How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Illustrations for splinter
These illustrations and chart were created for an article on Splinter about how there exists many republican senators and representatives who secretly believe in climate change, but are pressured by moneyed interests against admitting it publicly.
"Bob Inglis, a former GOP congressman from South Carolina who lost his seat to a primary opponent during the Tea Party surge of 2010, told Splinter that there are Republican senators and representatives who want to take climate action but are “terrified” to do so. Reverend Mitch Hescox, president of the Evangelical Environmental Network, estimated that there are as many as 20 senators who would take action for climate and clean energy—but only if there were grassroots support to do so. Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech and an evangelical Christian who believes in climate change, suspects that the “vast majority” of those who dismiss climate science in Congress are secret believers."
How the money does its work.