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Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science

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The DeSmogBlog Team is available to present to you and your group, school, community, business, non profit organization or private event about communications and climate change. To request a speaker, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page. The following speakers have been trained by Al Gore as part of The Climate Project, an initiative designed to educate the public about climate change.


James Hoggan Jim Hoggan
Jim is President of James Hoggan and Associates Inc. (Hoggan), one of Canada’s leading public relations agencies for environmental and industry organizations involved in sustainability issues. Established in 1983, Hoggan specializes in public issues management, strategic communications counseling and crisis communications.
Richard Littlemore Richard Littlemore
Richard spent 20 years in daily newspapers (the Ottawa Citizen, the Winnipeg Tribune, the Vancouver Sun), before turning his hand in 1995 to freelance journalism and public affairs. He wrote the David Suzuki Foundation’s first public information package on climate change in 1996, was vice-chair of the Greater Vancouver Regional District's Air Quality Committee in 1996 and 1997 and sat as a delegate to the Canadian government's (failed) Kyoto Implementation Process from 1997 to 1999.
Kevin Grandia Kevin Grandia
Kevin brings to the project more than six years of communications experience in the public sector, having served as an advisor in the areas of health care, Canadian heritage and Asia-Pacific trade. Kevin’s areas of expertise include opposition research, government relations, crisis communications and media relations.
emily_murgatroyd

Emily Murgatroyd
Emily is also owner of Greenprint Events, a sustainable event planning company that ‘greens’ meetings, events and conferences by implementing waste reduction strategies and choosing sustainable alternatives. She works with clients like Forest Ethics, Globe Foundation and Earthsave Canada.

About the climate cover-up

About the climate cover-up

Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.

There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.

Although all public relations professionals are bound by a duty to not knowingly mislead the public, some have executed comprehensive campaigns of misinformation on behalf of industry clients on issues ranging from tobacco and asbestos to seat belts.

Lately, these fringe players have turned their efforts to creating confusion about climate change. This PR campaign could not be accomplished without the compliance of media as well as the assent and participation of leaders in government and business.

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