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Once again climate scholars must waste time & resources trying to get their own house in order, calling on world's largest earth science org @theAGU to not...wait for it...award a Koch-funded climate denying politician a Presidential Citation. BRIEF THREAD ⬇️ 1/n #AGU18 #AGU2018
This comes two years after @theAGU repeatedly rejected calls from 54,000 citizens and 300 geoscientists to stop legitimizing Exxon through sponsorship ties, in direct violation of AGU's Organizational Support Policy and scientific integrity 2/n: documentcloud.org/documents/2803…
These nondecisions are systemic, reflecting long-standing institutional failings in science and higher education - at @theAGU, @MIT and beyond - to stand up to climate denial. As I wrote a while back, "scientific organizations must be braver" 3/n. huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-supra…
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Friendly fact-check for reporters covering BP's acquiescence today to years of shareholder pressure on climate change...Credit where it's due, but details matter: BP's pledge to "align" its business with #ParisAgreement excludes ~88% of emissions associated with its products. 1/n
2/n: That's because "the company will not be setting targets any time soon for 'scope 3 emissions' produced by customers using its products" (buried but at least noted in @guardian piece, ignored entirely in many outlets). theguardian.com/business/2019/…
3/n: The problem is, BP's scope 3 emissions dwarf its direct emissions by roughly 7-to-1. [bp.com/content/dam/bp…]
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Less than a decade after World War II, the fossil fuel industry was studying CO2 pollution. Within a few years, it knew its products threatened global warming. Its response? To turn around & orchestrate an anti-science, anti-policy denial campaign dwarfing even Big Tobacco's. 1/n
2/n: For a one-stop, up-to-date primer on this history, check out this amicus brief by experts @NaomiOreskes, @RBrulle, @BenFranta, @STWorg, & me filed yesterday to U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change…
3/n: Short on time? Our Table of Contents offers top-line takeaways.
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Wow: EU "to scrutinise ExxonMobil's alleged role in climate change misinformation". To be clear, legally-speaking it may still be alleged, but historically-speaking it is a fact. 1/n
amp.theguardian.com/business/2018/…
2/n Here's my & @NaomiOreskes' peer-reviewed study showing how ExxonMobil misled the public about climate science and its implications: nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opi….
3/n And here's my testimony about the history of climate denial by ExxonMobil et al. to Philippines Commission on Human Rights: . Our work builds on a vast literature of scholarly & journalistic investigations, all of which point to the same conclusions.
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