Can Supertyphoons Convince the Kochs to Stop Opposing US Carbon Controls?

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http://www.alternet.org/environment/can-supertyphoons-convince-kochs-stop-opposing-us-carbon-controls

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How Koch Cash Kills

The Kochs privately outspend all other oil companies—even Exxon—to block the urgent phase out of fossil fuels and to undermine the emerging clean energy economy. The Koch Brothers lead the way in campaign contributions, direct lobbying, skeptical science, and other areas to unduly influence carbon pollution policies.

As a disastrous drought hit America’s heartland in August of 2012, the Kochs’ own climate science skeptics concluded that humans’ carbon emissions were without doubt dangerously warming our Earth’s surface temperatures, but the two brothers funded ever more furiously an expanding political influence network, including almost a half billion dollars to turn the 2012 elections to seize the Senate and replace the President with a message of “economic freedom.”

Sharing a combined net worth that has billowed upward from $80B to $92B in only the past ten months of 2013, the Kochs’ fossil fuel fortune gives them much more money than the world’s wealthiest man (Bill Gates has $72B) to spend on manipulating politics.

Their “Kochtopus” is aimed at attacking carbon regulations while advancing fossil fuels exploitation everywhere as part of an extremist “shrink government” narrative that is dividing conservatives across America.

[TexasProgresive]

1. I doubt it.

They will try to make a profit in some way from the disasters and will probably get the government to rebuild any Koch infrastructure damaged by such storms.

[Berlum]

2. Kochtopus (R)

[hobbit709]

3. Not until they get hit by one.

[hatrack]

4. And even if a Cat-5 leveled the entire petrochemical industry in Houston . . . .

They'd just start bellowing for even more fracking and tar sands pipelines to take up the slack.

Recognize climate breakdown? When hippos fly.

[abelenkpe]

5. Did it hit them? Destroy their property or kill their family?

Then no.

[spanone]

6. only if there is a profit margin

[City Lights]

7. No, unless they get caught in one.

They only care about themselves and their money.

[treestar]

8. No, right wingers simply say it has nothing to do with it

There have always been typhoons, and this one happened to be really bad, but there have always been really bad typhoons.

Some right wingers even say it is up to God.

The first argument - I think we need to do better than just assert that it's caused by global warming. What do we have to back that up?

[LiberalEsto]

9. What, them worry?

If it doesn't affect them personally (and they can jet anywhere on the planet to avoid superstorms), and it doesn't wallop them in the pocketbook, the Kockroaches won't give a flying fuck about it.

[gopiscrap]

10. no for those fuckers it's

all about making their money NOW!!!