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CLIMATE CRISIS

Memo to Trump: US president Lyndon Johnson acknowledged global warming 52 years ago

5th November 2017

Dana Nuccitelli writes: On 5 November 1965, US president Lyndon Johnson’s science advisory committee sent him a report on the environment, which included a section on atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change, written by prominent climate scientists. Reviewing it today, one can’t help but be struck by how well they understood climate change back then….

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Watch: What oil giant Shell knew about climate change in 1991

8th March 2017

The Guardian reports: The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered. However, since then the multinational company has invested heavily in highly polluting oil reserves and also helped lobby against climate action….

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Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions

11th January 2017

Suzanne Goldenberg reports: The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests. They range from investor-owned firms –household names such as Exxon and BP– to state-owned firms….

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How Exxon suppressed evidence of Climate Change in the late 1970s

4th November 2015

Exxon’s Climate Lie: ‘No Corporation Has Ever Done Anything This Big or Bad’ The truth of Exxon’s complicity in global warming must be told – how they knew about climate change decades ago but chose to help kill our planet Bill McKibben, The Guardian UK I’m well aware that with Paris looming it’s time to…