A journal funded by US billionaire Peter Thiel has been accused of publishing articles dismissing the science on climate change.
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Climate change is a direct challenge to the philosophy of neo-liberalism that has made a very small group of people exceedingly rich, writes the University of Auckland’s Dr Neal Curtis. It’s never been about the science – it’s the ideology.
On the 29th January, San Francisco-based political magazine Mother Jones ran an article claiming a journal funded by US billionaire Peter Thiel—a man known in New Zealand for the controversial way he received his citizenship—was publishing articles dismissing the science on climate change.
The only thing new here, though, is the addition of another name to an already long list of very wealthy businessmen who are denying the consensus on scientific facts shared, according to NASA, by 97 percent of the scientific community who are publishing on the subject in peer-reviewed journals. To call the agreement on climate change a consensus, then, seriously underestimates just how in sync so many of the world’s leading experts […]
It’s equally important to recognize that climate change deniers in the republican base are fueled by their pernicious, spiteful, “end times” beliefs and their anti-intellectualism. For them, climate change is consistent with their beliefs, and welcome.