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kristopher

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Fri Jun 27, 2014, 12:16 AM Jun 2014

Bjorn Lomborg Is Part Of The Koch Network — And Cashing In

Bjorn Lomborg Is Part Of The Koch Network — And Cashing In
BY JOE ROMM JUNE 25, 2014

DeSmogBlog has done the first comprehensive analysis of where Bjorn Lomborg’s money comes from.

You know the T-shirt-wearing climate inactivist Lomborg (aka the Danish Delayer) from such recent gems as “Subsidizing renewables won’t stop global warming” and “What an increasingly wonderful world” and “The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels” (seriously — or not).

If those sound suspiciously similar to the exact same positions being pushed by the Koch brothers, then it should come as no surprise that Lomborg’s backers are part of the sprawling Kochtopus enterprise, as DeSmogBlog documents.

Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC), though long associated with his native Denmark, actually registered as a US-based non-profit organization back in 2008. That’s how we know Lomborg walked away with a cool $775,000 in pay from the CCC in 2012...

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/25/3453053/koch-bjorn-lomborg-lousy-t-shirt/

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Bjorn Lomborg Is Part Of The Koch Network — And Cashing In (Original Post) kristopher Jun 2014 OP
Thank you. nt littlemissmartypants Jun 2014 #1
Good to know how many tentacles the kochtopus has. blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #2
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