Big Bucks Against The Truth About Global Warming

This is not really a surprise.  I thought I was paying attention but this obscure company, Koch Industries, has spent over $73 million to help fund the deniers and this is the first I have heard of them. I should have been following my own advice and been following the money. This just shows what a well funded and concerted effort there is to stifle the conservation and alternative energy effort. These guys are playing for keeps in more ways than one.

Greenpeace says that Koch Industries donated nearly $48m (£31.8m) to climate opposition groups between 1997-2008. From 2005-2008, it donated $25m to groups opposed to climate change, nearly three times as much as other  higher-profile companies during that time such as oil company Exxon Mobil. Koch also spent $5.7m on political campaigns and $37m on direct lobbying to support fossil fuels.

In a hard-hitting report, which appears to confirm environmentalists' suspicions that there is a well-funded opposition to the science of climate change, Greenpeace accuses the funded groups of "spreading inaccurate and misleading information" about climate science and clean energy companies.

"The company's network of lobbyists, former executives and organisations has created a forceful stream of misinformation that Koch-funded entities produce and disseminate. The propaganda is then replicated, repackaged and echoed many times throughout the Koch-funded web of political front groups and think tanks," said Greenpeace.