Here's a video produced by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films chronicling the Fox News attack on climate science. These attacks continue despite highly publicized promises by News Corp. CEO and owner of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, that his company would be cleaning up its collective climate change act.
H/T to Crooks and Liars.
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Democracy is utterly dependant 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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The Chicgo Sun-Times and Heartland
The Chicago Sun-Times recently ran a piece scathing Gore's claims (made mainly in both the film and book entitled 'An Inconvenient Truth').
The author, James M. Taylor, actually made up the quote he purportedly got from the paper on the Himalayas. He says that the scientists write: "'Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame.'" http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/450392,CST-EDT-REF30b.article
But, in fact, if you read the actual paper, it says NO SUCH THING. Go ahead, do a search of the document, and you'll find it's clean.
You can read the paper in its entirety here: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/h.j.fowl...cher_JC2006.pdf
I wonder why he would have made up such a thing, and why he would have committed such a blatant, and obviously deliberate, journalistic falsehood. We ought to alert the original authors of the paper of this...
Don't worry, be happy!
Seriously, though, how many more lies does this guy tell in this essay? Did Gore say there were more tornados? Etc.
Thanks