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The KOCHtopus strangles the truth on climate change – profit is their motive

Koch Brothers and Their Amazig Climate Change Denial http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/22/koch-brothers-produce-counterfeit-climate-report-deceive-congress an upcoming junk study from a Koch-funded think tank that has taken on the format and appearance of a truly scientific report from the US Government, but is loaded with lies and misrepresentation of actual climate change science. The false report is a tentacle of the Kochtopus–with oil and industrial billionaires Charles and David Koch at the head.

The report’s disgraced author, Patrick Michaels, has made his largely
undistinguished career shilling for fossil fuel interests, including
his stay at the Cato Institute, which published the counterfeit
report. After admitting to CNN that 40% of his funding is from the oil
industry alone, …… The Kochs’ combined $62 billion in wealth comes
from Koch Industries operations in oil refining, pipelines, tar sands
exploration, chemical production, deforestation and fossil fuel
commodity trading, all of which contribute to global climate change
and the types of extreme weather Americans are now starting to
recognize as symptoms of global warming.

Wary of how public concern over climate change could drop demand for
fossil fuel products, the Kochs have spent the last 15 years dumping
over $61 million to front groups telling us that global warming
doesn’t exist, or that it would destroy our economy to stop runaway
climate change….. Cato’s counterfeit report is classic global
warming denial that is clearly designed to be confused for actual
science.

Its author, its publisher and its billionaire supporters have all been
key to the coordinated public relations effort that has blocked
climate policy in this country by making climate science a partisan
issue in this country and rallying the American public behind the very
lies they themselves fabricated. The junk report has already been
circulated by other climate science deniers and even cited in a
Congressional presentation….
http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/22/koch-brothers-produce-counterfeit-climate-report-deceive-congress

October 24, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, USA