As the Earth continues to warm [primarily because of human activity] and the impacts on our climate grow increasingly severe, the science that seeks to warn and guide us is being silenced.
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In only 30 years, climate science has advanced from being able to discern human influence on global climate to being able to calculate the cost of one specific impact (heat) caused by one company’s emissions. … This is the state of the science that climate deniers seek to silence.
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In different countries around the world, corporations and politicians deploy the “disinformation playbook” against science-based policymaking. A process that allows science to inform policy has three stages, but each of these stages faces a predictable set of disinforming tactics designed to undermine policy action ….
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Research from the Union of Concerned Scientists and others demonstrates that the fossil fuel industry has used every tactic in the disinformation playbook:
- Hiring a scientist who used discredited methods and did not disclose industry funding
- Manufacturing doubt by exaggerating uncertainties in climate change science and targeting teachers and students
- Harassing climate scientists
- Buying credibility
- Manipulating government officials
