Links Between Big Tobacco and Climate Denial
“Smokey Joe” Barton is known for apologizing to BP after the 2010 Oil spill, and harassing climate scientists.
ClimateCrocks: Turns out he’s also been a key connection between the tobacco industry and the climate denial industry. Archival footage from ABC News on the tobacco wars of the 90s turns up sequences of Smoky Joe in action on behalf of Big Cancer.
Tags: 2013, Big Tobacco, Climate Denbial, Joe Barton, Peter Sinclair
Categories: Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Energy, Oil
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am i here alone?
*puts flag here*
5:11 I wanted to slap that bible right out of his disgustingly bought hands.
The biases these bastards have disgust me.
What is left? To wait for more horror storms one after another? Because of
their greed and stupidity we must all suffer for it?
Damn them…
Amazing video; it sent shivers up my spine. I wish people would wake up and
start putting their trust in scientists again.
GREAT video Greenman!
Never trust anyone who would try to convince you by swearing on the bible.
It means nothing.
I thought this was a pretty cool video. It brings up parallels between the
tobacco industry denying tobaccos addictive/cancer causing qualities and
the oil industry denying the negative effects of large amounts of carbon in
the air.
What the US is missing is people like Paxman. When he interviews someone
who starts bullshitting, he interrupts them and tells them to answer the
question. It sends a strong signal to the audience: “this guy is avoiding
the issue, don’t trust him”. You can see that Ebell is taken aback by this,
as he isn’t used to getting interviewed like this.
Good video, great even!
It nearly broke my recent cynicism to optimism.
lol 7:03 “Please answer the question Mr. Evil!”
Okay… not quite, it was Ebell… but still :P
Katrina, Sandy, Haiyan, snowmageddon, unprecedented heat waves in Siberia,
unprecedented forest fires in subarctic forests, extreme species migration,
multiplying invasive species plagues
How much more will it take before the left side of the bell curve is
convinced?
Excellence.
Revenues are $1.5 trillion a year just for the top 5 oil companies in the
U.S…. it’s still an uphill battle.
Thank you SO MUCH for this. Will share on facebook asap!
Former deniers (paid by the tobacco industry) of the connection between
smoking and lung cancer now (paid by the oil industry) deny man-made
climate change. Does anyone *really* take him seriously?
#climatechangedenial #smokeyjoe #uspolitics
We need more videos from you Greenman. Can you recommend any websites or
blogs that are similar to your work?
The problem with comparing anti-tobacco and climate change movements is
that climate change lacks the human element. This shouldn’t matter, but the
general population is startlingly irrational. People can see unlimited
examples of themselves, friends and family personally feeling the full
effects of tobacco right now. No one is personally affected by climate
change until it’s too late. The problem requires a certain level of
foresight, planning, rationality and interest in future generations that is
in short supply.
It must be easy going through life not possessing a conscience.
Nicotine isn’t addictive, as all the studies on nicotine replacement
therapies clearly show, the RITUAL of smoking is PSYCHOLOGICALLY addictive,
the nicotine has nothing to do with it, studies done with electronic
cigarettes show the same results whether or not nicotine is present.
Nicotine is also not a carcinogen, though there are over 3000 identified
harmful substances in tobacco, nicotine isn’t one of them. Nicotine’s
effects on the body are similar to those of caffeine (though nicotine
doesn’t make people jumpy like caffeine does), nicotine is only dangerous
in the case of overdose or in people with severe heart conditions (as, like
caffeine, it’s a stimulant).
There’s always more money to be made for taking the side of those with lots
of it. If there were a single genuine climate scientist anywhere who could
find genuine evidence that climate change wasn’t happening, then the oil
companies would quite certainly have paid him to find it.
dude! A vid from the greenman himself. Nice to see you back. I link to
your videos more than anyone I’ve ever seen on youtube.
Great punch line, Peter. The denialists are losing control of the debate,
and when they do, they will be seen for what you have shown them to be.
Great video, thanks greenman3610!
Money can make some people say anything in public, even if it’s absurd or a
down right lie .
Here’s a good video drawing excellent parallels (even showing patterns for
‘experts against all the evidence’ and politicians fighting science
(sometimes the same politicians, eh?)) between the tobacco industry
claiming that nicotine is not addictive and oil companies denying global
warming.
There is always a CON in CONservative.
Joe Barton is a perfect representative for conservatives.
GOP believes in one value: $$$
the only GOD conservatives WORSHIP is $MONEY$
they would throw their own mother in a flaming pit of acid for a dollar
A lot of people in the comments are blaming the Republicans, but Democrats
are equally guilty of taking funds from industries like Big Tobacco and Big
Oil. Super- PAC’s need to stop. Campaign finance reform needs to happen.
But God knows how it’s going to happen when both sides are so entrenched.
Joe Barton has been on the wrong side of every issue. He will say anything
for $money$ Not surprising he is a CONservatvie.
I can make the same kind of video showing democrats doing the same thing.
Nice spin video though. It’s not ONLY conservatives, the whole 2 party
system is the problem.
Lots of sociopaths in business, and government.
Familiar?
I am no body language expert but the little head nod at 5:55 seems to be
saying ‘Yes, it does’.
Wow … a MUST watch
To quote Split Enz:
History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
Don’t say the words you might regret
I’ve lost before you know I can’t forget
Democrat “science”:
A whiff of second-hand smoke outdoors will kill you, but smoke all the pot
you want.
Sure there has been no actual temperature increase since the IPCC was
founded in 1998, but the planet is melting and we will all die unless we
give up all our money and freedom to a massive central government.
Big Evil are still running your democratic processes for…well not you.
SMH
Ironically, those guys saying nicotine is not addictive are mostly correct.
What’s VERY addictive about cigarettes is the combination of nicotine and
an MAOI found in tobacco. That’s also why smoking goes with almost
anything. It makes coffee better, alcohol better, cocaine better. MAOI ftw!
I would edit the film to end it at 8:15 or even 8:14. The last statement
is a very important message and it should be where the video ends. I wish
that the last image which says “Climate Denial Crock of the Week” were not
included. It detracts from the important message which is that public
opinion can indeed turn around quickly, as in the case with tobacco, and
public opinion can similarly shift in favor of taking significant action on
climate change.
Hey Gman… Fox was at it again the other day, trying to disprove climate
change by using the “polar vortex” bringing subzero temps to the US. As you
can imagine, nowhere in the article did it explain what Scientists believe
is the cause.
When will Joe take the “necessity of Life” test on Co2…
… Place a plastic bag over his head and tie it off and report back in 24
hours on how his Co2 necessitated his life?
Big man should pony up and walk his walk, no?
We now know that Temperature and Co2 do not correlate. Sea levels have not
risen and there have been just as many record low temps as high temps in
the las few years. So where is the global Warming hypothesis now?
this is all bullshit… green taxes go to the un not to saving the planet
and warming temps would be a better thing for all mankind … less
starvation and such .,,.,, global warming enthusiasts are a bunch of modern
day eugenicists and world govt pumpers …. you know who else was eugencist
and pro world govt? the nazi party in germany … go watch and study a
hitler speech about a “new world order” blah blah … the guy that runs
this site is prolly paid by globalist groups
It’s been a while since one of these came out. Excellent video. I look
forward to more from you.
Correlation is not causation
Take pleasure in the thought that Smokey Joe’s Texas Congressional District
is blowing away and burning away due to climate change.
we only get the kind of politics that we deserve.
Good video
Well Done ..