{"id":8116,"date":"2019-01-08T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:12:38","slug":"victory-will-be-achieved-when-we-can-prove-there-is-an-oil-execs-skeptic-climate-scientists-collusion-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=8116","title":{"rendered":"Victory Will Be Achieved when we can prove there is an Oil Execs \/ Skeptic Climate Scientists Collusion Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

My December 14, 2018 blog post<\/a> illustrated how ‘journalist’ Amy Westervelt’s narrative about fossil fuel companies orchestrating disinformation campaigns to undercut public belief in man-caused global warming is a one-trick pony, enslaved to a particular set of worthless ‘leaked memo’ evidence for the notion that fossil fuel industry executives colluded with skeptic climate scientists in this conspiracy. But let’s not stop there. Westervelt also exposed how she is enslaved to one other set of worthless talking points for her narrative, which only ultimately points yet another giant arrow back to the origins of the smear of skeptic climate scientists.<\/p>\n

In Westervelt’s November 17, 2018 “Exploiting Scientists’ Kryptonite: Certainty<\/a>” segment of her Drilled podcasts, she began with an overall setup about sinister fossil fuel industry disinformation efforts, the funding behind them, and then began offering the following about their alleged ultimate goals starting at the 2:48 point:<\/p>\n

It all played into the industry’s strategy for a victory. And we know that because they wrote it down. In a memo that was actually published in the New York Times in the late 1990s. In it, members of the American Petroleum Institute indicate that victory will be achieved when<\/span> they can successfully help people – air quotes – “understand<\/span>” that there are uncertainties in climate science<\/span>, that, quote, recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the<\/span> – air quotes again – “conventional wisdom<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

Another measure of victory: media coverage reflects balance on climate science and recognition of the validity of viewpoints that challenge the current “conventional wisdom.<\/span>” The stated project goal in the Victory memo is, “a majority of the American public, including industry leadership, recognizes that significant uncertainties exist in climate science<\/span> and therefore raises questions among those, e.g. Congress, who chart the future US course on climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Westervelt could have been quoting those bits directly from the April 26,1998 “Industrial Group Plans to Battle Climate Treaty<\/a>” NYT<\/em> article itself \u2026 if only the specific quotes had appeared in the body of that article beyond two particular words<\/a>. With a little digging, it’s possible that \u2026..<\/p>\n