~THREAD~ The @oversightdems hearing on #BigOilLies fueling the #ClimateCrisis brought in leading climate scientists and researchers in to discuss the ways #BigOil spread disinformation that delay climate action & what that delay costs us. Here is a 🧵 of some of the big moments:
2/ Big Takeaway - We have zero time left to wait yet a small handful of the largest #oilandgas companies are undertaking a new effort to keep fossil fuels burning: Climate Commitments 
3/ Climate commitments can be a good thing if commitments are based on science & goals are inline with the #ParisAgreement. And of course commitments only work if companies meet them. Thus far @chevron @exxonmobil @shell @bpplc & others haven't met any of these requirements
4/ #BigOilLies around climate actions start with a devastating truth. Companies aren’t reducing their emissions. In fact as @chevron shows us some companies have set climate goals that they can achieve while actually increasing their total emissions. earthworks.org/blog/word-play…
5/ Leading climate scientist @MichaelEMann made clear that the #ParisAgreement calls for GHG emissions to be cut in half by 2030. If we can’t meet that mark then net zero by 2050 doesn’t matter. No company has set goals to meet that mark.
6/ What’s worse many of the #BigOil companies making commitments are still increasing their emissions every year and continue to acquire new reserves with no end date in sight, all while claiming to be inline with the #ParisAgreements.
7/ @followthis founder Mark van Baal continued to hammer home the importance of immediate reductions in line with science, asking @Shell @bpplc @ExxonMobil and @Chevron “How deep will you cut your total emissions by 2030…not operational, not intensity, not 2050.”
8/ @Public_Citizen took it further, highlighting that #BigOilLies about the reality of meeting climate goals because all are relying heavily on unproven and expensive CCUS to cut their emissions. In the meantime they make no plans to address the real pollution and the impacts.
9/ We are on a path toward a #climatecatastrophe. That will not change without immediate meaningful action. Words will not save us, especially #BigOilLies.
10/ As @MichaelEMann concludes: we have the capabilities to change our course "what we're lacking is the political will power... to make it happen." If @POTUS is serious about #ClimateAction he will put an end to #oilandgas permitting & begin the managed decline ~END~
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