The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a report entitled The Climate Deception Dossiers.
For nearly three decades, many of the world's largest fossil fuel companies have knowingly worked to deceive the public about the realities and risks of climate change.
Their deceptive tactics are now highlighted in this set of seven "deception dossiers"—collections of internal company and trade association documents that have either been leaked to the public, come to light through lawsuits, or been disclosed through Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests.
So now we have some idea of "What fossil fuel companies knew and when they knew it". Full report available here [pdf].
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Friday July 10 2015, @02:07AM
Can we come up with another way to put a negative spin on an event without trivializing Watergate?
Well, to solve the issue we need to raise awareness. The name for the awareness campaign it should be somewhat self referential. Let's restate the issue and pick a name: There's a conspiracy to trivialize the Watergate scandal via using "-gate" to water it down. Let's call the scandal, "Watergate".
More to the point, I'd like to state the obvious counter opinion and ask you to disprove the null hypothesis: Prove that the -gate suffix isn't raising awareness of Watergate rather than trivializing it. Before you can solve an issue, you need to make sure it exists first.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @03:29AM
Wouldn't it be "Watergate-gate"?