70% of global emissions come from 100 companies: Koch Industries’ annual carbon emissions bill is 24 million tons. Just like Exxon (who spent years and millions denying the climate change their own research told them was happening), Peter Thiel knows climate change is real, but he plans on Seasteading his way through it with a handpicked gang of Galt-fetishists. Billionaire-backed dark money outfits like American Solutions spend lavishly to punish any Republican lawmaker who diverges from the party line on climate change.