Its boss for the 12 years to 2005, Lee ("Iron Ass") Raymond, is a fierce climate-change sceptic and a friend of Dick Cheney.
A friend of Dick Cheney, Raymond is also a fierce climate-change sceptic, and the oil giant funded anti-climate change research.
As Stereogum reports, Thom Yorke, who has been a fierce advocate for climate change policy, took part in a march through London, DJing to motivate protestors as he rode a Greenpeace float.
Lauer noted what many Current staffers had reportedly complained about: that Gore, a fierce advocate for tackling climate change, had sold his company to a network funded in large part with oil money.
It's not just that the forests face natural challenges like invasive beetles or fierce wildfires, challenges exacerbated by climate change.
But opposition to mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions — the best hope for addressing the problem of climate change — remains fierce.
The drought has set off a fierce political debate in Australia about climate change.
The outcome – and Australia's fierce resistance to a discussion of climate change – have been attacked by the leading climate economist Nicholas Stern, who has written for Guardian Australia that the latest "synthesis" report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should be "high on the agenda" for the G20 meeting.
But the agency chief's pursuit of a radical deregulatory agenda, gutting greenhouse gas rules at a time when the United Nations is calling for unprecedented emissions cuts to avert catastrophic climate change, has drawn fierce criticism.
Pope Francis called on Thursday for concerted action against environmental degradation and climate change, renewing a fierce attack on consumerism and financial greed which, he said, were threatening the planet.
Considering the fierce debate over what to do about climate change, this does not seem like that much money at all.
