This is a tiny scale of grassroots activism. Heartland has 2% of Greenpeace's budget. http://anomalyuk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/heartlandgate.html …
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Replying to @anomalyuk @ClarkeMicah
You're presumably relying on Hitchens being unable to use Googlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/science/more-oil-companies-could-join-exxon-mobil-as-focus-of-climate-investigations.html …
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Replying to @medialens @ClarkeMicah
ALEC another small-scale conservative think tank, funded by many businesses, pursuing many conservative goals.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @ClarkeMicah
Interesting. Here's a slightly larger organisation 'pursuing many conservative goals'... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/25/two-faced-exxon-the-misinformation-campaign-against-its-own-scientists …pic.twitter.com/77Y2kXAcCq
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No, that's the same one again. That 31 million is over 16 years. Friends of the Earth US gets over 10 million/yr
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Good question. People are very suspicious of arguments from interest. My guess, 5c
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I mean the appeal to selfishness in an individual.. the appeal to the easy route. In a general context
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Replying to @50percentcrap @ClarkeMicah
Ah yes, different point. But mine remains; there is a general acceptance of the claims
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so people see scepticism as originating from oil.
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partly because they really did fund some very dishonest propaganda right at the beginning (1990ish?)
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I can't comment on the gross dishonesty of (either) side, over the years, But, worry this is being lumped
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