Big Oil Knew

[CousinIT]

The American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil industry’s most powerful trade group, first became aware of climate change as early as 1959, nearly 60 years ago.

What the group did next was astonishing. After studying the problem of climate change for another decade, API then decided to embark on a science disinformation campaign that continues to this day.

But just like with tobacco, the science on climate change is more robust than ever. Climate scientists now predict we have but a few years to radically transform our energy system and phase out use of fossil fuels. It is entirely doable. The technology is there and so is the capital. Only the fossil fuel industry, particularly the more powerful oil industry, stands in the way, as they have for half a century.

http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/learn/news/big-oil-knew/

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[malaise]

2. This needs to be seen

Get thee to the greatest page
I remember reading a book decades ago on exposing the Seven Sisters

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Since corporations are people now, can we try Exxon for attempted murder of people on the planet?

Seems logical.

[BSdetect]

4. Tobacco, Pesticides and Oil. All tried to suppress data.

What a triumph for the children of those executives.

Congrats on killing your own.

[shanny]

5. Yup.

I'd like to nationalize (globalize? through the UN?) all of them, take all their money (through RICO?) and use it to try to fix what they broke. Throw all the execs past and current in jail too.

[crim son]

6. Not only Big Oil. The insurance industry also knew.

When I married my now ex husband, a physicist, he was working in Boston on predictive models of climate change and the expected associated natural disasters. He was paid by the insurance industry, for obvious reasons. When he spoke about his work back then it was dismissed by many as nonsense.

[Susan Calvin]

7. Well, yeah.

Kick for those not yet aware.

[ffr]

8. They did the same thing with lead additives, as an octane modifier.

So now Earth's land and oceans are blanketed in lead. And we idolize and romanticize these lead burning classic automobiles.

[Kablooie]

9. Yep. Way back when they actually could have prevented it.

I wish there was a way to instantly impoverish everyone involved.

[zentrum]

10. Profoundly evil.

[Pluvious]

11. Humans are simply a dysfunctional species

Our standards of living are based on the consumption of the Planet.

Sad.

[Martin Eden]

12. Bookmarked n/t

[onethatcares]

13. it's not like we

all share the same water and air. Geez, these jagoffs from the API think it won't affect them.

[liberalla]

14. I have to watch this later!

thank you!