Not exact matches
Whenever I see graphs or data provided
by politicians, advertising agencies or
climate deniers, I think of that book.
In recent years, the left, lead
by billionaire Tom Steyer, has begun to copy the strategies pioneered
by Charles Koch and other movement conservatives, investing millions in castigating Right - wing
politicians as know - nothing
climate -
deniers.
These industries, their paid up
politicians and the people that
deny the facts accepted
by scientists around the world for the «Man made» effects on our
climate have but one agenda: Keep the money flowing in no matter what!
«Just as the concept of a «hiatus» or «pause» began to dominate the discourse in our field because of factors external to the science itself (i.e. the politically - motivated insistence
by climate change
deniers and fossil - fueled
politicians that there was a «pause» or «hiatus» in warming), so too are some authors caught up in a «Groundhog Day» exercise of writing repeated articles about how there wasn't a pause.»
While the GCC distributed a «backgrounder» to
politicians and media in the early 1990s claiming «The role of greenhouse gases in
climate change is not well understood,» a 1995 GCC internal memo drafted
by Mobil Oil (which merged with Exxon in 1998) stated that: «The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on
climate is well established and can not be
denied.»
Since governments (i.e.
politicians) are funded
by coporations to get elected, wouldn» it be in government's interest to look for results from all that
climate change research that could be favorable to their
climate denying corporate campaign financiers?
North, a
climate expert chosen
by the NAS, would be a much more obvious choice than Wegman, a statistician chosen
by Republican
politicians who
deny AGW.
If you're looking for information on noted
climate change
deniers, or on the use of PR techniques and spin
by politicians, scientists, and in the media, you've come to the right place.