What made us doubt climate change?
The Climate Question
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Climate Change and the Tobacco Industry
Tactic is based on the idea that the public trust scientists, but they often can't really follow everything scientists are saying. So if you pit one scientist against another scientists, and they seem to contradict each other, the public just doesn't know what to think or doubts both of them. Switches off and pretends there's no such thing as globe warming. Too scary, too scary. This isn't the first time this tactic's been used. It comes from a tobacco industry project, which was called project white coat. In the 19 nineties, if you were looking for someone to convince people that climate change was nothing to worry about, jerry taylor was your man. He
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