โClimate Cover-Up documents one of the most disgusting stories ever hidden about corporate disinformation. What youโll discover in this book amounts to proof of an intergenerational crime.โ
DAVID SUZUKI, Author of The Sacred Balance and Good News for aย Change.
โThis book explains how the propaganda generated by self-interest groups has purposely created confusion about climate change. Itโs an imperative read for a successful future.โ
LEONARDO DICAPRIO, Actor andย Producer
โTo those of us who have been unknowingly made to turn a blind eye to the terrifying and true facts about global warming, thereโs no time left for ignorance. Please read this shocking and incredible book, learn how weโve been manipulated, get angry and take action.โ
NEVE CAMPBELL, Actor andย Producer
โA clear and courageous battle cry against those who, for profitโs sake, would lead us to environmental and, ultimately, economic ruin.โ
LESTER BROWN, Author of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Saveย Civilization
โAn exposรฉ of planetary scale.โ
JAMES E. HANSEN, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Spaceย Studies
Starting in the early 1990s, three large American industry groups set to work on strategies to cast doubt on the science of climate change. Even though the oil industryโs own scientists had declared, as early as 1995, that human-induced climate change was undeniable, the American Petroleum Institute, the Western Fuels Association (a coal-fired electrical industry consortium) and a Philip Morris-sponsored anti-science group called TASSC all drafted and promoted campaigns of climate changeย disinformation.
The success of those plans is self-evident. A Yale/George Mason University poll taken late in 2008 showed that โ 20 years after President George H.W. Bush promised to beat the greenhouse effect with the โWhite House effectโ โ a clear majority of Americans still say they either doubt the science of climate change or they just donโt know. Climate Cover-Up explains why they donโt know. Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the publicย conversation.
Leveraging four years of original research conducted through Hogganโs website, DeSmogBlog.com, Hoggan and Littlemore documented the participation of lapsed scientists and ExxonMobil-funded think tanks. Then they analyzed and explained how mainstream media stood by โ or in some cases colluded โ while deniers turned a clear issue of science (and an issue for public safety) into a partisan argument that no one couldย win.
This book will open your eyes, it will raise your ire and, most especially, it will inspire you to take back the truth โ to end the Climate Cover-up.
โForget about the crime of the century โ this probably qualifies as the crime of the geological epoch.โ
BILL MCKIBBEN, Author of Deep Economy and The End ofย Nature
โA compelling, sometimes chilling explanation of how public safety has been sacrificed on the altar of private interest.โ
CHRIS MOONEY, Author of The Republican War onย Science
โAbsolutely superb โ one of the best dissections of the climate misinformation I have ever seen. This is one terrific piece of work!โ
ROSS GELBSPAN, Author of The Heat Isย On
โThrough impeccably document analysis, Climate Cover-Up exposes the well-oiled propaganda campaign designed to manufacture dissent and uncertainty about the science of global warming. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of democracy.โ
ANDREW WEAVER, Author of Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warmingย World
โAn important and disturbing book about the lies and corrupt language that government and industry still employ to dismiss the facts on global warming.โ
ANDREW NIKIFORUK, Author of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of aย Continent
โClimate Cover-Up reveals how strategic corporate public relations, an unwitting media, and feckless scientists have created a rhetoric-driven public conversation that defies logic and reason. If you are interested in positive social change on climate issues, this book is a must-read.โ
FRANKLIN D. GILLIAM JR, Dean, School of Public Affairs and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, University of California, Losย Angeles
โJim Hoggan in this essential book illuminates our folly, even as he points a way forward with hope.โ
WADE DAVIS, Author of The Serpent and theย Rainbow
โClimate Cover-Up clears the way for a new era of honesty and climate progress.โ
TZEPORAH BERMAN, Campaign Director and Founder, Forestย Ethics
โIf you want the full, detailed story of the manufactured opposition to climate science and climate action, look no further than James Hoggan’s comprehensive and compelling Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming (Greystone, 2009). It’s the real story on climate change and the media, with footnotes.โ
ALEX STEFFEN, Worldย Changing
โClimate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a remarkable deconstruction of what he argues is a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign whose goal is to set the agenda in climate policy by discrediting legitimate science and manipulating public perceptions of the scientific evidenceโฆI have no doubt that Climate Cover-up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine-tuned.โ
STEPHEN HUME, Vancouverย Sun
โClimate Cover-Up should be as big and influential as the Hidden Persuaders was; it exposes how truth gets twisted, how lies become opinions worthy of editorial pages, how Exxon greases the whole process.โ
LLOYD ALTER, Treeย Hugger
โHoggan’s must-read book describes in disturbing detail the well-oiled campaign to confuse the public and confound the science, creating enough doubt to thwart meaningful action and protect a world economic order built around the burning of oil, coal, and natural gas.โ
TYLER HAMILTON, Torontoย Star
โThis book will open your eyes, it will raise your ire and, most especially, it will inspire you to take back the truth โ to end the Climate Cover-up.โ
Smokersinfo.net
โHogganโs book is a thoughtful and sustained exposure ofย a movement which has done great harm. I read it with close interest and shared his dismay. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how denial has had such a charmed run. His presentation is painstaking and reasonable. Thereโs nothing shrill about it, and his justifiable anger is relatively muted.โ
CELSIAS, Cleanย Techies
โโThe writing is a well-researched investigation into the continuing fabrication of the defence of Climate Change โscepticismโ, which amounts to a long narrative of invention, first of outright denial of the science of Global Warming, then of foot-dragging delay being urged on all Governments.โ
Joย Abbess
โClimate Cover-Up is an example of anger channeled into real, sharp, relevant and useful work.โ
MO BEITIKS, Inhabit
โClimate Cover-Up is an indispensable guidebook to anyone concerned about our planet’s climate future; in fact, it should be required reading for all American citizens, journalists, public policy makers โ and President Barack Obama.โ
JEFF BIGGERS, Huffingtonย Post
โJames Hoggan’s new book Climate Cover-Up (Greystone Books) is a must-read for anyone concerned about the biggest, most pervasive effort ever at manipulating the media by some of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations.โ
BILL TIELMAN, Theย Tyee
โHoggan and Littlemore have produced a cracking book that, while it may not actually fix anything in itself, provides a valuable lesson about a noxious set of practices โ practices that still persist, but which now can be better understood and suitably dealt with. Use this as an ideal primer in the world of Climate Change Denial, but choose your own actions: itโs your world.โ
KEITH, Unsuitablog
โIn brief, this is a must-read book. Iโve read a lot of climate/energy books over the past couple of years (trying to glean how to get the message across to the public); this is one of the two best books on the subject you will find, even if you arenโt involved in the issue at all. โ
Consider it required reading for anyone remotely interested in a livable climate, or defending public interest from industry. Although, fair warning: You will probably be angry (or angrier) at the status quo after reading this. It certainly makes me want to take a stronger stand than beforeโฆ maybe I can find a way to link studies of PR and denialism into my grad studiesโฆโ
BRIAN D, Left as anย Excercise
โThis book will open your eyes, it will raise your ire and, most especially, it will inspire you to take back the truth โ to end the Climate Cover-up. This is a must-read book.โ
Climateย Progress
โThis book isn’t some silly bit of finger-waving by activists, but a concise, well-researched (thanks in large part to my friend, Kevin Grandia) piece of journalism by people who have been immersed in the PR industry for decades.โ
HARRY TOURNEMILLE, Theย Threshold
โJames Hogganโs Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a valuable expose of the efforts that have been made by self-interested actors to prevent political action on climate change, by manipulating the public debate and confusing people about the strength of the scienceโฆ.Climate Cover-Up succeeds in its key purpose: revealing that not everyone is engaging in the climate debate in an honest or ethical manner.โ
A Sibilant Intake ofย Breath
โHis new book, Climate Cover-Up, examines the campaign from this perspective andโฆthrough meticulously documented analysis, lays out the deliberate, nefarious, and immoral campaign to manipulate the public discourse on climate change.โ
BEN JERVEY, Treeย Hugger
โWarning: reading their well-documented book may make you angry, when you realize how much youโve been lied to, about one of the most important issues of our time.โ
Little Greenย Footballs
โClimate Cover-Up is substantially easier to read than most books about climate change. The prose is witty and easy to follow. It doesnโt talk about science. It feels nothing like a textbook.ย Iโd like everyone in the world to read this book. But truthfully, Iโd rather that it hadnโt needed to be written at all.โ
Climatesight
โClimate Cover-Up, the fascinating, funny and beautifully-written new book by James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore.โ
GEORGE MONBIOT, Idiots inย Power
โTheir new book is a chilling description of greed, conflicts of interest and the oil and coal industries’ shenanigans; it picks up where other books, like Ross Gelbspan’s โThe Heat Is Onโ (1997) and โBoiling Pointโ (2004), left off.โ
Truthย Out
โThe book does a very thorough job of documenting the history of sometimes despicable attempts by various vested interests and contrarians to discredit climate science.โ
Biodiversivist
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