Pssst - Steve Connor wears an AFDB
Steve Connor writes for the
UK Independent:
Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science
A secretive funding organisation in the United States that guarantees anonymity for its billionaire donors has emerged as a major operator in the climate "counter movement" to undermine the science of global warming, The Independent has learnt.
The Donors Trust, along with its sister group Donors Capital Fund, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is funnelling millions of dollars into the effort to cast doubt on climate change without revealing the identities of its wealthy backers or that they have links to the fossil fuel industry.
However, an audit trail reveals that Donors is being indirectly supported by the American billionaire Charles Koch who, with his brother David, jointly owns a majority stake in Koch Industries, a large oil, gas and chemicals conglomerate based in Kansas.
AFDB?
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie -- otherwise known as a tinfoil hat. Keeps the voices out 'ya know...
I find it amazing that people get so worked up by stuff like this. If we were actually seeing signs of man-made global warming, people like the Koch brothers would be moving heaven and earth to research this and find solutions. Since the Earth's temperature has been declining for the last nineteen years, there is no evidence of any warming. Our sun is a variable star and Earth is emerging from its most recent ice age.
Posted by DaveH at January 25, 2013 10:37 AM