Publishing Disinformation
Methane Damage Greatly Underestimated
Feb 21st
Methane emissions from fossil fuels ‘severely underestimated
19 February 2020
https://www.carbonbrief.org/methane-emissions-from-fossil-fuels-severely-underestimated
This happens in amazing regularity. Surely we cannot be blamed for being sceptical!
Is it the media or those feeding the media? Are scientists penalised for submitting “honest” predictions? By honest I mean predictions based on peer reviewed data. Valid in other words. Or, is it that “honest” prediction data doesn’t even get reviewed because of fear of retribution?
Oil and Gas Damage Greatly Underestimated
Feb 21st
Again underestimation. This happens in amazing regularity. Surely we cannot be blamed for being sceptical!
Is it the media or those feeding the media? Are scientists penalised for submitting “honest” predictions? By honest I mean predictions based on peer reviewed data. Valid in other words. Or, is it that “honest” prediction data doesn’t even get reviewed because of fear of retribution?
Oil and gas production is contributing even more to global warming than was thought, study finds
Publishing Disinformation about climate change and tobacco
Jun 1st
“MIT Associate Professor David Hsu analyzed organisations in DeSmog’s disinformation database and the Guardian’s tobacco database and found 35 thinktanks based in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand that promote both the tobacco and fossil fuel industries’ interests.”
On this web page one can find details and company names and who subsidised them. Our poor mother Earth has a weighty adversary with
these disinformation companies.
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/02/19/how-tobacco-and-fossil-fuel-companies-fund-disinformation-campaigns-around-world