stakeholders to identify relevant information, and conveying understanding clearly and accurately, both to decision makers and to the general public.
Adopted by the American Geophysical Union December 2003; Revised and Reaffirmed December 2007, February 2012, August 2013.
And then went on to cite half a dozen left wing hack sites as credible....
so what
