{"id":4734,"date":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/39942-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:45:57","slug":"39942-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/climate\/climate-deniers\/front-groups\/39942-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackinac Center for Public Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group<\/span>
$590,151 from Koch foundations, 2001-2017<\/span><\/p>\n

The Michigan-based Mackinac Center spreads climate change\u00a0denial<\/a> and smears<\/a> prominent climate policy consultants. It has repeatedly<\/a> promoted<\/a> the unscientific reasoning of Patrick Michaels<\/a>, a voice central in the climate denial movement. Mackinac’s Tom Gantert, who has no scientific qualification<\/a>, has\u00a0attacked<\/a> the scientific consensus of global warming’s existence and causes and promoted<\/a> the false notion that emails hacked from climate scientists disproved global warming (multiple investigations repeatedly exonerated the scientists involved and had no impact on the science of climate change).<\/p>\n

Mackinac is part of the State Policy Network<\/a>, a network of state-level organizations that front for corporate interests and are often involved in coordinated climate science denial.
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