Det skriks ju ofta från AGW-hysteriker om att skeptikerna badar i pengar från oljebolag och dylikt. I själva verket får ju alarmisterna mångdubbelt mer pengar - också från oljebolagen.
Heartland Institute har målats upp som en jätteond välfinansierad PR-skurk av alarmisterna.
Men rena fakta säger något annat...
"The Funding Imbalance
Richard North at the EU Referendum blog provides some interesting comment regarding funding.
While the warmists are successfully focusing attention on the minor-league operations of the Heartland Institute, with a total budget for all its issues, which include health care, education, and technology policy, of around $4.4 million, their own funding arrangements, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, are largely evading scrutiny.
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The Climate Works Foundation, though, is of special interest as it was in 2008, awarded $460,800,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a grant-making organisation with assets of $7.2 billion, which disbursed $353,400,000 in grants in 2011. It has made another grant to Climate Works only last week of $100 million – bringing the total grants to this organisation to just short of $600 million.
Where such huge funding is devoted to global warming advocacy, and policy development, there must indeed be a distortion of the democratic process, especially where politicians are also being paid. These organisations must come clean about the sources of their money, and provide exact details of how much is paid to which organisations, for what purposes.
Note that the latest grant of $100 million was made on the day after the hippies got all hot under the collar about Heartland's 'huge' annual budget of $4.4 million"
http://mrworthing.blogspot.com/2012/02/funding-imbalance.html
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2012/02/wither-transparency.html
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Som sagt. Svårt att uppskatta men alarmisternas budget är nog många hundra gånger så stor som skeptikernas.
Och ändå misslyckas de. Media, politiker och storföretagen är på alarmisternas sida. Ändå misslyckas de. Det kan bara bero på en sak.
Forskningen är allt annat än robust.