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Two of the biggest funders of climate denial propaganda trying to conceal the scientific consensus

that humans are warming the planet are the oil company ExxonMobil and the oil tycoons

of the Koch family, led by Charles and David Koch.

And two of the biggest funders of NOVA, PBS's leading science program,

and one of the main sources of scientific information on television are ExxonMobil and David Koch.

If there's something wrong with this picture, PBS doesn't think so.

Nova's executive producer asked about Koch's funding of the program declared that NOVA,

quote, maintains complete independent editorial control of its content, closed quote,

which is, of course, what commercial broadcasters say about their sponsors.

The reason we have public broadcasting in the first place is because we don't believe them.

PBS on Bud Michael Getler, for his part, asserts that, quote,

as a viewer of what strikes me and a lot of others as a consistently first rate program,

I trust NOVA, close quote.

If trust were an adequate response, though, then you wouldn't need to have an on Bud, would you?

Koch's funding of NOVA became an issue after NOVA reram an episode on August 31st

about human evolution that veered off into a peculiar discussion of the positive benefits of climate change.

Quote, we're not adapted to any one environment or climate, but to many,

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