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Art Horn

Art Horn is a meteorologist and runs a website called the "Art" of Weather. Horn has a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from Lyndon State College and used to work as a TV weatherman for WVIT-TV Hartford.

Art Horn and Global Warming

Horn provides public presentations in which he argues that global warming is a myth. According to a 2007 Hartford Advocate news article, "Horn has been giving the presentation Global Warming: Fact or Fiction, since last fall, at libraries and other public meeting places throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and Florida."

Most of Horn's climate change presentations are held at the small-scale community level. At one presentation Horn made at the Connecticut Home Show, he stated that:

global warming is a media-driven myth devised to sell magazines and increase television ratings," and that "[t]here's been no global warming over the past 10 years."

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Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.

There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.

Although all public relations professionals are bound by a duty to not knowingly mislead the public, some have executed comprehensive campaigns of misinformation on behalf of industry clients on issues ranging from tobacco and asbestos to seat belts.

Lately, these fringe players have turned their efforts to creating confusion about climate change. This PR campaign could not be accomplished without the compliance of media as well as the assent and participation of leaders in government and business.