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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Man’s use of fossil fuels and exploitation of the land,” federal scientists concluded. Document 7: 1981.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

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” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. a worldwide low fossil fuel strategy) or curative (i.e.