OMG - Tobacco Industry **Scientist** is also the Global Warming **Scientist**

[Guest guest]

Scientist Who Spearheaded Attacks on Global Warming Also Directed $45M Tobacco

Industry Effort to Hide Health Impacts of Smoking

 

4/11/2006 6:20:00 PM

 

 

Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Kymberly Escobar of the National Environmental Trust, 202-887-8814 or

202.441.9995 (cell)

 

 

News Advisory:

 

-- Scientist Who Spearheaded Attacks on Global Warming Science Also Directed

$45 Million Tobacco Industry Effort to Hide Health Impacts of Smoking

 

-- Former National Academy of Sciences President Admits Being Paid $585,000 by

Tobacco Companies

WHAT:

 

The National Environmental Trust will host a press conference call THURSDAY,

APRIL 13, 11 A.M. EST to discuss new revelations in the May issue of Vanity Fair

(on newsstands today) linking one of the most prominent scientific skeptics on

global warming and his tactics to the three-decade tobacco industry conspiracy

to hide the connection between smoking and lung ailments - an effort that has

led to billions of dollars in court judgments and legislation against the

industry.

 

WHO:

-- Mark Hertsgaard, investigative journalist and author of Vanity Fair's May

cover story, " While Washington Slept, " will describe in detail how Dr. Frederick

Seitz, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences and one of the

most often-quoted skeptics on global warming, was paid over half a million

dollars by the tobacco industry to obfuscate the connection between smoking and

cancer. Seitz went on to spearhead a campaign to cast scientific doubt about

global warming.

 

-- Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Science,

will address the state of climate science and the disruptive role

industry-backed skeptics have played in clouding the near-unanimous findings of

global warming scientists.

 

-- Phil Schiliro, Minority Chief of Staff, House Government Reform Committee,

who staffed Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) during the House investigation

and subsequent House hearings where tobacco industry executives denied knowing

about the addictive nature of cigarettes, will review the role of " tobacco

science " in obscuring the truth and discuss its relevance to the global warming

debate on Capitol Hill.

 

-- Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, will moderate

this call.

WHEN:

Thursday, April 13, 11 a.m. ET

WHERE:

Via conference call

Call-in number: 1-800-351-6808 U.S.

080-009-235-82 U.K.

Password: " Skeptic "

This briefing will be available as an audio file at http://www.net.org by 2

p.m. April 13.

-- THIS CALL IS FOR CREDENTIALED MEDIA ONLY

http://www.usnewswire.com/

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