What Oil Companies Knew: the Great Climate Cover-up

Before 1988, climate change was a subject confined to the realm of academic journals. That all changed when the scientist James Hansen told Congress that global heating was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.
That moment caught the imagination of journalist Bill McKibben, who has written and campaigned on climate breakdown ever since.

Oil firms are said to have known for decades of the link between burning fossil fuels and climate breakdown. 2019 Phil Lind Initiative speaker and bestselling author Bill McKibben describes how oil industries created a 30 year build-up that had helped lead to the current climate crisis.

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