>Ever since the nineteen-seventies, when scientists began asserting that the burning of fossil fuels was causing the planet to warm, Exxon has been in the vanguard of American corporations attempting to undermine their conclusions. According to public records, Exxon gave tens of millions of dollars to organizations, like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, that challenged the science. Records show that, even while Exxon was publicly denying that the climate was changing, its own scientists had concluded that it was. Naomi Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard, examined nineteen papers and reports on climate change produced by Exxon scientists between 1999 and 2004, and compared them with a series of essays from Exxon that were periodically published as advertisements in the Times. “Exxon’s scientists were very good,” Oreskes told me. “At the same time that they were telling their bosses that the climate was warming, Exxon was taking ads out in the Times saying that the science was wrong.”
Do you think climate change is a hoax just because the American Left took it up as an issue? Do you think it’s not real just because 1/2 of the two party system - the one most in league with oil businesses - campaigns against climate change policy to please its financial donors? Do you really think this has anything to do with ideology? With being “redpilled”? The idea that a simple distinction of red and blue is a meaningful way to view the world is probably partly a consequence of your broken two-party system, Americans. Team sports politics. Given that so many of you are Naziboos, who would not align neatly, if at all, with either party, I thought perhaps you would have awakened to the fact that a whole world exists outside of the contemporary political bubble.