Coming Soon: Hot Water
In 2015, a "warm water blob", the result of both warming oceans and shifting wind patterns, wreaked havoc on West Coast fishing towns. Three years into a new reality in which climate change has shifte...
3 Apr 20192min
Big Oil’s First Amendment Defense: Can Climate Denial Be Protected Speech?
ExxonMobile is invoking the First Amendment to fight lawsuits over climate change, accusing counties, cities, and states of conspiring to quash its rights to political speech. Support us: https://www....
5 Feb 201924min
Winning the War: Fighting Back Against Decades of Climate Delay
Fossil fuel disinformation and campaigns have cost the world 30 years of action, but all is not lost. The technology to address climate change exists and if there's one thing about America's history,...
9 Okt 201820min
Climate Denial Campaigns So Successful They’re Now in Court
The fossil fuel industry's decades-long information war left the public skeptical of climate change, even as oil companies themselves publicly accepted the science. Fewer Americans believe in the need...
2 Okt 201815min
The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
By the early 2000s, oil companies were funding prestigious university research centers to subtly steer climate narrative, shaping the academic research that would eventually inform policy. Support us...
25 Sep 201815min
Shaping Culture and Faith: How Big Oil Influenced Climate Conversations
To make media manipulation and lobbying truly effective, oil companies and their PR firms had to shift the culture, influencing everything from civil discourse to how religious groups viewed climate c...
18 Sep 201817min
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 Sep 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 Sep 201817min
