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Jul 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
I wrote about the moment the fossil fuel coalition joined forces with a PR genius to spread doubt & persuade the public that climate change was not a problem
It happened at a little-known meeting, 30 years ago, in autumn 1992.
The ‘dean of environmental PR’, E Bruce Harrison, was pitching for a lucrative comms contract with the Global Climate Coalition, which represented the oil, coal, auto, utilities, steel & rail industries.
The GCC was looking to change the narrative on climate change.
Jul 21, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
My latest documentary DENIAL, the first part of a new series Big Oil vs the World, will be broadcast tonight on BBC2 at 9pm.
With this week’s unprecedented heatwave the latest reminder that devastating climate change is already underway, this is the story of how we got here.
It begins 4 decades ago, when scientists working for Exxon, the world’s biggest oil company, warned that burning fossil fuels would cause climate change - with potentially catastrophic effects. But from the late 1980s, the oil industry went on to mount a campaign to sow doubt.
