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They have received many millions from fossil fuel companies,” John Cook, one of the leading experts in analyzing and combating climate propaganda, explains by email. “A prolific source of climate misinformation has been conservative think tanks and organizations focused on market deregulation. Lamb and colleagues, who delineate discourses of climate delay and the work of Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes, who describe frames used in climate change communication.įrom climate change denial to delayism: Oil firms send academics into the fray Techniques or tactics for promulgating climate denial are well-documented-for example, see John Cook’s work with the FLICC Model William F. Teaching About Climate Change Denial in the Media

As long as companies like Chevron continue to expand their fossil fuel production, it’s false to say that they’re working toward any sort of brighter future for the climate. But many energy analyses have found that any new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement the world must stop creating new fossil fuel projects immediately if we want to have any hope of keeping warming below catastrophic levels. Sure, some “solutions” companies like Chevron are working on may emit less CO2 than traditional fossil fuels do. The phrase “low-carbon future” is intentionally misleading and an example of what some experts call “paltering”-an “attempt to distract from their polluting behavior,” John Cook, a climate change communication researcher at Monash University, told us last year. The type of messaging in the ad is an instantly recognizable form of greenwashing for those of us who spend time tracking Big Oil.

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