Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science • How Donors Trust distributed millions to anti-climate groups.
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
The Guardian, Thursday 14 February 2013
Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel
nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the
science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned.
The
funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of
thinktanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine
climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising
"wedge issue" for hardcore conservatives.
The millions were routed through two trusts, Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund,
operating out of a generic town house in the northern Virginia suburbs
of Washington DC. Donors Capital caters to those making donations of $1m
or more.
Whitney Ball, chief executive of the Donors Trust told
the Guardian that her organisation assured wealthy donors that their
funds would never by diverted to liberal causes.
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