sduford on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
We’ve talked about the big swindle here before, you know the one entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
Well, here’s a great dismantling of that “documentary” by George Monbiot:
Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications
sduford on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
The Toronto Sun published a column by Lorrie Goldstein, and that column showcases the outstanding (not) quality of journalism in that tabloid. Goldstein obviously has no understanding of climate science whatsoever and so he resorts to insults and ridicule to attack a view he obviously despises.
I wrote them a comment to complain about this [...]
sduford on Jan 04 2008 | Filed under: Politics, The Denial Machine
DeSmogBlog has just handed out their very first SmogMaker Awards
This is the first year for the SmogMaker Awards, honoring those who have subverted honest and forthright public conversation on global warming.
Judged by an expert panel of fraudbusters – the staff at the climate change watchdog DeSmogBlog.com – these awards recognize clever, deceptive or merely devious [...]
sduford on Oct 16 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
You may have heard that recently someone in the UK challenged a school district in court to try and block them from showing Al Gore’s Oscar winning documentary to the students. This court challenge was based on a set of 9 alleged “errors” in the movie.
Well, first of all, it turns out that (unsurprisingly), this [...]
sduford on Sep 08 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
I thought that recently announced Republican Presidential Candidate and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson looked like a smart and reasonable guy, but then I read the transcript of his interview with Paul Harvey:
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own [...]
sduford on Sep 01 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists, The Denial Machine
Many readers will no doubt know the 2004 paper in Science by historian of science Naomi Oreskes, a paper which discussed the consensus position regarding anthropogenic climate change. Predictably, the paper received much vitriol from the climate contrarians and denialists. Now, a medical researcher (Klaus-Martin Schulte, who appears to be a consultant in endocrine surgery) [...]
sduford on Aug 06 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
This article by Sharon Begley in the August 13th edition of Newsweek provides a nice analysis and detailed timeline of the climate denial movement in the USA. It is long, but well worth reading.
Here’s an extract:
Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog [...]
sduford on Jul 24 2007 | Filed under: Politics, The Denial Machine
Here’s an excellent speech given to the Canadian Public Relations Society’s
National Conference by James Hoggan.
In this speech, Hoggan does a brilliant job of exposing what some of his cohorts have been doing (confusing the public on important issues like global warming) and the damage it is doing to the reputation of PR Firms.
This speech was [...]
sduford on May 18 2007 | Filed under: The Denial Machine
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17 May 07
Despite ExxonMobil’s denials, a report released today by Greenpeace’s ExxonSecrets.org project, reveals that the largest oil company in the world continues to spend millions on a stealth public relations campaign aimed at discrediting global warming science.
According to the report, Exxon provided $2.1 million in 2006 to 41 “think” tanks and associations that actively [...]
sduford on May 15 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
Here’s some excellent video footage showing the Tobacco lobby’s use of tactics to create an impression of confusion around the science. The same PR organizations and so-called scientists (like Fred Singer) are using the very same tactics today to make it look like there is no scientific concensus.
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