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Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Cat's out of the bag. The funding demonstrates that the conservative agenda is not about actual science, but preserving their business model.
And although these think tanks have influence over government, the people donating to them can remain anonymous. Clandestined financial cabals such as these are the reason why democracy is threatened in most of the western world. They can use their massive fortunes to sway government without the public ever knowing who they are.
As a democratic people, we must stand up and insist our government create legal reforms that prevent lobbying on this massive scale.
120 million doesn't even begin to compare with the billions in funding that institutions and scientists get for toeing the anthropogenic global warming party line.
Besides which, these organizations appear to be generic conservative advocacy groups. The money would be to support ALL of the conservative agenda of which climate science is one, probably fairly small, part.
Global warming fell apart as an issue not because of some conspiracy but because it was obviously an intellectually bankrupt enterprise that was torn apart by its own contradictions and falsehoods and by the excesses, distortions, and exaggerations of its advocates. No one is going to commit serious money to it now. It's dead as a driver of major policy change.