Politics | climate change BP Funding Tea Party's Climate Change Deniers Big polluters give $240K to Senate campaigns By Emily Rauhala Posted Oct 25, 2010 3:47 AM CDT Updated Oct 25, 2010 7:38 AM CDT Copied James Inhofe, climate change denier. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Big-time big-polluting European firms are funding the Tea Party's climate change deniers, finds the Guardian. The paper discovered that 80% of campaign donations from major European firms like BP and Bayer went to politicians opposed to action on climate change. Recipients include Tea Party-backed incumbents Jim DeMint and James Inhofe. European companies have collectively given $240,200 to conservative Senate candidates, which, the paper notes, is more than the $217,000 major Tea Party US bankrollers, David and Charles Koch have donated to Senate campaigns.The single biggest donor was Bayer, which gave $118,00 to US senate races, followed by $25,000 from BP. (Click here to read about the Tea Party's take on global warming.) Read These Next One wrong step costs teen at Yellowstone. This Fed decision was unlike any other in decades. A child dies in an amusement park tragedy. Woman left bloodied—and in need of rabies treatment. Report an error