Not just the Koch brothers: New study reveals funders behind the climate change denial effort |

New study exposes the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement and marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted of the sources of funding that maintain the denial effort.
"The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming," said Brulle. "Like a play on Broadway, the countermovement has stars in the spotlight -- often prominent contrarian scientists or conservative politicians -- but behind the stars is an organizational structure of directors, script writers and producers, in the form of conservative foundations. If you want to understand what's driving this movement, you have to look at what's going on behind the scenes."
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