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In part two of the story of climate change denial Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey take a closer look at the techniques of the “merchants of doubt" who took the denial of man made global warming into the mainstream. Ian tells the real story behind 2009’s phoney scandal “Climategate”, while Dorian reads Michael Crichton’s crank thriller State of Fear and watches the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle to explain how denial became a kind of conspiracy theory.
A tale of wild claims, false balance, scientists under siege and the giant mess that the deniers have left behind.
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Reading List:
Michael Crichton – State of Fear
Ross Gelbspan – The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate
Clive Hamilton – Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
Bjorn Lomborg – The Skeptical Environmentalist
Chris Mooney – The Republican War on Science
Thomas Gale Moore – Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway – Merchants of Doubt
Nathaniel Rich – Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
Peter Stott – Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Channel 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYhCQv5tNsQ
Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production and music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production.
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