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I don't understand how a climatologist with a PhD could deny climate change and support oil companies as her clients. Wtf?
The oil companies have been paying her since at least 2007. It's not a new thing, and developing a stable of paid experts was a key step the fossil fuels industry took when they decided to adopt the personnel and tactics of the tobacco-cancer denial machine some decades back.