Who Is Behind The Conspiracy Against Climate Change Science

Who Is Behind the Conspiracy Against Climate Change Science?
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by Truthout June 5, 2012 4:00 pm 118 comments 2 of 2 During hard economic times, it is difficult to get people to focus on an environmental issue which seems to have little immediate bearing on their lives. The publics weariness with the climate change issue has also been exacerbated by the endlessly equivocal he said, she said nature of the coverage itself. In one study of four leading newspapers (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times) over half the articles presented a scientist on one side and a corporate-friendly spokesperson (usually a non-scientist) on the other. Readers are left with the impression that the whole thing remains a muddle and that it is better to let the experts sort it out for themselves.
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But the question remains: why is the media paying any attention to the discredited ideas of the denialists? We dont give Holocaust deniers equal time to vent their noxious views, so why offer it to the climate change deniers? The analogy might seem far-fetched, but the findings of climate scientists tell us that it is apt. We are facing a potential holocaust for life on earth, which could destroy entire ecosystems, turn productive regions into dust bowls, multiply catastrophic weather events, wipe out a large proportion of the planets species and cost us more in dollars (not to mention lives) than all the wars in history combined. You would think that even conservatives would appreciate the huge economic threat this poses. When you get right down to it, acting to minimize the effects of climate change is a quintessentially conservative cause; it is about conserving the earth and our way of life for future generations. So, if the real conservatives are not behind the war against climate science, who is? Until recently, the groups pushing the denialist agenda have lain low to avoid public scrutiny. Before they were outed by a leak of incriminating documents in February, few had heard of the Heartland Institute. Other big wheels in the denialist camp include the American Petroleum Institute, the American Enterprise Institute and you guessed it Charles and David Koch. A report by Greenpeace revealed that, in the last decade, the secretive brothers oil and manufacturing
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company channeled over $50 million to a number of front groups that promote skepticism about climate change. Thats about double what ExxonMobil is currently spending to recruit experts to debunk climate science. Nine out of ten of the published papers dismissive of climate change, according to an analysis conducted by The Carbon Brief, were penned by authors who had received cash grants from the oil giant. One of the most effective, if shadowy, figures in the denialist camp is the George C. Marshall Institute, which was set up by a group of cold-warrior scientists in 1984 to lobby against scientific criticism of Ronald Reagans missile defense system popularly known as Star Wars. Since then, the Marshall Institute has turned its attention toward other assaults on mainstream science on issues ranging from acid rain, the chemical threat to the ozone layer, the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and, most recently, global warming. In each case, the Institutes goal, according to professor Naomi Oreskes of the University of California, San Diego, was to cast enough doubt on the prevailing science to delay needed legislation and government regulation for years and even decades. As Oreskes documented in her book Merchants of Doubt, many who are fighting this behind-the-scenes war on climate science are the very same people who spearheaded earlier efforts of cigarette makers to deny that smoking was harmful, and they have adopted the
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same strategy here - setting up front groups with grassroots- or scientific- sounding names to confuse the public about the science. Now that the Supreme Court has overruled a law that would have set limits on corporate spending for political purposes, we have become even more vulnerable to these wolves in sheeps clothing, according to Francesca Grifo of the Union of Concerned Scientists. That has opened the gates for corporations often those associated with coal and oil industries to flood the market with adverts that support rightwing politicians and which attack government bodies that impose environmental regulations that these companies dont like, Grifo told the Guardian in February. The science that supports these regulations is attacked as well. That has made a terrible difference over the past year and it is now bringing matters to a head. To make the right decisions about climate change and how to limit its destructive impacts, Americans need accurate information, not ideologically motivated propaganda. Lets hope that the recent Heartland crash and burn will help give the media the backbone it needs to stop equivocating and tell the climate change story straight. This post was originally published by Truthout.
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118 comments + add your 7:01pm PDT on Jun 16, 2012 own dale r. The irony is that the Koch supported study of the accuracy of NOAA temperature data, headed by a man
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known as a climate skeptic, proved that the NOAA and other official figures were correct! So clearly, they know the truth, but for reasons of profit (they own oil and gas facilities which pollute), they have chosen to ignore the truth that their own research revealed. This is beyond hypocrisy; this is criminal. And I hear Ted Kaczynski (and Adolph Hitler) believed that cigarettes cause cancer.
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8:12am PDT on Jun 16, 2012 a What about the dirty '30's? green star send 3:15pm PDT on Jun 11, 2012 a @ Michele JAh yes ! The Army Corps green of Engineers, my old outfit ! They are the star ones who cleverly destroyed the trees at the headwaters of the Mississippi, causing a perpetual state of flood in that river and creating a need for concrete dikes to attempt control, as well as creating New Orleans dikes before the hurricane. It is reported that each recent successive year has established a new record for higher world temperatures.
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This can be proven or disproven by checking the records. Al Gore didnt invent the records. send 3:13pm PDT on Jun 11, 2012 a Maybe climate change would be good for green Maria the earth. If the environmental situation star Caruso were to get to the point where the human R. race could no longer survive, then we would become extinct, and the world would have time to heal from all the damage that we have inflicted on it. New forests and jungles would grow and cover the ruins of our society to the point where nothing would remain to show that we ever existed. Then new species would evolve and repopulate the planet. Hopefully these new species would be intelligent enough to not destroy the earth like we are doing now. Speaking of intelligence, why is it that the human race, supposedly the most intelligent species of the planet, is the one who is destroying it? It doesnt seem to me that the other species on the earth go around willingly destroying their own environment. So what does the word intelligent really mean? Could it mean that we are intelligent enough to deliberately destroy ourselves? That
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seems more like the definition of the word stupid to me. Perhaps we have our definitions mixed up. - Richard (the prof.) send
1:04pm PDT on Jun 11, 2012 a The chief meteorologist of the Army green Michele Corps of Engineers who works in the star J. federal building downtown told me that global warming has political roots and was invented for Al Gore to have a platform that would "move the people" when he was campaigning for president. It is a scare tactic. He swears global warming does not exist (he recommended some book, but I forget the name). I live on the Gulf Coast, and I can attest that we are not breaking heat records left and right down here -- maybe a couple each year like we've done every year since they have been recording temperatures. He also said the earth's weather goes through cycles -- it doesn't remain constant and will flux from hot to cold, violent to calm, etc. Having said that -- I do believe the high numbers of the human population are wreaking havoc on this planet. Improper
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7:08am PDT on Jun 11, 2012 a President Obama has to wake up to the green reality of climate change and global star warming, the Republican leaders who are the greatest deniers along with their industrial partners in sheep's clothing, the average US citizen who is bombarded by a section of the media with the belief that climate change is not real, school and college students along with their parents who think this is a joke,and even the religious right who come out with false, obnoxious and unscientific ideas such as what they call The Green Dragon, have to all shake out of this state of denial and stop pretending that global warming is not happening. Otherwise, not only the US but the entire world will be in a great soup because, let not people forget, the forces of nature are far greater than the wisdom of man. send 4:59am PDT on Jun 11, 2012 a Thanks. What human being needs is green happiness. Growth is desirable in those star activities that produce sustainable hapiness.
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send 10:36pm PDT on Jun 10, 2012 a Scientists or scientific organizations green behind the climate change doubters are star the same ones that muddied the waters between cigarettes and cancer. They started as a group of well known scientists hired by R.J. Reynolds company to dispute that cigarette's caused cancer back in the seventies. Reynolds dumped millions into major university science and health departments to generate false evidence. Now this faux science organization is responsible for generating false data in regards to Climate Change so the big companies and their puppets in congress can continue to push our world to the breaking point all in the name of commerce. We all die the same way...can't figure out how where they are planning to escape to since they destroyed NASA as well. send
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9:39pm PDT on Jun 10, 2012 a This matter can't be a surprise to anyone! green People have been telling us about it for star years and it seems as if no one has listened! Now people are seeing more of
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the effects and they acting as if this is all new news! WILL PEOPLE EVER LEARN?!?! send a thanks. green star send a green star login to add your comment use your care2 login username password or Log In with Facebook Connect via Facebook. Just click on the icon, & we'll connect your profile. 20 add your comment view all 118 comments
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