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Ford_Prefect

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7. The climate deniers are a creation of the oil industry. Chevron et al spent millions to generate
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 01:18 PM
Mar 2022

false data in various captive journals by paid industry staff which were intended to cloud the issue. This was revealed in the lawsuit against Chevron's actions in Ecuador.

It worked. Otherwise sensible people still insist those reports are true and that the whole contention that human activity, specifically extraction and burning fossil fuels, generated climate change and global warming is based on biased interpretation. They disregard conflicting evidence with the same passion as religious zealots. They have no idea that the principles of global warming as a result of excessive CO2 emissions was first proposed in 1896. They believe it is propaganda.

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