Tea Party climate change deniers funded by BP and other major polluters | Environment | The Guardian
I’d label this as a bombshell like Roger Ebert did in his tweet, but really everyone who reads articles here knows this already — large amounts of funding for climate deniers comes from Fossil Fuels industries.
BP and several other big European companies are funding the midterm election campaigns of Tea Party favourites who deny the existence of global warming or oppose Barack Obama’s energy agenda, the Guardian has learned.
An analysis of campaign finance by Climate Action Network Europe (Cane) found nearly 80% of campaign donations from a number of major European firms were directed towards senators who blocked action on climate change. These included incumbents who have been embraced by the Tea Party such as Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and the notorious climate change denier James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma.