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While they have been most effective in the United States, the impacts of the climate-change deniers sponsored by Exxon and Philip Morris have been felt all over the world. I have seen their arguments endlessly repeated in Australia, Canada, India, Russia and the UK. By dominating the media debate on climate change during seven or eight critical years in which urgent international talks should have been taking place, by constantly seeding doubt about the science just as it should have been most persuasive, they have justified the money their sponsors have spent on them many times over. It is fair to say that the professional denial industry has delayed effective global action on climate change by years, just as it helped to delay action against the tobacco companies.
George Monbiot, in HEAT, published by Allen Lane. Monbiot's film on the connection between Exxon, Philip Morris, Steven Milloy, TASSC (Advancement of Sound Science Coalition) and the corporate war on science--whether of secondhand smoke or global warming-- was broadcast Tues. on BBC2's Newsnight.

Junk Science
The connection between Exxon, Philip Morris, Steven Milloy, TASSC (Advancement of Sound Science Coalition) and the corporate war on science--whether of secondhand smoke or global warming--is explored.