Great idea .. We are actively seeking vulnerabilities
Tonight i was going to stay in, need sleep, but i'll bet there is a pub near Koch's there .. decision made .. for fun while you people are zzzzzzzing i'll check it out.
Excellent idea .. love the possibilities .. am thinking now if Koch are so involved in the political scene over there .. what about here? This isn't along union busting lines, but .. excerpt ..
Koch Industries and the Web of Denial in Australia
According to the company website INVISTA and the Koch Chemical Technology Group operate in Australia. INVISTA was bought by Koch Industries in 2004 from Du Pont and are the creators of Lycra fiber and Stainmaster® carpet. Koch Fertiliser Australia Pty Ltd. has an office in Ringwood, Victoria, and Koch Membrane Systems has offices in Kew, Victoria & in Parramatta, NSW.
In March 2010 Koch Industries leased from GrainCorp a 150,000 tonne storage facility at Geelong for marketing fertiliser across Victoria and the Riverina.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) received funding from Koch foundation grants between 1997 and 2005 totalling $471,420. This organisation has been intent on developing the campaign against climate science in Australia. In August 1997, the CEI and the Frontiers of Freedom front group sponsored a conference in Canberra, with the Australian and New Zealand Chambers of Commerce and the Western Mining Corporation (WMC) in attendance.
A recent Greenpeace report by Cindy Baxter - Dealing in Doubt discusses the history of the climate denial industry and attacks on climate science, climate scientists and the IPCC. The CEI were prominent in getting climate scepticism off the ground in Australia led by Western Mining Corporation, Chambers of Commerce, and prominent politicians in the Liberal and National Parties:
In August 1997, the CEI and the Frontiers of Freedom front group sponsored another conference, this time in Canberra, Australia, along with the Australian and New Zealand Chambers of Commerce and the WMC. Ray Evans and WMC’s Managing Director Hugh Morgan played a significant role at the conference, and attendees included the Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer and Environment Minister Robert Hill. Fisher claimed that tough emission reduction targets could put 90,000 jobs at risk in Australia and cost more than $150 million."
Speakers included American climate sceptic Patrick Michaels, climate sceptic politicians, Rep. John Dingell, Senator Chuck Hagel and Richard Lawson (President and Chief Executive Officer of the US National Mining Association and present at the earlier CEI meeting).
According to RJ Smith from the CEI, the purpose of the Canberra conference was to ‘try and buck [Prime Minister John Howard] up a little more and let him know that there is support of the American people’ for his government's obstructionist stance.
Later that year, an Australian at the CEI, Hugh Morley, noted on the CEI’s website that ‘If Australia sticks to its gun [sic], there might not be a Kyoto treaty after all’.
The Australian denial movement, funded by the WMC and other big business groups, and led by the Institute of Public Affairs, has had a relationship with the US climate sceptics ever since. Meanwhile, Australia has adopted a weak climate policy, only signing the Kyoto treaty after the Howard administration lost power in 2007.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has a history of attacking climate science and the IPCC reports. This year, on 16 February 2010, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with Fred Singer, filed a lawsuit to the US demanding that, on the basis of the hacked emails and so called ‘flawed datasets’ of 'Climategate', the EPA drop all its proposed regulation on CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
In 2009 an International investigation by journalists revealed a multinational fossil fuel campaign to undermine Copenhagen talks.
Want to read more?
Visit some of these sites for more information on the sceptic campaign against climate science and climate action:
* RealClimate blog – a blog by climate scientists discussing science in a very scientific way. * Climate progress by Joe Romm * Skeptical science: blog by John Cook, that answers the main denier arguments. * Deltoid: An Australian blog by scientist Tim Lambert - exposes the scientific holes in denier arguments: * Desmogblog – a Canadian blog exposing climate denier junk science and business links http:// * Hot Topic – New Zealand science writer Gareth Renowden on climate science and denial arguments. co.nz * Grist ‘How to talk to a climate sceptic’ * Climate Science Watch: Former ‘gagged’ US climate scientist Rick Piltz follows the abuse of climate science
or try these two books:
* ‘Climate Cover Up’ by James Hoggan, Greystone Books 2009, * ‘Science as a Contact Sport’ by Stephen H Schneider (intro by Tim Flannery) – a scientist’s account of years of denier attacks, Random House, 2009.
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