PETITION: REMOVE DAVID H. KOCH from Board of PBS
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Judy Reed
Mar 13, 2014, 4:23:19 AM3/13/14
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Note: I was shocked when I saw "David H. Koch, The Fund for Science" announced as a supporter of NOVA on PBS and "the public understanding of science." What? Daily Kos must have heard me screaming! This Petition is good timing. While Koch-funded scientists reversed their denial and negative position on climate change, the continuous and effective denials of years have done their damage in the minds of many.
My theory: One doesn't "believe" in climate change, or evolution, or gravity. One "believes" in gods and angels. One KNOWS about science.
The Kochs remind me of the cigarette companies who told us cigarettes were "good" for us. We believed it for too long, and many learned the truth too late.
Judy.
See: Alert Below AND:
<http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/28/602151/bombshell-koch-funded-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-on-the-high-end-and-essentially-all-due-to-carbon-pollution/>
Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds Global
Warming Is Real, On The High End, And
By Joe Romm on Jul 28, 2012 at 5:31 pm
The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST)>> http://berkeleyearth.org/analysis/
If you are unable to access this article, I will send it to you:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also See:
Koch Brothers Exposed!
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXLWm5FQ74>
Koch Industries, which the brothers own, is one of the top ten polluters in the United States < http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_press/> ‹ which perhaps explains why the Kochs have given $60 million to climate denial groups between 1997 and 2010. <http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/>
The Kochs are the oil and gas industry¹s biggest donors to the congressional committee with oversight of the hazardous Keystone XL oil pipeline. They and their employees gave more than $300,000 to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2010 alone. >>
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/02/08/207482/house-energy-and-commerce-committee-koch-global-warming-witch-trial/
Kochs Profit from Canadian Eco-Nightmare
Koch Industries processes one in four barrels of U.S.-bound Alberta tar sand, while pumping millions of dollars into highly conservative, anti-green causes. READ MORE
<http://act.alternet.org/go/5725?akid=6712.33004.Z8sdXb&t=15>
By Geoff Dembicki / The Tyee
How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government
The Koch's Tea Party libertarianism is actually a thin veneer for the company's long-running history of manipulating the market to pad Koch profits.READ MORE
<http://act.alternet.org/go/5031?akid=6595.33004.esmr-z&t=3>
Lee Fang / Think Progress
Koch Industries is a well-documented and infamous polluter of air and water -- and the public discourse. www.alternet.org/story/150078/how_you_can_boycott_the_kochs
€ In 2010, Koch Industries was ranked 10th on the list of top U.S. corporate air polluters
€ Koch Industries became among the first oil firms that lobbied against a national standard for low carbon fuel standard in 2007.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Koch_Industries>
For updates and all things Koch:
Subscribe: Center for Media and Democracy <edi...@prwatch.org>
~~~~~~~~~~~~ALERT~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: "Rachel Colyer, Daily Kos" <camp...@dailykos.com>
Reply-To: camp...@dailykos.com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:03:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Sign the petition: David Koch should not be on the board of a PBS affiliate
Please sign the petition urging PBS affiliate WGBH to remove David Koch from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council because of his anti-science positions. Click here to sign.
<http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y961tIfGU017CBRAqPPo8g7EQrPJFNX8>
David Koch is a known climate denier who gives tens of millions of dollars to fund organizations whose mission is to spread misinformation to the American public about climate change and science. For this reason, he should not be associated with an organization whose mission includes ³fostering an informed and active citizenry.²
WGBH defends Koch¹s role at the station. Board Chair Amos Hostetter Jr. has said Koch brings ³diversity² to the board, and that there is no ³political litmus test² for board members.
The problem is that climate change denial isn¹t a political viewpointit¹s completely false. It¹s anti-science, anti-education, wrongheadedness meant to mislead the public about scientific fact, which contributes to the Kochs bottom line. This type of misleading ³diversity² doesn¹t belong at an education organization.
Recent public pressure prompted David Koch to resign from the board of New York¹s WNET after questions of conflict of interest and self-censorship arose around the documentaries ³Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream² and ³Citizen Koch².
We need to make his next resignation happen now.
Sign the petition urging WGBH to remove David Koch from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council. <http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HDjTq7lUDTvwbZMpILIsUA7EQrPJFNX8>
Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer
Campaign Director, Daily Kos
P.S. Please help keep Daily Kos strong by chipping in $3. <http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4WKZCYQwH3ARCTvH2%2F6Jxg7EQrPJFNX8>
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Note: I was shocked when I saw "David H. Koch, The Fund for Science" announced as a supporter of NOVA on PBS and "the public understanding of science." What? Daily Kos must have heard me screaming! This Petition is good timing. While Koch-funded scientists reversed their denial and negative position on climate change, the continuous and effective denials of years have done their damage in the minds of many.
My theory: One doesn't "believe" in climate change, or evolution, or gravity. One "believes" in gods and angels. One KNOWS about science.
The Kochs remind me of the cigarette companies who told us cigarettes were "good" for us. We believed it for too long, and many learned the truth too late.
Judy.
Petition: Urge PBS affiliate WGBH to remove David Koch from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council because of his anti-science positions.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y961tIfGU017CBRAqPPo8g7EQrPJFNX8>
See: Alert Below AND:
<http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/28/602151/bombshell-koch-funded-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-on-the-high-end-and-essentially-all-due-to-carbon-pollution/>
Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds Global
Warming Is Real, On The High End, And
Essentially All Due To Carbon Pollution
By Joe Romm on Jul 28, 2012 at 5:31 pmThe Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST)>> http://berkeleyearth.org/analysis/
If you are unable to access this article, I will send it to you:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also See:
Koch Brothers Exposed!
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXLWm5FQ74>
Koch Industries, which the brothers own, is one of the top ten polluters in the United States < http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_press/> ‹ which perhaps explains why the Kochs have given $60 million to climate denial groups between 1997 and 2010. <http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/>
The Kochs are the oil and gas industry¹s biggest donors to the congressional committee with oversight of the hazardous Keystone XL oil pipeline. They and their employees gave more than $300,000 to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2010 alone. >>
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/02/08/207482/house-energy-and-commerce-committee-koch-global-warming-witch-trial/
Kochs Profit from Canadian Eco-Nightmare
Koch Industries processes one in four barrels of U.S.-bound Alberta tar sand, while pumping millions of dollars into highly conservative, anti-green causes. READ MORE
<http://act.alternet.org/go/5725?akid=6712.33004.Z8sdXb&t=15>
By Geoff Dembicki / The Tyee
How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government
The Koch's Tea Party libertarianism is actually a thin veneer for the company's long-running history of manipulating the market to pad Koch profits.READ MORE
<http://act.alternet.org/go/5031?akid=6595.33004.esmr-z&t=3>
Lee Fang / Think Progress
Koch Industries is a well-documented and infamous polluter of air and water -- and the public discourse. www.alternet.org/story/150078/how_you_can_boycott_the_kochs
€ In 2010, Koch Industries was ranked 10th on the list of top U.S. corporate air polluters
Koch Industries is the major source of funds of climate denial. Greenpeace states that between 1997 and 2008 Koch Industries donated nearly $48 million to groups which doubt or oppose anthropogenic global warming.
From 2005 to 2008, Koch industries spent $5.7 million on political campaigns and $37 million on direct lobbying to support fossil fuel industries.
€ Koch Industries became among the first oil firms that lobbied against a national standard for low carbon fuel standard in 2007.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Koch_Industries>
€ Long-time Koch watcher Jim Hightower says of Charles and David Koch: "It's all about them, you see -- they want to be free of anti-pollution regulations, labor laws, corporate taxes, and other policies that serve the common good. The public be damned. Keep your eyes on these two. After all, the higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side."
For updates and all things Koch:
Subscribe: Center for Media and Democracy <edi...@prwatch.org>
~~~~~~~~~~~~ALERT~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: "Rachel Colyer, Daily Kos" <camp...@dailykos.com>
Reply-To: camp...@dailykos.com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:03:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Sign the petition: David Koch should not be on the board of a PBS affiliate
Please sign the petition urging PBS affiliate WGBH to remove David Koch from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council because of his anti-science positions. Click here to sign.
<http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y961tIfGU017CBRAqPPo8g7EQrPJFNX8>
David Koch is a known climate denier who gives tens of millions of dollars to fund organizations whose mission is to spread misinformation to the American public about climate change and science. For this reason, he should not be associated with an organization whose mission includes ³fostering an informed and active citizenry.²
WGBH defends Koch¹s role at the station. Board Chair Amos Hostetter Jr. has said Koch brings ³diversity² to the board, and that there is no ³political litmus test² for board members.
The problem is that climate change denial isn¹t a political viewpointit¹s completely false. It¹s anti-science, anti-education, wrongheadedness meant to mislead the public about scientific fact, which contributes to the Kochs bottom line. This type of misleading ³diversity² doesn¹t belong at an education organization.
Recent public pressure prompted David Koch to resign from the board of New York¹s WNET after questions of conflict of interest and self-censorship arose around the documentaries ³Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream² and ³Citizen Koch².
We need to make his next resignation happen now.
Sign the petition urging WGBH to remove David Koch from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council. <http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HDjTq7lUDTvwbZMpILIsUA7EQrPJFNX8>
Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer
Campaign Director, Daily Kos
P.S. Please help keep Daily Kos strong by chipping in $3. <http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4WKZCYQwH3ARCTvH2%2F6Jxg7EQrPJFNX8>
~~~Free E-News-Clip & Alert Services:~~~>
This is distibuted for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.
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Judy Reed
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