CONTENT:

1. The origin of climate denial.
2. Who denies and why? Lets explain the difference between the professional Denial for profit machine and amateur deniers.
3. The Koch brothers - The origin of climate denial part 2.
4. Manipulating public opinion. Keep you tribe happy and uninformed.
5. The corrupt republican party
6. The billion dollar disinformation campaigns, the lobbyism and the government socialist subsidies to fossil fuels.
7. How do we recognize the polluters and their puppets?
8. The tobacco playbook is here again
9. The oil companies knew everything about AGW in the 70s.
10. The polluter industries - A timeline
11. THE RESULT IS AMERICA NOW HAVE HALF A POPULATION WHO ARE IN DISTRUST OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS
12. The consensus gap created by 100 years of disinformation campaigns.
13. Summary and rant.

Takeaways:

• It’s not just by chance that climate change denial is particularly widespread in countries that have an entrenched fossil fuel industry. Climate denial in the U.S. is deeply rooted in an anti-government ideology that sees virtually all regulations, including curbs on carbon emissions, as leftist attacks on free enterprise. American conservatives in particular tend to distrust government, dislike regulations and hate taxes, so that any problem whose solution is a tax or a regulation naturally attracts distrust.
• Everyone who brings awareness about global heating / climate changes and talks about a more equitable distribution of world resources will be faced with hatred, contempt and mocking and smear and even death threats, by high profile climate deniers, the 1% rich, the robber barons and inherited wealth , the free market fundamentalists and the capitalist system built from cheap fossil fuels with its outdated business model based on freeloading world resources, polluting innocent people - and externality problems running out of control even warming the planet out of its natural cycles.
• The Professional Climate Denial for Profit Movement is really just free enterprise fighting regulations. It’s that classic old battle between unfettered capitalism and governments. Between free marked fundamentalists and taxes. And The Climate Denial for Profit Movement have put the science of climate science into that bag only because this science can lead to regulations. That’s it. There is nothing more to it. They put the science of climate science into that bag because, using ideology, is the only way they can attack it. It has nothing to do with the science being wrong. It’s a matter of ideology and world view only. And greed. And blood money. And they’ll fight anyone and anything which interrupts their money flow. It’s a predatory capitalist system which has imploded into fascism.
• “The goal of the fossil fuel industry is to keep its profits rolling in without interference by government or by new, competing energy sources. The polluters know they dont have any science to back up their arguments. So instead they use the best defence method they can. Which is to polarize and politicize the science. To keep their money flow going they need the public embroiled in doubt and suspicion; they need to degrade public confidence in science and scientists; they need to harm America’s future—and the world’s future—so that one of the wealthiest industries on Earth can glut and engorge itself in even more wealth.”

• Climate denialism is bought and paid for by a rotten political system - corruption that comes from the dominance of political donations in public life, the lack of transparency around donations, and the way they facilitate the influencing of policy by vested interests. The persistence of climate denialism in Australian politics reflects the wealth of mining and energy companies prepared to use a deeply flawed political system to wield power.
• It’s all about ideology. The corporate polluters have used the “it's leftist”, “it's socialism” and “ it's a tax scam” arguments since day one. NOT because such silly paranoid claims are true, or because the science is wrong, but simply because they dont want regulations on their ability to pollute us / make money. If you’re a corporate polluter and tell your tribe that something will lead to taxes, regulations and socialism, they will believe anything you tell them. If their built-in government hatred can be stimulated, they will believe in anything. They are programmed for it. Just hide your self interests in ideology and they’ll swallow your message like a dog will swallow a pill hidden in its food.

• Most predatory capitalism is about exploiting the world's natural resources while dumping poison and other waste back into nature. That’s why they attack environmental groups and laws and everyone who brings awareness to climate changes etc. Their favorite (logical fallacy) argument is the Slippery slope argument that “restrictions on free enterprise leads to socialism”.
• This is what their astroturf orgs and think tanks are made for: "The AEI was one of dozens of the new think tanks bankrolled by hundreds of millions from the Kochs and their allies. Sold to the public as quasi-scholarly organizations, their real function was to legitimize the right to pollute for oil, gas and coal companies, and to argue for ever more tax cuts for the people who created them.The genius of this strategy is to “turn corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets”.
• American fossil fuel funded think tanks and the whole Denial for Profit movement are now going mental. This is how predatory capitalism always cry and whine. The think tanks are the tears of the 1% rich and corporate polluters.They cry rivers everytime their blood money flow is threatened. And now they need to tell us, the public, their disposable work horses, we must NEVER act or even dare to think in such ways that it can come into conflict with the self interests of the 1% rich and the “flow of things”. They want us to remain peasants for their plutocracy. Their echo chamber of denier blogs and accomplices conservative media outlets and “newspaper” rags, are now working non stop spewing alt-right fear and anxiety driven paranoid propaganda to cater and please the confirmation biases of their tribe of amateur denier sheeples.

• The lense in the global warming / climate change denial narrative definitely comes from a privileged, predominantly white and male perspective whose economic identity is intimately intertwined with the most egregious form of predatory capitalism and prosperous circumstances built on the backs of colonialism, slavery and white supremacy, who believes that this prosperity was not only normal, but legitimately earned. Just like how the fossil fuel industry, inherited wealth, vested interests, predatory capitalism, billionaire oligarchs and robber barons has redistributed wealth to themselves and exploited world resources for over 150 years plus already.
• “It’s not surprising that high-profile deniers are almost exclusively conservative white men, since they have most benefited from the industrial capitalist system, and therefore have the most skin in the game when it comes to protecting the powers that be — even if they aren’t those powers."
• There is a link between climate deniers and the anti-feminist far-right. To them, it's not the environment that is threatened, it is a certain kind of modern industrial society built and dominated by their form of masculinity. Some of these men felt shock at the #MeToo movement—and now climate activism’s challenge to their way of life, male reactionaries motivated by right-wing nationalism, anti-feminism, and climate denialism increasingly overlap, the three reactions feeding off of one another. For them, economic growth is more important than the environment. Climate science, for skeptics, becomes feminized—or viewed as “opposed to assumed entitlements of masculine primacy.”
• Climate denial has merged with right wing nationalism and creationists to form an unholy ugly trinity, a shameful anti science movement fueled by corporate polluters dark money. Climate deniers War on science, the scientists, their race hatred, mocking of people with mental disorders, xenophobia and attacks on democracy and governments, is 100% in tune with fascist dogma. A fascist utopia where democracy is replaced with corporatism and corporate polluters self interests at the expense of public health, enlightenment and freedom. A totalitarian state where corporations can pummel the public into submission and where governments are divested of the ability to control policy, economy, and ultimately the fate of the nation. And they even expect the public to be mesmerised by buffoons who encourage us to channel the anger that should be reserved for billionaires towards immigrants, women, Jews, Muslims, people of colour and other imaginary enemies and customary scapegoats.

“History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes,”

"As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change".

Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public

INTRODUCTION:

To red herring their own greed, gluttony and selfishness,

robber barons, the 1% rich and corporate polluters

have used "governments", "taxes" and "socialism" as boogeymen to protect their blood money always.

I think it’s safe to say, that in the general population, the concepts of ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ are thoroughly obsolete.

There are, instead,

those who are gullible and susceptible to corporate propaganda and its imposition on democracy through media saturation, and unconstitutional abstractions of, and enforcement of, subsequent ‘law’,

and those who are not.

So what is it about?

Its the protection of a capitalist system which was built on cheap fossil fuels which historically have served many people well - and the 1% rich.

Modern day climate denial is simply

a defence of neo-liberal and libertarian Ayn Rand worshipping free market fundamentalist anarcho-capitalism, corporatism and ultra-conservatism

and

a glorification and justification of right-wing nationalism, racism, fascism, gluttony, patrimonial wealth accumulation and billionaire oligarchs, vested interests and robber barons -and corporate socialism which benefits billionaires,

and further approval to

keep exploiting world resources for the ever growing selfish demand for more materialism and ravenous overconsumption,

and shamelessly

ignoring negative externalities and blaming every problem in the world on

overpopulation, “poor people”, immigrants, refugees

and

democratic socialism (which benefits the workers, not the billionaires).

all to

preserve corporate wealth and power at the expense of public enlightenment and freedom.

And their anxiety driven paranoid politics and propaganda wants us to be

mesmerised by buffoons who encourage us to channel the anger that should be reserved for billionaires

towards immigrants, women, Jews, Muslims, people of colour and other imaginary enemies and customary scapegoats.

Isn’t it remarkably, everytime science is under attack, how its the same corporate polluters, the same individuals, who raises their ugly heads? Every single time?

The same people who have claim the science of global warming is "not settled",

denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer,

coal smoke to acid rain,

and CFCs to the ozone hole.

What a coincidence ay?

What do you do if all the world's experts disagree with you? A decades old technique perfected by the tobacco industry is to manufacture the appearance of a continued debate through fake experts.

Climate change is a complicated, multi-disciplinary science and yet many of the leading voices who purport to know better than the experts have never published a single piece of climate research.

For the same reason that ozone depletion and the health effects of cigarettes were politicized: there are powerful interests who think — sometimes correctly — that their business interests will be damaged if the public accepts the conclusions of the vast majority of those scientists who have expertise on the topic.

So they go out and hire some scientists to contest the conclusions; and they hire some political commentators and politicians to throw dust in the eyes of the public.

Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report

Carbon emissions: Wealthy responsible for most of the problem, report shows

The richest people in the world not only hold most of the world’s wealth, they are also responsible for producing most of its carbon emissions. The wealthiest 10 percent produce nearly half of all emissions, according to a new report by Oxfam.

“The richest 1 percent own 48 percent of the world’s wealth. The bottom 80 percent account for just 5.5 percent.”

Corporate polluters from lead, asbestos, DDT, mercury, teflon, tobacco and fossil fuels have for 120 years told the public their product is harmless while they knew it was not. To cover up their poison product, they spew fear mongering propaganda to confuse and fatigue the public. And fake experts do their dirty laundry job.

- The world is on course for “climate apartheid”, where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a U.N. human rights report said on Tuesday.

In 'climate apartheid', rich will save themselves while poor...

And anyone who talks about a more equitable distribution of world resources will be faced with hatred and contempt by high profile deniers, the 1% rich and the corporate interests which has a business model based on polluting innocent third party people, freeloading and exploiting world resources.

Denier brains are not wired to have empathy for other people and for negative externalities and consequences that do not affect themself directly here and now.

Just the idea that

this cruel bias will cease - and that we will have a more fair distribution of world goods,

is unbearable to the greedy Denial for profit movement.

Just the idea that

they’re part of the problem too, like the rest of us, and should feel guilty for overconsumption - and for burning fossil fuels which warms the planet,

is unbearable to the Denial for profit movement.

Denial is their cheap escape out of any responsibility for the externality problems now causing serious global heating.

And junk science, catering and pandering polluters propaganda and conspiracy theories, is the pulp fiction they use to fill the holes in their ideology.

1. The origin of climate denial.

Isn’t it remarkably, everytime science is under attack, how its the same individuals, the same corporate polluters, which raises their ugly heads? Every single time?

The same people who have claimed the science of global warming is "not settled",

denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer,

coal smoke to acid rain,

and CFCs to the ozone hole.

What a coincidence ay?

It is rational for certain companies and industrialists to deny climate change whether or not they believe in it. Those who have benefited most from industry tend to be those most insulated from the risks of climate change and, as such, have personal motivation to maintain a market status quo.

“It’s not just by chance that climate change denial is particularly widespread in countries that have an entrenched fossil fuel industry.”

“Climate change is a side effect of industrial capitalism. Industrialized nations were built with energy from cheap fossil fuels, and this released enormous amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

This is what economists call an externality — a consequence that is not built into the cost. There are market solutions to externality problems, like carbon taxes or carbon trading schemes, which incentivise industries that don’t pollute as much. These are the sort of solutions that conservatives tend to like, but implementing any solution means acknowledging the problem in the first place.”

“Accepting that climate change is real and bad is fundamentally harder to do for those who have benefited from industrial capitalism, which runs on cheap fossil fuels. It’s doubly hard for conservatives, who by definition tend to resist change more than liberals.”

“The United States looks like public enemy number one, and so accepting climate change means, ‘Boy, we screwed up. We caused a lot of problems, and it’s our responsibility to solve them.’ That’s a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people.”

Not wanting to take responsibility for these problems is the root of the Denial for profit movement.

The (professional) Denial for profit movement is simply:

THE AMERICAN FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY ATTACKING ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS and REGULATIONS WHICH THREATENS THEIR MONEY FLOW

The goal of the fossil fuel industry is to keep its profits rolling in without interference by government or by new, competing energy sources. To do this they need the public embroiled in doubt and suspicion; they need to degrade public confidence in science and scientists; they need to harm America’s future—and the world’s future—so that one of the wealthiest industries on Earth can indulge itself in even more wealth.

When you have a bad argument, the only way to win is to corrupt the decision-making process. And that’s exactly what the fossil fuel industry does: in order to feed their greed for massive profits, the oil, gas, and coal corporations buy support for their polluting practices.

Smearing scientists and undermining "unwanted" science which comes into conflict with self interests and ideology, is all part of the denial propaganda machine:

"Cynicism about the motives of public servants, including government-backed climate scientists, can be traced to a group of neoliberals and their ‘toxic’ ideas".

“Catastrophic/apocalyptic climate change/alarmism/doomsayers/the sky is falling etc/The end is near” etc…

Deniers wants the public to believe the scientists “predicts doomsday”, all the time- to Red Herring- the real dangers of global heating - and as long as this “doomsday” never happen, scientists are “wrong” again and there is nothing to worry about, we can continue to burn fossil fuels like never before.

Tobacco industry used these same condescending terms against the science and scientists who found out about the hazards of tobacco smoking. The people who warned about the dangers of tobacco smoking were called “fear mongers” and “alarmists”. The tobacco industry didn’t want to hear about science which was in “conflict” with their money flow. Just like fossil fuels now. Fossil fuels uses the tobacco playbook. A decades old technique perfected by the tobacco industry is to manufacture the appearance of a continued debate through fake experts.

The idea that climate scientists are in it for the cash has deep ideological roots

Climate Science Denial Explained: The Denial Personality

How Is Climate Change Denial Still a Thing?

Climate denialism is bought and paid for by a rotten political system

The irony of this thinking is hilarious;

While the scientific work of agencies like NOAA and NASA are highly respected world wide, in america, they are hated by the Denial movement, and in such way, if this was the 50s, climate deniers would been locked away for anti american behaviour by the McCarthy process.

In reality, it is not about the science. It never was. The climate skeptics want to present the debate as a scientific debate, while in reality it is a violent clash between different ways of seeing the world.

There are amateur deniers and there are corporate self interests deniers, where the latter knows AGW theory is a fact but simply denies to protect their money flow, just like tobacco industry.

The lense in the global warming / climate change narrative definitely comes from a privileged, predominantly white and male perspective whose economic identity is intimately intertwined with the most egregious form of predatory unfettered capitalism. (Michele Elizabeth Lee)

And, the amateur deniers are not realizing they are tools for people who are a lot smarter and richer than them. Their ears are so full of catering pandering polluters propaganda, their brains has created an illusion it’s about them. We get to that but,

The fossil fuels polluters - and their self-interests- makes normal people into cannon fodder, but still makes them think it's about them.

But ordinary people mean nothing to these powerful industrial interests. They are to be exploited. They are their useful idiots. Pawns in their game.

The fossil fuel think tanks and the astroturf orgs and the front groups produce catering propaganda for their tribe faster than McDonald makes their burgers.

Like this,

"The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) was one of dozens of the new think tanks bankrolled by hundreds of millions from the Kochs and their allies.

Sold to the public as quasi-scholarly organizations, their real function was to legitimize the right to pollute for oil, gas and coal companies, and to argue for ever more tax cuts for the polluters and the 1% rich.

The genius of this strategy was to “turn corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets”.

The corporate interests are protecting their self interests and their monetary crane, their money flow, their holy grail,

C02.

Tactic number 1:

HIDE YOUR SELF INTEREST INSIDE IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS.

Libertarian and free-market ideology has traditionally had difficulty dealing with negative externalities, as detailed in the non-libertarian FAQ; denial allows a person to simply ignore the limitations of their ideology.

American conservatives in particular tend to distrust government, dislike regulations and hate taxes, so that any problem whose solution is a tax or a regulation naturally attracts distrust.

The Denial for profit movement has, naturally, exploited these conservative values. Most of the propaganda they create is simply pandering to their tribe.

Create catering and the pandering propaganda. Tell the tribe what they want to hear.

Lobbyists create tribal food, pulp fiction, which can be used to fill the holes and flaws in deniers ideology. To justify their denial.

If your dog needs a pill, which he hates, what do you do to make the dog swallow it? Yes, you hide the pill in its food.

When think tanks and fossil fuel front groups started to lobby for the fossil fuel self interests 75 years ago, the first thing they did was to camouflage those interests as an anti government anti regulation anti tax ideological anti socialist "struggle".

“They connected their audience’s underlying ideologies to climate change: Because cutting GHG emissions requires intervention regulation or increased taxation of carbon emissions—that curtail free market economics, people whose identity and worldview centers around free markets became particularly likely to reject the findings from climate science when the logic was laid bare.”

An environmental law might sound perfectly OK even for conservatives,

Thus

you have to rename environmental laws for “tax scams” and add a few drops of socialist fear mongering to pander people who already are in distrust of governments and “socialism”. This will feel like honey being inserted into their ears. (Which is ironic because most americans love socialism and dont know what socialism really is. Most americans thinks socialism in 2019 is the same thing as communism in the Soviet Union 100 years ago.)

These powerful corporate interests has succeeded in polarizing the science. The polluters knew they could not say it out load “Hey, we want to make shitloads of money by polluting you”, thus they hid their self interest inside ideology and politics.

Create enemy;

Predatory capitalism, robber barons, the 1% rich and free marked fundamentalists have used fear mongering and boogeymen to justify and Red Herring their greed and gluttony always. Any political system which do not 100% support their self interests , will get attacked.

Scapegoating;

The first bogeymen they used was “governments”, “taxes” and “socialism.”

Projection;

If you can create the perfect straw man, stereotype him and portray him as a “monster”, your own bad habits, greed and gluttony can hide in its shadow. But, back in the late 1980s, when it became pretty clear that there was no persistent Soviet threat and no longer a cold war, they needed a new bogeyman, and they found it in the environmental movement. “Green is the new Red. Cries for environmental regulation were twisted into calls for socialism and the end of economic progress.

We already have global socialism. It’s called fossil fuels.

This imaginary and false battle is best exposed by the fact they are gladly taking trillions in government socialist subsidies while telling their tribe socialism is bad. So remember: Corporate socialism is “good”, because it benefits the billionaires. Democratic socialism is “bad”, because it benefits the workers. You.

The Fossil Fuel Industry is happy to receive billions in government subsidies, spend millions on lobbying and bribing politicians while at the same time they’re complaining the science of climate change “has become so political”. A "brilliant" double-dealing. They take all the money and their tribe stay duped and happily uninformed.

And amateur deniers,

repressed, duped and blinded by fear and anxiety driven paranoid conservative politics, are

tools for these robber baron oligarchs.

because they dont realize they are not fighting the same socialism.

Remember:

Corporate socialism is “good”, because it benefits the billionaires.

Democratic socialism is “bad”, because it benefits the workers.

They created a straw man who they have fed ever since. And now they are using their own straw man, now so fat he is bumping into walls, as “proof” of a “politicized science”.

“They have bought the whole republican party and made the EPA into fossil fuel puppets and are demolishing every environmental law, but are still shameless enough to say the science of climate science is “ politicized”.

See point 5–7 for more.

2. Who denies and why?

“"I'm too selfish to care about after I'm dead, and I want to concentrate on my personal short term economic interests instead."

“Vested interests, political polarization, the global nature of climate change, and misinformation combine to form a perfect psychological storm, preventing people from accepting climate science and supporting climate action.”

How did climate change get so controversial?

Most deniers are regulation phobics and / or ideological motivated “system defenders” posing as climate “skeptics”.

Denialism is a person’s choice to deny certain particular facts. It is an essentially irrational belief where the person substitutes his or her personal opinion for established knowledge. Indeed, one of the hallmarks of denialism is a failure to recognise the distinction between opinions and facts.

In actuality, the science of AGW is apolitical, being based on credible evidence and physics. The denial of climate science, is based on no credible evidence and no physics, and is all-political and ideology-based.

The denial of science is also like a true religion, for its acolytes also deny evidence and physics based on no evidence and no physics.

Most deniers are tool for people who are richer and smarter than them. We get to that, but lets start with the “innocent deniers”.

Lets first explain why amateur deniers deny the science of climate change:

Key words: regulation fobia, ideology/politics, religion, tribalism and cognitive biases.

A paper from Vanderbilt University pinpointed what motivates many who choose to reject climate change: not science denial, but “regulation phobia”.

Most deniers accept science in general, and even pride themselves on their science literacy, however, combating climate change means more regulations and, the paper says, “demands a transformation of internalised attitudes”. This, the authors conclude, “has produced what can fairly be described as a phobic reaction among many people”.

“Public divisions over climate change stem not from the public’s incomprehension of science but from a distinctive conflict of interest: between the personal interest individuals have in forming beliefs in line with those held by others with whom they share close ties and the collective one they all share in making use of the best available science to promote common welfare.”

The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

“One reason for the refusal to accept the reality of climate change is what is called “motivated interference,” which occurs when we hold a specific bias to ignore evidence.

As science writer Nicole Mortillaro noted,

this can include a general unease with large government projects that are expensive and interfere with individuals’ lives. Other reasons, she writes, include “people whose livelihood is dependent on…the oil industry” and resentment of “government taking money out of [individuals’] pockets in the form of public spending on carbon mitigation efforts.”

Climate Change Denial

“The vast bulk of our knowledge, we take on faith. Or to put it more charitably, we take on trust. We absorb what we know from trusted peers and authorities. Our trust in them is a kind of heuristic that allows us to navigate a wildly complex and uncertain reality, of which we will directly experience only a tiny fraction.”

“Having an understanding of the world and your place in it — an understanding shared by your tribe — feels like safety. It feels like control. Questions that unsettle that understanding are instinctively treated with skepticism or outright hostility.”

“For most people, most of the time, social bonds matter far more than any particular bit of knowledge, any fact or belief.”

“This is especially true when it comes to the kinds of things defined as political “issues,” like inequality, climate change, and other societal risks, which tend to be somewhat abstract and distant from daily experience. Most people don’t have settled, coherent opinions on issues at all, just bits and bobs they’ve picked up from their tribes. They certainly don’t have enough invested in issues to warrant risking their tribal ties on behalf of particular beliefs.”

Most people will settle for their parochial, inherited tribal beliefs most of the time. Many deniers are emotionally invested in these lies.

Humans gonna human.

This one weird trick will not convince conservatives to fight climate change

Displacement »is a psychological defense mechanism used to get rid of feelings, experiences or knowledge we experience as uncomfortable or as a natural consequence that we need to do extravagant things, such as paying more for gasoline or turning off the floor heating in the bathroom .

Nirvana Fallacy

Comparing a realistic solution with an idealized one, and discounting or even dismissing the realistic solution as a result of comparing to a “perfect world” or impossible standard. Ignoring the fact that improvements are often good enough reason.

Billionaire worshipers:

Billionaire worshipers seek out bullshit groups where billionaires “create jobs” and are “always right” and are “saving America” and "the poor", while in reality billionaires are just indulging in their own gluttony, greed and selfishness.

Then you have the “High-profile” deniers:

Most of these knows AGW is a fact, but they dont want to disconnect from the money flow which made them rich.

The lense in the global warming / climate change narrative definitely comes from a privileged, predominantly white and male perspective whose economic identity is intimately intertwined with the most egregious form of predatory capitalism.

“It’s not surprising that high-profile deniers are almost exclusively conservative white men, since they have most benefited from the industrial capitalist system, and therefore have the most skin in the game when it comes to protecting the powers that be — even if they aren’t those powers."

[...] “conservative white males are likely to favour protection of the current industrial capitalist order which has historically served them well”. It added that “heightened emotional and psychic investment in defending in-group claims may translate into misperceived understanding about problems like climate change that threaten the continued order of the system.”

Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United Statest

Summed up:

WHITE.
AMERICAN.
CONSERVATIVE
MALE.

This combination of traits produces this psychological response.

QUOTE:- We find that conservative white males are significantly more likely than are other Americans to endorse denialist views on all five items, and that these differences are even greater for those conservative white males who self-report understanding global warming very well.

QUOTE:- We thus conclude that the unique views of conservative white males contribute significantly to the high level of climate change denial in the United States.

THE MISOGYNIC CLIMATE DENIERS

Why do right-wing men hate Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so much? Researchers have some troubling answers to that question.

As Climate Scientists Speak Out, Sexist Attacks Are on the Rise

Female researchers have faced everything from personal insults to death and rape threats

One scientist was called Climate Barbie.

Another was described as an “ugly fake scientist.” A third had an erect penis drawn on her car window while she was in the field researching sea-level rise.

Such is the life of many female climate scientists in 2018.

As Climate Scientists Speak Out, Sexist Attacks Are on the Rise

“Researchers at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology, which recently launched the world’s first academic research center to study climate denialism, have for years been examining a link between climate deniers and the anti-feminist far-right.

In 2014, Jonas Anshelm and Martin Hultman of Chalmers published a paper analyzing the language of a focus group of climate skeptics. The common themes in the group, they said, were striking: “for climate skeptics … it was not the environment that was threatened, it was a certain kind of modern industrial society built and dominated by their form of masculinity.”

The connection has to do with a sense of group identity under threat, Hultman told me—an identity they perceive to be under threat from all sides. Besieged, as they see it, both by developing gender equality—Hultman pointed specifically to the shock some men felt at the #MeToo movement—and now climate activism’s challenge to their way of life, male reactionaries motivated by right-wing nationalism, anti-feminism, and climate denialism increasingly overlap, the three reactions feeding off of one another.

“There is a package of values and behaviors connected to a form of masculinity that I call ‘industrial breadwinner masculinity.’ They see the world as separated between humans and nature. They believe humans are obliged to use nature and its resources to make products out of them. And they have a risk perception that nature will tolerate all types of waste. It’s a risk perception that doesn’t think of nature as vulnerable and as something that is possible to be destroyed. For them, economic growth is more important than the environment”

Climate science, for skeptics, becomes feminized—or viewed as “oppositional to assumed entitlements of masculine primacy.”

The Misogyny of Climate Deniers

A green fatwā? Climate change as a threat to the masculinity of industrial modernity

Then you have the extremist ideological driven deniers:

The right-wing nationalist fascist deniers

Climate denial has merged with right wing nationalism and creationists to form an unholy ugly trinity, a shameful anti science movement fueled by corporate polluters dark money.

“catastrophic climate change is not a problem for fascists — it is a solution. History’s most perfect, lethal, and efficient one means of genocide, ever, period. Who needs to build a camp or a gas chamber when the flood and hurricane will do the dirty work for free? Please don’t mistake this for conspiracism: climate change accords perfectly with the foundational fascist belief that only the strong should survive, and the weak — the dirty, the impure, the foul — should perish. That is why neo-fascists do not lift a finger to stop climate change — but do everything they can to in fact accelerate it, and prevent every effort to reverse or mitigate it."

How Capitalism Torched the Planet by Imploding Into Fascism

“In Germany, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party seems to have coordinated their attacks on Thunberg with the right-wing European Institute for Climate and Energy think tank.”

The Misogyny of Climate Deniers

Climate deniers War on science, the scientists, their race hatred, mocking of people with mental disorders, xenophobia and attacks on democracy and governments, is 100% in tune with fascist dogma.

Fascists/climate deniers despise the truths of daily life, love the slogans with the sound of a new religion, and prefer imaginative myths to science, historical writing or journalism. They use new media to pounce on the propaganda's drum and awaken people's feelings before they managed to investigate the facts. And now, as before, there are many who confuse the belief in a very deficient leader with the truth of the world we all share.

The alt-right fascists even mocks teenage schoolgirls for their autism:

"Attacking Greta, at times in fairly vicious ways, including mocking here for her autism, became a way to portray the AfD's political opponents as irrational."

Germany’s AfD turns on Greta Thunberg as it embraces climate denial

The climate Denial for profit movement too have as strategy to harass opinion opponents to silence. We see this in how the Denial for profit movement attacks the science and scientists. Some scientists have been threatened for their lifes. In the white supremo blog Breitbart, deniers have their perfect ally who masterfully mobilizes on hatred, racism and xenophobia, and who does not hesitate to brutally kick individuals, often with minority background. Its frightening to see how many deniers who are xenophobic hate group followers when they dont spew their mandatory sewer stream of anti science nonsense and corporate pandering propaganda.

Top climate change scientist quits USDA, says Trump administration tried to bury his study

Nationalism is often a conservative ideology, and most conservatives see efforts to combat rapid anthropogenic climate change as a politically 'liberal' thing.

The joint effort to combat rapid anthropogenic climate change requires international cooperation, and plenty of nationalists who believe in "one world government" conspiracies find such cooperation as evidence for such conspiracy - when supranational entities rule national affairs.

To lose sovereignty is the complete opposite to nationalist ideals, so it's no surprise a lot of nationalists doubt climate change.

Climate change denial strongly linked to right-wing nationalism

What the study likely highlights is that nationalism in itself strives against "globalism".

Fear and Anxiety Drive Conservatives' Political Attitudes

Michael Barnard's answer to Is climate change denial linked to right wing nationalism?

"We are mesmerised by buffoons who encourage us to channel the anger that should be reserved for billionaires towards immigrants, women, Jews, Muslims, people of colour and other imaginary enemies and customary scapegoats. Just as it was in the 1930s, the new demagoguery is a con, a revolt against the impacts of capital, financed by capitalists.

The oligarch’s interests always lie offshore: in tax havens and secrecy regimes. Paradoxically, these interests are best promoted by nationalists and nativists. The politicians who most loudly proclaim their patriotism and defence of sovereignty are always the first to sell their nations down the river. It is no coincidence that most of the newspapers promoting the nativist agenda, whipping up hatred against immigrants and thundering about sovereignty, are owned by billionaire tax exiles, living offshore."

From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise – backed by billionaire oligarchs | George Monbiot

Latest, and this is scary:

Militant right wing nationalists are arguably the biggest threat to world peace, and climate deniers are not hesitating using it:

“Oregon’s statehouse shut down for safety concerns on Saturday. But the threats weren’t coming from anonymous trolls or foreign fighters—they were coming from the state’s Republican senators, who have teamed up with right-wing militias to threaten violence over a climate change bill.”

Oregon Statehouse Shut Down After Lawmakers Team Up With Right-Wing Militias

The Hague: Dutch counter-terror officials on Monday highlighted "extremist" wind turbine protesters alongside Islamists and the far right in the country's latest terrorism threat report.

At least two companies building new wind turbines in the Netherlands have cancelled construction projects "out of fear of attacks and have lost millions" of euros in damage, the NCTV counter-terrorism agency said.

Windmill protesters placed on Dutch terror list - ET EnergyWorld

Then you have the conspiracy theorists

These paranoid, delusional and sad people, who are already into other anti government conspiracy theories like anti vaxxing, chem trails and flat earthing, have naturally embraced the climate denial movement, because it fits with their narrative and gives them another reason to hate governments and adds further “proof” of a world wide conspiracy.

“that the more Americans believed conspiracies generally, the more they also thought that climate change was a hoax,” Hornsey concluded. However, “This relationship was not found in the vast majority of countries.”

Study links US conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers - Alliance for Science

Conservatives and Liberals are wired differently. Conservatives are more likely to base their beliefs and opinions on fears and anxieties.

Since most conspiracy theories play on people’s fears, conservatives are much more likely to buy into them. Of course there aren’t conspiracy theories that liberals buy into as well, but you will find that many of those ‘liberals,’ actually lean libertarian which is a conservative ideology. They may wish for a clean environment, economic equality and world peace, but their mistrust of people and institutions that share those goals and actually work towards them, which is driven by paranoia and fear leaves them supporting a conservative, libertarian agenda by default.

Fear and Anxiety Drive Conservatives' Political Attitudes

Both extremist ideological driven deniers and conspiracy theorists spends much of the time in the basement room or on the living room, reading websites and watching documentary films and video clips on YouTube that slowly, but surely, laying the foundation for a new worldview where the world is actually governed by lizards, Zionists or the Illuminati, or by multiculturalists who wish to sell Europe to the Muslims. In some cases, it may end in horror, in the worst case in the form of solo terrorism.

Link Between Climate Denial and Conspiracy Beliefs Sparks Conspiracy Theories

Climate Change Conspiracy Theories - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science

Believing widely doubted conspiracy theories satisfies some people’s need to feel special

3. THE KOCH BROTHERS

“Like communism, neoliberalism is the God that failed. But the zombie doctrine staggers on, and one of the reasons is its anonymity. Or rather, a cluster of anonymities.

The invisible doctrine of the invisible hand is promoted by invisible backers. Slowly, very slowly, we have begun to discover the names of a few of them. We find that the Institute of Economic Affairs, which has argued forcefully in the media against the further regulation of the tobacco industry, has been secretly funded by British American Tobacco since 1963. We discover that Charles and David Koch, two of the richest men in the world, founded the institute that set up the Tea Party movement. We find that Charles Koch, in establishing one of his thinktanks, noted that “in order to avoid undesirable criticism, how the organisation is controlled and directed should not be widely advertised”.”

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

The Kochs are probably the main founders of the american denial machine. Their agenda is to undermine all science which comes into “conflict” with their self interests. With their anarcho capitalist world view. They are mega big polluters. And they have paid politicians to “do nothing about global warming”.

Here is the core of the Denial for profit movement, the origin:

Mont Pelerin Society Revealed As Home To Leading Pushers Of Climate Science Denial

Duke University history professor Nancy MacLean suggests some answers in her new book Democracy in Chains: the Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.

The book documents how wealthy conservatives, in particular petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, teamed up with neoliberal academics with the objective, MacLean says, of undermining the functions of government in the United States.

MacLean’s central character is the late James McGill Buchanan, a political theorist and economist who won a Nobel award in 1986 for his development of “public choice theory”.

Buchanan and Koch developed and propagated their ideas through a private organisation called the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) – an influential group known as the “neoliberal thought collective” that was established in 1947 by famed free market economist Friedrich Hayek. Buchanan was a former president and joined in 1957. Koch, who has poured millions into groups attacking mainstream climate science, joined MPS in 1970.

MPS has about 500 members in more than 40 countries.

James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean.

“Efforts to “reform” public education and Social Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree. Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, weakening pro-public forces and enhancing the lobbying power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to dismantle democracy and make way for a return to oligarchy. The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.”

Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America

The idea that climate scientists are in it for the cash has deep ideological roots

How a playboy billionaire built a political army to defend his fossil fuel empire.

Koch Industries financed a network of political activists in the form of Americans for Prosperity, to fight against any form of climate change legislation that would dampen the demand for oil.

By Christopher Leonard

Mr. Leonard is the author of “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America.”

“Koch Industries realized early on that it would be a financial disaster for the firm if the American government regulated carbon emissions or made companies pay a price for releasing carbon into the atmosphere. The effects of such a policy would be measured over decades for Koch. The company has billions of dollars sunk into the complex and expensive infrastructure of crude-oil processing. If a limit on greenhouse gas emissions were imposed, it could dampen demand for oil and diminish the value of those assets and their future sales. The total dollar losses would likely be measured in trillions over a period of 30 years or more.

In the face of this political problem, David Koch and his brother Charles built a political influence machine that is arguably unrivaled by any in corporate America.

Construction on the Koch political machine began in the 1970s, after Charles Koch took over the family company. He and David began funding and orchestrating a political project to restrain government power in the United States through lobbying, think tanks and political donations. The effort accelerated in the 1990s after a Senate committee, following a long investigation, accused Koch Industries of stealing oil from Native American reservations where the company was operating. That experience convinced David and Charles Koch that they needed to have a stronger presence in Washington to fend off their critics.

The machine reached full fruition in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president. The machine is so effective because it is multifaceted. In addition to one of the largest registered corporate lobbying offices in the country, located about two blocks from the White House, there is a constellation of Koch-funded think tanks and university centers. They all convey a consistent message: that government programs can only cause more harm than good and that market forces alone must shape human society. And their work is bolstered by a private network of donors that David and Charles Koch assembled over the years, a network that gives donations at levels rivaling a political party.

Finally, Koch controls a “boots on the ground” army in the form of Americans for Prosperity, a network of employees and volunteers who knock on doors, attend rallies to protest climate change legislation, and visit the offices of any lawmakers who seem likely to cross Koch Industries on the issue.

This machine has been employed to great effect to ensure that no government action is taken to control greenhouse gas emissions. In the early 1990s, President George H.W. Bush made it clear that he would support a treaty to limit carbon emissions. The Republicans even had a market-based solution to tackle the problem, a system called “cap and trade” that put a price on pollution and allowed companies to buy and sell the right to pollute.

Cap and trade had been used to great effect to reduce power plant pollution and acid rain.

But in 1991, the Cato Institute, a Koch-funded think tank, held a seminar in Washington called “Global Environmental Crises: Science or Politics?” This was part of a decades-long effort to cast doubt about the reality of climate change.”

Opinion | David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier

The tactic they used to pander and exploit “people on the streets”

Here lies the real scam.

This is the trick the 1% rich uses to dupe their sheeple.

The Koch-brothers’ “grand” strategist Richard Fink:

“We want to decrease regulations. Why? It’s because we can make more profit, O.K.? Yeah, and cut government spending so we don’t have to pay so much taxes. There’s truth in that.” But to the “middle third” these positions seemed motivated not by ideological principle but by greed.

The rich donors who made up the Koch network, Fink said, needed to persuade moderate, undecided voters that their intent was generous. “We’ve got to convince these people we mean well, and that we’re good people,” Fink said.

Fink was brutally honest about how unpopular the views of his wealthy audience were. “When we focus on decreasing government spending,” he said, and on “over-criminalization and decreasing taxes, it doesn’t do it, O.K.? . . . They’re not responding, and don’t like it.”

But he pointed out that if anyone in America knew how to sell something it should be the successful business leaders in the Koch network. “We get business,” he told the audience. “What do we do? We want to find out what the customer wants, right? Not what we want them to buy!”

The company’s internal research had shown that Americans wanted a clean environment, widespread good health, high standards of living, security, freedom, peace, and opportunity for both themselves and others. This posed a problem, given that the Kochs and their network opposed environmental regulation and government action on global warming, and supported privatizing Social Security and health care.

But Fink had a solution. “This is going to sound a little strange,” he acknowledged. “So you’ll have to bear with me.

”The Koch network, he said, needed to present its free-market ideology as an apolitical and altruistic reform movement to enhance the quality of life—as “a movement for well-being.”

The network should make the case that free markets forged a path to happiness, whereas big government led to tyranny, Fascism, and even Nazism. Arguing that an increase in the minimum wage would cause higher unemployment, Fink told his audience that unemployment in Germany during the nineteen-twenties had led to the rise “of the Third Reich.”

New Koch: Rebranding the Billionaire Brothers

Here is when the astroturf orgs and think tanks comes into play:

"The AEI was one of dozens of the new think tanks bankrolled by hundreds of millions from the Kochs and their allies. Sold to the public as quasi-scholarly organizations, their real function was to legitimize the right to pollute for oil, gas and coal companies, and to argue for ever more tax cuts for the people who created them.

The amount of spent money has been staggering. Between 2005 and 2008, the Kochs alone spent nearly $25m on organizations fighting climate reform. One study by a Drexel University professor found 140 conservative foundations had spent $558m over seven years for the same purpose.[...]

The genius of this strategy was to “turn corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets”.

Conservative groups may have spent up to $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate change, according to the first extensive study into the anatomy of the anti-climate effort.

The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires, often working through secretive funding networks. They have displaced corporations as the prime supporters of 91 think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations which have worked to block action on climate change.

Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change

Isn't it amusing how predatory capitalism, with its business model based on exploiting the world's natural resources and

dumping poison and waste back into nature

and polluting innocent people

-all in the name of greed,

is accusing everyone else for being "the bad guys" or being "in it for the money"?

LOL.

And when people refuse to bend over for the robber barons, they are just being "hysterical greens pushing socialism"?

Right?

Hilarious.

They want the public to stop thinking and stop being individuals. They want us to become robots and slaves for the 1% rich.

And they even want us to help them take down

governments, democracy, science, education and freedom

and replace it with their

utopian anarcho-capitalist pseudo-religious fascist anarchist heaven where ultra conservative neo-liberal and free enterprise fundamentalist Ayn Rand ideology is fed you non-stop from millions of TV-screens inside gladiator-like colosseums

where

we, their disposable tribe of sheeples, works our arses off for minimum wages before we die bending over for the robber baron casual gods.

They want us to become peasants for plutocracy.

Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a right wing revolution

"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort

Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science

Koch Foundations Funding to Climate Science Denial Front Groups, 1986-2017

BONUS: How the Denial for profit movent is woven into politics and creationists.

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

4. Manipulating public opinion. How to keep your tribe happy but uninformed.

Isn’t it extraordinary how most science is true - as long as it does not interfere with the self interests and the money flow of the 1% rich and the corporate polluters?

And their hired lobbyists and political hacks are somehow always there to tell us that,

we, the “people on the streets”, well, basically everybody, must not dare to think or act or, come up with anything which comes into conflict with their wet dream illusion of a free marked unfettered anarcho capitalist world, right?

Remarkably,

the same individuals surface repeatedly-

the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled", denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive.

• What do you do if all the world's experts disagree with you? A decades old technique perfected by the tobacco industry is to manufacture the appearance of a continued debate through fake experts.

How long are we going to let them dupe us?

"As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change".

Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public

“The goal of the fossil fuel industry is to keep its profits rolling in without interference by government or by new, competing energy sources. The polluters know they dont have any science to back up their arguments. So instead they use the best defence method they can. Which is to polarize and politicize the science.

To keep their money flow going they need the public embroiled in doubt and suspicion; they need to degrade public confidence in science and scientists; they need to harm America’s future—and the world’s future—so that one of the wealthiest industries on Earth can glut and engorge itself in even more wealth.”

Exposing Climate Denialism - The Series

United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Climate denial is driven by fear .

Keep your sheeple uneducated and fogged in fear rhetoric.

College is Bad for America, Say Majority of Republicans

Education for the masses is bad for the asses

Education leads to socialism and democracy. Socialism and democracy leads to communism.

The difference between capitalism and socialism, is equivalent to the difference between freedom for the asses and freedom for the masses.

Read more at: College is Bad for America, Say Majority of Republicans

Fear and Anxiety Drive Conservatives' Political Attitudes

Manipulating public opinion. The Dake Page :

"Denialists know that they have no valid scientific argument; if they did they would present it in scientific journals, conferences, and debates. Their goal isn’t to demonstrate science, it is to manipulate public opinion. That is what lobbyists do, and they do it well. Their goal is to create the illusion of debate, the façade of uncertainty. By continuing the “discussion,” such as it is, in the media, they win. They know that a majority of the public won't understand the intricacies of the science, either by choice or by its complexity. Denialists know that the public will get an overall sense of whether the science is settled or not, and that it is on this vague feeling the public will make judgments as to whether immediate action is needed. Perception is more important than fact, and illusion of reality is much more powerful than actual reality. [...]

What is critical in this game is not what the science tells us, it’s the fact that to the public it appears as if there are two sides arguing with each other. Two sides + arguing = not settled.”

Exposing Climate Denialism - The Series

The biggest misconception is how amateur deniers thinks that the contrarian “science” is actually existing because there is a genuine scientific doubt about the theory of AGW. But there is no doubt about this.

The contrarian “science” is simply noise. It’s fossil fuels self interests hidden in ideology and politics like you would hide your dogs pill inside it’s food.All those denier “arguments”, most of them contradicting each other, are not there to challenge the science. They’re there to create confusion. Doubt.

The only reason why fossil fuels attacks the science of climate change is to create enough doubt about it so it can’t be used as an argument to regulate the polluters; to interfere with the money flow. They are protecting their self interests, and Co2 is their monetary crane. It has NOTHING to do with the science.

One main strategy is the use of astroturfing.

What is astroturfing?

“Astroturfing is the attempt to create an impression of widespread grassroots support for a policy, individual, or product, where little such support exists. Multiple online identities and fake pressure groups are used to mislead the public into believing that the position of the astroturfer is the commonly held view.”

A decades old technique perfected by the tobacco industry is to manufacture the appearance of a continued debate through fake experts. Climate change is a complicated, multi-disciplinary science and yet many of the leading voices who purport to know better than the experts have never published a single piece of climate research.

The professional climate deniers are using the same playbook as the tobacco industry used to play down the hazards of tobacco smoking. A playbook which was created by the lead polluters. Some of the climate denial think tanks are in fact still denying the hazards of tobacco smoking.

Its called denial for profit.

Non-science free market lobbying groups have a long history of setting up fake front organizations and now blogger networks to saturate the public domain with intentional misinformation.

“The world has known about the dangers of climate change for decades — so why are oil and gas companies still drilling for crude as if there’s no tomorrow? There’s no simple answer. But any explanation would have to give some credit to the wizards of public relations. For more than a century, these spinmasters downplayed misdeeds, twisted facts, and cajoled the media into mimicking their talking points.”

How the oil industry pumped Americans full of fake news

5. THE CORRUPT REPUBLICAN PARTY:

“The result of all this is the emergence of an alternate reality on the right, and especially among conservative Republicans in power—one in which an overwhelming scientific consensus can be safely ignored, because so-called experts cannot be trusted to say or do what is in the public's best interest. This is not an accident; it is the product of a massive, well-funded effort to preserve corporate wealth and power at the expense of meaningful action. Even though most Americans want their government to do more to tackle the challenges posed by climate change, the conservative movement's successful hijacking of reality ensures that elected officials in Washington cannot do anything about it.”

How the GOP Became a Potent Force in Climate Science Denial

Who Controls Trump’s Environmental Policy?

Most republican politicians are puppets for the fossil fuel interests.

What is the current state of affairs after 70 years of this climate denial machine? In the US, at least 180 congressional members and senators are declared climate deniers. They’ve received more than US$82 million in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry and its partners.

How US climate machine has left 180 deniers in Congress - Michael West

Republican presidential candidates have banked millions of dollars in donations from a small number of mega-rich individuals and corporations with close ties to the fossil fuel industries that stand to lose the most from the fight against climate change.

Eight out of the 17 GOP figures currently jostling for their party’s presidential nomination have between them attracted a bonanza of at least $62m so far this year from sources either directly involved in polluting industries or with close financial ties to them. Three Republican contenders stand out as recipients of this fossil fuel largesse: the Republican climate change denier-in-chief, Ted Cruz; the party establishment favorite Jeb Bush; and the former governor of Texas, Rick Perry.

The funds have come from just 17 billionaires or businesses that have pumped enormous sums – in one case $15m for a single candidate – into the support groups or Super Pacs that work alongside the official campaigns yet are free to attract unlimited contributions. The $62m forms a substantial chunk of almost $400m that has been given to presidential contenders from both main parties in 2015, raising questions about the leverage that fossil fuel interests might seek to exert over the next occupant of the White House at a critical time for the battle against climate change.

Republican hopefuls reap $62m in support from donors with fossil fuel ties

Q: How much money bribe from oil and gas industry does it take to claim that “climate scientists are in it for the money”?

A: $763,331

Climate scientists slam Rick Santorum's "conspiracy theory" that they're in it for the money

When you have received $763,331 from oil and gas companies, I guess its mandatory to claim that "climate scientists are in it for the money" right?

LOL

Oil & Gas: Money to Congress

In addition to directly funding politicians, the industry also spends heavily on supporting scientific research that spreads climate disinformation.

6. THE BILLION DOLLAR DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS, LOBBYISM and THE GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUELS

Takeaways:

• The IMF found that direct and indirect subsidies for coal, oil and gas in the U.S. reached $649 billion in 2015. Pentagon spending that same year was $599 billion.
• The United States has spent more subsidizing fossil fuels in recent years than it has on defense spending, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund.
• United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education
• Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
• Global fossil fuel subsidies totaled $544 billion in 2012, compared to only $101 billion for renewables. The International Monetary Fund estimates fossil fuel subsidies for 2015 to be $5.3 trillion - an amount equal to 6.5% of global GDP.

Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF

How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?

Taxpayers currently subsidize the oil industry by as much as $4.8 billion a year, with about half of that going to the big five oil companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips—which get an average tax break of $3.34 on every barrel of domestic crude they produce.

Once intended to jump-start struggling domestic drillers, these incentives have become a tidy bonus for some of the world’s most profitable companies.

With Washington looking under the couch cushions for sources of new revenue, oil prices topping $100 a barrel, and the world feeling the heat from its dependence on fossil fuels, there’s been a renewed push to close these decades-old loopholes. But history suggests that Big Oil won’t let go of its perks without a brawl.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc...

Why are taxpayers subsidising the oil and gas companies that jeopardise our future?

Instead of hoping market forces solve the climate crisis, the government needs to stop giving tax breaks to polluters

Why are taxpayers subsidising the oil and gas companies that jeopardise our future? | Clive Lewis

Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report

How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation

The Climate Denial Machine: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Blocks Climate Action.

Global fossil fuel subsidies totaled $544 billion in 2012, compared to only $101 billion for renewables. The International Monetary Fund estimates fossil fuel subsidies for 2015 to be $5.3 trillion - an amount equal to 6.5% of global GDP. More than 40% of this represents subsidies for coal, the most environmentally damaging of all fossil fuels. Although not good news on its face, the disproportionate funding for fossil fuels represents a tremendous opportunity to shift funding to renewable energy without an overall increase in costs.

Global Subsidies - Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables — Environmental Graphiti

Green energy feels the heat as subsidies go to fossil fuels

A new paper published in Climatic Change estimates that when we account for the pollution costs associated with our energy sources, gasoline costs an extra $3.80 per gallon, diesel an additional $4.80 per gallon, coal a further 24 cents per kilowatt-hour, and natural gas another 11 cents per kilowatt-hour that we don’t see in our fuel or energy bills.

https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-ene...

ScienceDirect

How Big Oil Clings to Billions in Government Giveaways

https://www.motherjones.com/poli...

Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending

IMF Survey : Counting the Cost of Energy Subsidies

Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change

Increasingly they are using social media to successfully push their agenda to weaken and oppose any meaningful legislation to tackle global warming.

In the run-up to the US midterm elections last year (2018) $2m was spent on targeted Facebook and Instagram ads by global oil giants and their industry bodies, promoting the benefits of increased fossil fuel production, according to the report published by InfluenceMap.

In a new and incredibly thorough study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle took a deep dive into the financial structure of the climate deniers, to see who is holding the purse strings.

“The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires,” says the Guardian, “often working through secretive funding networks. They have displaced corporations as the prime supporters of 91 think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations which have worked to block action on climate change.”

Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement

There is a very well-funded, well-orchestrated climate change-denial movement, one funded by powerful people with very deep pockets. In a new and incredibly thorough study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle took a deep dive into the financial structure of the climate deniers, to see who is holding the purse strings.

“According to Brulle's research, the 91 think tanks and advocacy organizations and trade associations that make up the American climate denial industry pull down just shy of a billion dollars each year, money used to lobby or sway public opinion on climate change and other issues."

“About $2 billion USD was spent between 2000 and 2016 by a variety of fossil-fuel related actors on US lobbying alone to confuse the issue on climate change, deny the science and prevent action. This is according to a peer-reviewed study published in the Springer journal Climatic Change, a long-lasting interdisciplinary journal with a solid impact factor of 3.537.

The study is

The climate lobby: a sectoral analysis of lobbying spending on climate change in the USA, 2000 to 2016

by Robert Brulle of Drexel University.”

As Brulle points out in his abstract,

“Major sectors involved in lobbying were fossil fuel and transportation corporations, utilities, and affiliated trade associations. Expenditures by these sectors dwarf those of environmental organizations and renewable energy corporations.”

https://phys.org/news/2013-12-ko...

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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that over the last 20 years, private funding has had an important influence on the overall polarization of climate change as a topic in the United States.

Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change

Truth is these interests are spending billions on lobbying officials:

"Lobbying is conducted away from the public eye," explained Brulle. "There is no open debate or refutation of viewpoints offered by professional lobbyists meeting in private with government officials. Control over the nature and flow of information to government decision-makers can be significantly altered by the lobbying process and creates a situation of systematically distorted communication. This process may limit the communication of accurate scientific information in the decision-making process."

As the study concludes, “the environmental organization and the renewable energy sectors were outspent by the corporate sectors involved in the production or use of fossil fuels by a ratio of approximately 10 to 1.”

Conservative groups may have spent up to $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate change, according to the first extensive study into the anatomy of the anti-climate effort.The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires, often working through secretive funding networks.

They have displaced corporations as the prime supporters of 91 think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations which have worked to block action on climate change.

Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change

How lobbyists buy climate change legislation

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https://cleantechnica.com/2016/0...

Yes, Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Real, Destructive And Protected By Lobbying

Senators Not Backing Green New Deal Received On Average 7 Times As Much Fossil Fuel Cash

Senators who urged Trump to leave Paris climate accord took millions from oil companies

Shell, Bayer among multinationals that funded climate scepticism

Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers

7. HOW DO WE RECOGNIZE THE POLLUTERS AND THEIR PUPPETS?

You recognize them when they start to attack environmental laws.

They always attack environmental laws.

These laws are made so that you and I can enjoy clean air and waters. These same laws are called “tax scams” by the polluters. The term “tax scam” will very likely be embraced by anyone who doesn’t like “the government” in the first place.

The EPA was created to protect citizens from pollutions and environmental hazards. But he EPA is now a joke in Trumps America. It’s been hijacked by fossil fuel puppets and climate deniers. FFS, their new chief is a former coal lobbyist.

Trump taps former coal lobbyist to lead EPA

Trumps America is fossil fuels America. How proud deniers must be. Let them eat mercury, as they did lead, asbestos, DDT, mercury nicotine and C02, you know, those other "hoaxes" science warned about. And as usual, these environmental laws will be renamed "tax scams" by the fossil fuels front group propaganda machine, to pander their bent over tribe of gullibles who, as usual, will swallow any anti-governmental lie they design, just because they believe being pro-government makes you a socialist.

And when fossil fuel interests get bogged down in the candy store alone, this is what happens:

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution, according to five people with knowledge of the agency’s plans.

E.P.A. Plans to Get Thousands of Pollution Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math

As EPA stalls, 43 states have water sites contaminated with toxic chemicals

Toxic chemicals found in nonstick cooking pans and other household items have contaminated more than 600 water sources across at least 43 states, according to a new report, with Michigan by far the most impacted.

Toxic chemicals are poisoning communities, and those affected say EPA isn’t doing enough to stop it

As EPA stalls, 43 states have water sites contaminated with toxic chemicals

EPA has granted more than 3,000 pollution monitoring exemptions to oil and gas industry - NationofChange

Tony Cox (center), chairman of the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, has a background as a statistician and no medical degree. Cox says researchers are overstating the dangers of air pollution.

Trump’s air pollution adviser: No proof cleaning up smog saves lives

More:

“In almost every corner of his administration, President Donald Trump has veered sharply from the policies of his predecessor -- and even past Republicans.

But his rollback of regulations designed to limit global warming is one of the clearest ways he has worked to erase a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's legacy.

From promising to leave the landmark Paris climate accord to relaxing restrictions on power plant emissions, Trump has attempted to remove many of the guardrails installed by the Obama administration to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases.

These rollbacks come at a critical time. Earth just endured its hottest month on record, and Greenland's massive ice sheet is melting an alarming rate.

Last fall, the world's top climate scientists warned that we have barely more than a decade to drastically cut global carbon emissions, to avoid facing the worst consequences of the climate crisis -- droughts, wildfires and food shortages impacting hundreds of millions of people.”

Trump's rollback of climate change regulations will be felt far beyond his presidency

President Trump has announced sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act, changes that will benefit big polluters at the expense of America's most vulnerable animals.

President Trump Is Gutting the Endangered Species Act

Donald Trump has announced a replacement for the Clean Power Plan, one that would create hundreds of millions more tons of carbon pollution

The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules

Remember the pesticide linked to childhood brain damage? A pesticide produced by Dow Chemical, the chlorpyrifos manufacturer which has donated to the president?

Well guess what……?

In 2017, Trump administration reversed the ban on the chemical.

E.P.A. Chief, Rejecting Agency’s Science, Chooses Not to Ban Insecticide

Here are the many other environmental rules demolished by Trump

Mercury Limits on Coal Plants No Longer ‘Appropriate,’ EPA Says

EPA Says Limiting Mercury Pollution From Power Plants Is No Longer 'Appropriate and Necessary'

Trump's New Power Plan Comes With a Deadly Price

How Trump damaged science

The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List. (Published 2019)

The Trump Administration’s War on Wildlife Should Be a Scandal

With Amazon in Flames, Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million-Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation

National Parks Getting Trashed During Government Shutdown

Trump Auctions Off 150,000 Acres of Public Lands for Fracking Near Utah National Parks

Trump Auctions Off 150,000 Acres of Public Lands for Fracking Near Utah National Parks

Trump signs resolution to permit dumping mining waste into waterways

https://www.washingtonpost.com/videonational/president-trump-signs-resolution-to-permit-mining-waste-dumping-in-waterways/2017/02/21/cde426aa-f84b-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_video.html?fbclid=IwAR1UWPWoOqUaxdC2WN2Sd0D_bRZeOeRNS_gJ3P9Dlm5lmSksIDepKxhqmVk

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Trump administration loosens protections from offshore drilling disasters

Trump finalizes plans to open Utah monuments for mining and drilling

The Trump administration has reportedly buried reports warning that climate change will harm crops and cause health problems

A running list of how President Trump is changing environmental policy

How the Trump Administration Is Torpedoing Climate Science

Trump administration strips pollution safeguards from drinking water sources

Toxic chemicals that never break down were found in the drinking water in several major US cities

Trump officials weaken protections for animals near extinction

Changes to how Endangered Species Act is implemented come as world scientists warn biodiversity crisis will put humanity at risk

Trump officials weaken protections for animals near extinction

The corruption knows no limits:

When Mother Jones first reported in December 2017 that the Environmental Protection Agency had hired a hyper-partisan GOP opposition research firm known for its aggressive tactics to handle the agency’s news-clipping work, the politically appointed flacks in the agency’s press office insisted the decision was about saving money and the hiring had been handled through normal procurement channels. As we reported Thursday, we now know that was not the case. Internal emails obtained by FOIA show that political appointees in the EPA press office demanded career staff push through the hiring of Definers Public Affairs—best known for its work for Republican campaigns and recently for its role as Facebook’s attack dog on Capitol Hill, which included attempts to smear George Soros for his critiques of the social media network.

Now, thanks to another batch of internal emails, we have even more evidence that the motivation for hiring Definers came from the top agency political appointees who were ticked off at the old service, because it was collecting too many news clips that portrayed then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt negatively.

- Russ Choma & Rebecca Leber, Politics, Mother Jones, Jan 7, 2019

The EPA hired GOP oppo firm because it was sick of "fake news"

Public Citizen report on Koch-Trump connections

America the polluted

8. THE CLIMATE DENIAL MOVEMENT USED THE TOBACCO DENIAL PLAYBOOK:

What do you do if all the world's experts disagree with you? A decades old technique perfected by the tobacco industry is to manufacture the appearance of a continued debate through fake experts. Climate change is a complicated, multi-disciplinary science and yet many of the leading voices who purport to know better than the experts have never published a single piece of climate research.

Tobacco cancer denial was a very well-funded, multi-pronged campaign of manufacturing ignorance. It was a right-wing propaganda and lobbying effort funded by conservatives tied to fossil fuels. It featured bought-and-paid-for scientists working outside of their fields to lend academic authority where none existed in reality.

Global warming denial is a very well-funded, multi-pronged campaign of manufacturing ignorance. It is a right-wing propaganda and lobbying effort funded by conservatives tied to fossil fuels. It features bought-and-paid-for scientists working outside of their fields to lend academic authority where none exists in reality.

Corporate polluters are good at disinformation campaigns:

Now, where do we remember those petitions and surveys from?

How can this “weight control gas” be harmful?

"As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change".

If the internet had been around in the 60s and 70s, climate deniers would be arguing against the health effects of smoking, and dredging up historical/anecdotal examples to insist that lung cancer was "natural", while warning that smoking cessation efforts were all part of a global conspiracy of taxation and socio-economic control.

Tobacco cancer denial was a very well-funded, multi-pronged campaign of manufacturing ignorance. It was a right-wing propaganda and lobbying effort funded by conservatives tied to fossil fuels. It featured bought-and-paid-for scientists working outside of their fields to lend academic authority where none existed in reality.

Global warming denial is a very well-funded, multi-pronged campaign of manufacturing ignorance. It is a right-wing propaganda and lobbying effort funded by conservatives tied to fossil fuels. It features bought-and-paid-for scientists working outside of their fields to lend academic authority where none exists in reality.

"As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change".

Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public

LETS DEBUNK THIS PETITION NONSENSE:

31 000 might appear to be a large number, but this is only 0.3% of american scientists. Most of the signatories are engineers! Now, there is nothing wrong with being an engineer, but you are not a climate scientist.

Only 39 (0.01%) of the signatories of the Oregon-petition are related to climate matters. That’s a very very tiny fringy tracy number. Its so fringe it’s even hard to see without a microscope. It’s like a drop in the ocean where the ocean is the evidence for AGW.

Oregon Petition - Wikipedia

This is totally in tune with a consensus of 97–99% for AGW.

Before we go on, let me say a few words about the cranky men behind the scammy charady Oregon Petition 31 000 list.

Frederick Seitz

[…] “in the 1980s, Seitz decided to become a shill for any corporation willing to pay him enough. He, Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg co-founded the George C. Marshall Institute (a right-wing think tank named after a famous liberal Democrat) in 1984 to hype Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program. One of the initial goals of the organization was to attack the work done by Carl Sagan and his colleagues on nuclear winter. During this time, he was also employed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and helped spread propaganda denying links between smoking and cancer. “

“In the early '90s, Seitz joined the board of another think tank, the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), headed by another physicist-turned-shill, S. Fred Singer. Singer and Seitz's career paths were mirror images. The two co-authored a few works together, denying the dangers of ozone depletion and global warming. Through the Marshall Institute, Seitz helped Arthur Robinson spread the bogus Oregon Petition of 30,000+ "scientists" who "disagreed with the consensus on global warming." The NAS repudiated him.”

Frederick Seitz - RationalWiki

Arthur Robinson

“Arthur B. "Art" Robinson (1942-) is a former chemist and current crank, woo-meister, and fringe political figure. Robinson was a professor of chemistry at the University of California-San Diego until 1972, when he resigned. In 1980, he created the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM). In 1997, he co-authored the brochure that accompanied the Oregon Petition with his son and Willie Soon.”

Yes, that’s the same Willie Soon who took money from Exxon to write junk science reports, the same Willie Soon now a Heartland crank.

"At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work,” the New York Times reported in February 2015"

Smithsonian Gives Nod to More 'Dark Money' Funding for Willie Soon

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher

Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Would 31,000+ scientists signing a petition rejecting climate change as unscientific, be considered a consensus?

Just like the lead polluters knew. Just like asbestos knew, like DDT knew, like tobacco knew. When those polluters realized their product was dangerous, they didn’t share this knowledge with the public. They kept portraying their product as harmless.

We have seen more than six decades of tobacco industry distraction products, promotions and deceptions. They reveled in advertising that implied both reduced risks and even health benefits.

Just like tobacco industry, fossil fuels made it into a lifestyle issue. An ideological issue. For generations, the Tobacco industry has tried to convince millions of people that smoking is cool, sexy and completely harmless. Its become tribal. Black and white. Climate denial has become mandatory for the american right. If you dont hate the government, you’re a socialist.

Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.

Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it.

DENIERS FAVOURITE DENIER THINK TANK THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ARE STILL TALKING DOWN THE HAZARDS OF TOBACCO SMOKING USING THE VERY SAME ARGUMENTS.

You got to see this to believe it:

Anthony Watts - SourceWatch

Deniers favorite fossil fuel think tank front group, the Heartland Institutes view on tobacco and tobacco smoking. Now where have we heard these arguments before?

This is chilling:

Heartland Institute 2019:

"The public health community's campaign to demonize smokers and all forms of tobacco is based on junk science".

"The anti-smoking movement is hardly a grassroots phenomenon: It is largely funded by taxpayers and a few major foundations with left-liberal agendas."

“The association between (second hand) tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.

"There are many reasons to be skeptical about what professional anti-smoking advocates say. They personally profit by exaggerating the health threats of smoking and winning passage of higher taxes and bans on smoking in public places."

More:

Anti-smoking activists give smokers a stark choice: Stop smoking or die! In fact, there is a third path: reduce the harm by shifting to less-hazardous products that provide similar enjoyment

Litigation against the tobacco industry is an example of lawsuit abuse, and has “loaded the gun” for lawsuits against other industries.

Smoking bans hurt small businesses and violate private property rights.

Appeals to “protect the children” don’t justify the war being waged against adult smokers.

Smoker's Lounge | Heartland Institute

Heart of the matter (Heart of the matter)

9. They KNOW our Co2 causes warming. They knew it as early as the 70s:

No wonder why climate deniers “arguments” are so bad, all their junk talking points were made up by ExxonMobil and their polluter friends. After the tobacco playbook.

Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson testified under oath on the witness stand that the company knew for years how human-caused climate change was a significant threat to the world:

"We knew, we knew it was a real issue," Tillerson said. "We knew it was a serious issue and we knew it was one that's going to be with us now, forevermore, and it's not something that was just suddenly going to disappear off of our concern list because it is going to be with us for certainly well beyond my lifetime."

'We knew': Ex oil boss says climate change 'with us forevermore'

New study confirms;

Yes, this is like fighting the tobacco industry again. The only reason we have not fixed the climate crisis, as we fixed the problems with acid rain and the ozone layer, is because the industry spends billions on disinformation - and blocking climate actions.

This is the same disinformation that climate deniers call "healthy skepticism" and / or "evidence" against climate science and the AGW theory.

“The report, which was published by scientists at Harvard, George Mason and Bristol universities, draws parallels between the campaigns launched by tobacco companies and oil industries to mislead the public about their products, both with a goal of delaying government policies and regulations that could cut into their profits.”

“The authors highlight the tactics used by the campaigns, including trotting out fake experts, promoting conspiracy theories and cherry-picking evidence. And they point to specific examples employed by ExxonMobil, including a 2004 New York Times advertisement that read like an editorial. It employed traditional disinformation techniques such as questioning scientific consensus and advocating for a “balanced” scientific approach to climate change, giving weight to those skeptical of the prevailing research.”

Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change

https://www.climatechangecommuni...

Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago

Exxon: The Road Not Taken

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f/pdf

Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show

Shell even made a stark AGW warning movie in 1991:

In A 1991 Film, Shell Oil Issued A Stark Warning About Climate Change

10. THE POLLUTERS INDUSTRIES - A TIME LINE:

“They did everything that becomes known as the signature of the tobacco industry,” said David Rosner, who has helped anti-lead lawsuits and co-wrote the 2013 book “Lead Wars.” “In fact, they were really pioneered by the lead industries. … The (Lead Industries Association) can take credit for creating this giant doubt industry.”

While evidence about the harmful effects of asbestos continued to grow, so did the influence of the asbestos companies. Between 1940 and 1980, the business expanded into a multibillion dollar industry that employed more than 200,000 people.

The success of these companies hinged on keeping the health risks of asbestos a secret — but it was asbestos workers and consumers who paid the price. In order to keep the industry alive and prosperous, many companies took steps to ensure miners, factory workers and the public knew nothing about the true dangers of asbestos.

http://theweek.com/captured/7307...

Jeremy Grantham, the longtime investor famous for calling the last two major bubbles in the market, is urging capitalists and "mainstream economists" to recognize the looming threat of climate change.

"Capitalism and mainstream economics simply cannot deal with these problems. Mainstream economics largely ignore [them]," Grantham, who co-founded GMO in 1977, said Tuesday in an impassioned speech at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago. "We deforest the land, we degrade our soils, we pollute and overuse our water and we treat air like an open sewer, and we do it all off the balance sheet."

This negligence is due in large part to how short-sighted corporations can be, Grantham said. "Anything that happens to a corporation over 25 years out doesn't exist for them, therefore, as I like to say, grandchildren have no value" to them, he said.

- Fred Imbert, CNBC, June 13, 2018

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/...

Targeted industry funding has created a cottage industry of rogue scientists and fake experts who have manipulated public opinion and confused the issue.

In a review of the book The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael D. Gordin, David Morrison wrote:

In his final chapter, Gordin turns to the new phase of pseudoscience, practiced by a few rogue scientists themselves. Climate change denialism is the prime example, where a handful of scientists, allied with an effective PR machine, are publicly challenging the scientific consensus that global warming is real and is due primarily to human consumption of fossil fuels. Scientists have watched in disbelief that as the evidence for global warming has become ever more solid, the deniers have been increasingly successful in the public and political arena. … Today pseudoscience is still with us, and is as dangerous a challenge to science as it ever was in the past.

1900-2000: LEAD

Lead is good for us and not dangerous to children and if you dont bend over and enjoy it youre attacking our industry and our desire to make shitloads of money by ruining public health and your campaign to demonize LEAD is based on junk science and you are probably a leftist government communist out to tax and regulate us out of business

OIL COMPANY DUPONT AND GENERAL MOTORS KNEW LEAD GAS WAS A KNOWN POISON WHEN THEY PUT IT IN GASOLINE AS AN ANTI-KNOCK AGENT.

(Ethanol couldn’t be patented and offered no viable profit for GM, so they were on the lookout for new additives to use. Marketing tetraethyl lead or TEL under the name “Ethyl” (because lead was already known to be poisonous), GM expected to rake in massive amounts of money.)

For decades auto and oil companies denied that lead posed any health risks.

The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of

1930s-1990s ASBESTOS

Asbestos is good for us and if you dont bend over and enjoy it youre attacking our industry and our desire to make shitloads of money by ruining public health and your campaign to demonize asbestos is based on junk science and you are probably a leftist government communist out to tax and regulate us out of business.

"As is often the case with environmental scares, the asbestos “cure” was pushed well ahead of a complete diagnosis. Research has confirmed that asbestos workers who do not use protective breathing apparatus suffer increased health risks. For the remaining 99+ percent of the U.S. population, however, asbestos health risks are virtually nil."

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/testimony-on-asbestos-litigation-1

Massive Asbestos Cover-Up by World's Industrial Giants

1940s-1960s: DDT

DDT is good for us and if you dont bend over and enjoy it youre attacking our industry and our desire to make shitloads of money by ruining public health and your campaign to demonize DDT is based on junk science and you are probably a leftist government communist out to tax and regulate us out of business.

Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup

Now, where do you dump your DDT poison? The ocean.

LATEST:

DDT has serious health effects on humans. According to the EPA, DDT can cause liver damage including liver cancer, nervous system damage, birth defects, and other reproductive harm.

DDT — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts

The WHO is joining forces with the UN Environmental Program to completely phase out DDT worldwide by 2020.

WHO reverses policy on DDT to control malaria

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307606928_Environmental_and_human_health_consequences_of_DDT_used_in_South_Africa_for_malaria_control

DDT finally linked to human health problems

1950s - SMOG.

Smog can NOT irritate respiratory tracts, exacerbate asthma and over time, damage lungs and boost the chances of early death and if you dont bend over and enjoy it you're attacking our industry and our desire to make shitloads of money by ruining public health and your campaign to demonize smog is based on junk science and you are probably a leftist government communist out to tax and regulate us out of business

For Oil Industry, Clean Air Fight Was Dress Rehearsal for Climate Denial

Through the Smoke and Fumes Committee, industry blurred the science surrounding air pollution and worked to forestall unwanted regulation.

Smog can irritate respiratory tracts, exacerbate asthma and over time, damage lungs and boost the chances of early death.

Industry's response to smog and its fight against clean air standards unfolds like a rough draft of the muscular strategy it deployed 40 years later to deny climate science and the need for an urgent policy response, as documented in ICN's series "Exxon: The Road Not Taken."

"How the oil industry handled smog is a template for how it handled a bunch of issues, the most significant being climate change. There's a DNA here that's palpable," said Carroll Muffett, an attorney who is the president of the watchdog group, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). "Through it all, you see the creation of an echo chamber of doubt that takes the small unknowns and uncertainties and magnifies it until all we have is unknowns, when in fact the actual science isn't that way at all."

For Oil Industry, Clean Air Fight Was Dress Rehearsal for Climate Denial

1950s-PRESENT - TEFLON / C8 / Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a toxic and cancer causing chemical.

Teflon is good for us and is not related to cancer and if you dont bend over and enjoy it you're attacking our industry and our desire to make shitloads of money by ruining public health and your campaign to demonize teflon is based on junk science and you are probably a leftist government communist out to tax and regulate us out of business

Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe

DuPont vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe

Behind Du Pont's Shift On Loss of Ozone Layer

DuPont knew it was polluting communities with a toxic chemical, but kept it quiet for decades.

“In 1951, DuPont began purchasing a chemical called perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) for use in manufacturing Teflon. DuPont was given specific instructions on how to dispose of this chemical — it was to be incinerated or sent to chemical-waste facilities. But in the following decades, DuPont pumped hundreds of thousands of pounds of the chemical from its Parkersburg, West Virginia plant into the Ohio River. DuPont also dumped thousands of tons of PFOA sludge into pits, where it seeped straight into the ground and contaminated the drinking water of nearby communities.”

Five Things You Should Know About DuPont Chemical Company

“Sixteen years after residents filed suit claiming to have been injured from poisonous water, DuPont and Chemours Co. said on Monday they had agreed to pay about $671 million in cash to settle several lawsuits related to the leak of a toxic chemical it used to make Teflon”.

DuPont to pay $671 million to end suits over water poisoning

1950s-1980s: NICOTINE

Nicotine is good for us and is not addictive nor related to lung cancer and if you dont bend over and enjoy it you're attacking our industry and our desire to make shitloads of money by ruining public health and your campaign to demonize smokers and all forms of tobacco is based on junk science and you are probably a leftist government communist out to tax and regulate us out of business

Tobacco industry intentionally manipulates cigarettes to make them more addictive.

"A federal court has ordered Altria, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard and Philip Morris USA to make this statement about the health effects of smoking."

Then the bad news begins to flow.

"Smoking causes heart disease, emphysema, acute myeloid leukemia and cancer of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, lung, stomach, kidney, bladder and pancreas."

Heartland Institute 2018:

"The public health community's campaign to demonize smokers and all forms of tobacco is based on junk science".

1990s-2018: C02

C02 is good for us and not related to pollution and climate change and if you dont bend over and enjoy it you're attacking our industry and our desire to make shitloads of money by ruining public health and your campaign to demonize fossil fuels is based on junk science and you are probably a leftist government communist out to tax and regulate us out of business.

The US supreme court ruled that carbon dioxide IS a pollutant is 2007.

Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago

Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show

The mighty polluter industries are still fighting the science just like tobacco industry did.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/n...

11. THE END RESULT IS AMERICA NOW HAVE HALF A POPULATION WHO ARE IN DISTRUST OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS

Among American Conservatives, but not Liberals, trust in science has been declining since the 1970's. Climate science has become particularly polarized, with Conservatives being more likely than Liberals to reject the notion that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the globe

The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science

Journalist Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free :"

The rise of idiot America today represents - for profit mainly, but also and more cynically, for political advantage in the pursuit of power - the breakdown of a consensus that the pursuit of knowledge is a good. It also represents the ascendancy of the notion that the people whom we should trust the least are the people who best know what they are talking about. In the new media age, everybody is an expert."

Richard Hofstadter, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his book, Anti-Intellectualism In American Life, describes

how the vast underlying foundations of anti-elite, anti-reason and anti-science have been infused into America's political and social fabric.

Tom Nichols’ bok, “The Death of Expertise:

“The culture and our educational system have created a generation that has little experience being told they are objectively wrong. Everyone feels they are entitled to be right. Combine this with the illusion of knowledge provided by Google, and everyone thinks they are their own expert in anything.”

12. THE CONSENSUS GAP CREATED BY 75 YEARS OF DISINFORMATION FROM THE CORPORATE POLLUTERS

Climate Change: Most Americans Don’t Know About the Scientific Consensus

A widespread consensus among climate scientists exists on the reality of substantial human-caused climate change. Unfortunately, fewer than 20 percent of Americans are aware of this consensus, despite extensive communication about this consensus by scientists.

Why? Research shows this low level of awareness comes from economically and politically motivated challenges to the reality of climate change from groups with substantial access to resources that influence public opinions. Most notably, the fossil fuel industry has funded the research of a tiny minority of scientists in order to cast doubt on human-caused global climate change.

Why do people believe this tiny minority of scientists? Because the fossil fuel industry then used its enormous financial and political resources to spread this paid-for “research” widely.

People who are not experts in climate change are thus exposed extensively to false information due to the huge megaphone of the fossil fuel industry. Such exposure triggers the “illusory truth effect,” a psychological phenomenon where the more we are exposed to a lie, the more likely we are to believe in. Indeed, research on climate denialist messaging demonstrates that exposure to such information substantially reduces both people’s belief in human-caused climate change and the truthfulness of climate science.

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that over the last 20 years, private funding has had an important influence on the overall polarization of climate change as a topic in the United States.

Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change

Everything about the claim, “global warming (climate change) is a scam”, can be directly linked to fossil fuel front groups and think tanks. Every single time you follow the trail back, this is where you gonna end up. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

To some nonsense about how C02, their monetary crane and Holy Grail, is “good for us”. Everything the professional climate deniers have ever written about this matter, has this one purpose; to protect C02. To portrait C02 as “ a gift from God”.

13. ALL SUMMED UP IN THIS MY RANT:

The hysterical, polemic, paranoid conspiratorial and desperate feigned "us against them" conservative alt-right wingnut ideological free marked fundamentalist libertarian Ayn Rand anti-government anti-regulation anti tax

1% rich propaganda,

with its mandatory and predictable attacks on unwanted (climate) science and smear against scientists and competing green energy, filtered through think tanks and astroturf orgs by their wolf pack attackers, Opinion Piece writers, fake experts and their media-accomplices, all recycled by echo chamber denier blogs and You-Tube-videos by amateur deniers and boys room conspiracy drivlers and web-trolls,

-are really only a

sewer stream of cynical polluters industry self interests,

camouflaged as a political right / left struggle -drag queened in a convulsively socialist witch hunt, posing like its about the "people on the street", the workers (their gullible sheeple) and "the poor people of the world",

but the real agenda is

to legitimize the right to pollute for oil, gas and coal companies, and to argue for ever more tax cuts for the dirty fossil fuel industry and free marked fundamentalists who created them so that one of the wealthiest industries on earth can indulge itself in more wealth and gluttony.

Private corporations take the profit while the undeveloped world, the environment and public health takes the bill.

They duped us with lead

They duped us with asbestos

They duped us with DDT

They duped us with smog.

They duped us with Teflon (C8 /Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)

They duped us with mercury

They duped us with arsenic

They duped us with nicotine

Are we gonna let the mighty polluters run us all over..AGAIN?

With carbon and AGW?

The good news:

Americans are Increasingly “Alarmed” About Global Warming

Why Are People Finally Believing in Climate Change?

Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to How do the Koch brothers feel about global warming and pollution?

Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to What are climate change deniers not admitting? Is it the truth that global warming is human caused, or are they denying that they know it is real but won't admit it?

Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why do some people deny climate change?

Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why does Trump mock global warming?