”Climate disinformation leaves lasting mark as world heats”
“In 1998, as nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol, America’s fossil fuel companies plotted their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate.”
“Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute’s memo, “will be achieved when average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science... Unless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue... there may be no moment when we can declare victory.”
“The memo went on to outline how fossil fuel companies could manipulate journalists and the broader public by muddying the evidence, by playing up “both sides” of the debate and by portraying those seeking to reduce emissions as “out of touch with reality.”
“The tragedy of this is that all over social media, you can see tens of millions of Americans who think scientists are lying, even about things that have been proven for decades,” said Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University who has written about the history of climate change disinformation. “They’ve been persuaded by decades of disinformation. The denial is really, really deep.”
“Fossil fuel companies spent big in an effort to undermine support for emissions reductions. Starting in the 1980s and 1990s, as public awareness of climate change grew, fossil fuel companies poured millions of dollars into public relations campaigns denouncing the accumulating evidence supporting the idea of climate change. They funded supposedly independent think tanks that cherrypicked the science and promoted fringe views designed to make it look like there were two legitimate sides to the dispute.“
https://www.tampabay.com/news/envir...formation-leaves-lasting-mark-as-world-heats/
Always comical when you see one of the Flat Earthers jump in with supposed “proof” that climate change is a myth by citing some obscure contrarian’s “study” who often turns out to be something like a disgruntled weatherman. Or the genuine sounding organization they supposedly belong to which turns out to be a front funded by energy interests.
The same can be seen all during Covid, when the scientists were allegedly lying to us, and masks plus vaccines were portrayed as useless or even harmful
All stems from many on the right easily swallowing whatever they hear that legitimatizes what they want to believe, true or not, the climatologists want to take away your F250 Duallies. AM radio has been doing it for decades, Murdoch capitalized on it with the “fair and balanced” bullshit.
As Jefferson warned, if you want to keep a democracy you have to have a knowledgeable citizenry
“In 1998, as nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol, America’s fossil fuel companies plotted their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate.”
“Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute’s memo, “will be achieved when average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science... Unless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue... there may be no moment when we can declare victory.”
“The memo went on to outline how fossil fuel companies could manipulate journalists and the broader public by muddying the evidence, by playing up “both sides” of the debate and by portraying those seeking to reduce emissions as “out of touch with reality.”
“The tragedy of this is that all over social media, you can see tens of millions of Americans who think scientists are lying, even about things that have been proven for decades,” said Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University who has written about the history of climate change disinformation. “They’ve been persuaded by decades of disinformation. The denial is really, really deep.”
“Fossil fuel companies spent big in an effort to undermine support for emissions reductions. Starting in the 1980s and 1990s, as public awareness of climate change grew, fossil fuel companies poured millions of dollars into public relations campaigns denouncing the accumulating evidence supporting the idea of climate change. They funded supposedly independent think tanks that cherrypicked the science and promoted fringe views designed to make it look like there were two legitimate sides to the dispute.“
https://www.tampabay.com/news/envir...formation-leaves-lasting-mark-as-world-heats/
Always comical when you see one of the Flat Earthers jump in with supposed “proof” that climate change is a myth by citing some obscure contrarian’s “study” who often turns out to be something like a disgruntled weatherman. Or the genuine sounding organization they supposedly belong to which turns out to be a front funded by energy interests.
The same can be seen all during Covid, when the scientists were allegedly lying to us, and masks plus vaccines were portrayed as useless or even harmful
All stems from many on the right easily swallowing whatever they hear that legitimatizes what they want to believe, true or not, the climatologists want to take away your F250 Duallies. AM radio has been doing it for decades, Murdoch capitalized on it with the “fair and balanced” bullshit.
As Jefferson warned, if you want to keep a democracy you have to have a knowledgeable citizenry
