by bjortklingd
Industry spin on climate is still working on media:
[Via Gristmill]
New York Times reporter Andy Revkin has a blockbuster story showing that the Global Climate Coalition, the main industry group that spent much of the 1990s seeking to sow doubt in journalists’ and politicians’ minds about the reality of climate change, knew all along that it was real and dangerous.
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Why are the guys ever listened to? They lied and misled 10 years ago. Many are still doing it today. Have they no shame at all?
Their own scientists told them that climate change was real and needed to be dealt with. And they were ignored.
This Coalition actually had the information to know that they were wrong, that their stalling tactics would imperil the rest of the world. All so they could keep making money. To quote Timothy: “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
Unfortunately, they may have pierced the rest of us also.
And the media still keeps repeating their deceptions. I’m sure these guys in Nero’s time would have said “We can’t be certain the town will burn down and besides, if it was on fire, would the Emperor be playing such lovely music on the lyre?”
And the press would have written “Fire in Rome? Opinions differ.”
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