Google is pulling its financial support from the...
Google is pulling its financial support from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) because of the group’s denial of climate change, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said during a Monday interview on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show (http://bit.ly/1mpFfMD). “The facts…
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of climate change are not in question anymore,” he said. “Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people -- they're just, they're just literally lying.” Google shareholders had previously voted down a measure to disclose more information about Google’s funding for groups such as ALEC, which advocate for issues Google doesn’t actively support (CD May 16 p16). In a statement, Forecast the Facts, which supports advocates for the existence of climate change, said, “We hope Google will also take this opportunity review its over $699,000 in contributions since 2008 to another group that is ‘just literally lying’ -- climate change deniers in Congress."