IPCC: Humans are primary cause of Climate Change - Page 19

PHILADELPHIA, December 20, 2013
A new study conducted by Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement. This study marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted of the sources of funding that maintain the denial effort.

Through an analysis of the financial structure of the organizations that constitute the core of the countermovement and their sources of monetary support, Brulle found that, while the largest and most consistent funders behind the countermovement are a number of well-known conservative foundations, the majority of donations are “dark money,” or concealed funding.

The data also indicates that Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, two of the largest supporters of climate science denial, have recently pulled back from publicly funding countermovement organizations. Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to countermovement organizations through third party pass-through foundations like Donors Trust and Donors Capital, whose funders cannot be traced, has risen dramatically.

Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science in Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences, conducted the study during a year-long fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. The study was published today in Climatic Change, one of the top 10 climate science journals in the world.

On September 27 2013 22:56 AUFKLARUNG wrote:
Key Metrics Characterizing Anthropogenic Climate Change
Equilibrium climate sensitivity is likely in the range 2°C–4.5°C, and very likely above 1.5°C. The most likely value is near 3°C. Equilibrium climate sensitivity greater than about 6°C–7°C is very unlikely. The total amount of anthropogenic emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases largely determines the warming in the 21st century. The global mean warming per 1000 PgC is very likely between 0.8°C–3°C.

On December 25 2013 02:22 FallDownMarigold wrote:
This is the most recently bumped thread concerning climate change, so.... Figured I'd post this little set of FunFactz here rather than shit out an entire new thread:

[Big-ass images about the funding of "denial".]
http://www.drexel.edu/now/news-media/releases/archive/2013/December/Climate-Change/

Not terribly surprising. Thought it was funny that Koch + Exxon are wary of their intellectually embarrassing positions

On December 27 2013 18:04 Amaroq64 wrote:


Right-wingers fund global warming denial, and Left-wingers fund global warming alarmism. What else is new?

All of this hubbub about humans affecting global warming is for a political purpose. Right-wingers want to leave us alone in the economy and control what we do in the bedroom, and Left-wingers want to leave us alone in the bedroom and control what we do in the economy.

That's what all of this is implying. That human economic action needs to be restrained in order to "save the planet". But you know what the real solution is?

Leave the market free so creative/inventive people can come up with solutions to whatever global changes we may or may not be facing. What's the solution to polution, you may ask? Individual rights. Primarily your right to life and right to property. If someone poisons your land, water, or your body, take them to court. That's the free-market solution to pollution.

If green energy is so great, let it compete on the free market. Get both left-wing and right-wing political influence out of the market so that the best man truly wins. Then innovation can happen and things can change for the better. We humans have come this far. Americans from the shirts on our backs to the industrial revolution to the sprawling, technologically advanced society we have today, thanks to Capitalism. Just let that work and you'll see whatever innovations we need.