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Edited by dazarobbo: 12/26/2013 8:50:31 AM
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Conservatives responsible for propagating climate change denial

Mostly. [url=http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6577/20131225/climate-change-climate-change-deniers-dark-money-global-warming.htm]Lots[/url] [url=http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/24/conservatives-donate-1b-to-climate-denying-groups-per-year/]of[/url] [url=http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/billion-dollar-climate-denial-network-exposed/]sources[/url] on this, but here's the one from ars. [quote]An extensive study into the financial networks that support groups denying the science behind climate change and opposing political action has found a vast, secretive web of think tanks and industry associations, bankrolled by conservative billionaires. "I call it the climate-change counter movement," study author Robert Brulle, who published his results in the journal Climatic Change, told the Guardian. "It is not just a couple of rogue individuals doing this. This is a large-scale political effort." His work, which is focused on the United States, shows how a network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible for conservative opposition to climate policy. Almost 80 percent of these groups are registered as charitable organizations for tax purposes and collectively received more than seven billion dollars between 2003 and 2010. Among those named as key nodes of the network were the American Enterprise Institute, which claims to have no institutional position on climate change, and the Heritage Foundation, which campaigns on a number of issues. However, Brulle admitted that tracing the funding back to its original sources was difficult, as around three-quarters of the money has been routed through trusts that assure anonymity to their donors. While it was not always possible to separate funds designated strictly for climate-change work from overall budgets, Brulle said: "This is how wealthy individuals or corporations translate their economic power into political and cultural power." He added: "They have their profits and they hire people to write books that say climate change is not real. They hire people to go on TV and say climate change is not real. It ends up that people without economic power don't have the same size voice as the people who have economic power, and so it ends up distorting democracy."[/quote]So there you have it. [url=http://disinfo.com/2013/10/american-conservatives-dont-trust-science/]inb4moredenial[/url] [url=http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments]inb4irony[/url]

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  • Implying it's propaganda. Cars are already 30K due to massive and expensive regulations. I guess they should cost even more now for muh environment, despite China doing a much larger dent than the US in terms of harmful substances in the environment, huh? Let's get something straight: modern Liberal and Conservative fiscal policies don't mix well. I'd rather have full-blown socialism than the mess we're in now. [spoiler]I bet it was dazarobbo who banned me for saying transexualism is a mental disorder, something that the medical community only renounced a few years ago due to political correctness and the forced trend of multi-gender acceptance. Technically, sex denial IS a mental disorder because you believe you're a woman in a man's body, or vice-versa, so really I'm not disrespecting anybody by calling out simple conclusive facts. tl;dr I was told to check my privilege for saying something that's not that far-fetched because I'm an evil racist sexist cis scum conservative, when I'm a Libertarian with opinions, opinions that don't necessarily mean I want to "enforce" with law like your typical social conservative. inb4bannedagain[/spoiler]

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