The article concludes:
"While they have been most effective in the United States, the impacts of
the climate-change deniers sponsored by Exxon and Philip Morris have been
felt all over the world. I have seen their arguments endlessly repeated in
Australia, Canada, India, Russia and the UK. By dominating the media debate
on climate change during seven or eight critical years in which urgent
international talks should have been taking place, by constantly seeding
doubt about the science just as it should have been most persuasive, they
have justified the money their sponsors have spent on them many times over.
It is fair to say that the professional denial industry has delayed
effective global action on climate change by years, just as it helped to
delay action against the tobacco companies."
That is certainly true here in the UK. Although the government has signed
up to Kyoto, the general public are still sceptical about the urgency of
dealing with global warming. Just think of the attitude of William Connelly
and James Annan.
Cheers, Alastair.
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