| Billionaires Secretly Fund Attacks on Climate Science |
| To protect short term self-interest so wealthy men can get richer. In future years this will be seen as crimes against humanity. |
| STEVE CONNOR, Science Editor - The Independent (UK) |
| A secretive funding organization in the United States that guarantees anonymity for its billionaire donors has emerged as a major operator in the climate "counter movement" to undermine the science of global warming, The Independent has learnt. The Donors Trust, along with its sister group Donors Capital Fund, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is funnelling millions of dollars into the effort to cast doubt on climate change without revealing the identities of its wealthy backers or that they have links to the fossil fuel industry. However, an audit trail reveals that Donors is being indirectly supported by the American billionaire Charles Koch who, with his brother David, jointly owns a majority stake in Koch Industries, a large oil, gas and chemicals conglomerate based in Kansas. Millions of dollars has been paid to Donors through a third-party organization, called the Knowledge and Progress Fund, with is operated by the ... |
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Comments: 15
You write such things as, Wealth begets wealth." How can wealth create wealth? Has this ever happened in life?
Yoshi,
What is "investment"? Will, intention, intelligence and experience are real . The process is the reality, not the ups and downs and the rise and fall of civilizations. " There is nothing new under the sun."