Weaponizing False Equivalence
Climate disinformation ramped up in the 1990s, with oil companies and their PR firms exploiting media weaknesses and propping up "contrarian" scientists to push the narrative of scientific uncertainty...
11 Syys 201817min
The Turn: How Big Oil Shifted from Innovation to Climate Denial
As the price of oil dipped in the early 1980s, oil companies and the industry at large became concerned with protecting their core business rather than expanding in new directions and becoming "energy...
4 Syys 201817min
The Bell Labs of Energy: How Exxon Led Early Climate Research
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Exxon wanted to be the Bell Labs of energy, hiring brilliant scientists to conduct cutting-edge research on the "greenhouse effect" and renewable energy. At the time, the...
29 Elo 201816min
Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty
Oil companies targeted scientists' biggest weakness—their refusal to be absolutely certain about anything—to sow doubt about climate change. In addition to using journalists' views on their own object...
28 Elo 201813min
