Re: [asa] climate change severity

And finally check out this report
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdf

Like the tobacco industry, ExxonMobil has:
• Manufactured uncertainty by raising doubts about even the most
indisputable scientific evidence.
• Adopted a strategy of information laundering by using seemingly
independent front organizations to publicly further its desired
message and thereby confuse the public.
• Promoted scientific spokespeople who misrepresent peer-reviewed
scientific findings or cherry-pick facts in their attempts to persuade
the media and the public that there is still serious debate among
scientists that burning fossil fuels has contributed to global warming
and that human-caused warming will have serious consequences.
• Attempted to shift the focus away from meaningful action on global
warming with misleading charges about the need for "sound science."

I am amazed to see also quite an overlap between Big Oil and the
Intelligent Design movement approach. Especially the cherry picking of
facts and the need for 'sound science'...

On 1/5/07, PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> wrote:
> May I also ask why you are quoting extensively from Tom Harris?
>

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Received on Fri Jan 5 12:30:41 2007