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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...
Doubt over climate science is product with an industry behind it
2015-03-05 06:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gaurdian: Its a product that you can find in newspaper columns and TV talk shows and in conversations over drinks, at barbecues, in taxi rides and in political speeches. You can find this product in bookstores, on sponsored speaking tours, in the letters pages of local newspapers and even at United Nations climate change talks. This product is doubt - doubt about the causes and impacts of climate change, the impartiality of climate scientists, the worlds temperature records, the height of the oceans...
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VIDEO: Greece prospects 'shrouded in doubt'
2015-02-21 20:26:41| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said his country has ''won a battle, but not the war'' in the negotiations about the future of its international bailout.
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just On Call - PepsiCo CFO casts doubt on demand for Keurig Kold
2015-02-20 13:50:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
PepsiCo's CFO has said he expects the at-home carbonation category, which includes the Coca-Cola Co's newly-named Keurig Kold, to be a "slow build".
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