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Campaigns So Successful They've Landed in Court
Season 1
The fossil fuel industry's decades-long information war was so successful that even though oil companies themselves began publicly accepting climate science years ago, the public remains skeptical. F…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
Season 1
If you unravel climate policy back to its origins, eventually you get to academic research. Although oil companies dramatically reduced their own scientific research on climate in the 1990s, by the e…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument
Season 1
To make media manipulation and lobbying truly effective, oil companies and their public relations firms also had to shift the culture, influencing everything from civil discourse to how religious gro…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
Weaponizing False Equivalence
Season 1
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and propped up "contrarian" scientists to push the narrative…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
The Turn
Season 1
As the price of oil dipped in the early 1980s, management changed at most oil companies and the industry as a whole became more concerned with preserving its core business than expanding in new direc…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
The Bell Labs of Energy
Season 1
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Exxon wanted to be the Bell Labs of energy. It hired brilliant scientists who conducted cutting-edge research on everything from the "greenhouse effect" to renewable ene…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: Certainty
Season 1
In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, oil companies exploited various weaknesses in science, namely scientists' tendency toward not prioritizing or valuing go…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Drilled: A True Crime Podcast about Climate Change
Season 1
Launching November 14th, Drilled is a limited series investigative true-crime podcast about the crime of the century: the creation of climate denial.
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Published on 7 years, 6 months ago