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Background materials for “You’ve been duped. Now what do you do?”

Here are links and additional reading materials that I used when developing this article.

1. From a 1969 Brown & Williamson tobacco company internal memo.

2. Estimate from average annual profits combined to arrive at total.

3. Burden of Cigarette Use in the U.S.

4. On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming

5. Global Mean CO2 Mixing Ratios (ppm): Observations.

6. The academic research and investigative journalism into what oil companies knew and when they knew it is very robust. Here are examples that contributed to this piece as well as links to internal old company memos showing what the industry knew.

Exxon’s Oil Industry Peers Knew About Climate Dangers in the 1970s, Too

Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago

Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models

1979 Exxon Memo on Potential Impact of Fossil Fuel Combustion

Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications. (1977 – 2014)

Addendum to ‘Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)’ Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019)

1991 Information Council for the Environment Climate Denial Ad Campaign

1989 Presentation to Exxon Board of Directors on Greenhouse Gas Effects

Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay

Internal American Petroleum Institute Report on Sources, Abundance and Fate of Atmospheric Pollutants.

7. Click to download the paper “Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections.”

8. Exxon’s own research confirmed fossil fuels’ role in global warming

9. 1980 Meeting Minutes of the American Petroleum Institutes Climate Task Force.

10. There are many articles on what the oil industry did to sow doubt about human-caused climate change. Here are a few that I drew on for this piece:

Exxon Sowed Doubt About Climate Science for Decades by Stressing Uncertainty

Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change communications

Exxon: The Road Not Taken, Kindle Book.

Supplemental Items to Exxon: The Road Not Taken. Includes links to all documents used to write the report and book.

Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications. (1977 – 2014)

Addendum to ‘Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)’ Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019)

Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay

11. 1998 Exxon Memo on the Greenhouse Effect.

12. Global Climate Coalition Briefing Memos. And Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush.

13. ExxonMobil acknowledges climate change risk to its business for the first time.

14. Exxon CEO Accused of Lying to Climate Science Congressional Panel.

15. Climate change on course to hit us corn belt especially hard, study finds.

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Kathy Vothhttps://onpasture.com
I am the founder, editor and publisher of On Pasture, now retired. My career spanned 40 years of finding creative solutions to problems, and sharing ideas with people that encouraged them to work together and try new things. From figuring out how to teach livestock to eat weeds, to teaching range management to high schoolers, outdoor ed graduation camping trips with fifty 6th graders at a time, building firebreaks with a 130-goat herd, developing the signs and interpretation for the Storm King Fourteen Memorial trail, receiving the Conservation Service Award for my work building the 150-mile mountain bike trail from Grand Junction, Colorado to Moab, Utah...well, the list is long so I'll stop with, I've had a great time and I'm very grateful.

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