Climate Change Denial a Billion Dollar Industry of Fabrication Says Study

A new study out of Drexel University in Philadelphia has exposed a billion dollar industry of fabrication-a complex construction of false information created by those engaged in climate change denial and the conservative organizations that support that denial. To uncover the organized effort, researchers examined the Climate Change Counter Movement (CCCM), a structured “think tank” supported by 91 official organizations and funded by 140 non-profits. The total budget for these synchronized groups as a whole is over 900 million dollars; funds that are provided largely by corporations, conservative organizations and groups set up specifically to promote climate change denial. The study, entitled Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations includes a meta-analysis of numerous previous studies.

The study found that these organizations and non-profits, as a unified body, deliberately put forth untrue propaganda in order to purposely confuse the public and create vast misunderstanding over climate change. The CCCM also endeavors to block legislation that could potentially harm the movement’s shareholders. The study states:

A number of analyses have shown that one major factor driving this misunderstanding and an overall lack of legislative action is a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect the public discussion and distort the public’s understanding of climate change.

The study found that stockholders who could be affected by climate change legislation are major funders of the CCCM. Two big players are Exxon Mobil and Koch Enterprises, although, according to the study, both of these organizations have recently “pulled back” from making easily identifiable public donations and have shifted to “untraceable sources,” also called “dark money,” to disseminate funds to the CCCM.

While NASA has attempted to settle the climate change “debate” once and for all by publishing definitive information about an overwhelming scientific consensus on its website which maintains that climate change exists and may pose major problems for the global population in the future; the organized CCCM has poured many millions of dollars into its own message, effectively creating a billion dollar industry of fabrication centered on climate change denial. This organized campaign to dupe the public has resulted in confusion about the established science put forth by by 97% of researchers who accept climate change as a real and significant concern. Source and more...

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on December 22, 2013 at 11:40pm

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Permalink Reply by Chip on December 23, 2013 at 12:50pm

Lmao.

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Whether it be global warming climate models, or earthquake debris models, or a fill-in-the-blank model, it’s garbage in, garbage out.
One of Fisker Automotive’s primary financial backers is venture captital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, of which Al Gore is a partner. Fisker also received a $528.7 million conditional loan from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program. That’s a LOT of money to produce only 200-300 cars thus far, some of which seem to be lemons.
If there’s anyone out there who still doesn’t believe that Al Gore will profit when the solutions he’s pumping are implemented, here it is from the horse’s mouth at his 2008 TED presentation. As pretty pictures of Gore’s idea of green energy whiz by with prominent logos of Big Green corporations, i.e. Fisker Automotive, Smart (Car), Global Electric Motors (GEM), Amyris, Altra Biofuels, Mascoma, Sryia, GreatPoint Energy, AltaRock Energy, Inc., Bloom Energy, MiaSolé, and Ausra, Al Gore discloses:
Here are just a few of the investments that I personally think make sense. I have a stake in these, so I’ll have a disclaimer there.

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on August 7, 2015 at 12:12pm

Mass mind control dynamics work by presenting thesis and antithesis and forging them into a synthesis thus creating an illusion that various view points are considered, but it's all controlled by a hidden power structure. Their goal is to centralize all power and control into their hands and rip off the people of the civil rights and private property into their hands. Their patent solution is always to punish the people and increase taxes. Why are we not talking about planting trees to consume the CO2 or to decentralize production to small units working locally close to the consumers, people growing their own food, more independence and personal responsibility.

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on August 12, 2015 at 10:34pm

Would You force old arthritic ladies with no land and very black thumbs to grow Their own food? I would starve.

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on August 13, 2015 at 2:37pm

Forcing people to do something is not really my way of thinking. A free society is made of free individuals.

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on August 13, 2015 at 4:55pm

Ok. Was wondering, because I have encountered many who want Us ALL to go back to the land and eliminate tech, forcing People to grow Their own food...

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Permalink Reply by Doc Vega on August 7, 2015 at 4:25pm

Yep, if that was true why did the staff at East Anglia have to advise other pro-global warming pseudoscientists how to alter their climate models to account for a 15 year global phase? Why has recent NASA satellite data shown a 17 year cooling trend in global temperatures? Why has the White House funded losing green energy companies like Solyndra with taxpayers money to the tune of millions? The truth is the other way around it's climate change that's the billion dollar industry used by the UN to further tax and control our lives! Wake UP!

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on August 12, 2015 at 10:36pm

I agree 100%

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Permalink Reply by Wyatt Bottorff on August 15, 2015 at 1:05pm

This.

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on August 12, 2015 at 10:26pm

While I do not believe that climate change does not exist (it's ALWAYS changing!), given that We are seeing the same thing happening on ALL the planets, I also do not believe that Humans have a damned thing to do with it.

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Permalink Reply by Deep Space on August 12, 2015 at 11:04pm

Snow lingers into summer in winter-weary Boston

7/8/15

While Bostonians and others around the country swelter in the July heat and ponder beaches and ice-cold things to drink, Boston's Seaport district is sporting a stubborn, filthy mound of leftover snow that refuses to go away.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/08/snow-boston-seaport-d...