[url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/]"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort[/url]
[quote]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.
The largest, most-consistent money fueling the climate denial movement are a number of well-funded conservative foundations built with so-called "dark money," or concealed donations, according to an analysis released Friday afternoon.[/quote]
[url=http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/] THE KOCH BROTHERS: FUNDING $67,042,064 TO GROUPS DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE SINCE 1997.[/url]
[quote]Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was "the biggest company you've never heard of." Now the shroud of secrecy has thankfully been lifted, revealing the $67 million that he and his brother Charles have quietly funneled to climate-denial front groups that are working to delay policies and regulations aimed at stopping global warming, most of which are part of the State Policy Network.[/quote]
[url=http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Study-Finds-Just-90-Companies-Responsible-for-Current-Climate-Change-Crisis.html]Study Finds Just 90 Companies Responsible for Current Climate Change Crisis[/url]
[quote]A new study set to be published in the journal Climate Change, has determined that just 90 companies are responsible for the current climate change crisis, producing nearly two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions since the beginning of the industrial age around the middle of the eighteenth century.
Richard Heede, a climate researcher and author, said that “there are thousands of oil, gas and coal producers in the world. But the decision makers, the CEOs, or the ministers of coal and oil if you narrow it down to just one person, they could all fit on a Greyhound bus or two.”[/quote]
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Any study funded by a company or conglomerate of any kind that can benefit in any way financially or otherwise is biased and should not be trusted. And this happens daily.