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How ExxonMobil’s PR Machine Impacted The Climate Change Debate
How ExxonMobil’s PR Machine Impacted The Climate Change Debate Our DeSmog UK epic history series continues asExxonMobil uses its PR power to change the public’s mind on climate change. The basic tenet of ExxonMobil’s strategy was clear: it would use PR, not to change their image, but to change the public’s mind. Exxon’s longstanding senior environmental advisor was a large, bullish, but “brilliant”, nuclear engineer, […]
This Is The Man Exxon Chose To Lead Its Effort Against Climate Science
This Is The Man Exxon Chose To Lead Its Effort Against Climate Science This DeSmog UK epic history post portrays Lee Raymond, the Texan captain who steered the Exxon ship against the rising tide of climate science. In 1997, BP’s British boss, John Brown, stunned the world by endorsing the science of climate change and calling for government regulation to reduce […]
Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding
Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding Both Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute are trying to shake off the controversy surrounding Willie Soon, but these esteemed organizations should not be let off the hook easily. Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate denier Willie […]
THE YEAR THE DAM OF DENIAL BREAKS – READY FOR THE FLOOD?
THE YEAR THE DAM OF DENIAL BREAKS – READY FOR THE FLOOD? This is the year the “dam of denial” will break and the momentum for climate action will become an unstoppable flood. It will be messy, confusing and endlessly debated but with historical hindsight, 2015 will be the year. The year the world turned, primarily […]
Bjørn Lomborg Sings WSJ’s Same Old Climate Change Song: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Bjørn Lomborg Sings WSJ’s Same Old Climate Change Song: Don’t Worry, Be Happy Bjorn Lomborg’s latest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal resurrects repeatedly demolished distortions of fact to downplay the real and increasingly documented threats of climate change. His trademark tactic is to acknowledge that climate change is real and human-caused, only to then dismiss the […]
Osborne Dines Former Chancellors, See the Menu They Fought to Keep Secret for Half a Decade
Osborne Dines Former Chancellors, See the Menu They Fought to Keep Secret for Half a Decade Just before Christmas, back in December 2010, the chancellor George Osborne (pictured) sat down to a sumptuous lunch with his successors, including Lord Lawson of the climate denial charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation. At the time, Lawson was […]
A clash of epistemologies: why the debate on climate change is going nowhere.
A clash of epistemologies: why the debate on climate change is going nowhere. A few weeks ago, someone barreled into the comment section of a post on climate change on the blog of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI) with a series of attacks against climate science and climate scientists. The ensuing clash was all in Italian […]
Why Warnings on Climate Spark Aggressive Denials – Truthdig
Why Warnings on Climate Spark Aggressive Denials – Truthdig. LONDON—If you don’t like the message on climate change, it seems that the answer is to shoot the messenger. According to a new book by veteran environmentalist George Marshall, thousands of abusive emails—including demands that he commit suicide or be “shot, quartered and fed to the pigs, […]
