In 2002, at the oil money sponsored press conference of the industry front group Friends of Science, they listed Dr. Fred Seitz as one of their suggested consulting scientists โ someone who could set the scientific record straight on climateย change.
Yet, in a memo, written 13 years earlier, the tobacco giant Philip Morris dismissed Seitz as โquite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offerย advice.โ
It says something about the standard of excellence FOS is willing to accept,ย no?
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic technology.
It turns out oil and gas arenโt Albertaโs only hazardous exports.
The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companiesโ use of Trumpโs trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.
Tory energy chief endorses debunked studies written by fossil fuel industry interests.
