thank you, sean otto. two of the people who do some of the best work looking at this climate denial paratus and track being its funding are academic >> reilly dunlap and robert brulle. their book "climate change and society" drills into this pretty well. here is the description. over time, manufacturing uncertainty -- that's the doubt is their merchants of doubt scheme -- over time manufacturing uncertainty has evolved into, quote, manufacturing controversy, close, close quote quote. creating the impression that there is major debate an dissent within the scientific community over the reality of atheropogenic climate change. to accomplish this, corporations and especially conservative think tanks have supported a small number of contrarian scientists, many with no formal training in science, and other self-styled experts, close quote, paren, often social scientists affiliated with conservative think tanks, close paren, to produce non-peer-reviewed books and reports, publish in a handful of marginal journal