Climate Damage Assessment: Assessing the Full Cost of 40 Years of Profits, Lies, and Deception from the Fossil-Fuel Industries | EV & N – 254 – CCTV

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For 40 years fossil fuel corporations have lied to and deceived their investors, government regulators, the U.S. Congress and the world at large.  The results of their own internally conducted scientific research revealed that climate change was enhanced by the carbon emissions from the products they kept selling for record profits to the public.

As the scientific community around the world was reaching a consensus opinion on this same issue toward the end of the 1980s, Exxon executives made the decision to oppose the mounting scientific evidence by funding a large array front groups and newly created organizations whose principal goal was to deny the influence of carbon dioxide on climate change and confuse the public discussion of public policy to limit the use of fossil fuels.

Exxon’s funding of climate denial groups and activities paved the way for the elaboration of this technique by other petroleum giants and by the Koch brothers in order to confuse the public and forestall any serious government policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

See related:

• ExxonMobil On Trial Over Business Impact Of Climate Change | On Point
• Exxon Made Deep Cuts in Climate Research Budget in the 1980s
• Exxon’s Climate Cover-Up Just Got Bigger: Docs Suggest All Major Oil Giants Have Lied Since 1970s
• The Long Tale of Exxon and Climate Change | InsideClimate News
• How Exxon & The Koch Brothers Have Funded Climate Denial
• “Dark Money” Funds Climate Change Denial Effort – Scientific American
• Out of Balance – ExxonMobil’s Impact on Climate Change
• Exxon Climate Research — Clear since work of James F. Black, 1977
• Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago
• Union of Concerned Scientists’ Campaign on Fossil Fuel Climate Deception and Account ability: A Timeline | Union of Concerned Scientists [2015]
• Exxon and climate change
• Big Oil Goes to College | Center for American Progress
• Out of Balance – Trailer
• Faces Behind a Global Crisis: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock
• Why Exxon’s and Other Fossil Fuel Companies’ Funding of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Cannot be Excused As an Exercise in Free Speech but Must be Understood as Morally Reprehensible Disinformation. | Ethics and Climate
• ExxonMobil: New Disclosures Show Oil Giant Still Funding Climate Science Denial Groups
• Trump’s EPA Is Cutting Grants For Climate Research
• Why the 1% Can’t See What’s Coming: The “Institutional Contradiction” of Finance Capital

and

• Research Confirms ExxonMobil, Koch-Funded Climate Denial Echo Chamber Polluted Mainstream Media

as well as the reports:

Billionaires’ Carbon Bomb: The Case for Keeping the Koch Brothers’ Tar Sands Assets in the Ground (free download)
Victor Menotti (2015)

Billionaires’ Carbon Bomb: The Koch Brothers and the Keystone XL Pipeline (free download)
Victor Menotti (2013)

Faces Behind a Global Crisis
: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deal (free download)
Victor Menotti (2012)

The Kochs and Clean Energy Jobs (free download)
Victor Menotti (2012)

Outing the Oligarchy: Billionaires Who Benefit from Today’s Climate Crisis (free download)

Victor Menotti (2012)

For a discussion of the fact that Big Oil should be held accountable for the damages related to recent hurricanes, see:

• Big Oil must pay for climate change. Now we can calculate how much | Myles Allen and Peter C Frumhoff | Opinion | The Guardian