My Favorite Climate Cover Up Quote So Far

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Climate Cover Up continues to amass some amazing coverage and praise from around theย world.ย 

Here are some of my favorite reviews so far:

Jeff Biggers reviewed Climate Cover Up at the Huffington Post:

โ€œJames Hoggan and his DeSmogBlog.com posse might be our nationโ€™s most important sleuthsโ€“and they ainโ€™t even from the United States. โ€ฆ Climate Cover-Up is an indispensable guidebook to anyone concerned about our planetโ€™s climate future; in fact, it should be required reading for all American citizens, journalists, public policy makers โ€“ and President Barack Obama. โ€ฆ Letโ€™s hope Climate Cover-Up makes it to the White House before the next round of Big Coal lobbyists.โ€

Liz Veazey at Itโ€™s Getting Hot in Here says:

โ€œAs someone fighting for bold climate action it is really helpful to better understand folks fighting against you and how they are organized.ย  I would definitely recommend the book, especially if you, like me and many others, felt like the climate denial campaign was mostly over.โ€

The Georgia Straight in Vancouver writes that Climate Cover Up offers โ€œcompelling insights for anyone interested in learning why there is so much confusion about this issue in the media.โ€

Straight Goods, Canadaโ€™s leading independent online newsmagazine, says:
โ€œIf you care about your well-being, the fate of your children and the environment, please read James Hogganโ€™s new book, Climate Cover-Up.โ€

RealClimate.org, a website that focuses on the science of climate change, had this to say about the book:
โ€œThere is an important story behind the climate change denial effort that goes well beyond the scientific issues at hand. Itโ€™s not our mission at RealClimate to tell that story, but there are others who are doing it, and doing it well. Hoggan and Littlemore are clearly among them. Read this book, and equally important, make sure that others who need to do asย well.โ€

But my favorite quote of all (so far) comes from David Roberts at Grist, who describes DeSmogBlog as โ€œa Canadian outfit that has its teeth in the skeptic movementโ€™s arse like it was made of sirloin.โ€

Roberts says Climate Cover Up โ€œoffers chapter and verse on the industry groups, scientists for hire, and lazy-ass media that have colluded to leave the public in its current state of ignorance on the most important scientific question of our time. This isnโ€™t just bloggy ranting either: the guys know how to dig, and theyโ€™ve uncovered original documents. Tasty, tasty documents.โ€

Have you seen another great review of Climate Cover Up? Drop me a line atย [email protected],

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Kevin is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmog. He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House. Named a โ€œGreen Heroโ€ by Rolling Stone Magazine and one of the โ€œTop 50 Tweetersโ€ on climate change and environment issues, Kevin has appeared in major news media outlets around the world for his work on digital campaigning. Kevin has been involved in the public policy arena in both the United States and Canada for more than a decade. For five years he was the managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com. In this role, Kevinโ€™s research into the โ€œclimate denial industryโ€ and the right-wing think tank networks was featured in news media articles around the world. He is most well known for his ground-breaking research into David and Charles Kochโ€™s massive financial investments in the Republican and tea partyย networks. Kevin is the first person to be designated a โ€œCertified Expertโ€ on theย political and community organizing platformย NationBuilder. Prior to DeSmog, Kevin worked in various political and government roles. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism and a Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Asia Pacific, Foreign Affairs for the Government of Canada. Kevin also worked in various roles in the British Columbia provincial government in the Office of the Premier and the Ministry of Health. In 2008 Kevin co-founded a groundbreaking new online election tool called Vote for Environment which was later nominated for a World Summit Award in recognition of the worldโ€™s best e-Content and innovative ICTย applications. Kevin moved to Washington, DC in 2010 where he worked for two years as the Director of Online Strategy for Greenpeace USA and has since returned to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

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