Origins of Climate Denial: Campaigns So Successful They've Landed in Court

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Science shows exactly how accurate oil company scientists' climate models were back in the 1970s and 80s. Alongside this special re-broadcast of Season 1 of Drilled, all about the origins of climate denial, we speak with the study's lead author Geoffrey Supran about its importance. In this episode, a look at how successful the fossil fuel industry's decades-long information war was at convincing the public there was nothing to worry about, and how that success led to dozens of lawsuits filed over the past five years. Sign up for our newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some things leave you guessing.
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0:31.0	Welcome back to Drill, I'm Amy Westervalt.
0:34.0	This month we are re-releasing season one of Drill
0:37.0	about the origins of climate denial.
0:40.0	That's because a new peer-reviewed study
0:42.0	in the journal Science has just been published
0:45.0	showing that scientists working for Exxon in the 70s and 80s
0:49.0	predicted climate change with alarming accuracy.
0:53.0	I spoke with lead author about study Jeffrey Supran
0:56.0	about how the media has reacted to it
0:59.0	and where he plans to turn his attention next.
1:08.0	It's been an interesting exercise in climate communication
1:11.0	and somewhat humbling in that I couldn't completely
1:15.0	foresee how it was going to be received.
1:18.0	I think there is also something probably in the fact
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