Who are the climate deniers influencing the Trump administration? I’m Neela Banerjee, a reporter with InsideClimate News. I’ve traced the path of climate misinformation from the 1950s to the White House today. AMA! - Politics

Who are the climate deniers influencing the Trump administration? I’m Neela Banerjee, a reporter with InsideClimate News. I’ve traced the path of climate misinformation from the 1950s to the White House today. AMA!
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Who are the climate deniers influencing the Trump administration? I’m Neela Banerjee, a reporter with InsideClimate News. I’ve traced the path of climate misinformation from the 1950s to the White House today. AMA!

Posted: 28 Mar 2018 09:01 AM PDT

Climate change denial has become a core message of the Republican Party, now in control of the White House and Congress. This administration has orchestrated a rollback of regulatory measures on climate change adopted during the Obama years, and the exit from the Paris climate accord that the United States helped forge.

How did we get here? How is it that climate denial is emanating directly from the Oval Office itself?

The answer lies in the crusade against climate science, first funded by fossil fuel money and now so independent and robust it runs itself

Over decades, hundreds of millions of dollars from corporations, such as ExxonMobil and wealthy individuals such as the billionaires Charles and David Koch, supported the development of a sprawling machinery of climate denial, which includes think tanks like the Heartland Institute, advocacy groups, and political operatives. They have cast doubt on consensus science, confused public opinion and forestalled passage of laws and regulations that would address the global environmental crisis.

It is one of the longest, most expensive and consequential misinformation efforts mounted against mainstream science by an industry. Now this movement is getting more extreme — and turning against its originators.

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