US congress investigates big oil deception practise

[johu]

These companies infiltrate everything. Unis, scientists, news papers, social media to spread their fairy tales and delay progress away from their smelly product

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/ ... ublespeak/

[Jacobsmess]

Horrifying and utterly unsurprising. We need some galvanized people to take them to court and get as much compensation out of them to to be reinvested in green tech. I wonder how far back they have set progress....

[jrbe]

Holding them accountable,
Vermont to Require Fossil-Fuel Companies to Pay for Climate Damage
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/clim ... amage.html

[johu]

Nice one.

Indeed not surprising but great to see it written up by a credible government body.

[jrbe]

This is from 1985, so pushing 40 years at this point. A talk on global warming by Carl Sagan,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI&lis ... Ad1_i9gYVW

I think its an interesting listen, a time capsule into the past, and how things have progressed.