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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts)
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 03:15 PM Apr 2014

Thom Hartmann: Climate deniers using same tactics as tobacco industry



A new report published by the conservative think thank the Heartland Institute says that climate change is nothing to worry about. Who's behind this report? And why does the climate denial machine seem an awful lot like the cancer denial machine created by the tobacco industry in the 1990's?

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Thom Hartmann: Climate deniers using same tactics as tobacco industry (Original Post) thomhartmann Apr 2014 OP
I still don't get it. How can Thom Hartmann with a straight face uhnope Apr 2014 #1
I was listening to Coast to Coast AM and George Nori (who I don't like) yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #2
It Just Occurred to Me panfluteman Apr 2014 #3
 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
1. I still don't get it. How can Thom Hartmann with a straight face
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 03:52 PM
Apr 2014

be saying this stuff on RT, a network that indulges in climate change denial?

yuiyoshida

(41,867 posts)
2. I was listening to Coast to Coast AM and George Nori (who I don't like)
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 06:39 PM
Apr 2014

Had on a Climate Denier on who said he had all kinds of fact, that it was all a scam and that Democrats were out to scare people for some reason or another. It was laughable, but the cool thing was all these listeners called in and called this guy out as a Republican connected to Michele Bachmann.. and that pretty much killed it right there. No matter what he said, no one was buying it and Nori kept saying, "well we have to give people a chance to express their views on this subject".

This was at a time my computer was down and I had to listen to the radio for something to do. I used to like Coast to Coast Am but can't stand George Nori's politics.

panfluteman

(2,073 posts)
3. It Just Occurred to Me
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 10:53 PM
Apr 2014

that it would have been interesting if Thom Hartmann had juxtaposed clips of the same bogus scientists then, testifying in favor of the tobacco industry, and now, denying the threat of climate change. But that would have lengthened this video considerably, and he was probably under time constraints. But it would be interesting to see, in a future documentary about climate change, video clips of the same jokers both then and now.

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