Dark Money and Climate Advocacy

There is some blow hard named Brulle, a sociologist from Drexel U in Philly (gee, wonder if he’s a lefty?) who claims that 1 billion is being spent by eveeeel capitalists in opposition to warmers.
Damn it, so far, none of that money has gotten to me and I fight the warmers all the time.

So I told you in a recent post about the top ten Enviro NGOs and their billions in assets.
http://junkscience.com/2014/02/09/whos-yo-sugar-daddy-enviros/
Just because an organization is a nonprofit, that doesn’t mean it’s poor. Environmental organizations are thriving and have considerable financial resources at their disposal, with revenue coming from government grants and contracts, direct mail and Internet fundraising campaigns, foundation grants, and gifts from rich activists.
According to the latest tax filings, here’s the net worth of some of the nation’s largest and most prominent environmental organizations.
1. Nature Conservancy—Total assets: $5,636,393,924
2. The Conservation Fund—Total assets: $451,178,482
3. World Wildlife Fund—Total assets: $426,048,663
4. Trust for Public Land—Total assets: $399,026,229
5. Conservation International Foundation—Total assets: $370,034,224
6. National Audubon Society—Total assets: $337,695,958
7. Natural Resources Defense Council—Total assets: $232,276,696
8. Environmental Defense Fund—Total assets: $145,765,426
9. Sierra Club Foundation—Total assets: $107,928,024
10. National Wildlife Federation—Total assets: $69,448,048
That’s just enviro outfits, not the full array of lefty advocacy organizations who are reliably on the side of and contribute generously to the warmer movement, pushing enviro issues, trying to stop the XL pipeline, pushing for elimination of coal and “sustainability” (boy that’s a gaseous idea), and urging EPA aggressiveness against industry and business.
At his regular Forbes spot, James Taylor, Attorney and energy/enviro expert, Editor of the enviro paper for Heartland and organizer of teh successful Heartland Climate meetings, takes apart this preposterous claim about the vast conservative conspiracy to take down the IPCC/UN/Algore little house of sticks.
Boo Hoo.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2014/01/02/dark-money-funds-to-promote-global-warming-alarmism-dwarf-warming-denier-research/
I know this, the Heartland fights this battle with much less than a 10 million annual budget and they have many other issues and experts in other areas, so they are not like an enviro organization. They deal with education/taxation/communication/constitutional/regulatory issues that range far and wide.
Other conservative think tanks are the same, working of a multitude of issues, as Taylor explains.
Oh I forgot–John Holdren doles out money from federal coffers, to 13 agencies–John has failed to leave a message in my box and you can bet he ain’t considering grants or slush money for any conservative entities.
As Algore can recount, James Hansen and his gang have gotten hundreds of millions from fed “climate” research projects, anti warmers have received nada, zero.
I get tired of hearing about the Koch’s those boys have yet to buy me lunch.