Part 1<\/a> described how Phil Shabecoff\u2019s June 1991 Greenwire electronic news brief was the first news item to directly quote a set of worthless \u2018leaked memos\u2019<\/a> which supposedly revealed how the fossil fuel industry aimed faulty climate science assessments<\/a> at ignorant people<\/a> in order to spread misinformation about the issue. The old Greenwire brief also quoted a spokesperson for an electric utility trade organization who categorically stated<\/a> his organization was not participating in a public relations campaign of which those memos were supposedly guided by, which undercuts current accusations<\/a> about that organization spearheading the PR campaign. But wait, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s examine some of the troubling details leading forward from this Greenwire brief:<\/p>\n First, global warming alarmist book author\/documentary film star<\/a> Naomi Oreskes referred to the date of this news brief\u00a0in a 2010 guest author chapter as June 19<\/strong><\/a>. Global warming alarmist book authors Sheldon Rampton \/ John Stauber refer to it as June 20<\/a>, which matches the date<\/a> of the version only recently uncovered after the long search I noted in my prior blog post. However, this version states it is 1426 words in length when it’s actually only 974 words, so perhaps if a longer day-previous version was written, its word length statement was copied without change to this shorter June 20 version.<\/p>\n Typos or a longer still-unseen version? That\u2019s one question, but it\u2019s also worthwhile to ask how either Oreskes or Rampton\/Stauber were aware of such an incredibly obscure dawn-of-the-internet-age old news brief, the first ever to quote specific wording from the \u201creposition global warming\u201d \/ \u201colder, less-educated males\u201d \/ \u201cyounger, lower-income women\u201d memos that were erroneously said to be the core strategy\/targeting goals of the 1991 Western Fuels Association “Information Council for the Environment” (ICE) public relations campaign.<\/p>\n One small bit of wording<\/a> in this old Greenwire brief begs for a simple question.<\/p>\n Internal ICE documents obtained<\/span> by GREENWIRE proposed that the ad and p.r. campaigns be targeted at “older, less-educated males \u2026\u201d and “younger, lower-income women.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Obtained from whom? A concerned whistleblower who had access to documents in the ICE PR campaign, including ones that were rejected<\/em><\/strong><\/a> which the whistleblower could have corroborated as such?<\/p>\n \u201cObtained\u201d in this case isn\u2019t the only time that word was used, however.<\/p>\n Obtained from whom?<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s two other small bits of wordings in the old Greenwire brief regarding a particular plan<\/a>, who was to carry it out, and where<\/a>:<\/p>\n The campaign proposes a “creative strategy” that would, among other things, “directly attack<\/span> the proponents of global warming<\/p>\n ICE has enlisted<\/span> three scientists, Dr. Robert Balling \u2026, Dr. Sherwood Idso \u2026, and Dr. Patrick Michaels \u2026 to carry its message around the country<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Where was that wording seen later?<\/p>\n I wrote an entire piece on Gelbspan’s questionable use of the variation “enlist”<\/a> regarding the Western Fuels Association\u2019s supposedly sinister recruitment plan for its ICE pr campaign, another one on his outright error<\/a> about where the word “attack” was seen, a third on his embellishment of the scope<\/a> of the ICE campaign, a fourth on his massive error regarding a name<\/a> supposedly associated with the ICE campaign, and a fifth on his error of crediting<\/a> The National Journal<\/em> as being a news outlet which first reported the news of the ICE PR campaign \u2026 when the actual news outlet was Phil Shabecoff\u2019s Greenwire.<\/p>\n As I noted toward the end of that latter blog post link reference, Ross Gelbspan was Facebook Friends with Phil Shabecoff at that time (he still is now<\/a>). In 2016, Shabecoff offered a surprisingly politically suicidal suggestion<\/a> at Gelbspan\u2019s Facebook page favoring \u2018crimes against humanity\u2019 lawsuits against oil companies. But when it comes to the set of memos which supposedly indict skeptic climate scientists of colluding in such crimes with the fossil fuel industry, Gelbspan is the person Al Gore credited for their discovery<\/a>, when clearly this triumph of \u2018reporting\u2019 should have gone to Shabecoff.<\/p>\n Why isn\u2019t Shabecoff livid at Gelbspan for missing out on all the fame and fortune? If accusations about egregious corruption are ironclad, these sorts of questions about the ‘discovery’ of the corruption should never pop up. If the whole \u2018crooked skeptic climate scientists\u2019 accusation starts to fall apart, another question for objective unbiased investigative reporters to ask is what the chances are that Gelbspan won\u2019t<\/em><\/strong> say the fame or the blame for the origins and collective initial efforts behind the false accusation partly trace back to Shabecoff. And if he does, who would Shabecoff implicate? Part 1 described how Phil Shabecoff\u2019s June 1991 Greenwire electronic news brief was the first news item to directly quote a set of worthless \u2018leaked memos\u2019 which supposedly revealed how the fossil fuel industry aimed faulty climate science assessments at … Continue reading \n
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\nThere’s always more: Part 3: ‘Leaked by Industry Executives?’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"