For almost two decades before we started our Substack, as environmental industry professionals, we referred to this as the Climate-Industrial Complex.
And it was just a sprout then. Today, it sprawls throughout all of government, corporate America, finance, legacy media and Hollywood like chronic wasting disease in the U.S. whitetail deer herd.
I published my book Science and Public Policy: The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science back in 2007. I focused there on the failure of scientists to disclose their value preferences when journals required only financial conflicts of interest to be disclosed. They were often the 'Baptists' to the interest-based 'Bootleggers' who in Bruce Yandle's theory of regulation strengthened the case for regulatory action to advantage the Bootleggers. (Bruce grew up in Georgia and was familiar with the phenomenon there of both supporting a prohibition on the sale of alcohol on Sunday - with the Baptists adding a moral cloak that strengthened the case, especially by legitimating the channelling of support, including financial support, to the cause).
What you are showing is that the two are becoming closer and acting in concert - which Yandle's theory (really a model) did not necessarily entail.
The efforts of fund managers to corrupt not just the science-policy nexus (think Covering Climate Now, the efforts of Risky Business with RCP8.5, etc), but science itself are quite disturbing. This is especially so when there is growng evidence to support a 'lukewarner' perspective and an absence of any climate 'emergency'.
My favourite example id Sir Christopher Hohn donating £200,000 to Extinction Rebellion, who present themselves as some kind of radical group.
Unfortunately a mirror for Big Pharma and the revolving door they are well known for....
For almost two decades before we started our Substack, as environmental industry professionals, we referred to this as the Climate-Industrial Complex.
And it was just a sprout then. Today, it sprawls throughout all of government, corporate America, finance, legacy media and Hollywood like chronic wasting disease in the U.S. whitetail deer herd.
Excellent post, Jessica.
I published my book Science and Public Policy: The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science back in 2007. I focused there on the failure of scientists to disclose their value preferences when journals required only financial conflicts of interest to be disclosed. They were often the 'Baptists' to the interest-based 'Bootleggers' who in Bruce Yandle's theory of regulation strengthened the case for regulatory action to advantage the Bootleggers. (Bruce grew up in Georgia and was familiar with the phenomenon there of both supporting a prohibition on the sale of alcohol on Sunday - with the Baptists adding a moral cloak that strengthened the case, especially by legitimating the channelling of support, including financial support, to the cause).
What you are showing is that the two are becoming closer and acting in concert - which Yandle's theory (really a model) did not necessarily entail.
The efforts of fund managers to corrupt not just the science-policy nexus (think Covering Climate Now, the efforts of Risky Business with RCP8.5, etc), but science itself are quite disturbing. This is especially so when there is growng evidence to support a 'lukewarner' perspective and an absence of any climate 'emergency'.
My favourite example id Sir Christopher Hohn donating £200,000 to Extinction Rebellion, who present themselves as some kind of radical group.