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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.
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I keep seeing code pop out on the top of your post. Hard to tell that you are quoting Phil Jones' in one of the hacked private emails, saying the inverse of what he and others are accused of: trying to censor denialists from peer-review journals.
Indeed, the entire thread, for those of us who have bothered to read it, has them really demanding that the peer review be as stringent as it is supposed to be.
Indeed. As I noted in an earlier post the whole thing seemed to have been triggered off by a case in which the peer review process had notably failed, viz. the publication of Willy Soon and Sally Balunias's paper on global warming in which solar output was declared to be the main culprit.
After this paper was published the chief editor-to-be (Hans Von Storch) and half the editorial board quitted the offending journal in protest
You have elevated yourself above the mainstream media. Congrats, the only thing rising here is your credibility, not the sea level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu_ok37HDuE
Heres a good video that summarizes some of the key players in climategate. Maybe the desmog team can use some of their investigative reporting skills to discover how these people funneled a bunch of the cash they received.