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  “[T]he people who are blocking or delaying action on climate change are putting the whole human population at risk. If they are doing so out of some sincere, if wrong-headed, belief that climate change really isn’t a problem, then their actions might be forgivable. But if they are doing it because their eagerness to post short-term profits overwhelms their judgement or their interest in the public good then they should be subject to the full dose of public wrath. Either way they have put themselves forward as experts…so their responsibility to be well-informed is that much greater and their negligence of or disregard for the science is even more offensive.”

  The above comes from this eye-opening book by James Hoggan (main author) and Richard Littlemore. Hoggan is a public relations (PR) advisor and owns his own PR firm. He is “a leading authority on public perceptions of environmental issues.” Littlemore is a strategist and senior writer at Hoggan’s PR firm.

  Note that this isn’t a book about climate science; everyone knows (or, at least, every rational, educated person knows) that the consensus in climate science is that we are going through global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels. But consensus isn’t certainty.

  This leaves the door open for deniers (“Climate change is a big hoax”) and delayers (“Climate change is occurring but we can take our time in trying to solve it”).

  This book offers a blistering account of shadowy think tanks, pretend grassroots organizations, lobbyists, and charismatic speakers, who dedicate their time to creating strategies for manufacturing doubt by twisting truths about the science of climate change. The links between these individuals & groups and the fossil fuel or other energy intensive corporations who fund them is clearly detailed.

  Who is this book written for? This book is aimed at those people:

  (1) who are unaware of the near-constant misinformation thrown at them.
  (2) who are unaware of the immense power of money and industry over science and truth.
  (3) who don’t check the citations or references of editorials & books and the credentials of those who write them.

  Finally, what if we humans do everything in our power to solve climate change but it turns out that we learn in time that climate change is one big hoax?

  Answer: WE WILL CREATE A BETTER WORLD. (These are some of the benefits we gain by taking action even if climate change turns out to be a hoax: 1. energy independence 2. preserve rainforests 3. sustainability 4. green jobs 5. liveable cities 6. renewables 7. clean water 8. clean air 9. more efficient vehicles 10. healthy children.)

  QUESTION to deniers and delayers: what’s wrong with creating a better world?

  In conclusion, this book will open your eyes, it will raise your ire and, most importantly, it will inspire you to take back the truth–to END THE CLIMATE COVER-UP.

  (first published 2009; acknowledgements; preface; 17 chapters; main narrative 235 pages; notes; index)

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  Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming Overview

  Talk of global warming is nearly inescapable these days — but there are some who believe the concept of climate change is an elaborate hoax. Despite the input of the world’s leading climate scientists, the urgings of politicians, and the outcry of many grassroots activists, many Americans continue to ignore the warning signs of severe climate shifts. How did this happen? Climate Cover-up seeks to answer this question, describing the pollsters and public faces who have crafted careful language to refute the findings of environmental scientists. Exploring the PR techniques, phony “think tanks,” and funding used to pervert scientific fact, this book serves as a wake-up call to those who still wish to deny the inconvenient truth.

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  Customer Reviews

  Excellent expose will make you angry but well informed! – Rabbi Yonassan Gershom – Minnesota, USA
  If somebody told you that there was a 90% chance your plane would crash, would you still get on the flight? Of course not, says author James Hoggan. But that is exactly what the “skeptical environmentalist” nay-sayers are telling you to do about global warming. Instead of listening to the 90+ percent of scientists who agree that human-caused climate changes are happening, they seek out and lionize the few fringe folks who still think global warming is all a big hoax. And these “experts” are indeed fringe — many don’t even have degrees in climatology, have done no research in the area, published no peer-reviewed papers, have no real standing anywhere. Yet they keep appearing on those “fair and balanced” debates as “proof” that scientists are not yet “united” over this issue. How does this happen? Because of very carefully-planned campaigns by Big Oil (especially Exxon Mobile), the coal industry and other vested interests who have purposely sought to sow doubt in the public mind about global warming.

  For that matter, ever wonder why, in the 1990s, we all suddenly started calling it “climate change” instead of “global warming”? I always thought it was because “climate change” was a more accurate term. In fact, Hoggan tells us, it was a conscious spin campaign on the part of conservative anti-science interests to make the crisis sound less threatening. GLOBAL WARMING — Yikes! That sounds really scary! But call it “climate change” and it evokes imagery of somebody moving from New York to Florida. (Of course, we are now learning that climate change also means more and bigger hurricanes, tons of snow dumped where it normally does not fall, droughts in places that used to be fertile farms, lakes drying up, rivers flooding, disruption of ocean currents, etc. Global warming by any other name is still an environmental crisis.)

  Many years ago I read a book called How to Lie with Statistics, which gave me a heads-up about how politicians, media gurus, self-appointed “experts” and spin doctors can manipulate numbers to fool the public. So I never really bought the disinformation sowed by the nay-sayers. Still, I was horrified to read in this book how carefully planned this conspiracy to deny global warming really was. “Not for Profit” orgs that actually get most of their money from Exxon, orgs with fancy websites that have their “headquarters” in somebody’s trailer in the middle of nowhere, scientists who were paid ,000 by Mobile to write papers and attend conferences questioning global warming, etc. I’m not big on conspiracy theories, but in this case, it really is a conspiracy.

  Hoggan meticulously documents his claims and does an excellent job of exposing the frauds and manipulators for what they really are. This book will make you angry (nobody enjoys being manipulated) but it is also a call to action. The tide of opinion is turning, and there is still time for a well-informed public to apply REAL science to start solving environmental problems.

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