It also says the companies «orchestrated a campaign of deception and denial regarding climate change» by funding efforts to discredit the science on climate change even though their scientists had warned them of the risks and the role of fossil fuels in causing it. (insideclimatenews.org)
«or what is more likely, simply wish to change the focus from the well - established rise in temperatures (by means of many independent lines of investigation including the shrinking of the Arctic Ice Cap) to the fact that some stations are not ideal in order to discredit the science which has established that climate change is taking place and that it threatens countless lives.» (realclimate.org)
TASSC was a front group created in 1993 by specialist crisis PR company APCO Worldwide and cigarette firm Philip Morris to fight tobacco legislation and discredit science linking smoking to health concerns. (desmogblog.com)