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Koch-funded Study Confirms Sad State of Affairs

Koch-funded Study Confirms Sad State of Affairs
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Lead Senior Economist, Environmental Defense Fund

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It's amazing that this is even news, but here goes: A new study commissioned in the wake of "Climategate" that wasn't confirmed that, yes, the globe is indeed warming, and that the vast majority of climate scientists have gotten it right all along.

Among the study's sponsors: the famously infantile Koch brothers, who would be a laughing stock, if it weren't for their millions funding climate deniers.

What are the chances any of them will change their mind now and finally acknowledge that a "free market" can't operate, while you socialize the costs of doing business?

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