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Winning the War: Fighting Back Against Decades of Climate Delay
Season 1 Episode 8
Fossil fuel disinformation and campaigns have cost the world 30 years of action, but all is not lost.
The technology to address climate change exist…
7 years, 6 months ago
Climate Denial Campaigns So Successful They’re Now in Court
Season 1 Episode 7
The fossil fuel industry's decades-long information war left the public skeptical of climate change, even as oil companies themselves publicly accept…
7 years, 6 months ago
The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
Season 1 Episode 6
By the early 2000s, oil companies were funding prestigious university research centers to subtly steer climate narrative, shaping the academic resear…
7 years, 6 months ago
Shaping Culture and Faith: How Big Oil Influenced Climate Conversations
Season 1 Episode 5
To make media manipulation and lobbying truly effective, oil companies and their PR firms had to shift the culture, influencing everything from civil…
7 years, 6 months ago
Weaponizing False Equivalence
Season 1 Episode 4
Climate disinformation ramped up in the 1990s, with oil companies and their PR firms exploiting media weaknesses and propping up "contrarian" scienti…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Turn: How Big Oil Shifted from Innovation to Climate Denial
Season 1 Episode 3
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 th…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Bell Labs of Energy: How Exxon Led Early Climate Research
Season 1 Episode 2
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 "greenh…
7 years, 7 months ago
Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty
Season 1 Episode 1
Oil companies targeted scientists' biggest weakness—their refusal to be absolutely certain about anything—to sow doubt about climate change. In addit…
7 years, 7 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.…
7 years, 10 months ago