Climate disinformation leaves lasting mark as world heats

The Associated Press ^ | July 26, 2022 | By DAVID KLEPPER (D-AP)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In 1998, as nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol, America’s fossil fuel companies plotted their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate.

“Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute’s memo, “will be achieved when average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science... Unless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue... there may be no moment when we can declare victory.”

The memo, later leaked to The New York Times that year, went on to outline how fossil fuel companies could manipulate journalists and the broader public by muddying the evidence, by playing up “both sides” of the debate and by portraying those seeking to reduce emissions as “out of touch with reality.”

Nearly 25 years later, the reality of a changing climate is now clear to most Americans, as heatwaves and wildfires, rising sea levels and extreme storms become more common.

Even as surveys show the public generally has become more concerned about climate change, a sizeable number of Americans have become even more distrustful of the scientific consensus.

“The tragedy of this is that all over social media, you can see tens of millions of Americans who think scientists are lying, even about things that have been proven for decades,” said Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University who has written about the history of climate change disinformation. “They’ve been persuaded by decades of disinformation. The denial is really, really deep.”

[JBW1949]

“...things that have been proven for decades...”

Show us the “proof”, Klepper...Show us....

[Born in 1950]

Dance as your told, David Klepper, dance like a fool. Please your masters and entertain me.

The misery you invite will drip with purification and ugly death. The tall man with no eyes will take you away.

[LegendHasIt]

Well, then the AP should quit spreading disinformation.

[Jeff Chandler]

. . . things that have been proven for decades, like how a man becomes a women by chopping off his junk.

[Rurudyne]

Never believe the Watermelon Greens. They lie. Just like commies do.

[cockroach_magoo]

The left are petulant children, and climate change is their imaginary friend who everyone else must acknowledge as being real.

[jpp113]

“by playing up “both sides” of the debate and by portraying those seeking to reduce emissions as “out of touch with reality.”

^
That’s the left demonizing fairness and truth

[NWFree]

It was still worse in 1934

[skimbell]

Here we are, two months into the predicted “deadly 2022 hurricane season”, aaaand...

[TankerKC]

When it's really cold this winter, we will all be reminded that weather is not climate.

[lasereye]

First of all tell us what exactly has been proven for decades.

[LizzieD]

Last week everyone was hysterical about 104 degree heat in London and Paris. Today’s highs were 72 degree and 77 degrees, respectively. Hmm. Is it possible that instead of END-OF-THE-WORLD-CLIMATE-CHANGE!!!, they just had a little heat wave? Somehow, 72 and 77 degree days in mid-July didn’t make news.

[nomorelurker]

“Here we are, two months into the predicted “deadly 2022 hurricane season”, aaaand...”

Hey don’t jinx me I’m to old to move everything.

[heavy metal]

safe and effective...

[TigersEye]

Disinformation? Like this? ...

NOAA Temperature Adjustments Correlate Exactly with the Rise in CO2 - Big Surprise

Thermometers show the US cooling since about 1920, but NOAA massively cools the past to create the appearance of a warming trend. These adjustments make a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering. When plotted against atmospheric CO2, the correlation is almost perfect. NOAA is tampering with the data exactly to match their theory.

NOAA Radiosonde Data Shows No Warming For 58 Years March 7, 2016

NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ 6/4/2015

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year “pause” in global warming: They “adjusted” the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record. New climate data by NOAA scientists doubles the warming trend since the late 1990s by adjusting pre-hiatus temperatures downward and inflating temperatures in more recent years.

GISS US tampering.

NOAA = Fake Science!

[TigersEye]

[RetiredTexasVet]

The only thing that needs to be done on Climate Change is to stop worldwide weather warfare and geoengineering.

[butlerweave]

Algore thought the planet would be burned to a crisp years ago ,D’oh