Google Tradutor. Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire. The enormity of the Koch fortune is no mystery. Brothers Charles and David are each worth more than $40 billion. The electoral influence of the Koch brothers is similarly well-chronicled. The Kochs are our homegrown oligarchs; they've cornered the market on Republican politics and are nakedly attempting to buy Congress and the White House. Their political network helped finance the Tea Party and powers today's GOP. Koch-affiliated organizations raised some $400 million during the 2012 election, and aim to spend another $290 million to elect Republicans in this year's midterms. What is less clear is where all that money comes from. But Koch Industries is not entirely opaque.
Under the nearly five-decade reign of CEO Charles Koch, the company has paid out record civil and criminal environmental penalties. The volume of Koch Industries' toxic output is staggering. For Koch, this license to pollute amounts to a perverse, hidden subsidy. It was a boom business. Arizona Sen. Then George W. Another Climate Alarmist Admits Real Motive Behind Warming Scare. Fraud: While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their real motivation.
Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst driving the climate scare. We have been told now for almost three decades that man has to change his ways or his fossil-fuel emissions will scorch Earth with catastrophic warming. Scientists, politicians and activists have maintained the narrative that their concern is only about caring for our planet and its inhabitants. But this is simply not true. The narrative is a ruse. They are after something entirely different. If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures — they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state. Have doubts? “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.
There's No Time to "Debate" Climate Change: We Need Global Transformation. The reality is that we're already seeing the victims of climate change. (Photo: Erik de Haan / Flickr) Corporate mainstream media outlets are missing something very important as the general election draws closer and both Democrats and Republicans start freaking out that it'll be the end of the world if the other party gets into the White House. Media are completely ignoring the fact that unless we do something right now to fundamentally change what fuels our economy, it actually will be the end of the world as know it.
For the fourth time this year, NASA announced that last month was the warmest such month on record, with sea and land temperatures at 1.11 degrees Celsius warmer in 2016 than the average April temperature between 1951 and 1980. It was also the seventh month in a row to be at least 1 degree warmer than the monthly average from 1951 to 1980. In other words, the planet is getting warmer and warmer, and we're setting more and more planetary records with every passing month. Fossil Fuel Industry-Funded Attorneys General Try to Block ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Probe. You could call it the battle of the attorneys general: one side representing the public interest, exactly what attorneys general are supposed to do; the other side representing the special interests, exactly what they are not supposed to do.
In late March, 17 attorneys general held a press conference to announce they will defend the new federal rule curbing power plant carbon emissions and investigate energy companies that may have misled investors and the public about climate risks. They call themselves AGs United for Clean Power, and so far attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, New York and the Virgin Islands have launched investigations of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, for fraud. In response, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange decided to push back. Fishing expedition? Free speech? Based on that preliminary evidence, there is strong justification for Walker and the other AGs to investigate further. Exxon's Gamble: 25 Years of Rejecting Shareholder Concerns on Climate Change. Refusing to act on climate resolutions could become a costly mistake, and invite the kind of legal onslaught that cost tobacco companies billions.
By Elizabeth Douglass At ExxonMobil, the answer is still no. For a quarter-century, stockholders have asked Exxon to confront the threat of climate change in all sorts of ways: by investing in renewable energy, cutting harmful emissions, providing carbon risk assessments and adding a board member with climate expertise. Year after year, the oil giant has said no, rejecting shareholders' requests and downplaying their concerns long after scientists concluded that unfettered burning of fossil fuels is leading to catastrophic climate change. At Chevron and ConocoPhillips, executives have also routinely opposed climate-related shareholder resolutions. InsideClimate News investigated 25 years of climate change-related shareholder proposals submitted to Exxon, Chevron and ConocoPhillips. None got enough votes to pass. Legal Risk Is Real Risk. Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks.
Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks | Environment. Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned. The funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of thinktanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising "wedge issue" for hardcore conservatives.
The millions were routed through two trusts, Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund, operating out of a generic town house in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Donors Capital caters to those making donations of $1m or more. Whitney Ball, chief executive of the Donors Trust told the Guardian that her organisation assured wealthy donors that their funds would never by diverted to liberal causes. By definition that means none of the money is going to end up with groups like Greenpeace, she said. DN! Guests Jane Mayer staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the new book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. She is also author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
This is viewer supported news Donate In her new book, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer explores how the Koch brothers and fellow right-wing billionaires have funded a political machine aimed at shaping elections and public policy. This is a rush transcript. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: This year’s election season is set to be the most expensive ever, with some estimates topping $10 billion. According to its own estimates, the Koch network aims to spend nearly $900 million on the 2016 presidential and congressional races, more than doubling its amount in 2012. Mayer’s book contains a number of revelations and new details. JANE MAYER: So— 'Hidden History' Of Koch Brothers Traces Their Childhood And Political Rise.
David Koch speaks at the Defending the American Dream summit in 2015. He and his brother Charles lead a conservative political network that plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the 2016 elections. Paul Vernon/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Vernon/AP David Koch speaks at the Defending the American Dream summit in 2015. He and his brother Charles lead a conservative political network that plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the 2016 elections. In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch announced plans to spend $889 million in the 2016 elections. Journalist Jane Mayer traces the growing influence of the Koch brothers and other wealthy conservative donors in her new book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Interview Highlights On the Kochs' secret, semi-annual seminars Dark Money by Jane Mayer.
Climate Change Is Here - National Geographic Magazine. Hillary Clinton Calls for Federal Investigation of Exxon. In response to a question posed at White Mountains Community College in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Exxon: “Yes, yes they should … there’s a lot of evidence they misled people.”
With Clinton’s statement, all Democratic presidential candidates have now called for a federal investigation of Exxon. Earlier this month, Senator Sanders sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking for the DOJ to form a task force by Dec. 19 to investigate Exxon. Governor O’Malley also voiced his support for an investigation on Twitter. We held tobacco companies responsible for lying about cancer. Let’s do the same for oil companies & climate change. Martin O'Malley (@MartinOMalley) October 16, 2015 Clinton joins a growing chorus of elected officials calling for Exxon to be investigated. President Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch have yet to respond. Imagine If Exxon Had Told the Truth on Climate Change.
Fossil fuel companies aren’t just bad for the climate — they’re bad investments. Activists often use moral language when advocating for divestment from fossil fuel companies: It is wrong to participate in the destruction of our planet, say college students and the parishioners of liberal churches. We should express our disapproval by divesting, they argue, and help to build momentum for carbon regulation and cleaner energy sources.
But what if fossil fuels are just bad investments? What if oil, gas, and coal companies have sunk billions of dollars into buying up the rights to carbon fuels that they will never actually be able to extract? That’s what a growing band of financiers argue, and the people who follow their investment advice are benefiting from it. In order to meet the international goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, 60 to 80 percent of fossil fuel reserves held by publicly traded corporations cannot be burned. If we make serious efforts to stay below that benchmark, the fossil fuel industry is in trouble. Some risks are political. Exxon's climate lie: 'No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad' | Bill McKibben | Environment.
I’m well aware that with Paris looming it’s time to be hopeful, and I’m willing to try. Even amid the record heat and flooding of the present, there are good signs for the future in the rising climate movement and the falling cost of solar. But before we get to past and present there’s some past to be reckoned with, and before we get to hope there’s some deep, blood-red anger. In the last three weeks, two separate teams of journalists — the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters at the website Inside Climate News and another crew composed of Los Angeles Times veterans and up-and-comers at the Columbia Journalism School — have begun publishing the results of a pair of independent investigations into ExxonMobil.
To be specific: But of course Exxon did dispute that fact. They helped organise campaigns designed to instil doubt, borrowing tactics and personnel from the tobacco industry’s similar fight. I’m aware that anger at this point does little good. CounterSpill. Documentário norte-americano diz que mídia brasileira é patrocinada pelo governo dos EUA para atacar Petrobrás | Portal Metrópole. Documentário viral nos EUA, ‘Koch Brothers Exposen’ lançado em 2012 mostra como os bilionários David e Charles Koch compraram o congresso norte-americano e hoje patrocinam a grande mídia brasileira para atacar a Petrobrás Por Antonio Carlos David Koch se divertia dizendo que fazia parte “da maior companhia da qual você nunca ouviu falar”.
Um dos poderosos irmãos Koch, donos da segunda maior empresa privada dos Estados Unidos com um ingresso anual de 115 bilhões de dólares, eles só se tornaram conhecidos por suas maldosas operações no cenário político do país. Se esses poderosos personagens são desconhecidos nos Estados Unidos, o que se dirá no Brasil? Outras das frentes dos irmãos Koch são a Atlas Economic Research Foundation, que patrocina a Leadership Academy, e o Institute for Humane Studies, às quais os integrantes do MBL estão ligados. Bill McKibben Says the Divestment Movement Is Succeeding — and He May Be Right. Nestled in Vermont’s bucolic Champlain valley, Middlebury College is a seedbed of environmental activism. Middlebury students started 350.org, the environmental organization that is fighting climate change and coordinating the global campaign for fossil-fuel divestment. Bill McKibben, the writer and environmentalist who is spearheading the campaign, has taught there since 2001.
Yet Middlebury has declined to sell the oil, gas, and coal company holdings in its $1 billion endowment. McKibben’s alma mater, Harvard University — which has a $36 billion endowment, the largest of any university — also has decided not to divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies. Indeed, virtually all of the United States’ wealthiest universities, foundations, and public pension funds have resisted pressures to sell their stakes in fossil fuel companies. Put simply, the divestment movement is not even a blip on the world’s capital markets. He may well be right. Click here for the full article. Fox News Officially Freaking Out About Google’s Plan To Rank Sites By ‘Accuracy’ Watching how Fox News covers a news story is sort of like doing dream analysis on the conservative movement’s subconscious, you start to see what really terrifies them.
So it was with great interest that I sat down to watch Fox’s latest coverage of Google’s plan to someday rank search engine results not by “popularity” but “accuracy.” The network did not disappoint. In a recent edition of Fox News’ Happening Now, the conservative network hastily put together an out-and-out hit piece on Google. After briefly describing the research paper that the company recently published that expressed the possibility of weighing search result “rank” based around “trustworthy” information, rather than sheer popularity, the show suggests the new way of doing business could result in “censorship.”
“They say you’re entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. If you’re wondering who they could possibly mean by that, the answer is quickly revealed: Climate deniers. Former Exxon scientist says Exxon knew about climate change and fossil fuels in 1981. Fossil fuel firms risk wasting billions by ignoring climate change, says IEA | Environment. The world’s fossil fuel companies risk wasting billions of dollars of investment by not taking global action to fight climate change seriously, according to the chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Fatih Birol, who will take the top job at the IEA in September and is one of the world’s most influential voices on energy, warned that companies making this mistake would also miss out on investment opportunities in clean energy.
Coal giant Peabody recently dismissed global warming as “an environmental crisis predicted by flawed computer models”, while another major coal producer Glencore Xstrata said governments would fail to implement measures to cut carbon emissions, as has oil and gas major ExxonMobil. Birol, speaking at a major climate science conference in Paris ahead of a crunch UN summit in the city in December, said: “We see some moves from energy companies in the direction of sustainable development.
However, it is not at the level you would like to see. The Prize: Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. The PRIZE - Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. Steve Coll: How Exxon Shaped the Climate Debate | Climate of Doubt. Koch Brothers EXPOSED: 2014 • FULL DOCUMENTARY • BRAVE NEW FILMS. KOCH BROTHERS EXPOSED: 2014 Version - Brave New Films. Robert Greenwald's "Koch Brothers Exposed" (Full.