One of the greatest inanities that occurs in the climate wars is the claim that skeptics are lavishly funded by “big oil” or other political interests. t is a claim that is made multiple times daily and blogs and newspaper articles and magazine articles and yet where is the evidence that such a thing is a reality?
I’m often targeted as being in the pay of one of those interest and yet when you look at my reality I had to beg for help to get to Bristol, to visit the Mann and Cook lectures. I relied on the good graces of our daily readers for which I thank you.
So with this huge disparity it struck me as ironic that this ad appeared at the top of WUWT today. It likely appeared because I’m traveling and came from a new IP address. I had never seen it before but I’m not at all surprised that it would show up given the content and nature of this blog.
A look at the EDF finances page is quite telling:
Above are screencaps of their finances, on the page are also a number of PDF’s reporting their income.
With the kind of money that EDF gets on an annual basis one wonders why they have to resort to begging for a dollar. One also wonders who would be stupid enough to send money to these people when clearly they have more than they need. Money sent to a private organization won’t make a dent in temperature, even if there was a temperature rise worth worrying about.
Back in 2009 Jo Nova did a report that tracked the amount of money in climate, and produced this graph
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It would be interesting to see if “the pause” has had an effect on funding, or if the steep trend continues.
I believe that technology and prosperity building are the way forward, and with those, the worries over posited man-made climate change will solve themselves in the future.
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Today November 11, 2014 the cards of IPCC finally is up on the table – and from Swedish Professors who continue to believe in AWG and Climate Change…..
The professors a sad case. That they manage to place the real reason why IPCC and others were fooled to believe in a CO2-threat that doesn’t exist , well that’s good.
B.t.w. why didn’t the funding companies and organization behind the false information give the true reason – or is it only a few who been told why that’s the real reason…..
IPCC förordar kärnkraft för att minska utsläppen, Prof. Ane Håkansson, Prof. Jan Ottosson, Fil. Dr Staffan Qvist, Fil.Dr Sophie Graphe, Tekn. Dr Carl Hellesen, Tekn. dr. Mattias Lantz, Prof Stephan Pomp; SvD Brännpunkt 11 november 2014 Btw. they are part in the case….
Most of them are working at Uppsala University Inst. Physics and Astronomy, tillämpad Fysik…..
and Prof Ane Håkansson has been working close to Nordic Academy for Nuclear Safety and Security (NANSS) NANSS Seminar June 10.11.2013
Now we know WHY but we still haven’t found the full answer to the big question: Where have all the money gone?
CodeTech
November 10, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Just to make this clear, here’s an example of ads:
“With estimates as high as 6.8C warming in the next 100 years…
(pictures of deserts and desolation)
Now is the time to spend on Climate Education.
Donate now, you can help save the planet”
or
“Stop the multi-billion dollar disinformation campaigns!
Donate NOW to support Climate Reality”
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…….. and don’t forget “It’s for the children”. sarc
and don’t forget “It’s for the children”.
Starve now, save later.
It is all the fault of President Eisenhower — while he warned us about the dangers of the Military Industrial Complex — he failed to warn us about the far more insidious and far more devious and far more dangerous — Government – Academia – Media Complex
we just had in another domain a bit of light cast upon this — MIT Prof of Economics Dr. Jonathan Gruber [popularly considered as the ‘architect of ObamaCare’] — spilled the beans at a panel discussion about the Affordable Care Act — his words have recently gone viral [not ebola though]
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass. It’s a second-best argument. Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”
As Homes [Sherlock] says — follow the academic and his paws on our money
It gets even worse, now Gruber is trying to claim that “Republicans are trying to confuse people about Obamacare” see the story over at RealClearPolitics
The “everyone does it” excuse. He has admitted lying so is trying to say everyone is doing it. Problem is, only fools are going to believe him now!
WestHighlander: I don’t have the reference readily to hand, but my recollection is that Eisenhower DID make reference to a government-academia complex in the same context as the military-industrial complex.
If you follow the CO2 AGW $, then it ALWAYS arrives at the dorrstep of the Nuclear Power Industry