Sentences with phrase «on the denial machine»

Graham Redfearn, writing for the desmog blog and The Guardian, has done amazing and thorough work on the denial machines in the US and Australia - and their links.

This was despite there being hundreds of peer - reviewed articles and books on the denial machine.

Very well done and I wish to thank you for the countless hours of your time that you gave up to shed light on the denial machine.

The climate change establishment failed to understand this changing dynamic, and continued to blame skepticism on the denial machine funded by big oil.

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It's really the thorough work done on the climate denial machine that lays out the methodology of the development of environmental distortions, lies and post-truth discourse.

As Ryan Singel reports in Wired News, Blue Frog was based on a model that was similar to a distributed denial - of - service attack — once the system identified a site as a spammer, it coordinated mass hits from Blue Frog subscribers» machines to the offending company's server to shut it down.

One key member of the denial machine, astrophysicist Willie Soon from the Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics, has portrayed himself as an «expert» on mercury and public health in order to attack legislation curbing mercury emissions from coal plants.

That is a way to do a denial, but a million virtual machines pinging on the servers can lock it up easily.

However, having put myself out for five years to answer nonsense in some more neutral locations, I have found that the overwhelmingly professional (and amateur) denial generation machine, ever refining its techniques, and with vast money and politics at its command, is so relentless and so without conscience that the only thing to do was to move on and go elsewhere.

It's a hard truth to swallow but it gives you some perspective on why the denial machine is so «strong».

On November 15 «the fifth estate,» Canada's leading investigative public affairs program, aired «The Denial Machine» (Webcast here).

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Through interviews with Naomi Oreskes, historian of science and author of Merchants of Doubt, and Kert Davies of the Climate Investigations Centre, we uncover the story of this secretive climate denial machine and learn about some of the key players who have been sowing doubt, and blocking action on the greatest threat facing our society.

Then Greenpeace released our March, 2010 report, «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» that documented the Kochs» systematic funding of the political system in order to stop action on climate change, including funding campaigns on climate dDenial Machine,» that documented the Kochs» systematic funding of the political system in order to stop action on climate change, including funding campaigns on climate denialdenial.

One key member of the denial machine, astrophysicist Willie Soon from the Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics, has portrayed himself as an «expert» on mercury and public health in order to attack legislation curbing mercury emissions from coal plants.

Dunlap is co-author of one of my favourite social science papers, «Leading voices in the denier choir», in which there is a section on the «the denial machine and its echo chamber».

Rachel Maddow has done several previous spotlights on the Koch brothers, including this look at how the Kochs fund the climate denial machine, and a close investigation of Koch Industries» ties to the tea party.

The «global warming denial machine» was alive and well in 2013, and continued to have an impact on public opinion regarding the seriousness of the problem.

But the denial machine has been aggressively pushing its war on climate science and weakening public support for action, and the Obama administration and environmental groups «took their eye off the ball and have fallen down on the job in terms of really working public opinion on this.»

The denial propaganda machine has been spreading the idea that global warming has «paused» or is on «hiatus».

Search Michael Mann Koch funded denial machine on google.

For more on the Koch brothers» climate denial machine, check out this illustrative video and keep your eyes out for Cato:

Until you realise that the wealthy, scared denial machine is really working, at least on some people.

Comprehensive climate change legislation was under consideration in the Senate after having passed the House, the Copenhagen Accords had been signed the previous month, the Environmental Protection Agency had announced its Endangerment Finding on greenhouse gases, and the climate science community was under vitriolic attack by the denial machine.

We talked about the global warming denial machine and some of my experience with it, and went on from there.

The editors at Climate Resistance have written an interesting article about the «Well funded «Well - funded - Denial - Machine» Denial Machine», which details Greenpeace's chagrin on finding that other organizations are lobbying as vigorously as they are, and that these counter-lobbyists actually have funding!

I'm not saying that's in any way a satisfactory situation, but it's spending mental energy on thoughtful self - examination while the denial machine makes hay.

... then read further on page 36, and you can't miss the insinuation that this sinister mega-dollar organization plotted out a scheme starting in 1991 to pay skeptics big bucks to participate in «a well funded climate denial machine.»

The heart of the climate denial machine relies on huge corporate and foundation funding from U.S. businesses including Microsoft, Koch Industries, Altria (parent company of Philip Morris) RJR Tobacco and more.

The Heartland Institute is convening a who's - who of the global warming denial machine in Washington, DC over the next two days for the sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC6).

In light of the denial machine's war on climate science, which seeks to delegitimize the IPCC and lay a predicate for rejecting any unwelcome conclusions of the forthcoming reports, we expect they will find a way to challenge the author selection and subsequent steps of the IPCC process.

Of course, that would be dependent on a couple other factors, too: whether the media does a consistently decent job of reporting such weather events» links to climate change, and whether the denial noise machine can continue to make itself appear credible in conservative circles.

The Washington Post ran an article on September 17 on the controversy over whether Pat Michaels, long - time voice of the global warming denial machine, was entitled to continue to identify himself as the Virginia State Climatologist.

The diagram is from The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, and aims to depict «Key Components of the Climate Change Denial Machine», and was highlighted by Andrew Revkin on his Dot Earth blog.

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