The science in the Great Global Warming Swindle is so bad I'm tempted to suggest that it's actually a conspiratorial "straw man" by the various media outletss (UK Channel 4, Australia's ABC) to promote real knowledge on global warming.

Thanks to Cindy Baxter - for publicising this information - which should be known by responsible media organisations. It's not as if Singer is some new expert. He has been knwn for years as one of the fossil fuel industries' well-remunerated "spinners".
The tobacco industry spawned the first really effective spinners and front groups.
The technique was always so simple - Delay delay - and confuse the public. Despite the overwhleming evidence against cigarette smoking - they were able to simply sow DOUBT in the public mind.

The fossil fuel industries developed and omproved this art - setting up "front "groups - that pose as being impartial scientists.
In Australia - we have, for example - the Institute of Public Affairs, a right-wing, corporate-funded think tank - advocating nuclear power, and with its executive officers drawn from companies like Rio Tinto.

Such groups not only influence government, but fund pseudo-environmental groups that cast doubt on global warming, and promote polluting industries.

It is a tribute to the success of this spin industry that the phrase - the "Climate Change debate" is in use. "Climate Change" sounds nicer than Global Warming - and "debate" leads us to think that there IS a debate among reputable scients - when there isn't!
Christina Macpherson www.antinuclearaustralia.com

"A right-wing, corporate-funded think tank - advocating nuclear power, and with its executive officers drawn from companies like Rio Tinto. Such groups not only influence government, but fund pseudo-environmental groups that cast doubt on global warming, and promote polluting industries."

Oh so true ChristinaMac. Another such think-tank is the Lavoisier Group, the secretary Ray Evans appearing on the TGGWS along side Professor Bob Carter, well known for his support and denialist views.

Check them out at

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/

I would be interested in anyone's thoughts on Guy Pearse's book High and Dry. It exposes relationships with such groups that have had the ear of our most senior government ministers, an extract can be found at

http://www.highanddry.com.au/extract.cfm

These very topical and relevant links have been posted on other OLO threads, we can not always get the chance to see them all.

Goodonyer davsab!
I'll be checking out that website, and getting Pearce's book
Christina Macpherson
www.antinuclearaustralia.com

davsab

Thank you for the links. Reading through your second mentioned link reminded me just how far John Howard and his front bench have moved to the right and away from traditional Liberal values.

Howard's nuke thinking is very much pre-McMahon. Billy McMahon would have been horrified by Howard's nuke pretensions.

In the context of this article, it could be worth checking the background of Australia's very own AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION and comparing its credentials with those of the organisation they pinched its name from.