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Hey, have you ever wondered how much money goes into the groups orchestrating opposition to offshore wind (OSW) projects up and down the East Coast? Well, it turns out it's something like $72 million — just between 2017 and 2021! That's the big figure...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 05:59 AM PST
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A cartoon by Jeff Danziger.
by Jeff Danziger
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 11:59 AM PST
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I’m not a CNN hater. It’s a good place as any to get the news. But certainly, there is right wing crap that gets in there. I have no problem with hearing the view of the view intelligent conservatives that are out there. But when right wing crap is...
by RhodeIslandAspie
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 04:26 PM PST
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The United States Government will run out of money this week end if Congress does not act. This is inevitable given the posture of the House Fredom Caucus. Observers universally see the caucus as determined to “burn the place down.” Historically, shut...
by Greg from Vermont
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 09:16 AM PDT
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Mostly deleted for my realizing comparing Trump to a disease is dehumanizing. Plus I’m sick, tired and cranky and should not have spewed my pessimism onto you all. Apologies around. I’m keeping the summary below so folks coming late know what I was at...
by Peter Olandt
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on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 07:48 AM PDT
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In April, we noticed fisherman Jerry Leeman was impressively adept at anti-offshore wind media relations work, and wondered if he was receiving assistance from professional disinformation operatives. Then last month, we spotted a tell suggesting Leeman...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 06:12 AM PDT
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It never hurts to get a reminder of who the enemy is. It’s been written here before about the war of the rich against the rest of us. The rich are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get the kind of country they want: Little or no taxes for...
by RickElia
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 06:59 AM PDT
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A staple tactic that industries use to defend their dangerous products from regulation is to fund other organizations to argue on their behalf, without the appearance of having an obvious conflict of interest. Sometimes it's obvious front groups set up...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 06:01 AM PDT
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It's 2015, and Koch network operatives are reportedly not working with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, as its operatives go to work for the Donald Trump campaign. It's 2016, and Koch network operatives are staffing Donald Trump's presidential...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri Mar 24, 2023 at 06:57 AM PDT
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by Chloe Humbert, crosspost from Teams Human
If you think things are mostly the usual, or will just blow over in a bit on Twitter, I want you to look up the term “normalcy bias” now.
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by watermelonpunch
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on Mon Dec 19, 2022 at 10:07 AM PST
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Regular readers of the denier roundup know this already, but former journalist John Stossels is now a leading disinformation producer, regularly featuring fake experts who just-so-happen to be, like Stossel, all Koch'd up. But today's COP, Look, Listen...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Thu Nov 17, 2022 at 06:13 AM PST
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A few weeks ago, we pointed out that Google, despite having 10 months to figure out how to enforce their partial-answer policy of just demonetizing climate disinfo, is failing to take ads off of climate denial videos on YouTube. They did then...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 07:36 AM PDT
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According to a recent press release, "researchers from Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University have teamed up to launch the Polarization Research Lab," which will try and figure out why "Americans hold more negative views...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Aug 30, 2022 at 06:32 AM PDT
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Daily Caller Doesn't Know The Difference Between Natural Gas and Gasoline. Or They Do, And Are Liars No one should expect the Daily Caller to be accurate, given that its managing editor Michael Bastasch is a career Koch operative who's injecting even more climate disinformation into its stories, but given that he was trained with Koch money, you might...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Aug 29, 2022 at 06:52 AM PDT
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On Thursday, the California Air Resources Board is expected to release a new proposal that will require all cars sold in the Golden State be 100% greenhouse gas emissions-free by 2035. This new rule—in the world’s 11th largest car market and the...
by Walter Einenkel
111 comments
on Thu Aug 25, 2022 at 08:45 AM PDT
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Hey, remember back in 2018 when Politico Magazine told us Chase Koch, son of Charles Koch, "wants to steer the conservative juggernaut his family created toward a kinder, gentler libertarianism?" Or what about in 2020, when the Wall Street Journal's...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 06:37 AM PDT
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[EDIT: Apparently these are two different Levi Russells, and the UK professor was not AfP spokesperson. We apologize for the error!] Buried in last August's bipartisan infrastructure bill is a clause stipulating that the National Highway Traffic Safety...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon May 16, 2022 at 06:45 AM PDT
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There is now no doubt that the dark money disinformation machine has turned its full focus to Environmental and Social Governance standards, the wonky way to say that if companies are to be people, then they shouldn’t be the absolute worst kind of...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri May 13, 2022 at 06:49 AM PDT
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A core feature of propaganda is the co-opting of the opposition’s messaging, and the fossil fuel industry’s greenwashing is a perfect example. The idea that methane-based “natural” gas is good for the environment despite being a fossil fuel that’s...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon May 09, 2022 at 06:57 AM PDT
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The Daily Caller has a fact checking project called Check Your Fact, that Facebook considers legitimate and both it and Daily Caller look like a legitimate news organization. They're not. The Daily Caller is once again a Koch propaganda machine, as the...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon May 02, 2022 at 07:04 AM PDT
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