On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:38:59 +0100, Michael Lewis <[email protected]>
wrote:
Whoa! Who's interest is being served here? Hoggon is not a climate
scientist, knows only what he's been told, is the CEO of PR firm and his
book is being pimped by an insurance company!
A bit of perspective from the web site:
About Allianz Knowledge
Allianz Knowledge focuses on Climate Change, Energy, Microfinance,
Demographic Change, and Safety & Health. These topics are vital to our
business – and to our world.
Allianz groups is one of the largest financial service providers in the
world. It offers its customers tailer-made solutions in the fields of
property and causality insurance, life and health insurance, asset
management and banking.
Hoggan is a shill for the Big Business As Usual Lobby. Has he "register like
lobbyists" as he demands the "deniers" do?
"Perspective" aside, I hear the book is very good. I would hardly dismiss it
out of hand because the writer works for a living.
And if he were a shill for a "business as usual lobby", shouldn't the message
of the book be that there is no danger, nothing to fear, no reason to change behaviors,
rather than - as it does - make the claim that there are powerful interests pushing that
view?
Unless I'm mistaken about the use of the term "shill", that is. You might mean
that Hoggan's written a very convincing book about there being a campaign to miscredit
the science and cloud the issues, in order to himself cloud and miscredit ... uhm ... no,
help me out here. What exactly is it you claim Hoggan is doing?
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