ExxonSecrets and the Slick 60 Climate Change Denial Gang

onJul 31, 2006 @ 09:00 PDT

DeSmogBlog reader Patrick Arnell very kindly spent a great deal of time connecting 20 of the more infamous signatories to Canadian climate change denial petition to the institutes and funding agencies that pay for their opinions. The resulting map is available here. Just “skip intro” and you’ll be taken to the map, which shows pretty clearly what a complex web we’re dealing with!

Thanks to Patrick and, as always, to Exxonsecrets.org for this excellent resource.

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