The Associated Press revealed last year that it had scored $8 million to promote claims of global warming. The AP impartially described this massive conflict of interest as an illustration of “how philanthropy has swiftly become an important new funding source for journalism”.
“This far-reaching initiative will transform how we cover the climate story,” its executive editor claimed. That is no doubt true. And an incredibly damaging admission.
The philanthropic quid-pro-quo saw five organizations fund the AP’s dedicated team of “more than two dozen journalists” to cover “climate issues” that the wire service would then plant in papers around the country to terrify Americans into supporting ‘green’ taxes and subsidies.
The Associated Press did not bother to explain to its readers or the newspapers that run its stories why these organizations were impelled to throw millions at it except sheer benevolence.
Nor did it explain why they might be particularly interested in convincing Americans that the climate sky is falling and that our economy must be dismantled and ‘greened’: raising energy prices and putting millions out of work. The paragon service of journalism did not even bother explaining to its readers what one of the five, Quadrivium, was beyond a Latin word.
Quadrivium is the pet project of James Murdoch and his wife, the ‘black sheep’ of Clan Murdoch, who left the family business in a huff “due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets“. Quadrivium seeks to reach “a majority of the public” to generate “urgent action” on the bipartisan passage of a US climate strategy.”
The proposed template is the “carbon rebate plan” which would tax Americans through their carbon use and then promise to pay some of the money back to them. The plan comes from the Climate Leadership Council whose board includes Kathryn Murdoch: James’s wife.
CLC’s partners include major banks, JP Morgan, Santander and Goldman Sachs, energy companies, BP, Shell and Conoco, who believe that the proposal will be good for them.
The AP has helpfully promoted the CLC’s carbon tax plan in puff pieces like “Carbon tax plan worthy of bipartisan support”. Its editorial board described the CLC as a “group of venerable Republicans” and claims that taxing Americans for the benefit of special interests would be “a quintessentially conservative plan”. That was a strange new respect from the AP which has relentlessly tried to associate Republicans and conservatives with Nazis.
The “venerable Republicans” currently on CLC’s board include not only Kathryn Murdoch, but also a former Goldman Sachs executive focusing on climate finance, a board member of the Brown Advisory Sustainable Investing Advisory Board and a founding managing partner of “Qiming Venture Partners: one of China’s premier VC firms” that was an early investor in TikTok.
That is what ESG looks like underneath the Gen Z activists being paid to scream in the streets even as the AP is being paid to scream more respectably in stories planted in local papers.
Serious journalism would ask questions or at least mention some of this in passing. The AP instead acts as a mouthpiece without even enough lingering self-respect to disclose any of that.
James Murdoch has put a lot of money into green projects. His foundation joined a consortium of investors piling into BlackRock’s $250 million climate fund. He’s also on the board of directors of Tesla, and a potential candidate to succeed Musk, and the EV car company’s business model depends on a government subsidized climate panic.
Lupa Systems, Murdoch’s venture capital fund, also has some investments in environmental startups. The AP might have mentioned this to its readers before writing an article congratulating itself for taking cash to promote Murdoch’s views. But it’s not just Murdoch.
The Rockefeller Foundation, which is another of the Big 5 funding AP’s climate propaganda, put $500 million into green energy abroad. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, another of the AP’s climate sugar daddies, has numerous climate initiatives, and these include the Climate Finance Fund. The Foundation refuses to invest in companies that drill for gas or oil.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, set up by the eccentric tycoon as a tax shelter, was quickly hijacked after his death. Delaware, where it was incorporated, appointed a board that sold off Hughes Aircraft to GM. But HMMI’s original emphasis on medical research has more recently declined into wokeness. Last year, HMMI announced a $2 billion investment to increase “diversity” in science. HMI appears to be a major investor in Kreido Biofuels,
And finally there’s the fifth of the AP’s big five climate funders: the Walton Family Foundation.
The foundation of the Walmart heirs has four board members. Lukas Walton, Sam Walton’s grandson, also serves as its Environment Program Committee Chair. Lukas’ $4 billion Builders Version organization directs 90% of its investments into ESG. S2G Ventures, its capital fund, declares that its mission is “investing in a humane and healthy planet.” It has an extensive portfolio of ‘green’ companies including Bluestar Energy Capital, a green energy investment company, Common Energy, a solar power company, Electric Hydrogen, and Carbon America which focuses on carbon capture.
Those investments seem likely to do better if Mr. and Mrs. America, or at least the CEOs and financiers who take the media seriously, keep reading about the threat of “climate change”.
The AP is taking money from organizations heavily leveraged in green investments to promote the need for green investments. And it fails to disclose the financial interests that its funders have in promoting global warming hysteria.
The closest that it gets to addressing the inherent conflict of interest comes when Brian Carovillano, AP’s vice president for grants, concedes that, “this is a mutually beneficial arrangement.”
The AP’s benefit is obvious. What’s the benefit to the donors?
Instead of answering that question, the AP story simply notes that Brian Carovillano had to “get used to the idea that funders weren’t just being generous; they had their own goals to achieve.”
The AP echoes Carovillano’s insistence that the money comes “without strings attached; the funders have no influence on the stories that are done”. Except that the whole point of the grant is for the service to produce stories on the topic that the funders are interested in. Since the AP is not about to report that there are more polar bears than at any time since the 1960s or that climate doomers keep changing the date when everyone will die every few years, the content is predictable. The AP would like to benefit from repeat business from these massive foundations, so it’s going to produce the kinds of stories that will bring more money flowing its way.
That’s the way to maintain the “mutually beneficial arrangement” aimed at helping the Associated Press pay the bills while helping its generous donors fulfill their “goals”.
In recent years, Democrats and the media have targeted conservative groups like the Heartland Institute claiming that they act as “fronts” for oil companies. The AP promoted documents stolen from the Heartland Institute about its funders and has spent years running hit pieces on Heartland without revealing that the wire service is a paid shill for green special interests.
The AP’s arrangement sheds light on the media’s financial agenda in promoting green programs that would destroy the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of Americans. While the media has its biases, these are not wholly organic. The ability of special interests to capture the media at the source by targeting wire services like the AP shows how what we read about the environment is being manipulated by networks of special interests with billions at stake.
The next time you see an AP story about “climate change”, you know who’s paying for it.
Democrats have proposed an investigation of Heartland and the oil companies. It may be time for an investigation of the AP and the financial interests funding its global warming propaganda.
Thanks Daniel, excellent expose of the financial mechanisms used to bribe MSM into supporting Green.
Most “climate scientists” are funded to “discover” that climate change correlates with human activity.
We hear stories that have headlines “Hottest Summer since 1970!!” Which means that it was HOTTER in 1970
Also headlines like “Coldest since records began” which records exactly and when did they begin?
Measures are usually taken in cities and not on top of mountains is another example of fraud.
so you’re okay with special interests financing coverage that profits them without it being disclosed in individual stories?
Yup, the fraudulent data that the leftie alarmists publish is out there. Real scientists don’t just read the alarmists propaganda though and skeptics were often proved right in their criticisms of the perpetually manipulated alarmists data., This becomes obvious the more time passes considering the alarmists claimed we would all be crispy critters by now but we’re not.
Take your climate change and stick it where the sun don’t shine, the earth has been evolving for thousands’ of years. Well before humans even exist peddle your terrorism somewhere else in he galaxy.
Measures are usually taken in cities and not on top of mountains is another example of fraud.
Some years back the very interesttng California based organisation “Watts Up with That” launched a project to survey every weather reporting station in the State of California. ALL report to NOAA and are the almost exclusive source of data from that state. I still remember two spcific stations. Actually three.
One was between Santa Rosa and the next town north, formerly in a large field but sne its placement part of that land had been bought and a four story admin building and adjacent fire station built. One station was about fifteen feet away from one wall of the admin building, still enclosed in its obligatory chain l
ink fence enclosure, but now with the building five yards away and a window mounted AC unit spewing the heat being removed from the building..directly AT the instruments. Its sister station was a quarter mile away in the middle of the hundred or so acre cow pasture, its chain link enclosure still in place. You all KNOW which station”s data were the set used in building the data record for that area.
The other station took some serious searching to find. The address was in downtown Santa Rosa, and the surveyor did not believe it was correct… until he entered the structure and enquired. Yes… there IS a weather station. Its up on the roof. The building was the four story home of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the local liberal rag. He was granted access, went u and found the station.. nestled closely amongst f
Four multi-tonne air conditioning units blowing hot air everywhere. THAT was the sole reporting station for downtown Santa Rosa.
You think this sort of thing was “accidental”? I surely do not. No wonder “surface temperature” averages are increasing.
Fraud indeed.
So do you work in the climate industry or academia? You are obviously greased by someone. Or you are highly gullible and lack critical thinking skills.
Odd how the 2012 study by Dan Kahan of Yale University proved people who doubt the science of Climate Change were proven to have a higher degree of science literacy than those who are part of the Cult. From the abstract (Seeming public apathy over climate change is often attributed to a deficit in comprehension. The public knows too little science, it is claimed, to understand the evidence or avoid being misled. Widespread limits on technical reasoning aggravate the problem by forcing citizens to use unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. An empirical study found no support for this position. Members of the public with the highest degrees of science literacy and technical reasoning capacity were not the most concerned about climate change. )
Climate has been a control issue for the powers that be for a century.Theyve had weatherwar tech for at least a century.First it is global warming then it becomes climate change with the same cabal benefitting in many ways.Many of tbese same cabal groups were the ones pushing excessive consu.merism of overpackaged toxic or harmful things like juiceboxes or fast food or petrochem fertilizers and pesticides,forever chemicals dioxins.a.p. and reuters are Well-Known Deepstate mouthpieces and information gatekeepers.zero point energy and Many other useful things have been used by elite and hidden from public.All about control of humans and the planet,not about real concern for Earth.gene decode asheanna deane elena danaan kim goguen The Only Planet of Choice The Seeders projectcamelotportal Theorionlines.c educateyourself.org royalrife.org geoengineeringwatch.org richard lighthouse william Thompkins patriots4truth.org
If you think that 16 parts per million of man made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (about 4%) can change the climate, why doesn’t the 96% of natural carbon dioxide?
Now, ask yourself, who’s in charge of that data.
I really don’t understand people who are intent on pulling the wool back up over their own eyes…
You are a member of a destructive cult. Deprogram.
Another duped “climatologist”. We all know “climate change” is a farce. You and your ilk had better wise up before the avalanche of truth buries you.
If you look at the truth, you would be less brainwashed. If you are thinking that climate change is real, your an idiot. They are spending taxpayer dollars to solve the propaganda of climate change. You and I know that this reporter is right in his mind. If you think he is lying maybe think about your mind.
Perhaps you should read this document, and the list of signatures.
The information is out there. Einstein.
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Do you really believe you get better weathers by tweaking co2 levels?
Dozens of Failed Climate Predictions Stretch 80 Years Back
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Tax Loopholes for Subversives.
Let Non-Profits be organized as business and pay tax on any profit. Section 501 allows one so called charity to donate to another. It is like incest. We should eliminate section 501 from the tax code. Taxpayers are paying for all of these “Non-Profits” who want to steal our freedom. They are trying to sell socialism as if it were charity.
Socialism is not charity.
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It is not just the MSM that is being bribed to promote the “climate change” hoax. The “scientists” and “scientific” journals are also being bribed by people who do not have the greater good of all aspects of life in mind. They are fanatics for power and money and control of others it gives them.
The discrepancies in their “climate change” plans are so obvious that they need to pound the less discerning public with fear porn to keep them from seeing what they are doing.
Thank you very much for this article.. very informative. Unfortunately, not surprising.
I call these people political prostitutes servicing Democratic Party and pretending to be Ladies and Gentlemen of the press. They are employed by political whorehouses servicing Democratic Party.
it’s all one system distributed across different institutions
Great and important article. You identified the “philanthropists” and connected the Green dots. The AP is clearly captured – and this is the most important “news” organization of them all.
Have you done a similar analysis on how other media organizations have taken all this philanthropy money? Is it true, for example, that the Gates Foundation has spread at least $250 million among media organizations?
The AP and legacy media are cheerleaders for the left
they’re an arm of the Left
They really do like their green with lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ on it
that’s the true green
they are saying: we will die in a few years because of climate change when it is clear they keep changing. case and point of this article.
They cover up the Hazards Wind and Solar pose to Birds and the Large Birds like Eagles and Condors and the Eco-Freaks just look the other way because many of them support Wind and Solar Power
as well as the simple FACT that it Can Not deliver what they promise and C02 is plant food not a pollutant!
Exactly. But it is not just the birds. It is the mere fact that they use energy to make energy. So if they start using ev’s they will lose power and electricity all over the country.
Big Oil as it is called has never been this insidious. The crime of lying (disinformation) is now a preferred art form.
ah yes , mr. mickorn says . some of us have indeed taken our heads out of the sand instead of the orifice where his head resides . im sure he has protested at the decimation of native forest and habitats destroyed by the greenies in sourcing the worlds balsa wood forests in south america which are plundered to the point of extinction so that wind turbine blades can be made . then promptly buried once they have gone past their use by date . bingo , no recycling required .
I bet he doesn’t know that they clear trees which help our planet to create wind mills which don’t really even help. Trees or wind mill? Trees! They help us live!!
Climate Change has always been a hoax. Enough of these arguments with claims that have been made up out of whole cloth. If there wasn’t a way for someone to get rich behind these claims, they would have never seen the light of day.
But hey, if you can bring up a whole generation of lemmings who pose as people and who actually believe there are more than two genders, you can probably make them believe anything you tell them. No? The good news is that it still takes a lot of money to control what gets taught.
Only stupid people believe that CO2 is a danger to our planet. More plants will grow if there is more CO2 in the atmosphere and they will produce more Oxygen for animals to breathe. Life on this planet is Carbon based and water dependent. We will destroy the human population long before we will see any permanent climate changes, and I suspect the next Ice Age will convince the remaining species that a little global warming might just be a good thing. I believe that God is likely to be very displeased.
yep. and the mere fact that the left uses people who they think are idiots and actually turn them into idiots. I wonder who got them infected. Hint: he has dementia: Biden.
It’s been many years since All Propaganda could be considered a news source.
invent the problem [climate change] to sell the cure [green energy]
The money is all they want. They think that we the people are stupid. They should look in the mirror if they think that. When really they are the idiots.
The carbon they want to get rid of is you. These Satanists have to tell you what they are planning to mitigate their karmic debt. We live in a fallen world, and Satan thinks he is winning.
Correction: This all is happening for Gods glory. He is turning people who do not believe in him to bring their faces to him. God is more powerful than anything. So the world will not end without Jesus sacrificing himself again. Look in the bible. He said he is coming back. We do not know when but he says it in revelation.
AP/UPI used to be the gold standard for up to date reliable news. Gone to Hot Place, it has.
Climate change is real, as it has been the last 5 billion years on Earth. There was a period of time when the surface temperature was 3700 degrees and covered with a sheet of ice during another.
Man made climate is a fraud. Plain and simple. The climate zealots would have you believe that on a planet that is 5 billion years old, humans can cause global cooling and global warming all in a period of just 40 years. SMH.
Its odd that science is NEVER settled and ALWAYS debated, yet for some strange reason (money!!!) the science of climate change is settled.
The old adage FOLLOW THE MONEY seems particularly appropriate here..
I am struggling to come up with the difference between the AP and a two-bit wh@re. I got nothin’.
Such shamefully brazen and obnoxious corruption. There was a time when journalists would have avoided such a glaring and transparent conflict of interest, or, at a minimum, disclosed such conflict, in a footnote to their articles. No longer. The pretense that these “journalists” are anything other than gleeful and willing lapdogs/shills/lackeys/propagandists has been dropped, now.
All this left-wing frantic hysteria “chicken little” environmental “climate change” alarm is absurd.
In addition, related to this is that the futurists who helped contribute to the making of 1973 movie entitled “Soylent Green” had made movie about that life on earth would be like in the far-distant year of 2022. For from the worldview from the timeframe 1973 , the year 2022 was ,very much , seen as distant future.
The point is environmental experts of 1973 who had a hand in the making of that movie had been proven completely wrong in everything they had predicted what life for people would be like because of environmental pollution in the year of 2022.
This should tell all thinking people something.
Go ahead a watch that movie , you might find it very amusing.
The subject of “climate change” is a topic that is used by the Biden crew to distract the American people away for the harm done by President pretender Biden of the United States with his terribly flawed fool Socialist economic policies that are wrecking the US economy.
Joe Biden is a catastrophe and calamity for America, a disaster, and a tragedy for the American people.
President impostor Biden is not just a sinister feeble -minded idiot. Worse .yet, he’s a dangerous sinister feeble minded idiot.
One early summer day I was watching on television an educated man and likewise a scholar who had written a book about environmental degradation concerns. His message was rather alarming and disturbing. This is because he had in his book, predicted, that in not more than forty years all life, including human life, will become uninhabitable on earth because of pollution.
That was an early summer day of the year 1967. So now in this current year of 2023, over fifty years and not forty his error of prediction is easily now seen to be in great error.
So modern history is repeating itself again, this that alarmist environmental scholar of the year of 1967 is now replaced by environmental experts on the subjects of “global warming” and “climate change.”
As a naturalized U.S. citizen who with his family fled a communist dictatorship in Cuba as a child in the 60’s, most would think that communism would be at the very top of my list of dangers to our American / Western way of life. Unbelievably, the green movement has replaced it. I remember reading articles about the coming ice age while in high school in the seventies. Of course nothing came of it. Most of those same interests are now promoting global warming. The alarmists goal posts keep moving. Our great country is rich in natural resources, resources that must be used to our advantage, to make our way of life, future and present, viable, not to mention used to enhance our national security. Modern technology can make and has made the use of fossil fuels highly efficient with minimal impact to the immediate environment. On the other hand, Earth’s minerals used to provide raw materials for batteries, etc., are commonly mined in China and other countries with next to no oversight of environmental impact, leaving waste lands behind. Those who speak favorably of global warming / climate change are either literally ignorant of the subject – or have skin in the game. That is the real danger to the planet and to our way of life. Climate changes, look at our not too distant planet’s history. Human beings are not changing the climate of our planet!
Excellent article; and to think that is only 10% of what is really going on.
And to add to the absurdity, none of this Greenhouse Effect stuff is true – otherwise there would be a Nobel Prizewinner for demonstrating it in a lab,
Every university has failed and said nothing.
The tragedy is that all this profit making and virtue-signalling will come at the expense of the poor of society; and it will be brutal and may well lead to civil disruption.
Climate Change is an agenda with much political support. Scientific support through research can be financed. If you spend enough money you can even finance what AL Gore calls a “Scientific Consensus”.
I find more truth in the fear mongering of Al Gore and the nightmares of Swedish teenagers, than any so called scientific evidence that would implicate the anthropological contributions of gas emissions verses the far greater emissions from other natural sources. There is no political benefit to “Climate Change” as the boogey man of this present darkness ,unless they can blame it on mankind. I remain a true unbeliever, not in Climate Change, but mankind’s declared devastating contribution. to it.
However I do believe in Tyranny and its agendas. They have been so bold as to publish them. .