Climate cover-up presentation at Vancouver Island University

In their 2009 book Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, authors James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore document a well-funded and well organized international campaign to seed doubts about climate change, and to discredit the scientists trying to understand past climate change and predict our climate future.

Hoggan and Littlemore showed that the interests behind this campaign are those who expect to benefit from the continuation of the fossil-fuel industry’s stranglehold on our economy, and that many of the players are the same public relations experts and spin-doctors who helped the giant tobacco firms cast doubt about the risks of smoking in the 1970s and 1980s. Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming was named Book of the Year at the 2010 Green Book festival in San Francisco.

Climate Cover-up co-author Richard Littlemore will speak at Vancouver Island University at 4:30 pm on Thursday, Nov. 18. The title of his presentation is “Picking Through the Climate Confusion”. Littlemore is a Nanaimo author, speechwriter, journalist and consultant who specializes in politics, environmental and social issues, and academic affairs.

Originally a newspaper reporter, Littlemore spent 20 years as a writer and editor at newspapers including the Ottawa Citizen and the Vancouver Sun. In 1995, he turned his talents to freelance journalism as an award-winning magazine writer, and to consulting and writing speeches for some of British Columbia’s most senior business and academic leaders.

Littlemore is the editor of the climate change website: www.DeSmogBlog.com.

The presentation, organized by the VIU group, Awareness of Climate Change through Education and Research is free and open to the public. The talk takes place in Building 355 (Arts & Science), Room 201 on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 4:30 pm. Refreshments will be served afterwards.