{"id":716,"date":"2009-04-24T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T19:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/04\/24\/new-report-blows-lid-off-climate-deniers\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T19:27:34","slug":"new-report-blows-lid-off-climate-deniers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/04\/24\/new-report-blows-lid-off-climate-deniers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Blows Lid Off Climate Deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times features a story that may not shock you, but should concern us all:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">According to internal reports dating back to 1995, scientists working for the Global Climate Coalition, an industry-sponsored group set up to wage a lobbying and public relations war against global warming action, were telling their bosses that human-caused global warming could not be refuted. But, that didn&#8217;t stop industry lobbyists from waging a cynical campaign to undermine the science and cloud the debate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/24\/science\/earth\/24deny.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Americans were outraged a decade ago when cigarette makers made similar claims about the evidence linking smoking and lung cancer. And then we discovered reams of damning research hidden away in tobacco company vaults.<\/p>\n<p>The only real difference between then and now is that global warming stands to threaten more than just people &#8212; millions of species face extinction, entire ecosystems altered beyond recognition, the natural world as we know it today irreparably diminished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times features a story that may not shock you, but should concern us all: According to internal reports dating back to 1995, scientists working for the Global Climate Coalition, an industry-sponsored group set up to wage a lobbying and public relations war against global warming action, were telling their bosses that human-caused &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,20],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-science-of-global-warming","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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