{"id":4772,"date":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/capital-research-center-crc\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:54:23","slug":"capital-research-center-crc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/climate\/climate-deniers\/front-groups\/capital-research-center-crc\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Research Center (CRC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group<\/span>
$720,888 from Koch foundations, 1997-2017<\/span><\/p>\n

The Capital Research Center’s GreenWatch.org<\/a> website collects information on non-profit environmental advocates, and is heavily\u00a0biased against climate science. In reaction to peer-reviewed study that found a 97% consensus among scientists that climate change is a real phenomenon and primarily caused by\u00a0human activity, the CRC called the authors “alarmist<\/a>.”<\/div>\n
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As of 2017, the CRC continues to oppose<\/a> international treaties that countries have entered in order to mitigate the impact of climate change.<\/div>\n
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In 2016, the CRC criticized<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. Military for incorporating climate change into its strategic planning, blaming President Obama.<\/div>\n
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In 2015, the CRC described<\/a> global climate treaty negotiations as “the culmination of decades of work by the anti-democracy Left, by power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats, and by greedy business people.”<\/div>\n
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In 2014, CRC posted an article<\/a> called, “Global Warming: How to persuade those idiots who don\u2019t agree with you.” The article is a retort to\u00a0reporters\u00a0covering the\u00a0challenge of communicating climate science to a public that disproportionately distrusts the\u00a0consensus among scientists.<\/div>\n
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CRC cited<\/a>\u00a0a rebuttal<\/a> to the 2014 National Climate Assessment, signed almost exclusively by scientists with\u00a0a history of payments by the fossil fuel industry or groups financed by fossil fuel interests, many of whom lack [advanced] degrees\u00a0in science,\u00a0or have not published any [recent] scientific research. A full list of signatories\u00a0is below, (many of which overlap with a list posted<\/a> by Sau on the HotWopper blog):<\/div>\n