Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight action on climate change

Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by xirdstl on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:07PM (#6955580)

Is this the logic here? Organization X received $Y in funding. Organization X in some part denies climate change. Therefore $Y is spent on fighting climate change.

This seems analogous to someone on the right looking at Planned Parenthood's budget $Z and saying that PP spends $Z on abortion.

Am I missing something?

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Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by dylandrop on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:51PM (#6956165)

Well two things:

1) "Organization X in some part denies climate change"

Organization X in _totality_ denies climate change

2) "This seems analogous to someone on the right "

The difference (at least in your quote) is that espousing the benefits of abortion is different from actually performing abortion, and no one is claiming that the organizations mentioned are actually burning coal with the $Y in funding.

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