Anti-government ideology independently motivated climate-change denial beyond industry funding
Evidence
Until it closed in 2015, the George C. Marshall Institute also played a prominent role in generating skepticism about climate change (and also about second-hand tobacco smoke, acid rain, and the ozone hole), though in this case—despite some funding from fossil fuel interests—one suspects that their political ideology of rejecting “big-government” solutions to social problems was a key motivating force. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 74
Categorization
- QUESTION: Falsely flagging suspicion as fact-checkable question: how cleanly can ideology versus funding be separated when the same actors had both?
- XREF: connects to: Conspiracist climate denial rejects expertise itself, unlike corporate misinformation — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 249; Most climate-change denial publications trace back to conservative think tanks — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 248; Science denialism, carbon trading, and geoengineering together form a coordinated neoliberal climate strategy. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 926 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Corporate climate misinformation differs categorically from conspiracist fabulation
#complicates(0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 245 - Conspiracist climate denial rejects expertise itself, unlike corporate misinformation
#complicates(0.82) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 249 - Most climate-change denial publications trace back to conservative think tanks
#complicates(0.75) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 248 - Science denialism, carbon trading, and geoengineering together form a coordinated neoliberal climate strategy.
#complicates(0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 926