Funding Global Warming Hysteria - CoverUps.com

The money behind all the hot gas

It was famously retold in the film The Usual Suspects: “…The greatest trick the devil ever did was convincing the world he did not exist. The same strategy has worked quite well for the special interest environmental groups that makes millions from policy decisions based less on science and more on the need to line enviro coffers. Check out these highlights of a story we came across on NewsBusters.com by Noel Sheppard.

• Imagine you are an advocacy group and you want to sway a government's policy development. But you also want to have a "neutral" public profile.
• You could learn a lot by observing and then avoiding the practices of the Center for Climate Strategies, a group of global warming worrywarts.
• CCS in recent years has approached many states, including Washington, with an inexpensive, tantalizing offer: to establish and manage a process for climate change policy development.
• The results are a study legitimized by government that promotes onerous regulations, property rights infringement through smart growth initiatives, and new taxes and fees on fuels and utilities.
• CCS operates in Washington in nearly the same way it's worked in every other state where it's been hired.
• First a governor (such as Gov. Chris Gregoire) issues an executive order declaring global warming a problem that must be confronted through state policy.
• Then a so-called stakeholder (political appointees and special interests, really) panel considers dozens of CCS-created policy options that ostensibly reduce CO2 emissions -- at the cost of impinging on individual rights, increasing energy costs, and/or adding to the cost of government.
• Several foundations have already hopped aboard the global warming panic train: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The (Ted) Turner Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, the Energy Foundation, and many others.
  

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Funding Global Warming Hysteria
By Noel Sheppard

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Our Take

As Sheppard concludes, CCS is doing nothing wrong here, and the reader should not infer that it does. However, as the global warming debate continues, and the media habitually questions the funding of virtually every individual and organization refuting the supposed climate change consensus, shouldn't the same scrutiny be applied to those advancing the hysteria? We find it hard to argue with that argument. The CCS should have nothing to hide. Unless, of course, the devil really exists!