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Big Oil Clouded the Science on Extreme Weather. Now It Faces a Reckoning.

DeSmogBlog

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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GB News Owner Hires Tory Kingpin’s Oil and Gas Linked Lobbying Firm 

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Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign. In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP.

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IEA Think Tank Contributes to Climate Science Denial Documentary

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The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

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It has been highlighted that any increase in the present-level global warming (1°C > pre-industrial periods) will likely be trailed by adverse consequences to food and water ecosystems, human security and peace, and economic well-being. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. xxii-xxiii; Rentmeester, 81-82).

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5 Major US Utilities That Haven’t Promised to Fully Decarbonize

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Some have promised to lower emissions intensity, which allows them to keep burning fossil fuels as long as they also build zero-emission plants. But the roster includes some of the biggest names in renewables development, showing that it’s possible to invest big in renewables while hoping to burn fossil fuels for decades to come.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

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This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s