Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him

Who funds you?

> someone working for an oil company donated to some think tank, which in turn was represented by a lawyer, who in turn represented plaintiffs in a wind project.

that's literally how lobbying works and same is being applied to spread misinformation against renewable energy projects.

No it's not. Lobbying works like this: someone pays someone else to advocate for some issue rather than doing it directly.

Lobbying doesn't work like this: someone donates to someone else for reason A, who hires a lawyer for some unrelated reason B, and that lawyer has totally different customers who have hired them for reason C.

Nobody, of course.

It would be nice if oil, gas, electricity and auto companies did in fact fund people like me to point out all the things climate activists say that aren't true. Pointing out misinformation is valuable on its own, and getting paid to do it would be a double benefit - getting paid to make the world better! I would thus accept that money happily.

Unfortunately they don't. Only the left do that. So people who investigate and reveal climate lobbying misinformation tend to be retirees. They can afford the time to do it as a form of charity work.

So you are spreading all this misinformation and lies, and are not even getting paid for it? Kinda pathetic...

"entire newsrooms that do nothing but systematically promote right wing ideas without revealing that fact"

Have you heard of Fox News, Newsmax, or OAN?

What misinformation and lies? I made one factual claim above and linked to the AP themselves apologising for what they're doing as proof.

I don't spread misinformation nor lies. Just truths that the climate lobby don't want people to know about.

Fox News and friends pay their staff's own salaries. They aren't hosting entire cohorts of journalists who are paid for entirely by someone else and then presenting their output as neutral and unbiased.

And you'll notice that even despite keeping that basic tenet of journalistic integrity alive, they get attacked for bias constantly. We're told that the AP is a credible news source and Fox isn't, even as AP launders stories written by teams of full time lobbyists.

Read the AP story where they admit to this practice. The journalist writing it clearly feels uncomfortable, knows what they're doing is wrong and knows he's trying to defend the indefensible. Show me where Fox puts itself in the same situation.