The Climate Change Denial Industry

 

“ExxonMobil gave more than $2.3m to members of Congress and a corporate lobbying group that deny climate change and block efforts to fight climate change – eight years after pledging to stop its funding of climate denial, the Guardian has learned.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/exxon-mobil-gave-millions-climate-denying-lawmakers

 

 

 

“Last week Ted Nordhaus of The Breakthrough Institute wrote that the Earth’s carrying capacity for humanity is not fixed. Apparently, we’re living in a magical world that is immune to ecological laws.

 

As you might imagine, I disagree.

 

My response to his article was published today in Undark Magazine.

https://undark.org/article/ted-nordhaus-carrying-capacity-ecology/

 

 

What warning signs would you expect to see if we humans were pressing at the limits of global carrying capacity? Resource depletion? Check. Pollution? Check. Dying oceans? Check.”  Richard Heinberg

 

Sky:  Further – The Breakthrough Institute’s Inconvenient History with Al Gore

April 14, 2014, by Paul D. Thacker

 

“While sometimes functioning as shadow universities, think tanks have been exposed as quasi lobbying organizations, with little funding transparency. Recent research has also pointed out that think tanks suffer from a lack of intellectual rigor. A case in point is the Breakthrough Institute run by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, which describes itself as a “progressive think tank.”

 

https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/breakthrough-institutes-inconvenient-history-al-gore