Tells the controversial story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry going back to pro-tobacco lobbying in the 1960s, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny hundreads of well-established scientific studies proving the existence of climate change.
MERCHANTS OF DOUBT
The meticulously researched work makes the claim that a handful of conservative scientists with ties to big business have purposefully kept controversial debates about global warming, tobacco smoking, and more alive by deliberately muddling information.