Richard Berman, Tobacco To Fossil Fuels
The NYTimes just ran “Hard-Nosed Advice From Veteran Lobbyist: ‘Win Ugly or Lose Pretty’ – Richard Berman Energy Industry Talk Secretly Taped”. Rick Berman has long been the architect of…
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High-Techs Abandon ALEC, Fossil and Tobacco Wolf In Business Suit
As Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Yelp and other high-tech Silicon Valley companies abandon the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a few facts need more emphasis to understand this wolf in business…
Cheshire Claim: Rupert Darwall Copies Satellite CO2 Nonsense From Murry Salby
The world of climate dismissives often could be Wonderland, although with multiple Mad Hatters. Both have characters who can believe six impossible things before breakfast. Many wrong climate claims seem…
Did Lennart Bengtsson Know Global Warming Policy Foundation And Heartland Institute?
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has recently gotten worldwide publicity. It proudly announced that well-published climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson had joined its Academic Advisory Council (AAC), finally adding someone…
Pseudoskeptics Exposed In The SalbyStorm
Pseudoskeptics Are Not Skeptics was inspired by last year’s SalbyStorm, which highlighted the stark divide between scientific skeptics and most (pseudoskeptic) climate dismissives, who reject the mainstream consensus. Murry Salby’s…
Pseudoskeptics Are Not Skeptics
Genuine scientific skepticism is not just the unmoving rejection of evolution or climate change by fake skeptics, called pseudoskeptics. The real thing avoids premature conclusions, recognizes uncertainty, motivates searches for…
Familiar Think Tanks Fight For E-cigarettes
Anti-science think tanks learned tactics from the tobacco industry and got paid for their help by tobacco companies, who fostered the Tea Party with the Koch brothers. When the Kochs…
Koch Industries Hires Tobacco Operative Steve Lombardo to Lead Communications and Marketing
Q: What does Koch Industries do when it needs better PR? A: Hire a veteran helper of the tobacco industry. At O’Dwyer’s, Kevin McCauley writes January 9 in “Koch Bros…
Study Details Dark Money Flowing to Climate Science Denial
Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle’s long-awaited, peer-reviewed study “Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations” was published Dec. 20 in the journal Climatic Change.…
Defamation By Internet? Part 1 – Murry Salby’s Short-Lived Blog Storm
Climate anti-science adapted well to the Internet. A blog storm (in this case the “SalbyStorm”) can surge through well-linked blogs to spread misinformation or unsupported accusations. Some blogs act as…
Murry Salby: Galileo? Bozo? Or P.T.Barnum?
“They laughed at Galileo … but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown” might be appled to Murry Salby, who until May was a Professor of Environmental Science at Australia’s…
FOIA Facts 5 – Finds Friends Of GWPF
People try to paint climate scientists as members of a cabal or conspiracy to hide the truth, but this idea is often promoted by thinktanks, politicians, bloggers, journalists and some…
FOIA Facts 4 – George Mason Takes The Money And Breaks The Rules
New Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) replies (1, 2, and 3) expose worse misbehavior at George Mason University. GMU badly mishandled simple plagiarism complaints, including one on a Federally-funded paper,…
FOIA Facts 3 – More Plagiarism – Get Grants Or Claim Credit
As a byproduct of FOIA Facts 1 and FOIA Facts 2, Ed Wegman or Yasmin Said are now alleged to have included plagiarism or falsification in 9 papers or talks…
FOIA Facts 2 – No Pro Bono – Federal Funds Mis-Used For Wegman Report And Much More
As begun in FOIA Facts 1, Ed Wegman and Rep. Joe Barton repeatedly called the Wegman Report “pro bono”* but Wegman and Said later claimed it as work done for…
FOIA Facts 1 – More Misdeeds By Ed Wegman, Yasmin Said, George Mason University
New Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) replies have exposed more misdeeds by Professor Edward Wegman and Yasmin Said at George Mason University (GMU), closely involved with the Kochs, Virginia Attorney…
TEA Party: Tobacco Everywhere Always
Climate change doubt is a key belief in the TEA Party, sparked by the Koch-related Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. Big Tobacco was heavily involved from the 1980s onward, and…
Fakery 2: More Funny Finances, Free Of Tax
Follow the money. October 23, PBS Frontline’s Climate of Doubt gave viewers an hour’s coverage of the tactics of climate anti-science, its advocates and a quick look into the funding…
See No Evil, Speak Little Truth, Break Rules, Blame Others
pinoccio.shutterstock_77732134.jpg The "Wegman Report", led by Edward Wegman of George Mason University (GMU) got criticized in 2010's Experts claim 2006 climate report plagiarized. Experts called it "obvious" even "shocking" plagiarism.…
Ed Wegman Promised Data to Rep. Henry Waxman Six Years Ago – Where Is It?
shutterstock_62905804.jpg George Mason University’s Edward Wegman and Yasmin Said are back in the news, having just silently disappeared as Editors of a Wiley journal in which they had authored two…