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posted by on Sunday March 12 2017, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the playing-both-sides-of-the-fence dept.

Common Dreams reports:

Oil giant Shell also knew of the dangers of climate change decades ago, while it continued to lobby against climate legislation and push for fossil fuel development, a joint investigation by The Guardian[1] and the Dutch newspaper The Correspondent revealed [February 28].

Shell created a confidential report in 1986 which found that the changes brought about by global warming could be "the greatest in recorded history", and warned of an impact "on the human environment, future living standards, and food supplies, [that] could have major social, economic, and political consequences".

The company also made a 28-minute educational film in 1991 titled Climate of Concern that warned oil extraction and use could lead to extreme weather, famines, and mass displacement, and noted that the dangers of climate change were "endorsed by a uniquely broad consensus of scientists". The film was developed for public viewing, particularly for schools.

[...] Despite its own warnings, Shell invested billions of dollars into tar sands operations and exploration in the Arctic. It has also devoted millions to lobbying against climate legislation.

The revelations about Shell come after a separate investigation into ExxonMobil revealed that [that] company had also been waging a climate science suppression campaign and burying its own reports on the global warming impacts of fossil fuel use for decades. Exxon, whose former CEO is now U.S. secretary of state, is currently under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and state attorneys general for allegedly lying to investors about the risks of climate change.

In 2016, a group of lawmakers asked the Department of Justice to look into Shell's knowledge of global warming as well.

[1] Bogus link in TFA corrected.


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:04PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:04PM (#478153) Journal

    > Effects != major consequences.

    Depends on what your definition of "is" is, eh Mr. Hallow? When you get thrown into Hell, this post is going to be used as evidence at your "trial" (life review). Juuuuuust sayin'.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:38PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:38PM (#478176) Journal

    When you get thrown into Hell, this post is going to be used as evidence at your "trial" (life review). Juuuuuust sayin'.

    Truth remains a valid defense. The grandparent did state "effect" not "major consequence". Those words do have very different meanings.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:49PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:49PM (#478181) Journal

      There is such a thing as a vacuous truth, and there is such a thing as lying by omission, and there is such a thing as misdirection. I am beginning to think you may be a sophisticated type of shill attempting the latest (which are actually very old...) disinformation techniques, specifically the ones in the "cognitive overload" subcategory. Sorry, Mr. Hallow, but that hasn't worked on me since junior high school. And I'm pointing it out, so people who see us going back and forth will be at least partly immunized too.

      Note to Mr. Hallow's handlers: your asset is no longer providing sufficient ROI. Might want to terminate him, in whatever sense of the word applies to how you boys do things :D

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