Brown, Donald2019-09-252019-09-252013-03-302012http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/189504Over the next few weeks, Climate Ethics will take a deeper look at what has been referred to as the “climate change disinformation campaign” through an ethical lens This series is based upon the assumption that skepticism in science is essential to increase understanding of the natural world. Yet, ideologically based disinformation is often ethically abhorrent particularly in regard to behaviors about which there is credible scientific support for the conclusion that these activities threaten life and the ecological systems on which life depend. This report focuses on specific tactics that have been deployed in the climate change disinformation campaign. It is not a critique of responsible skepticism. Although Climate Ethics has examined these issues briefly before, see: An Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Is This A New Kind of Assault on Humanity?, this is the first in a series of posts that will examine this phenomenon in depth. The climate disinformation campaign can be understood as a movement of organizations and individuals that can be counted on to systematically attack mainstream climate change science in ways that radically depart from responsible scientific skepticism. In the next entry in this series we will look more closely at what we mean by a “campaign” or “movement.”engWith permission of the license/copyright holderdisinformation, tactics, skepticism, scienceMethods of ethicsEnvironmental ethicsPhilosophical ethicsResources ethicsPreprint