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 battleground, pitting left versus right, environmentalist versus climate change sceptic?
The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted for for Big Tobacco, and who are now receiving donations from major coal and oil companies.
The feature also explores how the arguments supported by oil companies were adopted by policy makers in both Canada and the U.S. and helped form government policy.
Info + Video: The Denial Machine, Video Link (wvx, wmedia needed, 500kb)
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November 19th, 2006 at 04:55
The Denial Machine is hopelessly biased - take a look at the following debunking of it:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=2c07121b-85c2-4799-9aaf-0c2688bf5ca1
There are many other mistakes in the programme that anyone with even a modest understanding of the issue will recognize immediately.
November 19th, 2006 at 10:01
Nice link, thanks. Hopefully category ‘disinformation’ will not outnumber the others in future.