Green World: Prof. Peter Terezakis • OART-UT 1057 • NYU Tisch

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The new science fossil fuel companies fear

By 2013, roughly a decade after Heede began his search, he had his answer: Just 90 companies had contributed nearly two-thirds of the world’s industrial emissions. He could even pinpoint the share of those emissions for which companies existing today are responsible. In effect, Heede had established a pillar of a new field of research, now known as attribution science. But it wasn’t just an academic exercise: It’s a weapon that climate campaigners are starting to wield to put fossil fuel companies on the hook for billions of dollars in damages. It’s a kind of end run around a political system they see as forced into gridlock by fossil fuel industry influence.
Corporate accountability

“By 2013, roughly a decade after Heede began his search, he had his answer: Just 90 companies had contributed nearly two-thirds of the world’s industrial emissions. He could even pinpoint the share of those emissions for which companies existing today are responsible.

In effect, Heede had established a pillar of a new field of research, now known as attribution science. But it wasn’t just an academic exercise: It’s a weapon that climate campaigners are starting to wield to put fossil fuel companies on the hook for billions of dollars in damages. It’s a kind of end run around a political system they see as forced into gridlock by fossil fuel industry influence.” — Zack Colman, Politico (read the entire article)

Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003.

“The science has now advanced to the point that we can detect the effects of climate change on some events with high confidence.”

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Real Replacement Meat – Real Fake News

The Zombie Center for Consumer Freedom is back. Its target? Plant-based meat.

Just in time for Halloween, the zombie is back.

I can hardly believe that the deeply discredited Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF)is on the attack again with another one of its snarky full-page ads in the New York Times (Monday, October 28).  More at Marion Nestle’s site

Impossible Whopper a 'huge hit' says Burger King, Beyond Meat raises forecasts, as brands hit back at ads attacking ‘ultra-processed’ plant-based burgers 29-Oct-2019 By Elaine Watson A series of ads attacking the next generation of plant-based burgers as ‘ultra-processed’ products ‘hiding’ scary unpronounceable ingredients is a crude attempt by a “dark-money front group funded by Big Beef to mislead consumers and push propaganda,” claims Impossible Foods, which says its products are “better for people and the planet than the products they replace.” HTTPS://WWW.FOODNAVIGATOR-USA.COM/ARTICLE/2019/10/29/IMPOSSIBLE-WHOPPER-A-HUGE-HIT-SAYS-BURGER-KING-AS-BRAND-HITS-BACK-AT-ADS-ATTACKING-ULTRA-PROCESSED-PLANT-BASED-MEAT
Impossible Burgers bite big beef’s bottom (i couldn’t resist)

29-Oct-2019 By Elaine Watson

A series of ads attacking the next generation of plant-based burgers as ‘ultra-processed’ products ‘hiding’ scary unpronounceable ingredients is a crude attempt by a “dark-money front group funded by Big Beef to mislead consumers and push propaganda,” claims Impossible Foods, which says its products are “better for people and the planet than the products they replace.”  Read the article here.

To appreciate what a public relations firm can do to your belief system,
visit the site below, click about, and then return to this
page to see who is funding CCF and other sites:

 

meat industry backed disinformation website
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The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) (formerly called the "Guest Choice Network (GCN)") is a front group run by Rick Berman's PR firm Berman & Co., originally primarily for the benefit of restaurant, alcohol, tobacco and other industries. It runs media campaigns that oppose the efforts of scientists, doctors, health advocates, animal advocates, environmentalists and groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, calling them "the Nanny Culture -- the growing fraternity of food cops, health care enforcers, anti-meat activists, and meddling bureaucrats who 'know what's best for you.'"
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A front group for the tobacco, alcohol and junk-science-fast-food industries, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is funded by toxic-product-producing companies and corporations like Philip Morris, Monsanto, Tyson Foods, White Castle, Arby’s and Wendy’s, to name a few. One of the main goals of CCF is to neutralize activist groups that actually do protect public health, animal health, food quality and consumer rights. CCF is run by the nefarious Rick Berman and his for-profit PR firm Berman & Co., that uses media campaigns to viciously attack scientists, doctors, health advocates, animal advocates and environmentalists on a regular basis. CCF is registered as a tax-exempt, non-profit organization, but Rick Berman is nothing more than a Washington lobbyist who funnels most of the money ($7 million since 1997) into his own pocket, auspiciously skirting IRS code 501c3. (1)
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Summary *Founded in 1995 as the Guest Choice Network *Phillip Morris provided $600,000 in seed money for the organization * Restaurant, tobacco company funds were used to fight restaurant smoking bans * Over 40% of expenses funneled to Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) founder Rick Berman’s lobbying shop *Payments to Berman lobbying firm led Charity Navigator to post donor advisory against CCF *TIME: Attacks on Humane Society “a low blow” Center for Consumer Freedom Originally Funded by Tobacco and Restaurant Industries to Fight Bans on Smoking in Restaurants
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Dry Cleaning

Perchloroethylene and Dry Cleaning: It’s Time to Move the Industry to Safer Alternatives — NIH.gov

“The most commonly used chemical solvent for dry cleaning is perchloroethylene (tetrachloroethylene) otherwise known as “perc”. Also known as dry cleaning fluid, “perc” is a colorless, volatile, non-flammable, toxic chemical with a sweet smell. It cleans perfectly and does not degrade clothes. It is produced by chlorinolysis of light hydrocarbons using high temperatures. Its other uses include: degreasing of metals, in electric transformers as cooling gas, as one of the constituents of paint strippers, etc.”
— https://www.bucco.us/difference-organic-perk-dry-cleaning/

Perchloroethylene (PCE) in Dry Cleaning Establishments
Remy Newcombe, University of Idaho, Principles of Environmental Toxicology,
December 2000 (pdf)