{"id":6504,"date":"2015-03-14T18:49:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2015-03-14T18:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:49:04","slug":"tomgram-michael-klare-is-big-oil-finally-entering-a-climate-change-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6504","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is Big Oil Finally Entering a Climate Change World?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is Big Oil Finally Entering a Climate Change World?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

Welcome to the asylum! I\u2019m talking, of course, about this country, or rather the world Big Oil spent big bucks creating.You know, the one in which the obvious — climate change — is doubted and denied, and in which the\u00a0new Republican Congress<\/a>\u00a0is actively opposed to doing anything about it. Just the other day, for instance, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote a\u00a0column<\/a>\u00a0in his home state paper, the\u00a0Lexington Herald-Leader<\/em>, adopting the old Nancy Reagan\u00a0slogan<\/a>\u00a0\u201cjust say no\u201d to climate change. The senator from\u00a0Coalville<\/a>, smarting over the Obama administration\u2019s\u00a0attempts<\/a>\u00a0to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, isurging<\/a>\u00a0state governors to simply ignore the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s proposed \u201clandmark limits\u201d on those plants — to hell with the law and to hell, above all, with climate change. But it\u2019s probably no news to you that the inmates are now running the asylum.<\/p>\n

Just weeks ago, an example of Big Energy’s largess when it comes to sowing doubt about climate change surfaced.\u00a0 A rare scientific researcher, Wei-Hock Soon, who has published work denying the reality of climate change — the warming of the planet, he claims, is a result of \u201cvariations in the sun\u2019s energy\u201d — turned out to have received\u00a0$1.2 million<\/a>\u00a0from various fossil fuel outfits, according to recently released documents; nor did he bother to disclose such support to any of the publications using his work.\u00a0 \u201cThe documents,\u201d reported the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, \u201cshow that Dr. Soon, in correspondence with his corporate funders, described many of his scientific papers as \u2018deliverables\u2019 that he completed in exchange for their money. He used the same term to describe testimony he prepared for Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

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