Publicizing Global Climate Change
"The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied."
That quote comes from a 1995 report by scientific and technical experts working for the Global Climate Coalition . The GCC was a group organized and funded by Big Oil, automakers, utilities, and other major Industrial polluters.
Throughout the 90s, the GCC attempted to debunk the idea that big business was causing a buildup of Carbon Dioxide (and other harmful greenhouse gases) in Earth's atmosphere, directly related to that thing hippies and lefties called Global Warming.
They ran a series of multi-million dollar media campaigns on behalf of these industries in order to create doubt in the public mind. But in the end, it was clear that even the GCC with all their media spinning, couldn't turn a blind eye to the truth.
Fifteen years later the GCC documents have been made public with such damning insights which include, "climate change most certainly is happening" and Industrial businesses were a central cause of it. Back in 1995 when these conclusions were presented to the Industrial sector, the inconvenient truths were simply removed, thus forestalling any action on the worsening problem.
This is the same ploy that the tobacco giants used for decades, to deny any link between smoking and cancer. Always remember that corporate interests include the ability to create "scientific" smokescreens to dupe the media, government and the public into thinking in contradiction to the truth.
Remember this ploy the next time you hear any special interest group spouting science to justify or defend abusive corporate or industrial practices.
That quote comes from a 1995 report by scientific and technical experts working for the Global Climate Coalition . The GCC was a group organized and funded by Big Oil, automakers, utilities, and other major Industrial polluters.
Throughout the 90s, the GCC attempted to debunk the idea that big business was causing a buildup of Carbon Dioxide (and other harmful greenhouse gases) in Earth's atmosphere, directly related to that thing hippies and lefties called Global Warming.
They ran a series of multi-million dollar media campaigns on behalf of these industries in order to create doubt in the public mind. But in the end, it was clear that even the GCC with all their media spinning, couldn't turn a blind eye to the truth.
Fifteen years later the GCC documents have been made public with such damning insights which include, "climate change most certainly is happening" and Industrial businesses were a central cause of it. Back in 1995 when these conclusions were presented to the Industrial sector, the inconvenient truths were simply removed, thus forestalling any action on the worsening problem.
This is the same ploy that the tobacco giants used for decades, to deny any link between smoking and cancer. Always remember that corporate interests include the ability to create "scientific" smokescreens to dupe the media, government and the public into thinking in contradiction to the truth.
Remember this ploy the next time you hear any special interest group spouting science to justify or defend abusive corporate or industrial practices.