Climate Disinformation Campaign Like Tobacco Industry’s Pro-Smoking Campaign: Steven Chu
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Okay, so it’s not exactly a new metaphor. But it is a good one, and one with enough parallels to make anyone queasy. Which is why Obama’s Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate Steven Chu, is fond of employing it. He likened the ongoing efforts to confuse the public about climate science in order preserve the status quo–out nation’s reliance on fossil fuels–to the efforts the tobacco industry used to confuse the public into thinking the science proving that smoking causes cancer was ‘unsettled.’ Here’s what he said in a recent interview:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Climate Disinformation Campaign Like Tobacco Industry’s Pro-Smoking Campaign: Steven Chu