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4.0 out of 5 stars  ''A must-read book whether you agree or oppose views on climate change''
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March 3, 2016
[https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/product-reviews/1608193942/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_top?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=avp_only_reviews <big>'''''"Read the Reviews"'''''</big>]


Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
:'''''Award-winning book and movie expose the business of deception'''''


''This is an important book (and also a movie, but I have not seen that), which meticulously and factually (half the book is the references) documents how not only did the tobacco industry consciously and knowingly bamboozle the public for years to keep making money, but the same methods and very often the very same individuals did the same thing for acid rain, DDT/chemical manufacturers, and now climate change.''


''A high-paid cast of characters, dark money and the denial industry...''


[https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/product-reviews/1608193942/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_top?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=avp_only_reviews '''"Read the Reviews", the award-winning book/movie exposes the business of deception''']
[https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/product-reviews/1608193942/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_acr_sr?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=avp_only_reviews ''Customer Reviews''] / 4.0 out of 5 stars''  ''A must-read book whether you agree or oppose views on climate change''




'''Look closer at a high-paid cast of characters, dark money and the denial industry ...'''
''March 3, 2016''
 
''Format: Kindle Edition''
 
''"Meticulously and factually (half the book is the references) documents how not only did the tobacco industry consciously and knowingly bamboozle the public for years to keep making money, but the same methods and very often the very same individuals did the same thing for acid rain, DDT/chemical manufacturers, and now climate change."''  
 




<big>'''Global Warming / Climate Change Denier Database'''</big>
<big>'''Global Warming / Climate Change Denier Database'''</big>


https://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database
* https://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database
 
 
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<big>'''Misinformation, Disinformation, Mega-Money-in-Politics'''</big>
 
 
'''''November 2016'''''
 
 
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-monbiot-misinformation '''George Monbiot Paints a Picture, Not a Pretty Picture''']
 
 
''GM: "I have watched as tobacco, coal, oil, chemicals and biotech companies have poured billions of dollars into an international misinformation machine composed of thinktanks, bloggers and fake citizens’ groups. Its purpose is to portray the interests of billionaires as the interests of the common people, to wage war against trade unions and beat down attempts to regulate business and tax the very rich. Now the people who helped run this machine are shaping the (US) government.''
 
''"I first encountered the machine when writing about climate change. The fury and loathing directed at climate scientists and campaigners seemed incomprehensible until I realised they were fake: the hatred had been paid for. The bloggers and institutes whipping up this anger were funded by oil and coal companies.''
 
''"Among those I clashed with was [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Ebell-Trump.png '''Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)''']. The CEI calls itself a thinktank, but looks to me like a corporate lobbying group. It is not transparent about its funding, but we now know it has received $2m from ExxonMobil, more than $4m from a group called the Donors Trust (which represents various corporations and billionaires), $800,000 from groups set up by the tycoons Charles and David Koch, and substantial sums from coal, tobacco and pharmaceutical companies.''
 
''"For years, Ebell and the CEI have attacked efforts to limit climate change, through lobbying, lawsuits and campaigns. An advertisement released by the institute had the punchline “Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution. We call it life...”''
 
''"Trump staffers who have emerged from such groups: people such as Doug Domenech, from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, funded among others by the Koch brothers, Exxon and the Donors Trust; Barry Bennett, whose Alliance for America’s Future (now called One Nation) refused to disclose its donors when challenged; and Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, funded by Exxon and others. This is to say nothing of Trump’s own crashing conflicts of interest. Trump promised to “drain the swamp” of the lobbyists and corporate stooges working in Washington. But it looks as if the only swamps he’ll drain will be real ones, as his team launches its war on the natural world."''
 
 
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[[File:Burning the Data.png]]
 
 
<big>'''''What EPA Climate Website?'''''</big>
 
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/05/04/it-has-been-more-than-a-year-since-epa-took-down-its-climate-website-for-updating/ '''''It has been more than a year since the EPA took down its climate website''''']
 
Washington Post
 
''The news came on a Friday evening in April 2017 : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had removed an informational website about climate change, taking down a page that had been up, in some form, for nearly two decades and under three presidents.''
 
''Before its removal, the page had plainly stated a position on climate change: It is caused by humans, and there’s no significant doubt about that. But that position contradicted statements by the new EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, who had expressed doubts about human activity being the dominant driver of climate change.''
 
''EPA said at the time that the site had been taken down for review and that it had been archived and was still available as part of a “snapshot” of the state of the site on Jan. 19, 2017, just as the new administration took command.''
 
''But a year later, the agency’s climate page is still down.''
 
''Would-be visitors are redirected to a notice saying that “this page is being updated.”''
 








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Latest revision as of 15:22, 23 August 2018

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"Read the Reviews"

Award-winning book and movie expose the business of deception


A high-paid cast of characters, dark money and the denial industry...

Customer Reviews / 4.0 out of 5 stars A must-read book whether you agree or oppose views on climate change


March 3, 2016

Format: Kindle Edition

"Meticulously and factually (half the book is the references) documents how not only did the tobacco industry consciously and knowingly bamboozle the public for years to keep making money, but the same methods and very often the very same individuals did the same thing for acid rain, DDT/chemical manufacturers, and now climate change."


Global Warming / Climate Change Denier Database


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Misinformation, Disinformation, Mega-Money-in-Politics


November 2016


George Monbiot Paints a Picture, Not a Pretty Picture


GM: "I have watched as tobacco, coal, oil, chemicals and biotech companies have poured billions of dollars into an international misinformation machine composed of thinktanks, bloggers and fake citizens’ groups. Its purpose is to portray the interests of billionaires as the interests of the common people, to wage war against trade unions and beat down attempts to regulate business and tax the very rich. Now the people who helped run this machine are shaping the (US) government.

"I first encountered the machine when writing about climate change. The fury and loathing directed at climate scientists and campaigners seemed incomprehensible until I realised they were fake: the hatred had been paid for. The bloggers and institutes whipping up this anger were funded by oil and coal companies.

"Among those I clashed with was Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The CEI calls itself a thinktank, but looks to me like a corporate lobbying group. It is not transparent about its funding, but we now know it has received $2m from ExxonMobil, more than $4m from a group called the Donors Trust (which represents various corporations and billionaires), $800,000 from groups set up by the tycoons Charles and David Koch, and substantial sums from coal, tobacco and pharmaceutical companies.

"For years, Ebell and the CEI have attacked efforts to limit climate change, through lobbying, lawsuits and campaigns. An advertisement released by the institute had the punchline “Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution. We call it life...”

"Trump staffers who have emerged from such groups: people such as Doug Domenech, from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, funded among others by the Koch brothers, Exxon and the Donors Trust; Barry Bennett, whose Alliance for America’s Future (now called One Nation) refused to disclose its donors when challenged; and Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, funded by Exxon and others. This is to say nothing of Trump’s own crashing conflicts of interest. Trump promised to “drain the swamp” of the lobbyists and corporate stooges working in Washington. But it looks as if the only swamps he’ll drain will be real ones, as his team launches its war on the natural world."


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Mulvaney March2017-ClimateChangeWaste.png

 

Inhofe and the Snowball.png

 

Burning the Data.png


What EPA Climate Website?

It has been more than a year since the EPA took down its climate website

Washington Post

The news came on a Friday evening in April 2017 : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had removed an informational website about climate change, taking down a page that had been up, in some form, for nearly two decades and under three presidents.

Before its removal, the page had plainly stated a position on climate change: It is caused by humans, and there’s no significant doubt about that. But that position contradicted statements by the new EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, who had expressed doubts about human activity being the dominant driver of climate change.

EPA said at the time that the site had been taken down for review and that it had been archived and was still available as part of a “snapshot” of the state of the site on Jan. 19, 2017, just as the new administration took command.

But a year later, the agency’s climate page is still down.

Would-be visitors are redirected to a notice saying that “this page is being updated.”


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