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

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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. If the oil companies’ own data is to be believed, the trend will continue.”

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

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This conversation is part two in our series and has been edited and condensed for clarity. Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option. Legislation to reduce fossil fuel use was predicted by the late 1980s.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

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But no matter—video of Morano’s boat protest landed on Fox News and spread like a ripple through the social media groups that have sprouted to oppose offshore wind. Matthew Eisenson, the report’s author, said these could amount to a “serious obstacle” to achieving US climate goals.