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".