This comes as no surprise that the billionaire brothers that prefer to keep their lavishly funded network for gaining political influence at the state and national levels as anonymous and untraceable as lawyers can devise, wouldn't want to take part in a public debate on human caused climate change.
Koch brothers decline invitation to debate climate change
By Roy Wenzl
A group supporting the political views of retired billionaire investor Tom Steyer bought a full-page color advertisement Friday in The Wichita Eagle — the Koch brothers’ hometown newspaper — inviting the brothers to a public debate on climate change.
The brothers, Charles and David, don’t plan to take him up on it.
“We are not experts on climate change,” wrote Koch spokeswoman Melissa Cohlmia in an e-mail Friday afternoon.
Heather Wong, a spokeswoman for NextGen Climate Action, responded to Cohlmia’s comment. NextGen, which paid for the ad and was founded by Steyer, claims to be non-partisan and “focused on bringing climate change to the forefront of America’s political dialogue.”
“We’re glad that Koch Industries has acknowledged that they are not experts on climate change,” Wong said in an e-mail. “The scientific community has in fact had a free and open debate about climate change and reached an unequivocal conclusion: Our climate is changing and carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels is primarily responsible.”
The political advertisement in Friday’s Eagle labeled itself as, “An invitation to the Koch brothers” and juxtaposed photographs of David Koch vs. Steyer side by side.
“The Koch Brothers have always been shrouded in secrecy, their labyrinth of shadowy organizations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars benefiting candidates who deny basic science and push legislation that enables climate change,” the advertisement read. “Charles Koch has already mourned the oppression of ‘free and open debate.’ Here’s his chance to do something about it.”
The Koch Brothers would rather do their lying about climate change through the Heartland Institute (who informs us
climate change will be good for us) or one of their other front organizations. So to stand up and personally tell their lies in public isn't part of their sneaky style.
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