Koch Industries has funded more than $25 million dollars' of research that purposefully misinforms and misrepresents climate change.

The same company that bankrolls Americans for Prosparity that launched the Tea Pary !

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=who-funds-contrariness-on

March 31, 2010

Who Funds Contrariness on Climate Change?

Greenpeace is accusing one of the US's largest conglomerates of sowing confusion around scientific assertions behind climate change

By Evan Lehmann and Climatewire


FUELING CONTROVERSY: Koch Industries is the primary sponsor of the "climate denial machine," according to a Greenpeace report.
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Greenpeace is accusing one of the nation's largest conglomerates of sowing confusion around scientific assertions behind climate change, a broadside that comes amid waning public engagement on human-caused emissions.
Koch Industries, a sprawling private corporation based in Wichita, Kan., and run by two brothers, is the primary sponsor of the "climate denial machine," the environmental group asserts in a 44-page report.
A company spokeswoman said Greenpeace is mischaracterizing Koch's efforts to facilitate "an open and honest airing of all sides" on the climate debate.
Koch subsidiaries own refineries, oil pipelines, fertilizer facilities, coal and cement transportation systems, and other industrial operations. The company also has several foundations through which it gave $24.9 million to conservative groups between 2005 and 2008, the report says.
"The combination of foundation-funded front-groups, big lobbying budgets, [political action committee] donations, and direct campaign contributions makes Koch Industries and the Koch brothers among the most formidable obstacles to advancing clean energy and climate policy in the U.S.," Greenpeace says.
The group calls Koch the "financial kingpin of climate science denial," saying the brothers, Charles and David Koch, who jointly own 84 percent of the company, have replaced Exxon Mobil Corp. as the leader in stirring controversy around climate conclusions.

They also own a great place to hunt deer in west Texas called the Matador Ranch. Check out their web site!

www.matadorranch.com

Not a cheap place, but worth it if you want to see what life was like way back when and REALLY get away from it all.

If you go then make sure to check out the cafe in Roaring Springs. It was named 'One of the 25 best cafes in Texas' by Texas Monthly. Also bring your clubs since the nine hole golf course at Springs Ranch is in a class by itself.

Check it out!

www.rsrc.org

In case there is anybody too clueless to figure it out, 'climate denial machine" is codespeak for "accurate facts". Anybody with a science/geology background and has no grant money at stake, laughs at the warming clowns.

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These are the same people (koch) who were ripping off native americans and the government for years, by cheating on their leases. They also fund the Cato Institute, which is allegedly "libertarian", but really promotes a rather extreme anti-tax and anti-environment agenda.

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I think it would be interesting if you could give us some evidence of what your saying.

There is no point in arguing facts with you--you would simply dismiss anything as lies and misinformation.
You are a true believer with incredible faith.

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Blind faith at that. He's not interested in opposing viewpoints, just the perception that he's interested in opposing viewpoints.

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