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SCIENTIST WHO SPEARHEADED ATTACKS ON GLOBAL WARMING SCIENCE ALSO DIRECTED$45 MILLION TOBACCO INDUSTRY EFFORT TO HIDE HEALTH IMPACTS OF SMOKINGFORMER NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PRESIDENT ADMITS BEING PAID $585,000 BYTOBACCO COMPANIEShttp://www.net.org/warming/skeptic.vtmlThe National Environmental Trust hosted a press conference on April 13th todiscuss new revelations in the May issue of Vanity Fair linking one of themost prominent scientific skeptics on global warming and his tactics to thethree-decade tobacco industry conspiracy to hide the connection betweensmoking and lung ailments -- an effort that has led to billions of dollarsin court judgments and legislation against the industry.Listen to the briefing (mp3, 6 megs):http://tinyurl.com/l88m7Read an industry media plan to oppose global warming [PDF]<http://www.net.org/warming/docs/3860_GlobalClimateSciencePlanMemo.pdf> --an April 3, 1998 American Petroleum Institute strategy memo on its publicrelations campaign to plant doubts about global warming science.Participants:* Mark Hertsgaard, investigative journalist and author of Vanity Fair's Maycover story, "While Washington Slept," will describe in detail how Dr.Frederick Seitz, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences andone of the most often-quoted skeptics on global warming, was paid over halfa million dollars by the tobacco industry to obfuscate the connectionbetween smoking and cancer. Seitz went on to spearhead a campaign to castscientific doubt about global warming.* Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for SpaceScience, will address the state of climate science and the disruptive roleindustry-backed skeptics have played in clouding the near-unanimous findingsof global warming scientists.* Phil Schiliro, Minority Chief of Staff, House Government Reform Committee,who staffed Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) during the Houseinvestigation and subsequent House hearings where tobacco industryexecutives denied knowing about the addictive nature of cigarettes, willreview the role of "tobacco science" in obscuring the truth and discuss itsrelevance to the global warming debate on Capitol Hill.* Philip Clapp, President of the National Environmental Trust, will moderatethis call.