Today’s Talk

February 21st, 2007 by CD

I am going to continue to write and inform my readers of the problems we face in terms of global warming.  It is my belief that we won’t actually start to worry about global warming until Manhattan is under 100s of feet of water.  Of course, by then it will be too late. 

In any case, another very good documentary, The Denial Machine, is available for all to view.  It shows of course how Exxon has manipulated the public along with many other interesting facts.  Let’s be smart about this and remember how the Tobacco industry said “tobacco wasn’t harmful to your health…”  What was that all about?  It was all about money.  Today, it’s all about money still.

So with that, The Denial Machine documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had potentially catastrophic consequences. It shows that companies such as Exxon Mobil are working with top public relations firms and using many of the same tactics and personnel as those employed by Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds to dispute the cigarette-cancer link in the 1990s. Exxon Mobil sought out those willing to question the science behind climate change, providing funding for some of them, their organizations and their studies.

Watch The Denial Machine