from "Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations" (http://link.springer.com/...)
These 20 organizations provide 59.95% of the funding for the Climate Change Counter-Movement [CCCM].
20 Top Climate Denial Funders (0 / 0)
Foundation Funding of U.S. National Climate Counter-movement By Foundation
Donors Trust/Donors Capital Fund: 14.16%
Scaife Affiliated Foundations: 7.1%
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.: 5.32%
Koch Affiliated Foundations: 4.73%
Howard Charitable Foundation: 4.45%
John William Pope Foundation: 3.94%
Searle Freedom Trust: 3.91%
John Templeton Foundation: 3.63%
Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking: 2.46%
Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.: 2.43%
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program: 2.35%
The Kovner Foundation: 2.30%
Annenberg Foundation: 2.03%
Lilly Endowment Inc.: 1.84%
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation: 1.80%
ExxonMobil Foundation: 1.29%
Brady Education Foundation, Inc.: 1.23% [for just one year, 2003]
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.: 1.20%
Coors Affiliated Foundations: 1.11%
Lakeside Foundation: 1.04%
It might be useful to identify organizations represented on the boards of
the different countermovement organizations and correlate them with the top 90 greenhouse gas emitters from "Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854–2010"
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Here are the top 20 greenhouse gas emitters from "Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854–2010"
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Just as a start.
Top twenty investor- and state-owned entities and percentage of attributed CO2 and CH4 emissions [measured as MtCO2e or metric tons CO2 equivalent] from 1751-2010
1. Chevron, USA: 3.52 %
2. ExxonMobil, USA: 3.22 %
3. Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia: 3.17 %
4. BP, UK: 2.47 %
5. Gazprom, Russian Federation: 2.22 %
6. Royal Dutch/Shell, Netherlands: 2.12 %
7. National Iranian Oil Company: 2.01 %
8. Pemex, Mexico: 1.38 %
9. ConocoPhillips, USA: 1.16 %
10. Petroleos de Venezuela: 1.11 %
11. Coal India: 1.07 %
12. Peabody Energy, USA: 0.86 %
13. Total, France: 0.82 %
14. PetroChina, China: 0.73 %
15. Kuwait Petroleum Corp.: 0.73 %
16. Abu Dhabi NOC, UAE: 0.67 %
17. Sonatrach, Algeria: 0.64 %
18. Consol Energy, Inc., USA: 0.63 %
19. BHP-Billiton, Australia: 0.52 %
20. Anglo American, United Kingdom: 0.50%Based on CDIAC’s [Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center http://cdiac.ornl.gov ] global emissions 1751–2010
Half of the total industrial CO2 and CH4 [methane] emissions from 1751 to 2010 has been emitted since 1984 (Marland et al. 2011). Half of the emissions traced to major carbon fossil fuel and cement production has been emitted since 1986.
"...this analysis highlights the role of some non-Annex I nations, such Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Mexico, Iran, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Libya, Nigeria, Indonesia, Brazil, and other countries that have not been at the center of discussions regarding responsibility for controlling emissions. Some of these nations are, in their role as carbon producers, as important contributors to climate change as the Annex I nations who until now have been the focus of attention."
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