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ExxonMobil Waged Disinformation Campaign To Deny Climate Change, Eliminate Regulations
Disgusting levels of greed and evil to knowingly sell a product that will destroy the planet and our children's futures, but that is the mindset of a fossil fuel billionaire.
And every elected Republican takes their money and works on their behalf to allow this to continue. Future generations will have no ability to understand how this is possible.
Two days before ExxonMobil goes to court Wednesday [10/23/19], facing New York state accusations the oil company misled investors about climate change, a team of researchers released a report outlining the company and the broader fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign of deception, and its success at confusing the American public.
.... published by scientists at Harvard, George Mason and Bristol universities, draws parallels between the campaigns launched by tobacco companies and oil industries to mislead the public about their products, both with a goal of delaying government policies and regulations that could cut into their profits.
“For 60 years, the fossil fuel industry has known about the potential global warming dangers of their products. But instead of warning the public or doing something about it, they turned around and orchestrated a massive campaign of denial and delay designed to protect profits,” said Geoffrey Supan, a researcher in the department of the history of science at Harvard. “The evidence is incontrovertible: Exxon misled the public.”
.... tactics used by the campaigns, including trotting out fake experts, promoting conspiracy theories and cherry-picking evidence. It employed traditional disinformation techniques such as questioning scientific consensus and advocating for a “balanced” scientific approach to climate change, giving weight to those skeptical of the prevailing research.
The report suggests that the disinformation campaign was successful in confusing the public and slowing a government response to a danger oil company scientists had identified as far back as the 1970s....
Regulations Protect Us.