How did the big fossil fuel companies manage to confuse the public and policymakers about the science of climate change?
Find out the answer at a film screening and discussion of the movie Merchants of Doubt, sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and the Vermont Media Literacy Education Project.
What: Merchants of Doubt, film screening, and discussion
When: Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
Time: 5:30 pm - - Pizza and Salad will be available at
6:00-7:30 pm – video screening
7:30-8:00 pm - Discussion
Where: The Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier.
RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming so we can order enough food.
Merchants of Doubt is a 90-minute documentary that exposes the concerted strategy of ExxonMobil and others to create doubt about the facts of global climate change. Hear the pundits-for-hire present themselves as scientific authorities and strategists brag about their disinformation campaigns. The film shows how the fossil-fuel industry learned from and effectively used tactics developed by the tobacco industry, even hiring some of the same "experts."
Based on a book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, this film includes industry reps, global-warming deniers, environmentalists and climate scientists. It is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at how the fossil-fuel industry has been so successful in blocking action on climate change.
Co-Sponsored by the:
Office of the Lieutenant Governor, David Zuckerman
Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club,
Vermont Media Literacy Education Program
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