This post identifies three updated 15 minute videos which have previously appeared on this site. These videos describe, analyze, and respond to controversies about the climate change disinformation campaign. They include descriptions of:
(1) The enormous damage to the world that has been caused by a mostly fossil fuel corporate funded disinformation campaign on climate change,
(2) What is meant by the climate change disinformation campaign, a phenomenon sociologist describe as a “countermovement,”
(3) The tactics of the disinformation campaign,
(4) An explanation of why the tactics of the campaign cannot be excused either as an exercise in free speech or as responsible scientific skepticism,
(5) What norms should guide responsible scientific skepticism about climate change.
Why the Fossil Fuel Companies Funded Climate Change Disinformation Campaign is So Ethically Abhorrent
By:
Donald A. Brown
Scholar In Residence and Professor
Sustainability Ethics and Law
Widener University Commonwealth Law School
dabrown57@grmail,com
Thanks Don¡
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There’s definately a lot to know about this issue.
I really like all of the points you made.