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 – someone who could set the scientific record straight on climate change.
Yet, in a memo, written 13 years earlier, the tobacco giant Philip Morris dismissed Seitz as “quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice.”
It says something about the standard of excellence FOS is willing to accept, no?
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A summit billed as the last chance to revive global climate action faces unprecedented pressure from the food sector’s largest emitters.
Organisers offered pesticide giants and agribusiness lobby group “visibility” and “image gain” in return for financial contributions to climate summit's Agrizone.
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
