Journalists have long written about the inordinate power of the fossil fuel industry over energy policy—its ability to get its way in legislation, regulation, elections and courtrooms. This work shows the "how" of this familiar theme: how industry operates with collective force and efficiency across society; how ordinary Americans who are in the way are left to suffer with little or no recourse; and, perhaps most importantly, how industry has thwarted the ability of our democracy to respond to the climate crisis. Choke Hold is a comprehensive explanatory account of all these things.
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https://www.amazon.com/Choke-Hold-Industrys-against-Climate-ebook/dp/B079M1BSQJ

After eight months of investigation, InsideClimate News presents this history of Exxon's engagement with the emerging science of climate change. The story spans four decades, and is based on primary sources including internal company files never before seen, interviews with former company employees, and other evidence.
It describes how Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and then pivoted to work at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

Library Genesis: Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr, David Hasemyer, Lisa Song - EXXON: The Road Not Taken
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=EE916A9AFFF12AFA2BD2B4C5F03C6A34

TUHO: Jinak Crandall byla byvala zena Freda Singera

When Seitz joined them he provided SEPP with the tobacco link: he was the Emeritus-President of the Rockefeller University, and also a secret consultant to RJ Reynolds Tobacco. All of the SEPP leaders were active in the Republican conservative circles and zealous Cold War warriors.
A Frontline documentary says that SEPP was initially organised and promoted by APCO & Associates a PR firm which, at that time, was totally directed and controlled by Philip Morris (through its corporate lawfirm Arnold & Porter). [APCO also created The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC), and the junkscience.com web site for Philip Morris.]
However, Singer clearly was a reluctant shill for the tobacco industry: he only agreed to work for them in attacking the Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Assessment of passive smoking [ETS — as a Class A carcinogen] and was only persuaded when British-American Tobacco's PR firm, Shadwick, suggested that he could remain at arms-length by putting out (in January 1995) a press-release along the lines of the "The 5 Scientific Myths of 1995".
This narrowed attack was directed at the scientific establishment (rather than being in support of tobacco) and it used 'junk-science' claims and highly dubious material from other tobacco-lobby sources (namely the CRS report) to suggest that passive smoke was not a problem. This approach allowed SEPP to hide behind 'scientific' claim that the EPA had over-reacted on such questions as the health threat from radon and ozone depletion, and had relied on the impossible standards of "zero-risk" (Delaney Clause).
Before long his new organization attracted funding from a large number of industrial groups which were interested in climate-denial and anti-activism attacks in areas of the environment and public-health.
APCO specialised in this sort of 'coalition-building' activity for the tobacco industry, but Singer was not willing to be identified as a tobacco-friendly scientist, so he only worked for the cigarette industry at a distance — always careful to put at least one policy/scientific organisation between himself and the source of his funds.
In 1992 he was the principle author of a report prepared for the Tobacco Institute (via the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution) entitled "The EPA and the Science of Environmental Tobacco Smoke". However when the document finally appeared it was buried in a longer and more varied attack on the EPA, and supposedly authored by Kent Jeffreys, one of the staffers at the Institute. Singer was only credited as "Principle Researcher".
SEPP's President, Fred Seitz, another climate denier, worked primarily through the gung-ho, Star-Wars, nuclear-energy promoting, George C Marshall Institute which was heavily funded by the main contractors to the Department of Defence. It's main agenda was to attack communism both from the USSR, and from 'liberal activists' in the USA, which it portrayed as "fellow travellers". Seitz was much closer to tobacco than Singer since he had worked for RJ Reynolds Tobacco as a consultant for decades, and had also done some work for Philip Morris.

Corporate Corruption of Science - S Fred Singer
https://www.sciencecorruption.com/ATN183/00972.html

Ze stranek Science Corruption, stary ale solidne obsahly katalog.

From this base, and with organisational help from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Singer, Crandall and Gerhard Stohrer created the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) in 1990. However Crandall was still using the Washington Institute "editorial director" title in August 1991.
SEPP then sought additional funds from the tobacco and general industrial corporations wishing to fight the activists on global climate change. She became SEPP's nominal director and spokesperson, and later helped in the creation of the Heidelberg Appeal and with the International Center for Scientific Ecology.
SEPP and the Global Science Coalition (a coalition of industrial groups) joined forces both in the Heidelberg Appeal scam and the corporate coalition attempts to destabilize the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. During this time Crandall used the title of "publicist" with the Global Science Communications Team. The Global Climate Coalition had been created by major energy and chemical companies (aided by the National Manufacturers' Association) as the key organizer of serious attempts at disrupting the summit.
In 1993, after Rio, Crandall helped run the SEPP/ICSE conference in Paris and a later seminar at the George Mason University, both of which were aimed at extending the influence of the Heidelberg Appeal project and promoting the idea that the regulators depended on 'junk-science' in their determinations. She worked with Tom Borelli and Gerard Wirz of Philip Morris on these projects.
Crandall was also high on the list of prominent scientific commentators who Philip Morris decided were available (for a generous fee) to put their bylines on propaganda articles and editorials promoted to compliant newspapers. The memo lists her credentials as:

https://www.sciencecorruption.com/ATN167/01357.html

Tomas Zdechovsky, europoslanec za Kdu-Csl (mj jeden z tech, kteri se blokovi usneseni k eu carbon neutralni do rolu 2050 a dostaval potom za to celkem kour)


Po Shellenberger, Michael Moore a spol prichazi vypointovany zaver

Zmíněné případy ukazují, že mezi progresivními klimatickými aktivisty vládne atmosféra naprosté konformity, kde není prakticky žádný prostor pro pochybování a odlišné názory. Není proto divu, že se ostrakizace nevyhýbá dokonce ani lidem na progresivní straně politického spektra, mezi něž patří všichni tři pánové Shellenberger, Pielke a Moore, o nichž byla řeč v tomto článku.

Ale tím to zřejmě neskončí. Hon na čarodějnice, tedy klimatické odpadlíky, začal ve velkém stylu. Je jen otázka času, kdo se stane jejich další obětí. Tipoval bych Grétu Thunbergovou. Bude jí k tomu stačit jeden nesouhlas a zakopnutí v nastolené agendě. A její pomyslné sochy budou okamžitě strženy. Nevěříte?

Ekologický aktivismus aneb koho příště mediálně upálit - Blog iDNES.cz
https://zdechovsky.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=754902

Fossil Fuel Advocates’ New Tactic: Calling Opposition to Arctic Drilling ‘Racist’ | InsideClimate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21072020/fossil-fuel-arctic-drilling-alaska

A year ago, the Ohio legislature rammed through a law to save four unprofitable nuclear and coal-fired power plants from retirement, while it rolled back energy efficiency and renewable targets and passed on the $1.3 billion cost to customers. Opponents of the HB6 law, which included an unlikely alliance of environmentalists and the natural gas industry, began to organize a referendum to repeal it, saying it amounted to a corporate bailout for the utility player FirstEnergy.

What ensued was an aggressive and bizarre counter-campaign launched by a set of mysterious actors that didn’t disclose their donors, all singularly focused on preventing the referendum from gathering enough signatures before its deadline. One single-issue group began running ads with false claims that the Chinese government had orchestrated the referendum. Another group, Generation Now, hired the Democratic firm Fieldworks to deploy “petition blockers” who stood near signature gatherers and tried to discourage people from signing the referendum. At one point there was a physical confrontation between a referendum staffer and a petition blocker, and police responded.

http://www.motherjones.com/...y-spent-millions-to-protect-polluters-then-they-got-busted-by-the-fbi/

TUHO: Plus jeden z nejctenejsich komenatru .]] Pro autora ocividne nemozne pochopit rozdil mezi pocasim a klimatem.

Nesnažte se tomu porozumět. Strašení klimatickou apokalypsou je novodobé náboženství a jako takové ho musíte buď s vírou přijmout, nebo odmítnout. Jako každé náboženství má svá dogmata a své apoštoly a kazatele. Slyšte, jak letošní proměnlivé léto hodnotí jeden z nich: „Proměnlivost počasí by měla být u nás normální, jen jsme si v posledních letech zvykli na dlouhá teplá a suchá období, která se však v dalších letech vrátí.“ Tak pravil minulý týden v rozhovoru pro média klimatolog Radim Tolasz z Českého hydrometeorologického ústavu.
Znovu: Dlouhá teplá a suchá období se v dalších letech vrátí. To, co právě vidíte za oknem, je sice typické české léto, ale je to… výjimka. Bude hůř. Určitě. Amen. Bez špetky zaváhání to zní z institucí, od nichž jsme ještě na jaře slyšeli, že zažíváme největší sucho za 500 let, že léto bude nejspíš znovu velmi suché, a které teď se stejnou bohorovností vydávají zprávy o tom, že prší nadprůměrně, stav podzemních vod je nad normálem a nadále se zlepšuje.

Proměnlivé léto s deštěm? Pro klimasektu je i normální počasí důkazem klimatických změn | Reflex.cz
https://www.reflex.cz/...s-destem-pro-klimasektu-je-i-normalni-pocasi-dukazem-klimatickych-zmen.html

Reflex na jeho full retard krasojizde

Chybí snad už jen to, aby dechovka zahrála Internacionálu a dav s mávátky zabouřil: „S Evropskou unií na věčné časy a nikdy jinak!“ Reakce na dohodu lídrů zemí EU týkající se fondu pokoronavirové obnovy a s tím souvisejícího obřího společného dluhu v řádu stovek miliard eur připomíná ze strany skalních zastánců evropské integrace hesla z nástěnek během Měsíce československo-sovětského přátelství.

Společným obřím dluhem ke světlým zítřkům a silnější integrované EU. Zpátky ni krok! | Reflex.cz
https://www.reflex.cz/...rim-dluhem-ke-svetlym-zitrkum-a-silnejsi-integrovane-eu-zpatky-ni-krok.html

TUHO: křivá huba nezklame

A fact-check of a viral climate misinformation article was quietly removed from Facebook earlier this month, a joint investigation by Popular Information and HEATED reveals.
The article, authored by Michael Shellenberger and published on The Daily Wire, uses 12 "facts" to argue that concern about climate change is overblown. Shellenberger's piece was reviewed by seven Ph.D. climate scientists as part of a process organized by Science Feedback, one of Facebook's fact-checking partners. The scientists determined that Shellenberger's article was "partly false."
As a result, the distribution of the article on Facebook's platform was reduced. Facebook users who posted The Daily Wire article were also warned they were about to share "partly false" information and given a link to Science Feedback's analysis. This is how the fact-checking process is supposed to work.
But then, without explanation, the fact-check was removed. If a Facebook user attempts to share the article today, there is no warning and no link to the fact-check. Shellenberger's piece, on The Daily Wire and elsewhere, has now been shared over 65,000 times on Facebook.

What happened?
Internal Facebook documents obtained by Popular Information reveal that, prior to the removal of the fact-check, Science Feedback's fact-check of The Daily Wire article was brought to the attention of top Facebook executives including VP of Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg, VP of Global News Partnerships Campbell Brown, and VP of Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan. The documents also show that Facebook was asked by the office of Congressman Mike Johnson (R-LA), a powerful member of Republican leadership, to reverse the fact-check.
Facebook and the executive director of Science Feedback deny that Facebook pushed Science Feedback to remove the "partly false" rating. But the incident raises questions about the integrity of Facebook's fact-checking process, Facebook's deference to far-right publications, and the company's commitment to fighting climate misinformation.

https://popular.info/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinformation

“People are largely unaware that there’s a massive system running underneath everything,” Westervelt said in an interview with Grist. “A lot of the ideas they have about the fossil fuel industry and even the language they use has been crafted very carefully by the industry itself.”

She takes us on a wild journey from a turn-of-the-century massacre in Colorado coal country to the messaging strategy of, yes, Nazi Germany, telling the stories of the people who worked to boost oil’s image and how their experiences taught them to influence the media, politicians, and the courts. Here are just a handful of the wild strategies they came up with, all still in use.

Fake news: “Fake news” proliferates on the internet today, a plague of modern life with a long pedigree. You can trace it back to Ivy Ledbetter Lee, often called the father of modern public relations. In the early 1900s, Lee was tasked with rehabilitating the public image of the tycoon John D. Rockefeller. His company, Standard Oil, had brutally stamped out a workers strike at a Colorado coal mine in 1913, setting tents on fire and spraying their camp with machine guns. Lee crafted a story to smooth things over, claiming that the strikers were actually plants hired by a labor union, and that the whole thing had been orchestrated by Mother Jones, a famous labor organizer (he also made up that she ran a nearby brothel). “What are facts anyway but my interpretation of what happened?” Lee said later on.

Corporate philanthropy: Lee’s coverup went so well that Rockefeller kept him on board for the rest of his life. In addition to inventing the press release (imagine, the newspaper prints your version of the story word for word!), Lee prodded Rockefeller to donate to charitable causes, like museums, to burnish his reputation. The approach gained traction as other robber barons realized that they, too, could be remembered as kindly philanthropists. The arts are now soaked with oil money — and with their names emblazoned on art museum walls and festivals signs, corporations get a similar reputational boost.

How the oil industry pumped Americans full of fake news | Grist
https://grist.org/climate/how-the-oil-industry-pumped-americans-full-of-fake-news/