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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Drilled, I'm Amy Westrot. |
0:14.5 | This month we are re-releasing season one of Drilled about the origins of climate |
0:19.5 | Nile because a new peer reviewed study in the journal Science has just been published |
0:25.3 | showing that scientists working for Exxon in the 1970s and 80s predicted climate change |
0:32.4 | with alarming accuracy. |
0:35.4 | I spoke with the lead author of that study, Jeffrey Supran, about how Exxon has been |
0:40.0 | responding to it and whether they are adopting any particular strategy to counteract the |
0:46.1 | study, especially given the wall-to-wall media coverage of it. |
0:50.9 | The fossil fuel industry's approach to reshaping narratives on climate change is the focus |
0:55.5 | of the episode you're about to hear as well, but first here is Supran. |
1:03.4 | How have you seen Exxon responding to this? |
1:06.7 | What seems to be the narrative we're going with? |
1:10.2 | Well, as you've probably seen, remarkably they've been quite muted in their response. |
1:17.4 | They've essentially just issued a blanket statement that we and everyone are just wrong. |
1:24.4 | The only counter-agumement they've made is to point to the 2019 judge's decision about |
1:32.1 | the New York lawsuit. |
1:35.4 | The latter is essentially a red herring because it's just pointing to some legal decision |
1:42.2 | about a completely irrelevant accounting issue. |
1:46.0 | Right. |
1:47.0 | The judge made very clear that he was not letting them off the hook for this stuff. |
1:52.6 | That's right. |
1:53.6 | I don't know. |
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