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WattHead - Energy News and Commentary: US Chamber of Commerce: We Remain "As Staunchly Opposed As Ever" to Climate Bill
It's Getting Hot In Here: US Chamber of Commerce: We Remain “As Staunchly Opposed As Ever” to Climate Bill
Commondreams.org Newswire: Will the Real Chamber of Commerce Please Stand Up?
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@WorkCabin ]RT @OzoneSky: US Chamber of Commerce Changes Climate Policy. Official Press Release: http://tinyurl.com/yzaldpx 10/19/2009 |
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[This is BIG!] ]RT @OzoneSky: US Chamber of Commerce Changes Climate Policy. Official Press Release: http://tinyurl.com/yzaldpx (\ü/) 10/19/2009 |
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RT @grist All signs point to Yes Men as pranksters behind the U.S. Chamber Climate Change hoax http://tinyurl.com/yzaldpx 10/19/2009 |
US Chamber of Commerce: We Remain "As Staunchly Opposed As Ever" to Climate Bill
WattHead - Energy News and Commentary —
... The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reversed their position on climate change policy this morning, throwing their full support behind Congressional climate legislation. ...
US Chamber of Commerce: We Remain “As Staunchly Opposed As Ever” to Climate Bill
It's Getting Hot In Here —
... The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reversed their position on climate change policy this morning, throwing their full support behind Congressional climate legislation. ...
Will the Real Chamber of Commerce Please Stand Up?
Commondreams.org Newswire —
Chamber plays the fool in Yes Men hoax
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
by Grist Another brilliant stunt from the Yes Men: the New York pranksters sent out a fake press release this morning, pretending to be from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber is reversing its opposition to the clean energy bill in Congress. It’s had a change of heart. It’s now taking climate change seriously, the press release said. It was all a hoax, but before that was discovered Reuters, Fox Business Network, and CNBC reported the news as fact. The Chamber, which can’t seem to catch a break these days, ...
US Chamber of Commerce Punks the Yes Men
Greenfyre's —
... Commerce (CoC) disrupted a Yes Men /Avaaz Action Factory press conference on Monday as part of an elaborate prank meant to distract attention from the Chamber’s regressive and ignorant stance on climate issues. Some have suggested that it was the Yes Men who were pranking the US Chamber of Commerce (here and here) rather than the other way around. However, given that the Yes Men’s climate policies (full text of speech here and discussed here) are reality based and rational, whereas the CoC ...
Greens have finally got the Big Mo
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Scopes Monkey Trial on the science of climate change.” Then more companies left. Chamber chief Tom Donahue, oblivious to the changing political winds, bumbled around, at first defiant, then incoherent, then confused, then defensive. Then it emerged that the CoC’s membership numbers were wildly inflated—not 3 million business, but more like 200,000. Then the Yes Men came along and ganked them so successfully with a fake press release and press conference that Reuters got punked, making national ...
The US Chamber Pot of Commerce punks itself, again
Greenfyre's —
BPSDBThe “good news” about the US Chamber of Commerce (CoC) and their climate related public relations disaster just keeps rolling in, thanks to … The US Chamber of Commerce.
In August the CoC made a very public demand for political trials of climate change science. This proved to ...
US Chamber Will See Yes Men In Court
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
... to announce that the world’ largest business federation would reverse its previous denial of climate change. Yes Man, Andy Bichlbaum, impersonated a representative of the Chamber’s CEO, Thomas J. Donohue, addressing a number of reporters who attended the event under the false pretense that it was an official briefing. The Yes Men also created a fake US Chamber of Commerce website . The media was, by and large, unaware that this was staged- Fox News interrupted programming to broadcast the phony announcement, and Reuters ran the press release as an authentic news item. ...
U.S. Chamber to Sue Pants Off Pranksters Yes Men
Environmental Leader —
... , a comedic group that was promoting a movie. The false press release came on a parody site , with quotes attributed to “spokesman Hingo Sembra,” on a template that mimics the Chamber’s Web site and even included links to the real chamber site. The ...
The US Chamber Pot of Commerce punks itself, again
Greenfyre's —
BPSDBThe “good news” about the US Chamber of Commerce (CoC) and their climate related public relations disaster just keeps rolling in, thanks to … The US Chamber of Commerce.
In August the CoC made a very public demand for political trials of climate change science. This proved to ...
