The attacks on climate science that were made ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit were "organised" to undermine efforts to tackle global warming and mirror the earlier tactics of the tobacco industry, according to the vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The earlier tactics, known as the Thompson Memorandum, for Larry D. Thompson, the former deputy attorney general who wrote them in 2003, came under withering attack from lawyers, senior former Justice Department officials and federal judges, who criticized them as coercive, abusive and unconstitutional.
Mr. Arnold and Mr. Gottlieb say they have borrowed from the early tactics of the environmental movement -- newsletters with ominous overtones, direct-mail fund-raising to a very specific audience, the threat of lawsuits -- and are just now hitting stride.
Reprints Related items Pharmaceuticals: Making straight the furrowApr 24th 2003The campaign against Big Pharma borrows some of these earlier tactics.
Most of these earlier tactics have been aimed at one of several weak points in the audio playback process: the quality of the digital file itself, the way in which the file is processed by the device, or the quality of the speakers in the earphones.
Park ordered his forces to repeat the earlier interception tactic.
Ultimately, though, few at Westminster believe May's earlier tactic of sending MPs off home for Christmas to calm down and think about their responsibility to deliver on the referendum, had altered the dynamic in this deeply divided parliament.
Is Curley's threat a re-boot of an earlier tactic?
The Dragons' early tactics were to launch high kicks and put pressure on the Wasps back three.
Ms. Clinton is repeating her earlier tactics, in 2008, when she tried to give the impression that she had opposed her husband Bill Clinton's NAFTA, though in fact she had earlier bragged about how great it was for the country and claimed it as if it were her own.
In several interviews, aides to Mr. Obama said they were impressed with the early campaign tactics of Mr. Romney and Mr. Pawlenty.
