Mooney pulls a Muller | Watts Up With That?

Gee where have we seen this before? Chris Mooney issues a press release on his upcoming publication, then he wonders why people aren’t accepting it because the real publication isn’t done yet and all we have is a cover and some fluff.

It’s BEST practice.

Apparently, given his defense, it was not the reaction he was looking for.

Here’s his defense over at the paid PR shill website DeSmog blog.

The Unlikely Champion of a Water Bottle Ban - NYTimes.com

Xanterra Parks & Resorts, an operator of lodgings, gift shops and general merchandise stores at national parks from Death Valley to the Grand Canyon to Crater Lake in Oregon, makes tens of millions of dollars selling its wares and lodgings to tourists. A small portion of those sales — maybe one-half of a percentage point — comes from selling water in plastic bottles.

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“Revenue or no revenue, something’s got to be done about bottled water,” Mr. Lane said.

Warmer weather is healther than the policies to “stop” it | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This is shameful cherrypicking. In fact, cold weather is far deadlier than warm, and a warming world should actually save more lives: