New Drexel Study Reveals Funders Behind the Climate Change Denial Effort

http://www.drexel.edu/now/news-media/releases/archive/2013/December/Climate-Change/

Drexel University
PHILADELPHIA, December 20, 2013

A new study conducted by Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement. This study marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted of the sources of funding that maintain the denial effort.

Through an analysis of the financial structure of the organizations that constitute the core of the countermovement and their sources of monetary support, Brulle found that, while the largest and most consistent funders behind the countermovement are a number of well-known conservative foundations, the majority of donations are “dark money,” or concealed funding.

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Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to countermovement organizations through third party pass-through foundations like Donors Trust and Donors Capital, whose funders cannot be traced, has risen dramatically. - See more at: http://www.drexel.edu/now/news-media/releases/archive/2013/December/Climate-Change/#sthash.o1hLp4d4.dpuf

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