{"id":820,"date":"2014-10-29T07:13:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=820"},"modified":"2014-10-29T07:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:13:57","slug":"how-industry-first-went-to-war-with-climate-science-desmog-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"How Industry First Went to War With Climate Science | DeSmog UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2014\/10\/29\/ipcc-and-environmental-cold-war\">How Industry First Went to War With Climate Science | DeSmog UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Scientists had well understood for many decades that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could raise global temperatures and cause climate change. But when politicians finally took notice, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed, industry began a war with science\u00a0itself.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bolin.su.se\/index.php\/about-bert-bolin\" target=\"_blank\">Bert Bolin<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">, the founder of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (<a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">IPCC<\/span><\/span><\/a>), was the first scientist to detect signals from the coal and oil industry that there would be serious resistance to climate science and its policy\u00a0implications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><span class=\"s2\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">As soon as governments began taking the issue seriously, the energy industry mobilised its greatest assets in order to combat organised opposition to its climate-damaging\u00a0activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3552cece-57b8-bffd-9e3c-67ef03d6ad8c\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Global_Climate_Coalition\" target=\"_blank\">The Global Climate Coalition\u00a0<\/a>(<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">GCC<\/span>)\u00a0<\/span>was formed as soon as the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">IPCC<\/span>\u00a0came into being and, as the name suggests, this was an industry-funded powerhouse designed to undermine any global coalition to prevent climate\u00a0change.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Industry First Went to War With Climate Science | DeSmog UK. Scientists had well understood for many decades that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could raise global temperatures and cause climate change. 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