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Jan 18 / 5:03am

Is climate change education the new evolution?

NCSE expects this task to be much harder than fighting creationism. "The forces arrayed against climate science are more numerous and much better funded," Scott says, and are better able to get their message across in the mainstream media than creationism supporters. Organizations such as the Heartland Institute, which questions whether humans cause climate change, send out free educational materials to teachers and school boards. As Science reported in September, teachers who already struggle with small science budgets and little time for teaching have no time to fend off ideological attacks from students, parents, and administrators.
via news.sciencemag.org

Filed under  //  Big Oil & Gas   Koch Industries   education   evolution  
 
Oct 21 / 8:09pm

Koch-funded research confirms Global Warming is real

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The Earth's surface really is getting warmer, a new analysis by a US scientific group set up in the wake of the "Climategate" affair has concluded.

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Funding came from a number of sources, including charitable foundations maintained by the Koch brothers, the billionaire US industrialists, who have also donated large sums to organisations lobbying against acceptance of man-made global warming.

via bbc.co.uk

Filed under  //  Global Warming   Koch Industries  
 
Sep 7 / 4:19pm

Koch Brothers declare "the mother of all wars" on Democrats.

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We have Saddam Hussein," declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his brother host twice a year. The 2012 elections, he warned, will be "the mother of all wars.
via motherjones.com

Filed under  //  Koch Industries   gop  
 
Sep 5 / 6:23am

The GOP War on Voting | Rolling Stone Politics

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In a systematic campaign orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council – and funded in part by David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who bankrolled the Tea Party – 38 states introduced legislation this year designed to impede voters at every step of the electoral process.
via rollingstone.com

 

Filed under  //  Koch Industries   gop  
 
Apr 6 / 3:41pm

Graphing @Koch_Industries defensiveness...

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We noticed that Koch Industries’ official Twitter account (@Koch_Industries) spends a lot of time talking about politics, and not as much talking about, you know, their company.

So we plotted and categorized all of their tweets, by week, since they started the account in 2009. Tweets that are in blue are ones related to their business (broken out into business announcements, environmental record and safety record). Those in orange are related to political arguments (against climate change or for Libertarian principles) or self-defense. Green is tweets that discuss the company’s charitable work.

We’ve also added two guides to indicate key moments: the release of the New Yorker’s piece about the Koch brothers and Charles Koch’s recent essay in the Wall Street Journal.

What began as a typical corporate information-sharing system is now used more to promote a political worldview. But then, that’s not a huge surprise.

via opposethefuture.com
Filed under  //  Koch Industries   Twitter   infographics  
 
Mar 17 / 5:02pm

House Republicans Vote That Earth Is Not Warming.

All Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted against an amendment that states that global warming exists, regardless of cause.
via scientificamerican.com

Filed under  //  Global Warming   Koch Industries   gop   wtf  
 
Mar 16 / 6:29am

House Committee Passes Bill Declaring Greenhouse Gases "Not Air Pollutants"

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Republicans in Congress have moved one step closer to taking away the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate the greenhouse gases that are responsible for climate change.
via opencongress.org

Filed under  //  Global Warming   Koch Industries   gop   government/politics  
 
Mar 9 / 3:54pm

Waxman on Koch Industries' purchase of the GOP.

"The new Republican majority has a lot of leeway to rewrite laws, but they don't have the ability to rewrite the laws of nature."

"Republicans in Congress have become the party of science deniers, and that is profoundly dangerous."

"Science denial, partisanship, and the rising power of special interests are deeply intertwined, and they feed off each other."

"I've never been in a Congress where there was such an overwhelming disconnect between science and public policy."

"It apparently no longer matters in Congress what health experts and scientists think. All that seems to matter is what Koch Industries thinks."

via good.is
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