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funded campaign to muddy the scientific debate about climate change and to keep you misinformed. A large part of the problem is that the news media plays right into the hands of the science deniers. In a misguided effort to appear fair and balanced, they give equal exposure to the skeptics whenever the topic is discussed. If they wanted to be truly fair and balanced, then you would see TV news shows with 100 climate scientists who agree with the AGW theory on stage, with 2 or 3 skeptics. What goes on now is akin to having people on the show, who believe the moon landing in the 1960s was faked, every time there is news from NASA on space exploration. My recommendation is to read my climate change post, : - ) - and read a few of the many books that describe in detail how the denialist PR machine works, and it's history. "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway "Climate Cover-Up": The Crusade to Deny Global Warming" by James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore "Censoring Science: the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming" by Mark Bowen "The Boiling Point" and "The Heat Is On" by Ross Gelbspan "Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change" by Clive Hamilton He outlines the decade-long, coal-industry funded campaign in Australia to deny climate science. "Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate" by Stephan H. Schneider and Tim Flannery Best website for laymen to learn something about the science is Skeptical Science. Open Mind, Real Climate and Science of Doom are also highly recomended. By the way, if you peruse the book shelves at your local Barnes and Noble, you will notice at least as many, if not more, books by climate change skeptics, as mainstream climate science books. There is a reason for this. The same "think tanks" who are spreading the disinformation for the fossil fuel industry, are funding and or publishing most of these books. They promote 78% of skeptical books on climate change. This has resulted in at least 64 climate change skeptic books. Then they organize book buying, to push these books to the best seller lists. Here are the groups I'm talking about. These 32 organizations have all been involved in the tobacco industry's campaign to deny the science showing the dangers of tobacco. They are all now involved in the campaign to deny the science of climate change. 1. Acton Institute 2. American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 3. Alexis de Tocquerville Institute 4. American Enterprise Institute (AEI) 5. Americans for Prosperity 6. Atlas Economic Research Foundation 7. Burson-Marsteller (PR firm) 8. Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) 9. Cato Institute 10. Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) 11. Consumer Alert 12. DCI Group (PR firm) 13. European Science and Environment Forum 14. Fraser Institute 15. Frontiers of Freedom 16. George C. Marshall Institute 17. Harvard Center for Risk Analysis 18. Heartland Institute 19. Heritage Foundation 20. Independent Institute 21. International Center for a Scientific Ecology 22. International Policy Network 23. John Locke Foundation 24. Junk Science 25. National Center for Public Policy Research 26. National Journalism Center 27. National Legal Center for the Public Interest (NLCPI) 28. Pacific Research Institute 29. Reason Foundation 30. Small Business Survival Committee 31. The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) 32. Washington Legal Foundation #5 and #9 were created by the billionaire oil and lumber tycoon Koch brothers, who fund all kinds of anti-enviromental PR. They also fund denial of the science saying formaldahyde causes cancer. This is no surprise, since they are major owners of Georgia Pacific lumber company. #24 is Steve Milloy's organization, one of Fox News' favorite 'climate experts'. He is NOT a scienist. He's a PR man and paid lobbyist for fossil fuels. junk science indeed