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June 29th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
Conservative media is all a flutter with news that the democratic side of the isle has finally had enough of their climate change deniers, and are reporting that “operatives responsible for creating their party’s platform this year have unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies who disagree with Democrats on global warming science.”
According to the Progressive Democratic Values (PDV) draft platform section on “climate change and clean energy”, the party is not seeking to “prosecute global warming skeptics”, but rather are asking that “the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change.”
It is true that oil, gas and coal companies have been funding climate change denial with pseudo-science.
Last year it was revealed that Exxon Mobil has known since 1981 that their company is directly contributing to the changing climate, but chose to fund climate change deniers for the last 30 years.
Reports state ExxonMobil has acknowledged and admitted that climate change poses risks; however the corporation firmly denies funding climate change denial groups.
Previous investigations into Wei-Hock Soon, astrophysicist for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center (HSC), being paid by oil and gas corporations including ExxonMobil for climate denial science has recently come to light.
Soon’s work has been the cornerstone of climate denial by Senator Jim Inofe, the man who threw a snowball onto the senate floor claiming to have disproved global warming.
The non-climate scientist and favorite denier of oil corporations has received an estimated $1.2 million from industry giants such as:
• Koch Charitable Foundation
• American Petroleum
• ExxonMobil Foundation
• Texaco Foundation
• American Petroleum Institute
Just recently, Peabody Energy, the world largest coal distributors, was caught funding climate deniers, industry lobbyists and conservative think tanks such as:
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSGC)
• American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
• Oklahoma Chapter of Americans For Prosperity (AFP)
Court documents show that Peabody invested in organizations and corporations that “have fought Barack Obama’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and denied the very existence of climate change.”
For example, in 2014 , ALEC tried to change their climate denying image by writing a letter to 156 state lawmakers stating that “no ALEC model policy denies climate change” and added a position statement on renewable energy wherein they repeated their insistence that they are not a “climate denier organization”.
However, their Environmental Literacy Improvement program adopted in classrooms across the nation teach children to be skeptical of climate science under the guise of having a “balanced” view.
And on the legislative level, ALEC has opposed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) clean power plan because they said it as devoid of showing the climatic benefits of limiting coal-produced emissions; even though the entire plan is centered on climate change and the reduction of its effects.
AFP are known for distorting climate science. Their officials are “promoting untenable conspiracy theories to challenge” the scientific consensus that fossil fuel pollution caused by humans is warming the planet.
As far back as 2009, AFP held a summit funded by the Koch Brothers, with speaker Myron Ebell who said: “First I want to talk about global warming for a minute. Here’s the last 30 years. You’ll see for the last ten years we haven’t had any global warming. I think that shows the models are phony.”
Officials from the AFP have also claimed that “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant” and argue that it’s a “falsehood” that sea levels are rising.
Through this organization, the Koch Brothers have been able to gain a foot-hold on climate science; however they have invested nearly $80 million into climate denial since 1997.
Through other groups like Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund , Koch has had the ability to influence policies and delay regulations aimed at mitigating or preventing global warming.
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