{"id":14976,"date":"2015-12-02T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14976"},"modified":"2015-12-02T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T12:16:11","slug":"new-study-exposes-true-extent-influence-of-climate-denial-echo-chamber-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14976","title":{"rendered":"New Study Exposes True Extent, Influence Of Climate Denial Echo Chamber For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/12\/01\/new-study-exposes-true-extent-influence-climate-denial-echo-chamber-first-time\" target=\"_blank\">New Study Exposes True Extent, Influence Of Climate Denial Echo Chamber For First Time<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-10094 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<header>\n<p class=\"submitted desktop-only\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/kochbro650.jpg?itok=Jv1TENND\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"horizontal-social-bar horizontal-social-bar-top clearfix\">\n<div class=\"horizontal-share-left\">Thanks to a recent poll from\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ABC<\/span>\u00a0News and the Washington Post, we know that nearly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/poll-partisans-split-on-seriousness-of-climate-change\/2015\/11\/29\/2bf552d0-93c3-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">two-thirds of American adults<\/a>\u00a0think global warming is \u201ca serious problem facing the country.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>And now, thanks to a study published in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate2875.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Climate Change<\/a>\u00a0(full study available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/iqdlbbjduu8st8r\/NatClimChg.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>), we know exactly how many people are out there taking money from dirty energy interests to try and confuse Americans about climate changeto derail overdue action and protect the fossil fuel industries&#8217; profits.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Farrell, a professor of sociology at Yale\u2019s School of Forestry\u00a0<span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>\u00a0Environmental Studies and the author of the report, studied both the institutional and social network structure of the climate denier movement and found that there are some 4,556 individuals with ties to 164 organizations that are involved in pushing anti-climate science views on the\u00a0public.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>The individuals in this bipartite network include interlocking board members, as well as many more informal and overlapping social, political, economic and scientific ties,\u201d Farrell wrote in the report. \u201cThe organizations include a complex network of think tanks, foundations, public relations firms, trade associations, and ad hoc groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farrell notes that while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial\" target=\"_blank\">funding from ExxonMobil<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/koch-family-foundations\" target=\"_blank\">Koch family foundations<\/a>\u00a0have notoriously played a part in building the climate denial movement, there was very little empirical evidence demonstrating exactly how much influence these corporate benefactors had on the actual output of climate deniers and, in turn, how much they affected what politicians and other decisionmakers were saying about climate change.<\/p>\n<p>So Farrell studied all of the written and verbal texts relating to climate change produced between 1993 and 2013 by climate denial organizations (40,785 documents comprising nearly 40 million words), as well as any mention of global warming and climate science by three major news channels (14,943 documents), every\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">US<\/span>\u00a0president (1,930 documents) and the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">US<\/span>\u00a0Congress (7,786 documents).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Study Exposes True Extent, Influence Of Climate Denial Echo Chamber For First Time Thanks to a recent poll from\u00a0ABC\u00a0News and the Washington Post, we know that nearly\u00a0two-thirds of American adults\u00a0think global warming is \u201ca serious problem facing the country.\u201d And now, thanks to a study published in the journal\u00a0Nature Climate Change\u00a0(full study available at\u00a0this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,1517,5317,1041,10897,1515,9295],"class_list":["post-14976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-denial","tag-desmog-blog","tag-exxonmobil","tag-justin-farrell","tag-koch-brothers","tag-nature-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14977,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14976\/revisions\/14977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}