Energy-funded conservative think tanks spearhead climate science attacks

Evidence

Clive Hamilton, at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Australia, casts the battles over environmental conservation as a more deep-rooted culture war between conservative and liberal worldviews (Hamilton, 2010a). He notes that many of the attacks on environmentalism and climate science are spearheaded by conservative think tanks heavily funded by the petroleum and other energy industries. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2538

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• XREF: Connects to Naomi Klein and Oreskes’ Merchants of Doubt literature on industry-funded climate skepticism. — connects to: Think tanks deliberately manufacture public doubt about settled science to shape policy — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 626; 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