Conservative groups spend $1bn a year to fight action on climate change

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/conservative-groups-1bn-against-climate-change
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Conservative groups have spent $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate change, according to the first extensive study into the anatomy of the anti-climate effort.

The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires, often working through secretive funding networks. They have displaced corporations as the prime supporters of 91 think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations which have worked to block action on climate change. Such financial support has hardened conservative opposition to climate policy, ultimately dooming any chances of action from Congress to cut greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, the study found.

“I call it the climate-change counter movement,” said the author of the study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle. “It is not just a couple of rogue individuals doing this. This is a large-scale political effort.”

Brulle's study, published on Friday in the journal Climatic Change, offers the most definitive exposure to date of the political and financial forces blocking American action on climate change. But as he acknowledged, there are still big gaps.
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Fucking morons - it watching will be karma w their vacation homes sink on the coastlines of the planet or falling into rivers. Sadly they will take lots of poor folks with them.

[Bigmack]

1. Kick....nt

[Rex]

2. They are busy patting themselves on the back for destroying the economy

of the working class. I hear they are going to make a second attempt at it soon, since there are some 401ks ripe again for their easy fraud.