A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change.

“There is evidence that the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of fossil fuels,” wrote Garvey. “If the future rate of increase continues as it is at the present, it has been predicted that, because the CO2 envelope reduces radiation, the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere will increase and that vast changes in the climates of the earth will result.”

Coal Knew, Too | HuffPost Impact
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coal-industry-climate-change_n_5dd6bbebe4b0e29d7280984f

Projections created internally by ExxonMobil starting in the late 1970s on the impact of fossil fuels on climate change were very accurate, even surpassing those of some academic and governmental scientists, according to an analysis published Thursday in Science by a team of Harvard-led researchers. Despite those forecasts, team leaders say, the multinational energy giant continued to sow doubt about the gathering crisis.

Exxon scientists predicted global warming with ‘shocking skill and accuracy,’ Harvard researchers say – Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/

TUHO: Second, the IGU's approach to cultivating relationships with influencers in the media, environmental NGOs, and think tanks reveals that the same tactics we laid out in S3 of the podcast (and online here) are still being deployed, and to great effect. Every time I talk about how much money and effort the fossil fuel industry expends to court influencers who will carry water for it, I hear a similar response.

O tom, jak plynovej prumysl makal na tom, aby nacpal spalovani plynu do klimatickych politik

In the same week, Influence Map put out a fascinating report on the International Gas Union, which describes itself as a "spokesperson for the gas industry worldwide." It has more than 150 members including all the household names—Shell, ExxonMobil, Sempra, and Total—representing about 90 percent of the global gas industry. The report analyzes strategy documents that, incredibly, were available on IGU's website from 2017 to 2021. Taken together they reveal a global playbook that includes the "greening" of gas in regions that are more environmentally conscious and the emphasizing of "energy poverty" in the Global South. The group's advocacy strategy includes a focus on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in an effort to tie economic development goals to the buildout of gas infrastructure, as well as partnerships with media outlets, environmental organizations, and think tanks.

These documents are fascinating and I encourage folks to read the whole report, but a couple of things really jumped out to me in particular. First, there really seems to be confirmation here that the industry's only real interest in "renewable biogas" and hydrogen are their usefulness in perpetuating the conventional gas industry and infrastructure. In a document focused on the strategy of "greening" gas, the IGU spells this out explicitly, highlighting the way that hydrogen and biogas could help save the market and the industry's assets.

InfluenceMap The International Gas Union’s Climate Strategy
https://influencemap.org/landing/-a794566767a94a5d71052b63a05e825f-20189?ref=drilled

YMLADRIS: No popravde receno, to ze lidi, ktery sirej klimaticky dezinformace nejsou blby, je pomerne casty :)

Jednoho Dolejse

https://twitter.com/DolejsJiri/status/1609520501268815872/photo/1

Krtek a uhlí / The Little Mole and Coal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h40PFystqQU


tohle jsem nepobral, to je asi na objednávku křetínskýho :D

Tady review Briana Sussmana dezinfo platku o climategate...

Review: The Climate of Climate Change
Reviewed Works: Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity by Mike Hulme; Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate by Stephen H. Schneider; Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam by Brian Sussman; A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions by Katharine Hayhoe, Andrew Farley
Review by: John Murdock

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43152564

TUHO: Epstein is a former adjunct scholar at Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, and a former fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute.[6][7] He rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, which is that climate change is dangerous, progressing, and human caused,[2][8][9][10] although he objects to being labeled as a climate change denier.[11]