OH BUT NOT ALL SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL!
OK, let’s have a look at these scientists and – more importantly - who funds them.
There are not many of them, because over 99% of scientists agree that climate change is happening, is accelerating fast, and is caused by human activity since the Industrial Revolution. Here are the most prominent:
DR. WILLIE SOON: An astrophysicist (formerly at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) known for downplaying human activity and arguing solar variation is the primary driver of global climate shifts. His work has been roundly debunked by the scientific community, and (here's the kicket) his work has been funded almost entirely by fossil fuel companies, energy lobby groups, and conservative billionaires, totalling over $1.2 million.
DR. WILLIAM HAPPER: A physicist at Princeton University who has argued that increased atmospheric CO₂ is beneficial and is not the primary cause of global warming. Peer reviews of his work demonstrate that his arguments rely on cherry-picked historical data, incomplete physics models, and a misrepresentation of the carbon cycle.
His work and advocacy are funded by right wing foundations and fossil fuel industry interests, often routed through the CO2 Coalition which relies on financial support from prominent right-wing organisations.
DR. RICHARD LINDZEN: An atmospheric physicist and former MIT professor, notable for his scepticism regarding the severity and impact of anthropogenic climate change. The scientific community refutes Dr. Richard Lindzen’s climate change theories. He frequently argues that the climate is largely insensitive to increases in greenhouse gases, claiming that a doubling of atmospheric CO₂ would only lead to a temperature increase of less than 1°C. Research indicates that a response to a doubling of CO₂ is approximately 3°C. Lindzen's own predictions from the late 1980s vastly underestimated the amount of warming we have experienced, while mainstream projections have proven highly accurate.
His climate change advocacy, lectures and expert testimony have been funded by fossil fuel interests, conservative think tanks and right-wing foundations. He also receives money from climate sceptic organisations and serves on the Academic Advisory Council of the UK-based Global Warming Policy Foundation and was a member of the Annapolis Center, a think tank heavily backed by ExxonMobil.
See a pattern here?
Climate change denial is a heavily financed lobbying and disinformation industry, bankrolled by vested interests. Its scientists, think tanks and advocacy organisations receive a billion dollars a year. Historically, this money has come largely from fossil fuel corporations, but right-wing foundations like the Charles G. Koch (a petrochemical billionaire) Charitable Foundation have provided vast sums to organisations that actively campaign against climate legislation.
Right wing billionaires underwrite the climate change denial movement, often working through secretive funding networks, funnelling money through groups and think tanks such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute and the Heritage Foundation. These groups employ climate deniers or distribute their work, hiring people to make films, write books, or go on TV to say that climate change is not real.
The tobacco industry used the very same tactics – when the scientific consensus was that smoking harmed health, the tobacco industry funded fringe (or bought) scientists to say that it was fine, smoke all you want, it won’t hurt you. (In fact, this was some of the same people, and some of the same funding sources that fund climate denial.) It was a massive scandal. Now we don’t even question that smoking is dangerous and look with disbelief at those ‘scientists’ who were bought and paid for. This is a much bigger scandal, and the planet itself is at stake.
There are not many of them, because over 99% of scientists agree that climate change is happening, is accelerating fast, and is caused by human activity since the Industrial Revolution. Here are the most prominent:
DR. WILLIE SOON: An astrophysicist (formerly at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) known for downplaying human activity and arguing solar variation is the primary driver of global climate shifts. His work has been roundly debunked by the scientific community, and (here's the kicket) his work has been funded almost entirely by fossil fuel companies, energy lobby groups, and conservative billionaires, totalling over $1.2 million.
DR. WILLIAM HAPPER: A physicist at Princeton University who has argued that increased atmospheric CO₂ is beneficial and is not the primary cause of global warming. Peer reviews of his work demonstrate that his arguments rely on cherry-picked historical data, incomplete physics models, and a misrepresentation of the carbon cycle.
His work and advocacy are funded by right wing foundations and fossil fuel industry interests, often routed through the CO2 Coalition which relies on financial support from prominent right-wing organisations.
DR. RICHARD LINDZEN: An atmospheric physicist and former MIT professor, notable for his scepticism regarding the severity and impact of anthropogenic climate change. The scientific community refutes Dr. Richard Lindzen’s climate change theories. He frequently argues that the climate is largely insensitive to increases in greenhouse gases, claiming that a doubling of atmospheric CO₂ would only lead to a temperature increase of less than 1°C. Research indicates that a response to a doubling of CO₂ is approximately 3°C. Lindzen's own predictions from the late 1980s vastly underestimated the amount of warming we have experienced, while mainstream projections have proven highly accurate.
His climate change advocacy, lectures and expert testimony have been funded by fossil fuel interests, conservative think tanks and right-wing foundations. He also receives money from climate sceptic organisations and serves on the Academic Advisory Council of the UK-based Global Warming Policy Foundation and was a member of the Annapolis Center, a think tank heavily backed by ExxonMobil.
See a pattern here?
Climate change denial is a heavily financed lobbying and disinformation industry, bankrolled by vested interests. Its scientists, think tanks and advocacy organisations receive a billion dollars a year. Historically, this money has come largely from fossil fuel corporations, but right-wing foundations like the Charles G. Koch (a petrochemical billionaire) Charitable Foundation have provided vast sums to organisations that actively campaign against climate legislation.
Right wing billionaires underwrite the climate change denial movement, often working through secretive funding networks, funnelling money through groups and think tanks such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute and the Heritage Foundation. These groups employ climate deniers or distribute their work, hiring people to make films, write books, or go on TV to say that climate change is not real.
The tobacco industry used the very same tactics – when the scientific consensus was that smoking harmed health, the tobacco industry funded fringe (or bought) scientists to say that it was fine, smoke all you want, it won’t hurt you. (In fact, this was some of the same people, and some of the same funding sources that fund climate denial.) It was a massive scandal. Now we don’t even question that smoking is dangerous and look with disbelief at those ‘scientists’ who were bought and paid for. This is a much bigger scandal, and the planet itself is at stake.
