Sentences with phrase «reposition global warming facts»
Loyal followers of my work know exactly where I am going with Gore's insinuations about corporate corruption «designed to «reposition global warming facts as something to doubt.»
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«In 1991, a corporate coalition composed of the National Coal Association, the Western Fuels Association, and Edison Electrical Institute created a PR front group called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) and launched a $ 500,000 advertising and public relations campaign to, in ICE's own words, «reposition global warming as theory, (not fact)...»
In my previous blog post, I showed how one anonymous op - ed writer tried to casually drop the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase into his piece to insinuate skeptic climate scientists received illicit industry money in exchange for the promise to lie to the public.
WFA's «Information Council for the Environment» that Gelbspan so widely touts as smoking gun evidence of a top - down industry directive «to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact «lasted just six months ** [See Author's 12/19/14 note below] in its entirety, with the actual PR tour being restricted to just three cities in May of 1991 and maybe a single 60 - second national radio ad on Rush Limbaugh's program at that time.
Narrator: In order to protect profits, these industries devised a plan, to reposition global warming as a theory and not fact and designed what a recent Greenpeace report dubbed the climate change denial machine.
It all rests on the phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», which has been endlessly regurgitated by, among others, Al Gore, Naomi Oreskes, George Monbiot, the Union of Concerned Scientists, James Hoggan and Eric Pooley.
The majority of internet references I initially found credited the accusation to ex-Boston Globe reporter / book author / «Pulitzer - winner» Ross Gelbspan, and his «discovery» that the fossil fuel industry was paying skeptic scientists «under the table» to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — according to a leaked coal association memo he supposedly found.
As I've said on several occasions here and elsewhere, the major problem with global warming believers» enslavement to the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase is that it is not in any way proof of an arrangement between between skeptics and industry officials involving payments made for false climate assessments.
A particularly prominent one is Dossier # 5, where the UCS clearly loves (as I pointed out in my July 9 blog post) a document scan out of Greenpeace's old collection (click image below, to enlarge) of the Western Fuels Association's «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) documents — the ones with the so - called «leaked strategy memo to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact».
Considering John Passacantando was running the Ozone Action organization at the time when the words «According to documents obtained by Ozone Action and by Ross Gelbspan, several ICE strategies were laid out including: the repositioning of global warming as theory, not fact» were written in 1996, I add him to the list.
Nobody will win a Pulitzer from regurgitating the plot of Al Gore's movie, complete with its comparison of the «Doubt is our product» leaked tobacco industry memo and one supposedly leaked from the fossil fuel industry of an alleged sinister - sounding directive to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
And wouldn't those talking points pack a fatal punch with reporters if you could say a Pulitzer winning investigative reporter discovered a leaked coal industry memo which was proof for skeptic climate scientists being paid to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
Australian professor / lecturer Sharon Beder's site's «Information Council on [sic — incorrect word] the Environment» (ICE) section, which I showcased in my prior blog post, reveals the key clue of where the Gore - Gelbspan «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase is found in its original context.
In my prior piece about the spread of Ross Gelbspan's accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact ``, I barely skimmed the surface of the sheer number of repetitions of it.
Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other words.
This proposed a campaign that would «reposition global warming as a theory (not fact).»
However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).
And it says specifically that the campaign is designed to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»....
Exxon Mobil has funded 40 different front groups that have all been a part of a strategic persuasion campaign to, in their own words «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
Dr. Michaels and Balling were part of a July 1996 public relations experiment in 1991 which purported to «reposition global warming as theory, not fact.»
And it said that the purpose of the campaign was to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.
They invested millions of dollars in a disinformation campaign that aimed to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» according to an internal strategy memo.
Journalist Ross Gelbspan exposed the corporate campaign in his 1997 book, The Heat Is On, which quoted a 1991 strategy memo: the goal was to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
The Information Council on the Environment, which is a coal industry front group, was formed to «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»
Shortly afterward, I figured out how to see the then - and still - offline but archived pages of Ozone.org, among them being the statement in the «Ties that Blind» report saying «According to documents obtained by Ozone Action and by Ross Gelbspan, several ICE strategies were laid out including: the repositioning of global warming as theory, not fact.»
This is the same NPR which permitted book excerpts from Laurie David featuring a false accolade about Ross Gelbspan, the same radio network which allowed Gelbspan to prominently mention his favorite leaked memo «accusation» bits where zero time was allotted for rebuttal, the same radio network which interviewed him more than one time, and the same radio network which years later featured Al Gore's bit about the infamous «smoking gun leaked industry memo phrase» «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» where the NPR writer offered not one word of curiosity about that awkward phrase.
In 1991, the large coal operation called Western Fuels was very candid in its annual report, and it said it was going to attack mainstream science, it hired three so called greenhouse skeptics, scientists who didn't believe that this was happening, and they mounted a number of public relations campaigns, one in particular is quite interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»....
One campaign, which sent three of these «skeptics» around the country to do media interviews, was crafted, according to its strategy papers, «to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»
You know, when the Climate Coalition was formed in 1991, their internal memo said that they wanted to, quote, «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» unquote.
The report also included highlights of a leaked document showing a public relations campaign funded by the fossil fuel industry which was designed to use these scientists and others to «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»
Not long after that, it dawned on me that I should dump the phrase «reposition global warming as theory (not fact)» — within quote marks — into Greenpeace's archive collection home page.
In 2007, he had this slide # 39 in his Powerpoint presentation which stated «Journalists must deal with powerful disinformation campaigns... Goal is to «reposition global warming as theory, rather than fact,» according to author Ross Gelbspan.»
Ross Gelbspan exposed the corporate campaign in his 1997 book, The Heat Is On, which quoted a 1991 strategy memo: the goal was to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
I don't remember the specific time of it, but sometime toward the end of my seven months of searching for the ICE memos, I learned both how to do more effective internet phrase searches and that there was a variation of the ICE memo phrase spelled out as «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»
Far and above all the other so - called evidence used in attempts to show that a sinister industry plot exists is what I term the core evidence: the set of leaked memos from way back in 1991 — supposedly from the Western Fuels Association's «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) public relations campaign — containing the alleged strategy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» where the targeted audience was «older, less educated males» and «younger, lower income women.»
One truly has to wonder what alternate reality Phil Shabecoff lives in, regarding his «crimes against humanity» comment at Gelbspan's post, which happens to be an insider's reference to Gelbspan's 2004 Boiling Point book chapter 3 title, «Criminals Against humanity,» which contains on page 51 Gelbspan's favorite phrase bit of so - called smoking gun evidence, the leaked memo phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
WFA's communications director says that, unlike his CEO, he saw the page and had no idea how to «Reposition global warming as theory (not fact),» so he left it in the pile and selected useful pages to send to Simmons in North Dakota.
After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»
That single most misinterpreted Cambridge Reports page was titled «Strategy,» listing nine goals, topped by «Reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»
That year, a group of utility and coal companies created the now - disbanded Information Council on the Environment and consulted a PR firm, which recommended that it «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
And wasn't it Sheldon Rampton, the person testifying alongside Dr McCarthy, who got Gelbspan's «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase entered into the Congressional record?)
EEI gave a copy of the resulting 100 - page report to WFA's Washington public relations firm, but the WFA CEO never even saw it, and when interviewed and I asked about it, he said WFA would never use «Reposition global warming as theory (not fact)» because it was too abstract and egg - headed for its rural audience.
Yet the only thing which remotely looks like evidence to confirm this conspiracy is a worthless set of memos supposedly leaked out of the Western Fuels Association having the strategy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
Just as one example, in 1991 Western Fuels Association conducted a $ 510,000 campaign whose primary goal was to «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»
The strategy papers for this campaign said specifically that the purpose of this publicity campaign using greenhouse skeptics was to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.
According to internal strategy papers I obtained at the time, the purpose of the campaign was «to reposition global warming as theory (not fact),» with an emphasis on targeting «older, less educated males,» and «younger, low - income women» in districts that received their electricity from coal, and who preferably had a representative on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Its supplemental online interview of the late IPCC scientist Dr Stephen Schneider quoted his opinion about the Global Climate Coalition as being «a coalition of liars and spin doctors to reposition the debate onto the issue of uncertainty, way beyond [what] the scientific community agreed with» (he probably meant to say it was the Western Fuels Association, out to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», an error I note at item 17 Global Climate Coalition as being «a coalition of liars and spin doctors to reposition the debate onto the issue of uncertainty, way beyond [what] the scientific community agreed with» (he probably meant to say it was the Western Fuels Association, out to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», an error I note at item 17 global warming as theory rather than fact», an error I note at item 17 here).
On [e] sic of those in particular trumpeted a supposedly leaked industry memo which prominently proclaimed that such skeptics had been directed to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» (http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/images/2015/07/gw-minigraphic-climate-deception-dossier-5-ICE-memo.jpg).
Apparently in the same manner that he glommed onto the notion that skeptic climate scientists are paid illicit industry money under instructions to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», it seems he didn't check the veracity of the more recently repeated «3000 IPCC scientists» figure.
Much like wanting to see the infamous leaked memo phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» in its full context, I wanted to see this so - called attack by Senator Inhofe on Naomi Oreskes.