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By Benjamin Franta, Stanford UniversityFour years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change – and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what the...
Science historian Ben Franta unpacks some of the most critical documents exposing what the fossil fuel industry knew and when they knew it.
Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science. Now, CEOs are testifying before Congress.
Big oil CEOs are getting a wrist slap on climate change by members of Congress but what about sky high energy prices?
The fossil fuel industry’s own words show that it knew about the risks of climate change long before most of the rest of the world.