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Calling this a 'billion-dollar' network is misleading. Heritage and AEI are conservative policy think tanks with a variety of topics they write on, and counting
by calcsam 13y ago
Calling this a 'billion-dollar' network is misleading. Heritage and AEI are conservative policy think tanks with a variety of topics they write on, and counting their whole budgets is rather odd math.
- 3am 13y agoDo they count their entire budgets? I wanted to get more details, and followed the link back to the original story on Wired UK (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/21/denial http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/21/denial), which linked to the journal article in question at: http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-013-1018-7 http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-013-1018-7, which is sadly behind a paywall. At any rate, I didn't read anything in the article that detailed their methodology well enough to see how you can conclude they are counting the entire AEI and Heritage budgets. They note the organizations get $7B USD in total donations, so if only 15% or so of their activity was climate denial related it would be an accurate title. Which seems completely plausible. EDIT: why the downvote? Also, I thought it should go without saying, but they note that this isn't limited to AEI and Heritage, but that there are 91 groups they looked at.