Review of’Merchants of Doubt’: ‘Morano is a Zen master of juicy sound bites’
http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/liar-liar-planet-on-fire/Content?oid=3455608…
Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt’: Morano is a ‘straight-up lunatic’ with ‘a creepy light behind his eyes’
And some are just straight-up lunatics. The film has a great villain in climate-change denier and media assassin Marc Morano, who candidly, gleefully admits orchestrating personal attacks on the opposition, encouraging Internet wingnuts to send hate mail to legitimate scientists. “What I enjoy the most is going after individuals,” he says. “We’re the negative force, we’re just trying to stop stuff.” There is a creepy light behind his eyes. He’s in it for the fun.…
Merchants of Doubt has now earned enough money ($192,400) to purchase four Priuses, making it the 8,837th most popular movie (As of April 5)
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Review: ‘Gleeful public relations sociopath Marc Morano cackles with delight’
But scientific consensus and wonky explanations are no match for Koch Industries-backed PR machines and fiery free-market zealots who use well-financed campaigns and an easily duped (if not wholly cooperative) media to distract, dissuade, and deceive. Gleeful public relations sociopath Marc Morano cackles with delight as he brags of defaming and undermining nerdy, well-meaning scientists who aren’t savvy with a sound bite. When proven lies and suborned perjury aren’t enough to convince news outlets that the debate is far from balanced, what hope is there for the average viewer?…
Review ‘Merchant’s of Doubt’: Film ‘engages in the very character assassination techniques that they show are favored by the other side’
http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/995544-don%3Ft-doubt-%3Fhonest%3F-critique…
Philadelphia Inquirer: ‘Morano is an unapologetic ringleader in the movement to thwart climate-change action’ – Review of ‘Merchants of Doubt’
‘Marc Morano, an unapologetic ringleader in the movement to thwart climate-change action, pops up on news shows to challenge earnest, nerdy scientists.’
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20150327__Merchants_of_Doubt___How_climate-change_denial_is_sold.html#LGtBZOkaC3erjLTh.99…
NY Times Justin Gillis: ‘It is a lie to say that global warming poses no danger’
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/24/reporters-explain-why-balance-isnt-needed-on-global-warming/…
Hitler, Stalin, Mao…Morano?! Review: Morano is ‘Evil Personified’: He is paid to ‘destroy the lives of hundreds of millions in the short term, & quite possibly by the end of the century, billions of human beings’
…Review: Morano is a ‘professional deceiver’ – Reviewer ‘impressed by how unashamed’ he is – ‘Slick media persona’ – ‘Merchants Of Doubt’
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/mar/20/merchants-doubt-suggests-were-all-being-conned/…
The Atlantic Mag.: Morano is a ‘professional climate-change denier’ who ‘panders to TV viewers’ by ‘trafficking in doubt’
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/the-new-west-antarctica-yep-its-east-antarctica/388018/
JAMES HAMBLINMAR 20 2015, 8:00 AM ET
Jamin Greenbaum/BBC
Even if you’re lucky enough that there’s an ice runway where you want to land in Antarctica, that doesn’t mean the weather will allow you to. And then, even if your plane is equipped to fly for eight hours, at some point, you do have to find a way to stop flying. When that happens to the scientists of the International Collaboration for Exploration of the Cryosphere Through Aerogeophysical Profiling (ICECAP) team, they manage to land “in the middle of nowhere,” according to on-board geophysicist Jamin Greenbaum. Then they camp out. Eventually they’ll be able to make it back to their base.
Greenbaum tells me he’s never been scared. Even though the plane is an Indiana Jones-style Douglas DC-3 that served in World War II. It can deploy skis as landing gear when necessary, and the pilots are a Calgary-based crew, expert at flying in suboptimal conditions.
“We have had some harried situations,” Greenbaum said. For the past eight years he has done annual two-to-five-month deployments to Antarctica to survey the ice. He rides in the cargo hull of the plane, along with 1,000 pounds of ice-penetrating radar, lasers, and magnetic-field mapping equipment. “You know, it’s Antarctica; in 1,500 hours you’re going to have some bad weather. But no, I’ve never once gotten nervous.”
It’s believable; his manner is stead. When we spoke it was broken only by excited descriptions of data collection equipment and the latest findings of the ICECAP team, released Tuesday, which he called “very alarming.”
That alarm is not his alone, nor is it limited to the scientific community. It is because of the ICECAP team that East Antarctica has been a trending topic on Facebook this week—in case you didn’t notice. Or you did, and thought it strange, even by the standards of Facebook trending topics. In recent years most people have been talking about West Antarctica. West Antarctica this and West Antarctica that.
ICECAPS team (Jamin Greenbaum)
The West Antarctic ice sheet is unstable, and the melting of a major section that contains enough ice to raise sea levels four feet “appears unstoppable,” according to NASA. That alone could be enough to devastate coastal cities worldwide within the not-distant future, not to mention increase storm surges and anomalous severe-weather events worldwide. If that concept hasn’t yet left you subject to “eco-anxiety,” a relatively new …