and another donor, of course, to the franklin institute is the charles g. koch charitable foundation. that one's self-explanatory. so if you look at what's going on at the franklin center, you see koch people, koch money and koch buddies. then there is the so-called james madison institute. a libertarian think tank with a long history of trying to undermine climate science and renewable energy policy. yale's professor justin farrell lists the james madison institute among the organizations he tracks contributing to the polarization of climate change debate. the heartland institute, yes, that wonderful unabomber group, a senior fellow for environmental policy, is on the james madison institute's research advisory council. i mean, it is such a web of connections. according to research by the american bridge project, the madison institute received over $1.4 million in direct donations from koch affiliateed groups. between 2003 and 2013, they received funding from the john templeton foundation, which -- quote -- tries to encourage the integration of religious belief

the former president of the charles g. koch charitable foundation, together with charles koch, and i quote here, forged a partnership and created the framework for successful action in the political realm, with this -- this web of denial at the heart of that framework. in her recent book, "dark money, " jane mayer describes in depth the system by which fossil fuel interests use their wealth to sabotage the american political process. first she describes they pay intellectuals and universities who come up with ideas friendly to the fossil fuel industry. then they pay think tanks to transform these ideas into -- quote -- marketable policies. as an environmental lawyer who mayer quotes in a ten article for the new yorker explained, here's the quote, you take corporate money and give it to a neutral sounding think tank, which hires people with pedigrees and academic degrees who put out credible-seeming studies. but they all coincide perfectly with the economic interests of their funders -- end quote. ms. mayer describes this system

rich think is the former president of the charles g. koch charitable foundation. he has outlined the model that they used called the structure of social change to structure what he called "the distinct roles of universities, think tanks, and activist groups in the transformation of ideas into action." end quote. he is a koch-funded grant maker out to pollute the public mind, so the koch foundation realized that multiple levels were necessary for successful propaganda production. they went at it this way: the -- quote -- "intellectual raw materials" -- end quote -- were tosh h. to be produced by scholars funded at universities giving the propaganda product some academic credibility. i think at this point, koch funding reaches into as many as 300 college campuses to create this so-called intellectual raw material. then think tanks and policy institutions mold these ideas and market them as -- quote -- "needed solutions for real-world problems." i guess they're using the technique of think tank as disguised political weapon described by jane mayer in her terrific boo