The world is getting warmer and our weather is getting ever more unpredictable and dangerous. The death toll is rising around the world and the forecast is the worst is yet to come. It’s been a year of extreme weather. Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat, BBC 2021
The number of days above 50 degrees has doubled since the 1980s. The last seven years have been the hottest ever recorded globally … Extreme heat is changing people’s lives. Life at 50C, BBC 2021
For more than 150 years oil and gas has played a critical role in our society, improving human lives, raising standards of living and enabling unprecedented economic growth. Big Oil vs The World I, dude, BBC 2022
More than 40 years ago, oil industry scientists warned that burning fossil fuels would change climate change. ibid. caption
This is the story of how Big Oil went on to fool the world. ibid.
This campaign of denial bought the industry thirty-plus extra years of profit at the expense of the planet. ibid. dude
Exxon: By the ’90s they were the kingpins of denial. But we had no idea that they actually knew the science. ibid. curator
Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate: Sharp Cut in Burning of Fossil Fuels is Urged to Battle Shift in Climate. ibid. The New York Times June 24 1988
The Global Climate Coalition is seeding doubt everywhere. Sort of fogging the air with these counter-arguments. ibid.
They made a deeply unethical decision. Big Oil vs The World II, Al Gore
In 1998 there was this meeting in Washington DC. It’s convened by the American Petroleum Institute. Exxon is in the room, Chevron …they are hatching plan to stop people worrying about climate change … A wide and concerted effort to install uncertainty around climate science. ibid.
The new millennium began with a historic US presidential elections. Both candidates pledged to tackle climate change. ibid.
Bush won the contest having promised to introduce a national limit on America’s carbon dioxide emissions. ibid.
Vice President Dick Cheney had previously headed Halliburton, one of the world’s largest oil-service operations. ibid.
Five months into his presidency, George Bush had adopted the oil industry line of emphasising the uncertainty of climate science. ibid.
‘History’s biggest merger … Exxon Mobile will be the biggest oil company in the world. 123,000 employees.’ ibid. news
‘Exxon was a ringleader. And they were at the centre of the campaigns that were around in the late ’90s, early 2000 to stall climate policy.’ ibid. Kert Davies
‘Exxon Mobile tried to control the discussion in the United States.’ ibid. old boy
Exxon Mobile continued to promote doubt and uncertainty about climate science. ibid.
As the science and the warnings became more urgent, some of the fossil fuel industry’s most reliable allies started having doubts. ibid.
BP was now making record profits from oil and gas. ibid.
But the scientific warnings were becoming ever more urgent. ibid.
The Koch brothers poured money into to the effort to kill the bill. ibid.
It’s a hoax. Big Oil vs The World III, Trump
More than 40 years ago, oil industry scientists warned that burning fossil fuels would cause climate change. ibid. caption
There are massive fracking booms happening in Texas, North Dekota … Pennsylvania … ibid. news
After years of further research the industry perfected a method of fracturing rock and horizontal drilling – fracking. ibid.
ExxonMobile became America’s biggest gas producer. ibid.
As highlighted by IPCC, if the world is serious about avoiding the worst effects of climate change, we need to cut methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry. But this is not a get-out-of-jail free card: methane reductions must go hand in hand with actions to decarbonize the energy system to limit warming to 1.5°C, as called for in the Paris Agreement. Inger Andersen, UNEP executive director
Speaker Pelosi, you just presided over a large increase in the Pentagon budget. This Pentagon budget is already massive. The Pentagon is a larger polluter than 140 countries combined. How can we seriously talk about net zero if there is this bipartisan consensus to constantly expand this large contributor to climate change which is exempt from these conferences? Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Abby Martin Confronts Nancy Pelosi, Youtube 3.25, 2021
Climate Change: impacting our planet faster than ever before. This is a global problem that needs a global solution. Restoring the Earth: The Age of Nature III
How we live with Nature will determine our future: a new age is upon us – the Age of Nature. ibid.
What if they go way, way, way, way way too far? How would they know when it’s their time to go? Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans, 2019
That was 1958. We’ve known about the dangers of climate change for six decades. Back then, there was so much air pollution, it would block out the sun. There was so much water pollution, rivers caught on fire. ibid.
Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? ibid.
Green activists across the country cheered when newly elected president Barack Obama rolled out a trillion dollar stimulus pack with nearly a hundred billion dollars for green energy. ibid.
‘It would be charging off of our grid which is about 95% coal.’ ibid. Lansing’s electric vehicles
Wind farms were rising across the nation … They were impressive machines, but is it possible for machines made by industrial civilisation to save us from industrial civilisation? ibid.
Everywhere I encountered green energy it wasn’t what it seemed. ibid.
Ethanol was reliant on two things: a giant fossil fuel based industrial agricultural system to produce corn, and even more fossil fuels in the form of coal. ibid.
‘Renewables are intermittent … If you can store the energy that’s created … now you’re reducing your need for a baseload.’ ibid. expert
‘Joshua trees are torn down to make for solar projects.’ ibid. TV news
After all the mining, the fossil fuels, the toxins, the environmental destruction … then tear it down and start all over again. ibid.
What we have been calling green renewable energy and industrial civilisation are one and the same. ibid.
Biomass: burning trees to create electricity. ibid.
Biomass especially when you add in biofuels is by far the largest portion of green energy around the world. ibid.
The other elephant in the room: the profit motive. ibid.
The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete. ibid.
Our human presence is already far beyond sustainability, and all that that implies. ibid.
‘The UN calls it Code Red for humanity.’ The IPCC’s Code Red Climate Report, news, Youtube 16.26, Second Thought 2021
In early August 2021 the inter-governmental panel on climate change, or IPCC, released their latest finding in what can only be considered the most dire warning yet for the worsening climate crisis. ibid.
The United States is one of the few places on earth where elected officials openly deny the existence of climate change. Why the United States Can’t Handle Crisis, Youtube 16.17, Second Thoughts 2021
We’re not only incapable of solving the problem, our capitalist system created the problem. ibid.
In some countries far-right politicians talking about the environment … There’s a seemingly large divide on such an important topic … The pro fossil-fuel far-right and the pro environment far-right are one and the same. How Fascists Are Taking Advantage of Climate Change, Youtube 18.16, Second Thought 2022
To reject fossil fuels then was to reject civility, modernity. ibid.