Topic: Disinformation
Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem. // James Lovelock
Harper
Feb 1, 2007
Stephen Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and payed once by the petroleum industry made the flip-flop:
And, more than anything else, Canadians want us to continue moving forward on practical, realistic and achi ...>>
Political Pressure
Feb 1, 2007
Policy should be based on sound science; results of science should not be diluted or . . . adjusted to justify policy.
This particular Administration has gone beyond reasonable boundaries, on this issue.
To be in denial on climate change is a crime ...>>
ExxonMobil
Jan 9, 2007
Latest report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation of how ExxonMobil [ NYSE:XOM ] has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the sci ...>>
Political Interferences
Dec 17, 2006
In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information.
To document th ...>>
Rejecting The Truth
Nov 27, 2006
Interesting reading in Washington Post from Laurie David on why the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) refuses to accept an offer of 50,000 copies of "An Inconvenient Truth".
Accepting the DVDs, they wrote, would place "unnecessary risk upon th ...>>
Denial Machine
Nov 18, 2006
Produced by Morris Karp and Gil Shochat "The Denial Machine" will be aired at 10pm ET/PT today (Nov 18th) at CBC Newsworld.
The 40min documentation asks how scientific facts, which many believe determine the very future of the planet, become a political ba ...>>
The Planet Burns
Sep 28, 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs is not comfortable with the editorial board of Wall Street's Journal as he writes in the Scientific American October 2006 issue.
Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms ...>>
Royal Society
Sep 28, 2006
Excluding pollution from market calculations is quite profitable. The Fortune Global 500 lists five oil companies and four automobile manufacturers under the top ten. With profits of $36,130,000,000 ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is the most profitable and by revenue ...>>
US CCTP
Sep 25, 2006
US President Bush, who leaves office in January 2009, is facing elections for the Senate and House in November 2006. Latest opinon polls state that about 70% of US citizens feel that global warming is happening.
So, is it time for an u-turn?
The U.S. ...>>
ExxonMobil
Aug 23, 2006
YouTube video
2.56min, youtube, Veredictum, uploaded August 5, 2006
A video stultifying Al Gore and Global Warming was released on YouTube.com not by an existing person, instead the DCI Group, Washington, D.C., lobbying for Exxon Mobil was found behind ...>>
CEI - Disinformation
May 19, 2006
For this post I first added a new category called disinformation.
Claiming to advance liberty from economy to ecology the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. starts a campaign in 14 US cities with 2 video ads about global warming.
We ...>>
