Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group
An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned.
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How the PR Industry Has Helped Big Oil Transform the Way We Think About the Environment
For decades, fossil fuel companies have been using PR firms to polish, reinvent, and fabricate their image; protect their reputation; and greenwash their activities, in ways that we are still trying to fully understand.
Over 450 Climate Scientists Say Advertising Industry Must End ‘Complicity’ in Climate Crisis
On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis.
If Facts Don’t Matter, What Does?
I first began reading the works of linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff about 15 years ago and I was struck by the Berkeley professor’s now famous ideas about what he calls frames.
The Climate-PR Puzzle
If we hope to avert climate apocalypse in the decades ahead, we must make fundamental changes to industrial society.
The Crisis of Representation and Autonomy of Self
The thirst for real democracy is a thirst to be free. It is the spirit that drives us to find our true aspirations within.
Scientific viewpoint or ‘religious’ belief: My cat explains energy optimism
Some ideas find their basis in fact, while others fall under the category of faith. But, then there is a vast sea of ideas parading as facts, when really, these ‘facts’ are nothing but ideology based on ideas that are empirically false or at least suspect.