Payroll skeptics!

The Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E), a network of NGOs, has issued a report accusing major European companies of donating funds disproportionately to candidates in the US Senate election who are known for their denial of climate change.

Among the donors are chemical manufacturers Bayer and BASF, oil company BP, energy provider GDF/Suez and steelmaker ArcelorMittal.

According to publicly available figures, the eight companies examined by CAN gave a total of $306,100 (219,400 euros) to Senate candidates, of which 78 percent went either to known climate change deniers or to senators who voted against the Obama administration's cap-and-trade legislation, seen by activists as a major contribution to the fight against climate change.

This is the news from Climate Action Network (the quotation is from the website of Deutsche Welle.

I can respect people who can be skeptic to science and want to try the scientific statements in a search for truth. That is the method of all good science. Hypothesis are right until they are proven wrong. But to keep a point of view with reasons that is more about what we want the world to be are not especially smart or honest. It would of course be much more convenient if you just could go on with business as usual but this not make the lie a truth.

Now it is even worse when you get paid to be skeptic when you have influences on the political decision making. This seem to be the case and that those who kept USA from taking steps to a more progressive climate policy and to take steps forward in the international climate policy discussion where getting the big bucks from big industry. It is a shame. And it seems like the elections i USA coming weeks will slow down the climate process in one of the most important countries of the world. And it will be done with money from the business world. Why cant they see that the future needs another way of thinking!

But we have to trust the word; The truth shall set you free.