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202 As E. O. Wilson recently wrote

E. O. Wilson, "Why Humans, Like Ants, Need a Tribe," Daily Beast, April 1, 2012.

203 "reposition global warming as theory not fact"

Matthew Wald, "Pro-Coal Ad Campaign Disputes Warming Idea," New York Times, July 8, 1991.

204 The large public multinational fossil fuel companies

John Fullerton, Capital Inst.i.tute, "The Big Choice," July 19, 2011, http://capitalinst.i.tute.org/blog/big-choice-0.

205 global scientific consensus is accepted

Ibid.

206 adds up to a total of $27 trillion

Ibid.

207 Saudi Arabia to convert its domestic energy use to 100 percent renewables

Fiona Harvey, "Saudi Arabia Reveals Plans to be Powered Entirely by Renewable Energy, Guardian, October 19, 2012.

208 in the aggregate, 7.5 million of them

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Compet.i.tion, "The Subprime Mortgage Market," May 17, 2007, http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20070517a.htm.

209 "attack false enemies and deny real problems than find solutions"

Jay Rockefeller, Statement on Inhofe Resolution Vote, June 20, 2012.

210 four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the U.S. Senate and House

Marianne Lavelle, Center for Public Integrity, "The Climate Change Lobby Explosion," February 24, 2009, http://www.publicintegrity.org/node/4593.

211 become one of the largest sources of campaign contributions

Center for Responsive Politics, "Oil and Gas," http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E01.

212 One right-wing state attorney general

John Rudolf, "A Climate Skeptic with a Bully Pulpit in Virginia Finds an Ear in Congress," New York Times, February 22, 2011.

213 Right-wing legal foundations and think tanks

Tom Clynes, "The Battle over Climate Science," Popular Science, June 21, 2012.

214 Right-wing members of Congress have repeatedly

Kate Sheppard, "Taking Climate Denial to New Extremes," Mother Jones, February 11, 2011.

215 essential monitoring satellites being delayed or canceled

Ledyard King, "Report Warns of Weather Satellites 'Rapid Decline,' " Gannett News, May 2, 2012.

216 four separate independent investigations

John Cook, Skeptical Science, "What Do the ClimateGate Emails Tell Us?," http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climategate-CRU-emails-hacked.htm.

217 The Frozen Planet was edited before the Discovery Network

Brian Stelter, "No Place for Heated Opinions," New York Times, April 20, 2012.

218 "showing a doc.u.mentary on lung cancer and leaving out the part about the cigarettes"

Ibid.