Koch-funded study: “Global warming is real” and “is due to the human emission of greenhouse gases.”

Think Progress has a bombshell for us:

A Koch-funded reanalysis of 1.6 billion temperature reports finds that “essentially all of this increase is due to the human emission of greenhouse gases.”

Key words: Koch-funded:

What makes this “man bites dog” is that Muller has been a skeptic of climate science, and the single biggest funder of this study is the “Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($150,000).” The Kochs are the leading funder of climate disinformation in the world! [...]

In short, a Koch-funded study has found that the IPCC “consensus” underestimated both the rate of surface warming and how much could be attributed to human emissions!

Hey Kochs, eat crow, or just desserts, or eat s***, I’m not picky. There are two huge points to be made here. One, the Team Koch just got put it in its place by one of their own, and two, a study proving that the climate crisis is caused by humans was funded by the very Koch suckers who are doing their level best to exacerbate the crisis.

And then there’s that little detail that climate change deniers are dead wrong, but hey, who’s counting?

Now we better get on the stick and do something about it.

Think Progress has a lot of tasty details. Please read their report, it’s an eye-popper.

  • Uranus

    Recall “Think Progress” is on the list of websites that do not post comments signed by Uranus.

    I’ve heard this story in the past week from other venues and framing, but with the usual buzz words ‘global warming’ and ‘greenhouse gases’ and ‘fossil fuels.’ The story presents a conundrum: why would Koch fund and publish a study pointing out that burning coal destroys the world, a result Koch wanted?

    Simple: obscuring the real mechanism of today’s weather is more important to Koch than saving face. That puts them squarely in league with world governments, the wealthiest families and criminal organizations that trade in black market commodities, including technologies; in a word, crime.

    In central Oklahoma, we’ve progressed to severe drought, and it was 108 degrees yesterday. Such temperatures are expected for the next week, our sixth consecutive week with temperatures over 100. That isn’t caused only by oil and coal emissions.