Let's try the other one, shall we?
What do we get with this second example of a "trustworthy" source, Lance?
- The article appears at CNS News, originally the Conservative News Service now renamed to "Cybercast News Service". CNS is owned by the Media Research Center (MRC), a far right-wing organisation which was explicitly set up to attack other news organisations.
- MRC receives funding from that same front for Gulf Oil, Alcoa, and Alcan, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, that we met in the post above.
- It also takes money from another old friend, the Bradley Foundation (that's the John Birch Society one).
- The Olin Foundation gets its money from chemicals and weapons manufactuiring. It gave away US$370 million to a variety of far-right causes including a campaign to relax American gun control laws and, of course, climate denial. MRC took an undisclosed amount of Olin Foundation money.
Well, at least this one, unlike the first one Lance relied on, doesn't seem to have directly taken money from big tobacco. Not on the public record, anyway. But it's funded by the same old collection of dodgy fronts for giant oil, munitions, and coal companies.
I invite you - all of you - to start trawling through the references that climate change deniers rely on for "evidence". It really is a fascinating journey into the heart of denialist darkness.
It's easy enough - follow the link, find out where the article has come from, then start hunting down the shell companies and the trusts until you find out who is paying for it, and what the "qualifications" of these fruitcake frontmen actually are. Check out their track records and, if you have a strong stomach, ponder their morals. I'd never actually done that for myself before, but it was quite easy, and a real eye-opener. I certainly didn't expect to find a real-live tobacco company dupe with my very first investigation!