"As far as I can tell, every one of the handful of well-known scientists who have expressed climate skepticism has received large sums of money from these companies or from dark money conduits like DonorsTrust — the same conduit, as it happens, that supported Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney general, before he joined the Trump administration. Climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego, it’s depravity – isn’t just killing people – it may well kill civilization. Don’t some of these people have children?"