BBC: Climate scientists face 'PR war' (which they're losing)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8511780.stm

Climate scientists face 'PR war'

A Nobel peace prize-winning Welsh physicist says climate change scientists are losing "a PR war" against sceptics with vested interests.

Sir John Houghton said there were millions of internet references to a comment he never made which appears to to show him "hyping up" global warming.

A poll for BBC news suggests the number of British people who are sceptical about climate change is rising.

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Asked if he believed climate change scientists were now in a "PR war" with sceptics, he said: "We are in a way and we're losing that war because we're not good at PR.

"Your average scientist is not a good PR person because he wants to get on with his science.

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1. This is WHY a Dem president could face impeachment so easily, his staff accused of 'trashing the WH'

how an honest public servant could be labeled a 'liar', how a true war hero could be smeared as having faked his wartime injuries, how a GOP minority could become the only power that matters in DC.....because the CORPORATE MEDIA is invested in continuing all the lies that benefit their fascist interests.

Climate change realists have to take extraordinary measures to fight the lies that get attention from corporate media so, so easily.

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2. Haven't you noticed yet? NOTHING can stop PR, The Big Lie

No stupid, simpering facts or truths, no pleas, no NOTHING.

PR and advertising are the greatest forces in today's world. Salesmanship.

No lie too big it can't be laundered into conventional wisdom lickety-split. No truth so demonstrable it can stand against the cacophonous whirlwind.

In a nation, indeed a world based on nothing but lies, PR and advertising, any atrocity is possible, any madness.

As we shall see before too much longer, the only question is WHEN.

Poor scientists, with their dry experiments, unentertaining facts, and their own self-defeating self-doubt and self-criticism.

The world has turned upside-down, and we are only halfway to the darkness of Totalitarianism that is always the final destination of nations and peoples who allow themselves to be deluded to such a level.

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3. +1

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4. Crisis of climate-change confidence

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/crisis-of-climatechange-confidence-20100212-nxmb.html

Crisis of climate-change confidence

MARIAN WILKINSON
February 13, 2010

Sceptics are undermining the credibility of fundamental scientific institutions and their research, writes Marian Wilkinson.

Amid the thousands of stolen emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, posted on websites late last year, a telling exchange among the scientists has been largely overlooked.

It refers to reports that the US and Saudi Arabian governments had played a key role in picking a new candidate to chair the United Nation's peak scientific body on climate change.

The emails, dating back to April 2002, noted reports of ''intense lobbying'' by the US oil industry, specifically Exxon, to try to persuade officials in President George Bush's White House to block the high-profile British atmospheric chemist, Dr Robert Watson, getting a second term as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Just months before, in September 2001, the IPCC under Watson had delivered its groundbreaking Third Assessment Report, which confirmed that the earth was warming and found there was, ''new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities''.

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