Political Quotes

“This is founded by the Marshall Institute. There are others of these out there. The other example is the Heartland Institute, another so-called think tank with backers from tobacco and the fossil fuel industries, founded also in 1984. It has written reports to try to manufacture doubt about climate science and about the risks of secondhand smoke. Heartland received nearly $700,000 from ExxonMobil through 2006. Their bogus policy documents include false claims that climate change is poorly understood, and simply wrong assertions, that there is no consensus about the causes, effects, or future rate of global warming. Picking these two--but there are others in the constellation of bogus science--they are commonly funded by the Bradley Foundation, the folks who brought you the John Birch Society; by the Scaife foundations, which are constantly behind rightwing causes; the Olan Foundation, which is against public health causes; ExxonMobil; and by the Koch brothers. Although it may look like different voices, it is actually the same money speaking through different fronts.”