A recent report in the New York Times states: "A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.

The Energy Department issued the report, which downplayed the dangers of warming, in late July without having held any public meetings or made records available to the public.

Hundreds of scientists, including researchers from the American Meteorological Society, a leading climate science organization, denounced the group’s findings as riddled with errors and misrepresentations.

Thousands of pages of emails and internal documents made public under the judge’s orders showed that the group had worked diligently to keep its existence shielded and met in secret more than a dozen times".

It comes as no surprise that the tactics used by deniers to sway public opinion are being exposed as "riddled with errors and misrepresentations".

Hi WTF,

From the very early days, as scientific research began to show that climate change was real, and happening faster that natural phenomenon allowed, alarm bells started to ring in the board rooms of Big Oil, Big Coal and others within the corporate world. Simply put the fossil fuel mob were very worried, as the attention stared to focus on man's contribution to the looming climate disaster. These corporate giants realised this could be disastrous for them! How? By the destruction of their profit hungry enterprises, the gravy train of mega dollars from their polluting businesses were in danger, what a real disaster that would be. You know what they did, knowing they couldn't directly discredit the science, so they attacked the researches, attacked those who disagreed with them, created false science. Lets say it was another case of employing the "Smoking is good for you" scenario.

A sucker is born every minute, and the deniers such the Useful Idiots they are, have been totally sucked in by the profit hungry multinational corporations, believing whatever they say.

Paul,

According to the National Library of Medicine (and dozens of other references):

"Climate projections by the fossil fuel industry have never been assessed. On the basis of company records, we quantitatively evaluated all available global warming projections documented by-and in many cases modeled by-Exxon and ExxonMobil Corp scientists between 1977 and 2003.

We find that most of their projections accurately forecast warming that is consistent with subsequent observations. Their projections were also consistent with, and at least as skillful as, those of independent academic and government models.

Exxon and ExxonMobil Corp also correctly rejected the prospect of a coming ice age, accurately predicted when human-caused global warming would first be detected, and reasonably estimated the "carbon budget" for holding warming below 2°C.

On each of these points, however, the company's public statements about climate science contradicted its own scientific data".

This contradiction and denial of scientific modeling and predictions has been going on for decades.

Hi WTF,

I use the tobacco industry as a prime example of misinformation tactics, we all know that now. The Fag mob were well aware of the facts about their product, and negative health issues regarding smoking early on, but they chose to engage in misinformation and lies to protect corporate profits. The fossil fuel industry has done the same thing, they allocate millions of dollars annually to propagate falsehoods to protect profits. We know that, but unfortunately millions of useful idiots, including some on this forum, don't, or choose not to understand. In fairness a few on here are as old as a lump of coal, ready to fall off the perch, and don't give a stuff about future generations. If I was one of them, I'd say, stuff it keep on burn'n dat coal!

It did not take scientific evidence to convince me that smoking was
dangerous when I was 17, I just had to listen to my mates and their coffs !
Plus the girls didn't like kissing the smokers !

This is the report that so vexes the we're-all-gunna-die crowd that they'll do anything to discredit it....

http://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf

....except look at the data.