An editorial in Nature says that Matthew Nisbet's Climate shift report "dismantles three of the most common reasons given by those who have tried, and failed, to garner widespread support for policies to restrict greenhouse gases." I guess they didn't get the memo from the climate capo or the reprint over at the watchdog site. The Nature editorial helpfully lays out the three widely help assumptions that the Power shift report challenges:
First "” the failure of the US Senate to pass a cap-and-trade bill in 2010 cannot be blamed directly on the financial lobbying muscle of the conservative movement and its allies in industry. In 2009, the report says, although a network of prominent opponents of cap and trade, including ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, spent a total of US$272 million lobbying policy-makers, environmental groups in favour of cap and trade mobilized $229 million from companies such as General Electric ...
