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Hacked Emails and PR Wars

Nov. 23, 2009

Science is being claimed by media culture in this hullabaloo of the hacked emails.  Pro-climate change scientists are confident that their emails reveal little other than normal scientific chatter about opposing researchers whose work they disdain.

Anti-climate change forces allied to powerful oil and gas industries are feared to be plotting a huge PR coup based on snippets of emails interpreted in the most insinuating manner possible.  So far my favorite post articulating this orchestrated pr onslaught is Ike Soleman’s comment (#79) on the Real Climate site.

The anti-climate change pr campaign  is “a desperate, last-ditch tactic by fanatics who have lost the rational debate” opines George Marshall in  a commentary in The Guardian .  George Marshall, who founded and directs projects at the Climate Outreach and Information Network fears that climate scientists are too wedded to their rational, scientific arguments and cannot compete in the spinmeister contests of today’s media.

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