Machinery of Climate Denial - Ecoshock
Alex Smith | 09.07.2011 00:34 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield
Who are the climate deniers & who funds them? Thorough investigation by Dr. John Mashey of California. Former Chief Scientist for super-computer maker Silicon Graphics. He met climate scientists being harassed and threatened, went on a years-long quest to know who and why. Fake "institutes" funded by big oil and coal use plagiarism and lies to stall public awareness of climate change danger.
I'm uploading a bunch now, as I go on vacation. Help yourself, load up your computer, IPOD or mp3 with essential summer listening.
RADIO ECOSHOCK SUMMER PROGRAM SCHEDULE
RELEASE
DATE STATUS TITLE
110706 new Kill the Car
110713 new Myths of the Industrial Forest
110720 new Oil & Coal How Much Left?
110727 new Machinery of Climate Denial
110803 replay Beyond the Tipping Point
110810 replay Legacy - David Suzuki
110817 replay Local Food - Growing Sane
110824 replay Transition West Coast Scene
All programs available at
http://www.ecoshock.org/eshock11.html
Replays are based on "listeners' choice" (our most downloaded shows, thousands of downloads each).
THIS WEEK'S NEW PROGRAM: THE MACHINERY OF CLIMATE DENIAL:
This is the most revealing study of climate denial I have ever heard.
Like a bull-dog with spreadsheets, Dr. Mashey tracks the links between a small band of climate change deniers.
One famous speaker's "Institute" consists of one person with a mail-box. Others get big money through a scandalous layer of supposedly non-profit "institutes" which act as PR agents for big oil, coal, and electric companies. Including Lord Moncton!
Mashey names names as he connects the Koch Brothers, Richard Mellon Scaife, Exxon to the paid-for scientists, and unqualified "experts" who spin climate doubt in the public mind.
They use the same PR companies, same tactics, in some case the same people, as the tobacco lobby.
An expose with teeth, backed with a deep database created by a computer industry executive, former Chief Scientist for super-computer maker Silicon Graphics, and worked with Bell Labs.
RADIO ECOSHOCK SUMMER PROGRAM SCHEDULE
RELEASE
DATE STATUS TITLE
110706 new Kill the Car
110713 new Myths of the Industrial Forest
110720 new Oil & Coal How Much Left?
110727 new Machinery of Climate Denial
110803 replay Beyond the Tipping Point
110810 replay Legacy - David Suzuki
110817 replay Local Food - Growing Sane
110824 replay Transition West Coast Scene
All programs available at
http://www.ecoshock.org/eshock11.html Replays are based on "listeners' choice" (our most downloaded shows, thousands of downloads each).
THIS WEEK'S NEW PROGRAM: THE MACHINERY OF CLIMATE DENIAL:
This is the most revealing study of climate denial I have ever heard.
Like a bull-dog with spreadsheets, Dr. Mashey tracks the links between a small band of climate change deniers.
One famous speaker's "Institute" consists of one person with a mail-box. Others get big money through a scandalous layer of supposedly non-profit "institutes" which act as PR agents for big oil, coal, and electric companies. Including Lord Moncton!
Mashey names names as he connects the Koch Brothers, Richard Mellon Scaife, Exxon to the paid-for scientists, and unqualified "experts" who spin climate doubt in the public mind.
They use the same PR companies, same tactics, in some case the same people, as the tobacco lobby.
An expose with teeth, backed with a deep database created by a computer industry executive, former Chief Scientist for super-computer maker Silicon Graphics, and worked with Bell Labs.
Alex Smith
Homepage:
http://www.ecoshock.org