Watch part one of “The Power of Big Oil,” a three-episode FRONTLINE docuseries investigating the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate. Go inside the decades-long failure to confront the threat and increasing... Continue Reading →
While continuing to fuel the climate emergency over the past decade, oil and gas majors relied on misleading messages rather than actually taking action to transition to clean energy, according to research released Wednesday. "This study confirms what observers have always known about Big Oil's climate pledges: They're all hot air." The peer-reviewed study, published... Continue Reading →
Study Exposes Climate Claims by Big Oil as Corporate Propaganda
Honest Government Ad | The Floods 🌊
The Australian Government has made an ad about this summer’s floods and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. 🇦🇺👽🌊 Commenter: I'm not even Australian but I can feel the pain behind the humour...you guys do an awesome job calling your leadership out, we need more people like you around the world. Source...
For Svitlana Krakovska, recent events have clarified the human, economic, and geopolitical catastrophe of fossil fuels. For Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist, it was meant to be the week where eight years of work culminated in a landmark U.N. report exposing the havoc the climate crisis is causing the world. But then the bombs... Continue Reading →
Fossil-Fueled War: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out
How oil companies rebranded deceptive climate ads as ‘free speech’
n two dozen climate liability cases, companies are arguing that their public statements about climate change are not ‘deceptive’ so much as persuasive – and protected free speech On 24 October 2019, Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, sued ExxonMobil for “deceptive advertising” and for “misleading Massachusetts investors about the risks to Exxon’s business... Continue Reading →
Democrats hope climate measures in Build Back Better will be resurrected amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – but green groups want Biden to go even further As Joe Biden ratchets up the pressure on Russia by banning imports of its oil, American drivers grumble about rising gasoline prices and the oil and gas industry clamors... Continue Reading →
‘Defining moment’: how can the US end its dependency on fossil fuels?
Inside Climate News won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for this four-part narrative series and six-part follow-up about an oil spill most Americans have never heard of. More than 1 million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, triggering the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history, at a cost... Continue Reading →
The Dilbit Disaster | Inside The Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of
Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions. At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from... Continue Reading →
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago
If you want to trigger a conservative, just suggest nationalizing the US gas and oil industry. “Venezuela!” they’ll scream hysterically, perhaps adding a few, “Iran!” squeals. (Somehow, they always forget to yell about Norway…) Within minutes they’ll be croaking about that time back in 2008 when Maxine Waters — a Black woman with power and... Continue Reading →
‘It’s about saving the world’: Thom Hartmann calls on POTUS to ‘nationalize the fossil fuel industry’
Quote pulled from Bill McKibben’s recent article…
+Climate scientist Peter Kalmus, arrested in civil disobedience actions with many of his colleagues last week, explains why researchers are increasingly willing to take to the streets: Earth breakdown is much worse than most people realize. The science indicates that as fossil fuels continue to heat our planet, everything we love is at risk. For... Continue Reading →
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Credits & Offsets
The Australien Government has made an ad about its carbon-credits scheme, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. Source.
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