Dimmock, Durward, et al, are disrobed.
For a background on the issue, check our earlier posts here and here.
And here's further background on the "Scientific Alliance" and Robert Duward…
Let's get up a great big hand for one of the best European climate change dissemblers, the previously unremarked Scientific Alliance.
The Alliance appears to be one of those "intellectual" sweatshops that industry cobbles together in the guise of a think tank. In these vacuous vessels, said intellectuals-for-hire produce dogma on demand — questionable "scientific" material designed to excuse their industrial financiers from taking any responsibility for the environmental costs they are dumping on society.
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.
