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Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the astroturfing-while-the-world-burns dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "The UK Guardian is running an excerpt from the new book "Heat" by George Monbiot (to be published later this month) spelling out the network of funding opposing global action against global warming — specifically, limits on human carbon dioxide generation. The excerpt outlines a web of fake citizens' groups and bogus (but authoritative sounding) research institutes designed to convince laypeople that human causation of global warming is scientifically controversial. Not surprisingly, the article notes funding by ExxonMobil. More interesting is the role played big tobacco, tying their attack on the health risks of second-hand smoke to global warming skepticism." From the article: "What I have discovered while researching this issue is that the corporate funding of lobby groups denying that man-made climate change is taking place was initiated not by Exxon, or by any other firm directly involved in the fossil fuel industry. It was started by the tobacco company Philip Morris."

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  1. Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages by Nonillion · · Score: 2, Funny

    All this from a company that paid for studies that declared smoking couldn't be linked to causing cancer.

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  2. Futurama predicted this! by orkysoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Poopenmeyer: Garbage ball, huh? That sounds serious.

    Farnsworth: Very serious, Mayor Poopenmeyer.

    Poopenmeyer: I gotta be sure this isn't another scientific fraud like global warming or second-hand smoke. [He presses the intercom.] Send in my science advisor.

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    I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
  3. new tagline by revery · · Score: 2, Funny

    A million tiny smoke stacks can't be wrong.

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  4. Re:Altria = Philip Morris by wwiiol_toofless · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mmmmm... Tomacco....

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  5. Re:Global Warming Fanatics Do the Same by sycodon · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks Mods. I can die happy now.

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  6. Finally, original research! by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sirrah, you have convinced me! I'm going to get on a plane right now so I can find George Monbiot and kick him right in the balls.

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  7. Re:Really questioning my libertarian streak nowada by crabpeople · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The only time businesses care about you is before you spend your money on their products and services. Never forget that."

    Fixed for you. no charge.

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