interests. melinda has been head of her own public relations business, a firm she sold in 1989 but she still continued her career. i set at a board member of a bank and still represent a number of clients that are, i guess, holdovers from my company in new york. ron worked in investment banking and was head of corporate finance at his firm. in 1996 melinda gave birth to their son reece. ron loved being a father and a weekend baseball coach. then in february 1989, three-year-old reese developed what seemed like a flu. he started having some respiratory problems. and he would have a real hard time catching his breath. he d and we thought golly, maybe he s
melinda had been head of her own public relations business, a firm she sold in 1989, but she still continued her career. i sit as a board member of a bank and still represent a number of clients that are, i guess, holdover from my company in new york. ron worked in investment banking and was head of corporate finance at his firm. in 1996, melinda gave birth to their son, reece. ron loved being a father and a weekend baseball coach. then in february 1999, 3-year-old reese developed what seemed like a flu. he started having some respiratory problems.
debate over climate change legislation in general and drilling specifically? well, back to 1997, 50 close to $50 million came from koch foundation, the koch foundation to 40 different organizations that are part of a network that we call an echo chamber of climate change denial. so over 13 years they spent $50 million. $50 million. trying to convince people that climate change isn t real. that s right, through these different organizations. the fact that there s 40 of them creates this unique situation where people hear this message about, you know, doubt about climate science from so many different organizations, that it becomes believable. and people in my business and the public relations business have known this for a long time, back to the days of philip morris, which is actually where
becomes believable. and people in my business and the public relations business have known this for a long time, back to the days of philip morris, which is actually where some of these organizations and the techniques that they use began in the early 90s. philip morris started a group called the advancement of sound science coalition. and it was very, very carefully thought out public relations tactics that were used to shift the issues around tobacco off of health issue and on to sound science issues. and philip morris knew they couldn t do it by themselves, so they invited people like organizations like exxon and other fossil fuel companies to join them. and they it basically became the beginning of a campaign that a lot of these 40 different organizations that i was talking about earlier drew on to then