The Climate Denial Machine vs. Climate Science - Dealing in Doubt

Here is a report detailing the various attacks the IPCC has been subjected to over the years.  Including tracking down their originators.  It was compiled by Greenpeace USA, and I believe it worth sharing:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/Dealing-in-Doubt---the-Climate-Denial-Machine-vs-Climate-Science/

Dealing in Doubt

The Climate Denial Machine vs. Climate Science

On this page

• Table of Contents:
• INTRODUCTION
• RESOURCES

A brief history of attacks on climate science, climate scientists and the IPCC.

September, 2013.

DEALING IN DOUBT: FULL REPORT

"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' [linking smoking with disease] that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy...”

Tobacco company Brown and Williamson internal document, 1969

“Skepticism is not believing what someone tells you, investigating all the information before coming to a conclusion. Skepticism is a good thing. Global warming skepticism is not that. It’s the complete opposite of that. It’s coming to a preconceived conclusion and cherry-picking the information that backs up your opinion. Global warming skepticism isn’t skepticism at all.”

John Cook of Skepticalscience.com

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

PART 1: A BRIEF HISTORY OF DENIAL

The 1990s: a network of denial is created

• The funders
• The Players 
• The think tanks
• The roots of climate denial: borne out of Big Tobacco anti science campaigns

The history of IPCC attacks

• 1990 – The IPCC’s First Assessment Report
• 1995 The Second Assessment Report (SAR)
• 2001 – The Third Assessment Report (TAR)   
• 2007 – the Fourth Assessment Report 
• Climategate: No Scandal behind these gates: (updated 2013)     
• The AR5, fifth assessment report:  the cherry-picking begins

The Denial Machine Goes Global

• Australia:  A climate denial front ‘down under
• The UK’s denial machine

PART 2: DENIER TRICKS AND TACTICS

CASE STUDY: The Heartland Institute: a Clearing House of Climate Denial Campaign Tactics

• Heartland’s internal workings exposed
• Heartland’s Fake Scientific Conferences and the Unabomber
• The Origin of the ICCC
• The NIPCC – or “Climate Change Reconsidered” – or “Not the IPCC”
• 2013 NIPCC in China – or: Let not the truth get in the way of a good story
• Heartland, ALEC and the attack on science education

The Attacks on Scientists

• Case Study:  Bad science versus hockey sticks: Michael Mann
• Other attacks on scientists
• Using Freedom of Information to attack scientists
• The American Tradition Institute vs Mann and the University of Virginia
• ATI vs James Hansen and NASA
• ATI vs climate scientists and journalists
• ATI and the EPA
• FOI in Australia
• Conspiracy of Doubt
• Personal attacks and death threats 
• Attacks on the consensus

Faking It

• 2012: “Pal review” replaces “peer review”
• 2012: Fake a Government report
• Fake a counter consensus 
• Fake science and polar bears
• Can’t publish a peer-reviewed article?  Self publish a book!
• Fake – or outdated - qualifications

Climate denial and US politics

• The political effect of climate denial
• 2013:  Republican denial

CONCLUSION

Appendix 1: Climate Denial’s “Continental Army”

Appendix 2: Funding of Think Tanks working on Climate Denial