A trio of myths perpetuated by climate change deniers

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or years, oil companies and special interest groups have financed campaigns to make people doubt the reality and seriousness of climate change, funnelling money into conservative non-profits, think tanks, politicians, and climate-denial front groups. Let’s take the industrial businessmen and political moguls, the Koch brothers, who have invested tens of millions of dollars over the last fifteen years in efforts to deny climate change.

With the support of Big Oil companies and their allies, a small but vocal group of climate deniers has become as pesky as mosquitos on a summer night. The mystery is how. After all, the facts are clear and when you consider that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that man-made climate change is real, it’s hard to believe that anyone could claim anything else with a straight face.

Read the Climate Reality Project story - “Three ways climate deniers cherry-pick facts about climate change,”