A great piece in DeSmogBlog by Graham Readfearn has revealed some of the funding behind Bjorn Lomborg, who is one of the most prolific voices arguing against climate action. In the piece we learn that Lomborg — after losing public funding from the Danish Government for his think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) — turned to less savory sources to keep CCC going.
Readfearn reports that Lomborg not only receives $775,000 a year from the CCC as his annual salary, but also receives money from secretive conservative groups to keep the center afloat. So despite the insistence of CCC's executive vice president, Roland Mathiasson, that "[CCC does] not take funding from [the] fossil fuel industry," it appears they have received grants from Koch-connected, climate-change denying groups.