Sentences with phrase «sow public doubt»

ICN's eight - month investigation assembled details of Exxon's early understanding of the emerging science of climate change, casting a new light on the company's subsequent campaign to postpone aggressive climate policies by sowing public doubt about the science.

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This is partly down to a general desire for transparency, but it is also due to the rise of radical anti-GM activists, who have begun using tactics similar to those that helped destroy the prospects for GM technologies in Europe 20 years ago: chiefly, sowing doubt in the minds of the general public.

As we have long known, it was / is simply the sowing of doubt that has paralyzed the public discussion of climate and energy policy.

For years, ExxonMobil had been a participant in public efforts to sow doubt about climate change.

They discovered a cadre of highly intelligent, distinguished, but also extremely conservative scientists behind both efforts, backed by an industry - financed public relations effort to sow doubt, undermine the truth, and slow the public's response to emerging scientific truths.

During the last few years, reports based on Exxon's public filings have shown that the company continues to support politicians and organizations that sow doubt about climate change and work to halt action on it.

The memo details a plan to recruit, train and pay willing scientists to sow doubt about climate science among the media and the public.

Despite its advanced knowledge of the climate disruption fueled in large part by oil, gas and coal pollution, ExxonMobil turned its back on crafting responsible solutions and instead funded a sophisticated campaign to sow doubt and delay action to curb carbon emissions — honing the tobacco industry's playbook with even more advanced public relations, advertising and lobbying muscle.

But the hacking ploy and surrounding publicity succeeding in sowing seeds of doubt about climate science among some sectors of the public.

By questioning the science on global warming, these environmentalists say, groups like the Global Climate Coalition were able to sow enough doubt to blunt public concern about a consequential issue and delay government action.

Seemingly content to let the world burn, the denizens of Denial - a-Palooza work year - round to sow doubt and confusion about climate change among the public - aided by Fox News and other friendly media outlets - so that no action is taken to limit heat - trapping gasses in the atmosphere.

But from the beginning, attacks were also leveled from outside the scientific literature — attacks apparently intended to sow doubt in the public mind.

Your efforts were not time wasted, but necessary to counter the concerted disinformation campaign by the deniers and skeptics who only need to sow doubt in the mind of the public about the scientific research on global warming.

When business realized how responsive the public was to her logic, they went after her with extraordinary vengeance, perfecting techniques that are used to this day, like greenwashing — the creation of industry front groups funded by corporations, the use of paid scientists to attack academic scientists, the manipulation of the media to sow doubt in people's minds about complex issues.

Just as tobacco and lead companies sowed doubt about the dangers of their products through the use of front groups and third - party experts, so did ExxonMobil — through its funding of a sophisticated network of denialists — work to deceive the public about climate science and the need for political action to end the fossil fuel era.

Robin Guenier, are you in the pay of the fossil fuel industry or some other industry that has an interest in sowing doubt in the public's mind?