Tagged: Oreskes

Esquire on Morano: inside the denial machine - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Apr 01, 2010 •

• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Copenhagen,
• cranks,
• Heartland,
• Monckton,
• Morano,
• Oreskes

US mens magazine Esquire has published an excellent profile of of Marc Morano — formerly James Inhofe’s chief of staff, the man who started the Swiftboat attack on John Kerry, now running the climate denial news hub Climate Depot (funded by Richard Mellon Scaife). Author John H Richardson runs through Morano’s role in promoting the [...] … Read More

Merchants of doubt: Oreskes on the history of climate denial - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Mar 09, 2010 •

• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• cranks,
• Oreskes

This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. Science historian Naomi Oreskes, well known for her work on consensus in science (and climate science in particular) has a new book, Merchants of Doubt, due out in a couple of months. Helpfully sub-titled How a [...] … Read More