Global warming

As journalist Ben Pile noted "climate change is a fig leaf, It allows corporate, big business and billionaire lobbying to go unchecked, despite the obvious consequences for democratic control of policymaking." If all of this was oil money, we would never hear the end of it from the likes of the Guardian newspaper – $12 million and counting from Bill Gates over the last decade.

John Gibbons has pulled on his contributions to climate smear site in recent years, DeSmog is funded mainly by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation, the Climate Emergency Collaboration and others. On their board of directors is a member of ClientEarth, a fund supported by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the European Climate Foundation (ECF), both groups heavily funded by Extinction Rebellion paymaster Sir Christopher Hohn.

If you ever decided to start digging on the source material that news media use for alarmist climate headlines, you will find it tends to lead back to the same groups over & over, you can use LinkedIn to track the movements of the people employed by these organizations, they tend to move between each other.

The opposition groups to the activists exist online mostly drawn from people who are retired and gradually dying off. Notable organizations in the English speaking world being Heartland Institute (USA) and GWPF (UK), Clintel (Netherlands) have nothing even remotely close to budgets or media reach that climate activist groups have. Here in Ireland the lobby is Irish Climate Science Forum.