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Drilled

Origins of Climate Denial: The New World War

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

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 final episode, a look at what it might take to finally act on climate. Sign up for our newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Drill. I'm Amy Westervalt. This month we are re-releasing season one of Drill

0:47.3

about the origins of climate Nile. That's because a new peer-reviewed study in the journal Science

0:53.2

has just been published and it shows that scientists working for axon in the 70s and 80s didn't just

1:00.0

know quite a bit about climate change and what was causing it and what it would bring to all of us.

1:05.8

They predicted all of it with alarming accuracy. I spoke with the lead author of that study

1:11.3

Jeffrey Supran about the fact that in many cases even if fossil fuel companies have stopped

1:16.9

sewing doubt about climate change in their home countries, they're still running the same playbook abroad.

1:22.8

Especially when it comes to countries in the global south. It's a bit of a look forward to our next

1:28.7

season coming out in March as well. I would love to hear your take on on something related to this

1:39.6

new series that we're working on given what you've just put out in this study. So there's several

1:45.8

court cases that have been filed in Guyana with the goal of trying to pause drilling there.

1:51.6

One of them is a constitutional case where they're arguing that this project

1:57.5

infringes on the citizens right to a healthy environment and the judge added

2:03.4

SO which is axon subsidiary and its partners in Guyana as defendants. So there are sort of

2:11.2

code offendants with the government in this case and in some of the back and forth in there. SO

2:17.3

axon subsidiary is arguing that the science is not settled on climate change. In you know

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