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Meet the Merchants of Doubt': Spin Doctors Obscuring the Truth on Climate Change
2015-03-06 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Director Robert Kenners 2008 documentary Food Inc. inspired dramatic growth in local food movements across the country with its expose of industrial-scale food production. His new documentary Merchants of Doubt takes on another threat to the health and well-being of the U.S. and the world: the glib and seasoned marketers who sell the idea that climate change is a hoax. The film made the rounds of festivals last year. Today it opens in theaters in Los Angeles and New York City with opening across...
Merchants of Doubt: Meet the sleazy spin doctors who will stop at nothing to obscure the truth
2015-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: In 1994, the CEOs of America`s seven largest tobacco companies sat before Congress and testified, in contradiction to the overwhelming scientific evidence, that cigarettes aren`t addictive and that evidence linking them to cancer is inconclusive. The footage is shocking enough by today`s standards (and by the standards of the time), and is all the more so when juxtaposed with an industry memo from 30 years earlier that states the exact opposite: "We are ... in the business of selling nicotine, an...
China erases 'inconvenient truth' film on pollution
2015-03-06 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Chinese censors brought the curtains down on a viral documentary about the countrys pollution crisis on Friday after it was watched by more than 200 million people and sparked widespread criticism of the government. Under the Dome, a film by celebrity journalist Chai Jing about the human cost of Chinas smog-choked skies, was released on the internet last Saturday and proved an instant hit. Environmentalists compared the documentary, which initially appeared to have Beijings backing, to Al...
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Claudia Lawrence detective vows to discover truth about missing chef...
2015-02-21 21:55:39| Agriculture - Topix.net
The hunt for Claudia began as a missing person inquiry, but became a suspected murder probe - the latest search has revealed new evidence A top detective brought in to probe Claudia Lawrence's A disappearance has vowed to find out what happened to her, in a A "relentless" hunt for the truth. It is almost six years since university chef Claudia vanished aged 35, in one of Britain's most baffling cases.
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Facing the Truth About Climate Change
2015-02-04 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: In June 1975, a Yale economist named William Nordhaus published a paper for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, an Austrian think tank. In the paper, he put forward a theory about a potentially globe-altering climate-change Red Line--a threshold that, if crossed, could result in a fusillade of environmental dangers. Research suggested that a rise in carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels might melt the Arctic Sea ice, prompting a dramatic increase in rain and...
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