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Climate Summit Cartoon by Joel Pett, USA Today, 12/7/09

What if it's a Big Hoax and we create a better world for nothing?

Those that are discrediting science and trying to create climate change doubt are just trying to hold on to the current world and as opposed to building a better one.

Climate Change Denial—Discrediting Science

"Everyone who has been paying attention knows that there is a strong anti-science movement in this country — driven partly by populist anti-intellectualism, but increasingly by corporate interests that just don't like what science has to say. It's an old problem — tobacco companies succeeded for years in sowing doubt about the health effects of smoking — but it's become significantly worse in recent years." by Sean Carroll

"We are sliding back into a dark era and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms." by Nina Fedoroff, President, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

The following articles by Donald A. Brown describe how groups are working to undermine a fact based discussion about the nature of the problem and how we should respond as a culture.

Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Introduction to A Series

Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign's Tactics: (1) Reckless Disregard for the Truth, (2) Focusing On Unknowns While Ignoring Knowns, (3) Specious Claims of "Bad" Science, and (4) Front Groups

Just Label It: We Have a Right to Know

"Its Viral!" The Movement to Overturn Citizens United