{"id":289891,"date":"2010-02-07T02:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5074"},"modified":"2010-02-07T02:16:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T07:16:58","slug":"you-could-not-make-it-up-think-tanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it-to-fund-climate-deniers-by-jonathan-owen-and-paul-bignell-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/289891","title":{"rendered":"You Could Not Make It Up: Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers by Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell, The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=299\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;You could not make it up&quot;\">You could not make it up<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"549x227.jpg\" height=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/attachments\/database\/The%20Independent%205__549x227.jpg\" alt=\"article image\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: green;\"><strong><em>ExxonMobil cash supported concerted campaign to undermine case for man-made warming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night. <\/p>\n<p>The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has grown in ferocity since the leak of thousands of documents on the subject from the University of East Anglia (UEA) on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit last December. <\/p>\n<p>Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click source to read how &#8220;Climate Realists&#8221; and others are paid fortunes to make up stories to turn their readers into &#8220;Climate Deniers&#8221;, also from the Independent <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/leading-articles\/leading-article-sceptics-have-their-uses-1891390.html\">Leading article: Sceptics have their uses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: independent.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5074\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zcVcMcY_jF4Gl_A4WwzWFtTmjnU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zcVcMcY_jF4Gl_A4WwzWFtTmjnU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zcVcMcY_jF4Gl_A4WwzWFtTmjnU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zcVcMcY_jF4Gl_A4WwzWFtTmjnU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/j0_pstmdDSU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: You could not make it up ExxonMobil cash supported concerted campaign to undermine case for man-made warming An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night. The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}