Most climate-change denial publications trace back to conservative think tanks

Evidence

A 2013 study of climate-change denial publications shows that 83 percent of them have ties to conservative think tanks—the Cato Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Institution, and others. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 248

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the later 2010 Citizens United section and chapter’s dark-money argument about how funding flows through institutional networks. — connects to: Anti-government ideology independently motivated climate-change denial beyond industry funding — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 74; Climate-change denial organizations were directly funded by tobacco and fossil-fuel interests — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 71; Fossil fuel funding manufactured doubt that made climate change a partisan media issue — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 160 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Energy-funded conservative think tanks spearhead climate science attacks #corroborates (0.88) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2538
• Climate denial functions as a symbol-laden conservative culture war, not reasoned science debate #expands (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2538
• Think tanks deliberately manufacture public doubt about settled science to shape policy #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 626
• Climate-denial think tanks manufactured the invented ‘climate lockdowns’ threat #exemplifies (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 486
• Tobacco’s manufactured doubt predated and enabled climate denial playbooks #expands (0.75) — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 788