A bit of unfinished business. In my last post of 2015 I wrote about Marc Morano's contempt for learning about our Earth and his disregard of anything beyond his own ego-centric interests. At the end of my thoughts, I tacked on over a dozen links to further articles giving various details into the ways and means of this climate science denial fabricator.
Since sharing authoritative information with others is one of my main goals, here's an easy to copy and share index of articles that look behind the facade of Marc Morano.
Since sharing authoritative information with others is one of my main goals, here's an easy to copy and share index of articles that look behind the facade of Marc Morano.
The Hustler arrives for his Paris "Red Carpet" entrance.
A look behind the facade.
This peek courtesy of Baerbel W
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Here's a look behind the faux science of the hustler,
courtesy of
The faulty science of the Climate Hustle documentary
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The Fakery of the Paris ‘Red Carpet’ Premiere of Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle Film
By Graham Readfearn • Wednesday, December 30, 2015
From a certain angle and with a sympathetic camera positioned just right, a triumphant Marc Morano emerges from a stretch white limo and raises his hand to an out-of-shot Paris crowd as he hits the red carpet for the world premiere of his new movie Climate Hustle.
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But just like many of the arguments from professional climate science denialists, what at first might appear a cinematic coup d'état turns out to be little more than fakery and stage management. ...
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Morano Claims It's Over
Michael Tobis | August 10, 2009
... But why is the public so unconcerned? Is this because the science "continues to collapse"? Or is it because of clever misrepresentations of the increasingly robust state of climatological science and systematic neglect of the direct toxic effect of CO2 on the viability of ocean life?
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"... In particular, there's an enormous reluctance to trace beliefs and movements to their roots in rumor, innuendo and misrepresentation, since that would appear to be opposed to the point of view in question. ...
I think it will be necessary for somebody to take Morano's account apart piece by piece. ..."
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Doubling Down on Denial and Deceit
By Michael E. Mann | 09/21/2015
Thanks to a months-long investigation by the Pulitzer-prize winning Inside Climate News, we learned last week that ExxonMobil's own scientists had secretly confirmed the science behind human-caused climate change as early as the late 1970s.
Yes -- this is the same ExxonMobil that has funded efforts to attack the science of climate change for more than two decades. As I recount in The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars ('HSCW'), I found myself at the center of those attacks because of the iconic Hockey Stick graph my co-authors and I published back in the late 1990s.
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As the curtain continues to be lifted on the climate change denial machine and its deceitful tactics, we must assume that the smears and distortions will simply grow more desperate, the misdirection and distraction more brazen. ...
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Marc Morano, Champion of Willful Ignorance, contempt, and oblivion
By Citizenschallenge - December 31, 2015
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Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
By Graham Readfearn • Thursday, November 12, 2015
Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraordinaire has been outdoing himself.
“We are putting together what I think is the most comprehensive, unique, entertaining and humorous climate documentary that has ever been done or attempted,” Morano has said.
(It sounds more like John Belushi Meets Climate Science than something anyone can learn anything from. )
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Get Rich Or Lie Tryin': Climate Hustler Marc Morano
By cgibson - 11/14/15
If you've ever turned on the TV and seen a charismatic, boyish, conservative looking man yelling at scientists in an animated fashion, there's a good chance it was Marc Morano.
Marc's new movie, Climate Hustle, is slated for release during global climate change negotiations next month. …
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How The Merchants Of Doubt Push Climate Denial On Your Television
Denise Robbins | March 8, 2015
"A new documentary shows how a "professional class of deceivers" has been paid by the fossil fuel industry to cast doubt on the science of climate change, in an effort akin to that from the tobacco industry, which for decades used deceitful tactics to deny the scientific evidence that cigarettes are harmful to human health. The film, Merchants of Doubt, explores how many of the same people that once lobbied on behalf of the tobacco industry are now employed in the climate denial game.
Merchants of Doubt features five prominent climate science deniers who have been particularly influential in deceiving the public and blocking climate action. …" (with Morano clearly in first place)
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Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year: Marc Morano
Research by Jill Fitzsimmons & Shauna Theel | December 27, 2012
ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano has been called "the Matt Drudge of climate denial," the "king of the skeptics," and "a central cell of the climate-denial machine," and he revels in these descriptions. Although he has no scientific expertise, he is adamant that manmade global warming is a "con job" based on "subprime science." Morano gained prominence working for two of the most vocal climate deniers in the U.S.: Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who notoriously called climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," and Rush Limbaugh, who we named Climate Change Misinformer of the Year in 2011 for his steadfast denial of climate science and wild conspiracy theories about the climate change "hoax."
These days Morano is paid by an industry-funded group to run the climate denial website ClimateDepot.com. At Climate Depot, Morano serves as the de facto research department for the right-wing media's attacks on climate science, and mobilizes his readers to target individual scientists and reporters for telling the public about climate change threats. ...
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This Man Wants to Convince You Global Warming Is a Hoax
By John Richardson | March 30, 2010
Early on the morning of November 17, Gavin Schmidt sat down at his computer and entered his password. It didn't work. Strange, he thought. He tried a few other accounts and none of them worked, either. Now he was alarmed. As a leading climatologist with NASA's Goddard Institute in Manhattan, he'd been hacked before. ...
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Marc Morano - Global Superhero
By Patrick Lockerby | February 16th 2010
"Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about. He is utterly convinced that it is the greatest scam in history, a fraud, a pack of lies, etc. etc.
So convinced is he of THE TRUTH that he has made a most astounding offer. ...
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Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign
WASHINGTON — Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about, and he brags about his confrontations with those who do. ...
As a spokesman for Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Mr. Morano was for years a ceaseless purveyor of the dissenting view on climate change, sending out a blizzard of e-mail to journalists covering the issue. ... He has left his job with Mr. Inhofe to start his own Web site, ClimateDepot.com. ...
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Lies, Conservatives and Statistics:
Marc Morano's Fantasy
By Terry Krepel | 8/23/2007
While at CNS, Morano served as a willing amplifer of attacks on NASA global warming scientist James Hansen by George Deutsch, a former NASA press aide accused of censoring Hansen. (http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/2006/02/breaking-news-george-deutsch-did-not.html was forced out of his job after it was revealed that he had not, as he had claimed on his resumé, graduated from college.) ...
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Purple Heartbreakers
By James Webb | January 18, 2006 | OP-ED Contributor
... After all, in recent years extremist Republican operatives have inverted a longstanding principle: that our combat veterans be accorded a place of honor in political circles. This trend began with the ugly insinuations leveled at Senator John McCain during the 2000 Republican primaries and continued with the slurs against Senators Max Cleland and John Kerry, and now Mr. Murtha. ...
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What is it that allows someone such as our Morano (and pals) to so totally disregard truth, integrity, respect, appreciation and spin the most outlandish stories with impunity? When his lies are exposed, he laughs it off, so what, his people are buying it and digging deeper in their self absorbed oblivion (regarding the planet we are a part of and depend on.). It requires a phenomenal contempt for others. Or is it as simple as never outgrowing the infantile stage, and remaining completely unaware of the world beyond their own personal wants and needs and greeds.
The ego has landed: A personal look at egomania
Posted by Dr.MarkGriffiths
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I will close with this excellent dissection of how the Republican attack on science operates.
Character assassination in climate science: the Michael Tobis story
By A.P.Smith | Sat, 03/07/2009 | Arthur.ShumwaySmith.com
"... The media has frequently been inadequate to the job, we know that. But the most important reason for public confusion on global warming seems to trace not so much to the influence of money, corruption, or incompetence, but ideology. The cooperative nature of the fight needed to combat global warming runs counter to the centrally selfish individualist thread in American thought, and so-called "conservatives" have stubbornly and insistently refused to acknowledge the facts on CO2 and warming. ...
... Tobis was so appalled by Revkin's article equating Gore's and Will's "exaggerations", he expressed himself rather strongly on the matter on his blog, and went on something of a quest to find out what happened. What motivated Revkin to do something that Tobis felt, given Revkin's understanding of the climate issues, was unethical, even "evil"? ..."
Therein lies a very interesting story.
http://arthur.shumwaysmith.com/life/content/character_assassination_in_climate_science_the_michael_tobis_story
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Titles and Links
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The Fakery of the Paris ‘Red Carpet’ Premiere of Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle Film
By Graham Readfearn • Wednesday, December 30, 2015
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Morano Claims It's Over
Michael Tobis | August 10, 2009
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Doubling Down on Denial and Deceit
By Michael E. Mann | 09/21/2015
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Marc Morano, Champion of Willful Ignorance, contempt, and oblivion
By, Citizenschallenge - December 31, 2015
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Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
By Graham Readfearn • Thursday, November 12, 2015
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Get Rich Or Lie Tryin': Climate Hustler Marc Morano
By cgibson - 11/14/15
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How The Merchants Of Doubt Push Climate Denial On Your Television
Denise Robbins | March 8, 2015
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Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year: Marc Morano
Research by Jill Fitzsimmons & Shauna Theel | December 27, 2012
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This Man Wants to Convince You Global Warming Is a Hoax
By John Richardson | March 30, 2010
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Marc Morano - Global Superhero
By Patrick Lockerby | February 16th 2010
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Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign
By Leslie Kaufman April 9, 2009
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Lies, Conservatives and Statistics:
Marc Morano's Fantasy
By Terry Krepel | 8/23/2007
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Purple Heartbreakers
By James Webb | January 18, 2006 | OP-ED Contributor
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The ego has landed: A personal look at egomania
Posted by Dr.MarkGriffiths
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Character assassination in climate science: the Michael Tobis story
By A.P.Smith | Sat, 03/07/2009 | Arthur.ShumwaySmith.com
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A look behind the faux science of Marc Morano
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