Koch Family Outed as "Paymaster" of Climate Change Deniers

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Industry groups backed by Koch Industries Inc. and Cargill Inc. are fighting a Senate bill that would reshape almost 30 years of policy that allowed the $605 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market to surge and helped trigger the financial crisis in 2008.
http://www.ctpost.com/business/article/ ... 451835.php

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The "Danish study," prepared by Danish think-tank CEPOS, provides clean energy opponents a means of raising questions about the viability of renewable energy and a means of directly criticizing President Obama for his statement that Denmark produces almost 20% of its electricity through wind power.

However, the study contains factual errors, its conclusions have been misrepresented and to boot, its findings are not particularly relevant to the US. The study includes errors such as a miscalculation of the electricity production from wind energy in Denmark (they claim 5% of total production in Denmark though the real percentage is 20%). In addition, the study does not take into account the differences between the European and North American electric grids.

Nevertheless, like the study from Spain, the CEPOS study is being promoted and disseminated through many of the same organizations in Koch’s web. The “Danish Study” appears to follow a similar pattern.

* CEPOS was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, which has given CEPOS “several awards.” The Charles G. Koch Foundation and the Claude R. Lambe Foundation both support the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

* The Institute for Energy Research is promoting the study among its members and Hill staff, as well as online. IER organized a three-day tour in September 2009 to bring the report’s co-author Hugh Sharman and CEPOS chief executive Martin Agerup to Washington D.C. to explain the study to a “wider American audience.”

The organization also created fact sheets that promote the study’s findings and claim President Obama is misusing the Danish example. Heritage Foundation promoted the study on their website.
http://www.evwind.es/noticias.php?id_not=5019

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2006 puff piece from the pinnacle of 'murican journalism - vomit warning.

How Charles Koch applied the "science of liberty" to become one of the world's richest men.

WICHITA, Kan.--Meet Charles Koch. Philosopher, engineer, self-trained economist, libertarian activist, philanthropist--and the CEO of Koch Industries, a $60 billion, 80,000-employee empire, which just recently became the largest and most profitable privately held company in America. But you've probably never heard of it.

Neither Charles Koch nor his firm are household names. Mr. Koch (pronounced "coke") has managed to live in relative obscurity despite being one of the richest men on the planet, with a net worth estimated at $14 billion. He is a man of modesty who craves none of the fame or public adulation that seems to preoccupy other members of the billionaires' club. ...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial ... =110008343