Maybe post-Trump, there is a listless acceptance that the world and its media will forever be dominated by corrupt business interests, fake news, climate denying, science denying, truth-devoid, fact-free emoto-news.
Rex Tillerson, the chief executive and chair of ExxonMobil, told shareholders in Dallas, Texas, that the company was not going to "fake it on climate change".
PAGE A4 National MORE FAKE LETTERS On Climate Change Congressional investigators have uncovered five more letters sent to members of Congress that falsely claimed to be from charities expressing opposition to climate change legislation.
Charles Margulis, media director at the Center for Environmental Health, a group that tests accessories for toxins, says the production of PVC – such as that used in 'pleather' – has been linked to cancer, while other petroleum-based plastics used in fake leather contribute to climate change.
The best way to do this is to trick people, by flooding the Internet with fake science, into believing climate change is not man made.
Back to when Al Gore was not a Nobel prize winning campaigner, but a politician blamed for wrecking the Kyoto protocol, and to a time when well-funded climate sceptics faked scientific papers, hijacked debate and routinely spread disinformation about scientists and their work, in far greater numbers than we see now.
The story begins with the publication of a paper titled NASA Faked the Moon Landing Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science.
While it carried the more provocative title NASA Faked the Moon Landing Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science the conclusions were near identical.
"Don't worry — I'm tweeting that climate change is fake".
In a media statement, Joseph Bast, the institute president, lamented the loss of support from the General Motors Foundation, "particularly since it was prompted by false claims contained in a fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist".
