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- English
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About this book
This "must-read book describes in disturbing detail" how the energy industry has fueled a bogus controversy about manmade climate change (
Toronto Star).
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This book rips the lid off the campaign to discredit scientists, confuse journalists, and deny climate change. The tactics have been slick, but PR expert James Hoggan and investigative journalist Richard Littlemore have compiled a readable, accessible guidebook through the muck. Beginning with leaked memos from the coal industry, the oil industry and the tobacco-sponsored lie-about-science industry, the authors expose the plans to "debunk" global warming; they track the execution of those plans; and they illuminate the resultsāconfusion, inaction, and an epidemic of public mistrust.
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Climate Cover-Up names names, identifying bogus experts who are actually paid lobbyists and flaks. The authors reveal the PR techniques used to misinform, to mangle the language, and to intimidate the media into maintaining a phony climate change debate. Exposing the seedy origins of that debate, this book will leave you fuming at the extent, the effect, and the ethical affront of the climate cover-up.
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This book rips the lid off the campaign to discredit scientists, confuse journalists, and deny climate change. The tactics have been slick, but PR expert James Hoggan and investigative journalist Richard Littlemore have compiled a readable, accessible guidebook through the muck. Beginning with leaked memos from the coal industry, the oil industry and the tobacco-sponsored lie-about-science industry, the authors expose the plans to "debunk" global warming; they track the execution of those plans; and they illuminate the resultsāconfusion, inaction, and an epidemic of public mistrust.
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Climate Cover-Up names names, identifying bogus experts who are actually paid lobbyists and flaks. The authors reveal the PR techniques used to misinform, to mangle the language, and to intimidate the media into maintaining a phony climate change debate. Exposing the seedy origins of that debate, this book will leave you fuming at the extent, the effect, and the ethical affront of the climate cover-up.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- ONE: LEMMINGS AND LIFEGUARDS: KEEPING HUMANKIND FROM CRASHING ON THE ROCKS
- TWO: THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH: WHO SAYS CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY?
- THREE: FROM BERNAYS TO TODAY: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRIVATE PROPHETS AND PUBLIC LIES
- FOUR: THE AGE OF ASTROTURFING: IN WHICH INDUSTRY STEALS CREDIBILITY FROM THE PEOPLE
- FIVE: INTERNATIONALIZING UNCERTAINTY: TAKING THE DOCTRINE OF DOUBT ON THE ROAD
- SIX: MANGLING THE LANGUAGE: MAKING DOUBT RELIABLE AND SCIENCE UNBELIEVABLE
- SEVEN: THINK TANK TACTICS: MOVING PUBLIC POLICY INTO PRIVATE HANDS
- EIGHT: DENIAL BY THE POUND: MANY WRONGS DONāT MAKE A RIGHT,BUT THEY SOUND BETTER
- NINE: JUNK SCIENTISTS: AN EXPERT FOR EVERY OCCASION; AN ARGUMENT FOR EVERY POSITION
- TEN: FROM DENIAL TO DELAY: A MORE REASONABLEā AND MORE DANGEROUSāTREND IN OBSTRUCTING ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
- ELEVEN: SLAPP SCIENCE: USING COURTS AND CASH TO SILENCECRITICS OF CLIMATE CONFUSION
- TWELVE: MANIPULATED MEDIA: AN INDUSTRY OVERWHELMED IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION
- THIRTEEN: MONEY TALKS: CALCULATING THE HEAVY WEIGHT OF POLITICAL CAPITAL
- FOURTEEN: WHITEWASHING COAL: IN COAL COUNTRY, CLEANLINESS IS RELATIVE,BUT PROFIT IS ABSOLUTE
- FIFTEEN: LITTLE COAL: SALVAGING A FUTURE THATāS STUCK IN THE TAR SANDS
- SIXTEEN: NOBODY WANTS TO BE A CHUMP: HOW THE DEBATE CRIPPLES PUBLIC POLICYAND PARALYZES PRIVATE ACTION
- SEVENTEEN: SAVING THE WORLD: TACTICS FOR TURNING BACK THE CLOCK ON GLOBAL DISASTER
- NOTES