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Title: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Ptarmigan on August 04, 2014, 07:06:33 PM
World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/04/worlds-top-pr-companies-rule-out-working-with-climate-deniers


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Some of the world’s top PR companies have for the first time publicly ruled out working with climate change deniers, marking a fundamental shift in the multi-billion dollar industry that has grown up around the issue of global warming.

Public relations firms have played a critical role over the years in framing the debate on climate change and its solutions – as well as the extensive disinformation campaigns launched to block those initiatives.

Now a number of the top 25 global PR firms have told the Guardian they will not represent clients who deny man-made climate change, or take campaigns seeking to block regulations limiting carbon pollution. Companies include WPP, Waggener Edstrom (WE) Worldwide, Weber Shandwick, Text100, and Finn Partners.

Now PR firms are pro-left or pro-climate change. I thought they cared for money.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: freedumb2003b on August 04, 2014, 07:09:10 PM
World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/04/worlds-top-pr-companies-rule-out-working-with-climate-deniers


Now PR firms are pro-left or pro-climate change. I thought they cared for money.

Capitalism abhors a vacuum...
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Fourwinds on August 04, 2014, 07:38:43 PM
This stuff is becoming cult like.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Dori on August 04, 2014, 09:23:17 PM
What are they talking about?  I don't know anyone who denies that the climate changes. 





Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Wineslob on August 05, 2014, 10:16:04 AM
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I thought they cared for money.

They do. Follow it.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Fourwinds on August 05, 2014, 10:49:19 AM
What are they talking about?  I don't know anyone who denies that the climate changes.

Anyone else notice how smoothly they transitioned to calling it climate change after global warming fell flat?
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Wineslob on August 05, 2014, 02:57:48 PM
Anyone else notice how smoothly they transitioned to calling it climate change after global warming fell flat?

It's the number one thing that proves it's NOT about climate nor science.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: El Jefe on August 06, 2014, 02:26:36 PM
Anyone else notice how smoothly they transitioned to calling it climate change after global warming fell flat?

Now I believe its being called climate disruption. Either way its BS.  :bs:
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 06, 2014, 03:08:21 PM
Now I believe its being called climate disruption. Either way its BS.  :bs:
How many more names can they or we come up with.

Climate Malfunction.

Climate Misdirection.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: thundley4 on August 06, 2014, 05:11:37 PM
How many more names can they or we come up with.

Climate Malfunction.

Climate Misdirection.

Call it what it really is "Climate wealth distribution scheme designed to hurt the western economies".
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: zewazir on August 07, 2014, 02:26:53 PM
To be fair, the original scientific investigations labeled their hypothetical phenomenon as "climate change".  It was the lovely media who placed the label "global warming" on the topic. From there it became a propaganda campaign, leaving real science in the background while governments across the globe began salivating in copious amounts at the thought of the revenues they could generate under the proposal of "doing something" to prevent what they have never been able to prove nor predict is going to happen.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: wasp69 on August 07, 2014, 02:29:24 PM
To be fair, the original scientific investigations labeled their hypothetical phenomenon as "climate change".  It was the lovely media who placed the label "global warming" on the topic. From there it became a propaganda campaign, leaving real science in the background while governments across the globe began salivating in copious amounts at the thought of the revenues they could generate under the proposal of "doing something" to prevent what they have never been able to prove nor predict is going to happen.

Actually, it was first labeled as "global cooling" in the 1970's and went from unprovable hypothesis to completely politicized dreck from there.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: thundley4 on August 07, 2014, 02:50:18 PM
Actually, it was first labeled as "global cooling" in the 1970's and went from unprovable hypothesis to completely politicized dreck from there.

The new ice age, acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer were going to kill us all, but somehow we survived.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 07, 2014, 04:01:57 PM
Actually, it was first labeled as "global cooling" in the 1970's and went from unprovable hypothesis to completely politicized dreck from there.
Hey they were talking that cooling trash in the mid 60's. I was supposed to under a 1/2 mile of ice by now.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: wasp69 on August 07, 2014, 04:08:44 PM
Hey they were talking that cooling trash in the mid 60's.

I stand corrected.   :-)
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 07, 2014, 06:30:20 PM
I stand corrected.   :-)
One of the few things I remember from my college days.....and BTW, the science was settled on that too, you know.
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: J P Sousa on August 08, 2014, 02:04:03 PM
I bought extra coats for this.  :panic:

http://thetruthpeddler.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/in-the-1970s-the-scare-was-a-coming-ice-age/

(http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/time_iceage1.jpg)     (http://thetruthpeddler.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/global-cooling.jpg?w=341&h=300)
(http://thetruthpeddler.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/big-freeze.jpg?w=341&h=300)

The following article tries to make the "COOLING story" as a non-story, BUT the author "stands by it"

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-global-cooling-story-came-to-be/

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BOSTON – Temperatures have plunged to record lows on the East Coast, and once again Peter Gwynne is being heralded as a journalist ahead of his time. By some.

(break)
And still, Gwynne notes of his story, "I stand by it. It was accurate at the time."

The story observed – accurately – that there had been a gradual decrease in global average temperatures from about 1940, now believed to be a consequence of soot and aerosols that offered a partial shield to the earth as well as the gradual retreat of an abnormally warm interlude.

Some climatologists predicted the trend would continue, inching the earth toward the colder averages of the "Little Ice Age" from the 16th to 19th centuries..........(break)


http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/newsweek.png

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Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Chris_ on August 08, 2014, 02:33:24 PM
I bought extra coats for this.  :panic:
They're probably out of style by now. :-)
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: thundley4 on August 08, 2014, 05:38:13 PM
They're probably out of style by now. :-)

They went out but now they're back in style for hipsters.  :rofl:
Title: Re: World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Post by: Wineslob on August 11, 2014, 03:19:47 PM
I happen to like "warm interludes".

 :naughty: