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Center for Climate Integrity
@climateintegrity.org

Big Oil executives knew decades ago that "catastrophic" climate change was coming. Instead of sharing that knowledge, they buried it. "By the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilise the situation."

huffpost.comIn 1998, Shell Predicted It Would Be Sued Over Climate Crisis SomedayA new batch of documents shows the oil giant had grasped the dangers of burning fossil fuels by the 1980s.

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Aleutian Stares
@guasha.bsky.social

Do these executives actually believe they'll be spared or otherwise immune from the climate changes taking place or have food for their own families when air, land & water are decimated? Do THEY know how to live on LESS? Musk seems to think everyone else needs to live within their means.

🐝 “Bee” 🐝
@bee990.bsky.social

Big Oil knew about the localized adverse impact the industry had on their areas of operation as early as the 1930’s. By the late 1960’s, thru industry funded research (see link), Big Oil was well aware of the global adverse impacts of fossil fuels, but chose to ignore them in favor of profits.

e360.yale.eduHow an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate LawsuitsFor decades, 1960s research for the American Petroleum Institute warning of the risks of burning fossil fuels had been forgotten. But two papers discovered in libraries are now playing a key role in l...