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WeAreKochs

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4. Follow the Money
Tue Aug 12, 2014, 11:06 AM
Aug 2014

"Follow the Money"

The anti-climate change movement is heavily funded by the large polluters. Greenpeace is hardly objective, themselves, but they have done some great work to aggregate some of the work done to identify where the money comes from.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/

The game is simple:

1) Fund "studies" by seemingly objective think-tanks and academics to support your predetermined conclusions

2) Promote the "conclusions" of those studies in sympathetic media outlets and cite them without revealing the conflicts of interest

3) Lobby government with the output of said studies to support sympathetic partisan talking points

4) Repeat ad-nauseum

It's genius, really, in an evil sort of way.

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