Unmasking disinformation, from tobacco to climate - Capital Weather Gang

In reading "Merchants of Doubt," what I found so staggering is the degree to which the current debates about climate science resemble the tobacco/cancer arguments, and the acid rain discussions. Scientists still have not developed an effective counterpunch to organized disinformation efforts that are designed to undermine public trust in scientific research, and the media still struggles to accurately communicate climate science.

Greenfield Overwhelmingly Rejects Biomass Plant

Concerned Citizens of Franklin County tell us that: "35 percent of the registered voters came out and overturned the three Town Council votes by an average of 6 to 1."

spiked debate: Meet the green who doubts ‘The Science’ by Peter Taylor

What’s really disconcerting for me is that I am a longstanding environmentalist.
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We’re seeing the dangerous development here of a very intolerant political ideology. It is a very strange political and scientific situation, in which vast sums of money are underwriting a bureaucracy of climate accountants and auditors, and in which academic funding is easier to obtain if you put man-made climate change at the top of your research proposal. I have never seen anything like it in the 40 years of my scientific and environmental career.

Peter Taylor was talking to Tim Black.