In the wake of the climate report the Trumpists tried to bury with a Friday night release, I've been doing some homework on the roots of the depravity that is climate denial, with guidance from Mann and Toles -- and found an unexpected connection 1/ cup.columbia.edu/book/the-madho…
They directed me to the story of Willie Soon, whose climate skepticism was subsidized by corporate interests -- he even described his articles as "deliverables" -- with much of his funding coming from a dark money conduit called DonorsTrust 2/ nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/…
So where else have we heard about DonorsTrust recently? They were the SOLE funder of the nonprofit that was Matthew Whitaker's only source of income before he joined the Trump administration 3/ opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/o…
So this is really all one story. There's a sort of Axis of Depravity, one of whose members has been appointed -- probably illegally, but that's another story -- as Acting Attorney General. Weep for the planet. 4/
