Sentences with phrase «industry knew about climate»

We would at least start looking around, get names of former employees, read newsletters and case studies and papers, to home in on what the industry knew about climate science and when.

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Exxon's oil industry peers knew about climate dangers in the 1970s, too.

Updated, 8:38 p.m. There are new revelations from the continuing InsideClimate News investigation of what the oil industry knew about the potential climate impacts of carbon dioxide from fuel burning even as it sought delays in related national and international policies.

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

PM Malcolm Turnbull is known to have serious concerns about the burning of coal and the resulting climate change, yet he still follows the Liberal party line and promotes the dying coal industry.

Even though this series of blog posts concerns a prominent complaint filed in 2007 against the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle,» my objective is to show how a thorough analysis of any given accusation about skeptic climate scientists being «paid industry money to lie» shatters the accusation to bits no matter where the hammer strikes.

That was wrng as well so seems to me that the defence industry knows less about historical climate than others stirring the pot tonyb

In contrast, people with a «hierarchical» and «individualistic» mind - set respect leaders of industry and don't like government interfering in their affairs; they're apt to reject warnings about climate change, because they know what accepting them could lead to - some kind of tax or regulation to limit emissions.

For decades Exxon and their fossil fuel industry peers covered up how much they knew about climate change.

The fossil free divestment movement has been successful because it knows that fighting for climate justice is about changing the power dynamics of our political system and standing up to the fossil fuel industry.

The book exposes many of the individual industry - funded operatives known for misinforming about climate change, too, including the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels, Heartland's Fred Singer and James Taylor, Junkscience.com editor Steve Milloy, ClimateDepot's Marc Morano, and CEI's Chris Horner and Myron Ebell.

A tenuous connection from forty years ago of a known climate skeptic with the tobacco industry is enough for some people to reject anything he has to say about the «climate»;

API is well known for their 1998 memo outlining the fossil fuel industry's plan to confuse and mislead the public about climate science.

That is likely to fuel attacks by critics in the oil industry and elsewhere who argue against investing in measures like clean energy until more is known about climate change.

If you are an enviro - activist with no intellectual curiosity about the matter, and one of your prominent leaders tells you a leaked industry document's strategy statement to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» proves skeptic climate scientists were paid industry money to lie and misinform, then that's all you need to know on the topic.

In closing, the amendment lends support to the ongoing state Attorneys General investigations in both New York and California into what ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel interests knew, and when, about climate change risks and why the industry chose instead to attack the science to prolong its profits.