Fossil fuel lobby vs climate change lobby — choose your funder

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; anything else is public relations. – George Orwell

First wordWHEN I started to write on the climate debate in 2015, at the time of the Paris Conference of the Parties , I started off with the disclosure that I do not receive any funding or reward in any form from either side of the debate.I thought this necessary because I found the issues in debate to be serious and quite hair-raising, and the alignment of forces on both sides was indeed formidable.

' The report shows clearly that the green billionaires are calling most of the shots in promoting stories of Net Zero-inspired climate collapse. It is noted that they may fund journalists 'to cover stories in a particular subject area, determined by funder interests and goals.'Over the last 20 years, the tax-efficient billionaire foundations have stepped into the funding gaps left by declining circulation and advertising sales across mainstream media.

 

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