DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These cases signal a move away from the idea that only scientific experts can speak for climate change, and other professionals, including lawyers, “are pushing the cause forward,” historian and climate accountability researcher Benjamin Franta argues.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

This delay approach has a real cost for society and the climate, says Benjamin Franta, founding head of the Climate Litigation Lab at Oxford University. And in 2021, Franta published a peer-reviewed study that found API was putting out misleading information and misrepresenting climate science as early as 1980.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

It is not yet known if executives from these three oil companies read the Conservation Foundation’s “ Implications of Rising Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere ” or its 1962 Annual Report. But if they did, this information regarding CO2 and climate change would not have been entirely new to them.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Historian Benjamin Franta has shown in 2022’s “Big Carbon’s Strategic Response to Global Warming, 1950-2020” that in 1955 the API also funded research, code named “Project 53,” at Keeling and Epstein’s Caltech lab under the overall guidance of Epstein’s boss, Professor Harrison Brown.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson—who doesn’t appear to know much at all about the science or politics of global warming—has become an influential promoter of illogical ideas,” Benjamin Franta, a senior research fellow in climate litigation at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, told DeSmog. Koonin didn’t respond to a media request.

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