Calling Out The #WebOfDenial

19 Senators Expose 'Web of Denial' Blocking Action on Climate Change

Brendan DeMelle, July 12, 2016 (DeSmogBlog via EcoWatch)

“Nineteen U.S. Senators who understand the need to clear the PR pollution that continues to block overdue climate policy spoke out on the Senate floor…in support of the Senate Web of Denial Resolution calling out the destructive forces of fossil fuel industry-funded climate denial…Championed by Senators Whitehouse, Markey, Schatz, Boxer, Merkley, Warren, Sanders and Franken, the resolution condemns what they are calling the #WebOfDenial…[They identify that web as groups funded by the Koch brothers, major fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal, and their anonymous allies which] developed and executed a massive campaign to deceive the public about climate change to halt climate action…As DeSmog Blog, ExxonSecrets, Climate Investigations Center and others have documented repeatedly over the past decade, the oil and coal industries and their friends have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an immoral and potentially fraudulent campaign to deceive the public about the scientific consensus on manmade global warming and the need for urgent action to curtail fossil fuel pollution…” click here for more

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