“Top US companies shelling out to block action on climate change – Analysis of 28 companies finds cases of support for thinktanks that misrepresent climate science, including Heartland Institute”
Some of America’s top companies are spending heavily to block action on climate change or discredit climate science, despite public commitments to sustainable and green values, a new report has found.
An analysis of 28 Standard & Poor 500 publicly traded companies by researchers from the Union of Concerned Scientists exposed a sharp disconnect in some cases between PR message and less visible activities, with companies quietly lobbying against climate policy or funding groups which work to discredit climate science.
The findings are in line with the recent expose of the Heartland Institute. Over the years, the ultra-conservative organisation devoted to discrediting climate science received funds from a long list of companies which had public commitments to sustainability.
The disconnect in this instance was especially stark in the researchers’ analysis of oil giants ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, and the electricity company DTE energy.
But even General Electric Company, which ranks climate change as a pillar of its corporate policy on its website, had supported trade groups and thinktanks that misrepresent climate science, the researchers found.
Caterpillar Inc, despite its public commitment to sustainability, also worked behind the scenes to block action on climate change. The company spent more than $16m (£10.3m) on lobbying during the study, with nearly five times as much of that spent lobbying to block climate action than on pro-environmental policies.
The Union of Concerned Scientists??????????? You would have thought this commie front group would have had the good graces to fold up after the Soviet Block collapsed of its own, moral, philosophical, and economic bankruptcy. What is it about the leftist mentality that refuses to allow it to admit failure despite a historical millenia of societal disasters? The meltdown of the current attempts at this foolishness are now taking place in the EU as the socialist democracies try to spend and borrow their way out of recession instead of leaving that money in the private sector to create new wealth instead of redistributing what there is to create a continent of unhappy but equal mediocrity and failure.
I will send a complaint to the only member of the UCS that I am certain I can trust, Anthony Watt’s dog.
“An analysis of 28 Standard & Poor 500 publicly traded companies …” Too bad the other 472 aren’t doing their share.
The UCS is the leading provider of misinformation in the US.
….just in case there is even the slightest doubt about whether the UCS engages in efforts to marginalize skeptic climate scientists: “Silencing global warming critics” http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/silencing_global_warming_criti.html
The skeptics are out funded by over 1000:1, yet somehow they are completely effective at blocking climate change initiatives. How do they do it? Maybe it’s because they have the truth on their side?
The left has always pursued a policy of suppressing speech and thought. Their philosphy and agenda cannot survive in a free and open debate. Their twisted logic and faulty thought processes fall apart when exposed to the truth and common sense.