These Companies Contributed The Most To Climate Change
These Companies Contributed The Most To Climate Change
One third of all global warming has been caused by just 20 companies, and now we know exactly who they are. Here’s what’s even worse: these companies have known their products created pollution that could change our global climate. In this installment of #BigOilKnew, we walk you through the timeline of climate change denial.
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SOURCES:
[i] TheGuardian.com. Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions. Oct 9 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
[ii] CNBC.com. China says its greenhouse gas emissions soar over 50% from 2005 to 2014. Jul 15 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/china-says-its-greenhouse-gas-emissions-soar-over-50percent-in-2005-2014.html
[iia] TheGuardian.com. ‘Brutal news’: global carbon emissions jump to all-time high in 2018. Dec 5 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/05/brutal-news-global-carbon-emissions-jump-to-all-time-high-in-2018
[iii] TheGuardian.com. Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timeline. Oct 9 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/09/half-century-dither-denial-climate-crisis-timeline
[iiia] DeSmogBlog.com. ‘Time is Running Out,’ American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change. Nov 20 2018. https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/11/20/american-petroleum-institute-1965-speech-climate-change-oil-gas
[iv] TheGuardian.com. What do we know about the top 20 global polluters? Oct 9 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/what-we-know-top-20-global-polluters
[v] TheGuardian.com. Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timeline. Oct 9 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/09/half-century-dither-denial-climate-crisis-timeline
[va] ClimateFiles.com. 1965 President’s Science Advisory Committee Report on Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Accessed: Oct 25 2019. http://www.climatefiles.com/climate-change-evidence/presidents-report-atmospher-carbon-dioxide/
[vi] SmokeandFumes.org. Smoke & Fumes: Report. Accessed: Oct 25 2019. https://www.smokeandfumes.org/documents/document16
[vii] PBS.org. Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings. Seb 16 2019. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/investigation-finds-exxon-ignored-its-own-early-climate-change-warnings/
[viii] ClimateFiles.com. 1988 Shell Confidential Report “The Greenhouse Effect”. Accessed: Oct 25 2019. http://www.climatefiles.com/shell/1988-shell-report-greenhouse/
[viiia] Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Bill McKibben. Accessed: Oct 25 2019.
[ix] ClimateFiles.com. 1988 Shell Confidential Report “The Greenhouse Effect”. Accessed: Oct 25 2019. http://www.climatefiles.com/shell/1988-shell-report-greenhouse/
[x] TheGuardian.com. Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timeline. Oct 9 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/09/half-century-dither-denial-climate-crisis-timeline
[xa] ClimateLiabilityNews.org. Inside the GCC: The Industry Group That Mobilized to Fight Global Climate Action. Apr 25 2019. https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2019/04/25/gcc-global-climate-coalition-history/
[xi] ClimateScienceWatch.org. ExxonMobil and Climate Change: A Story of Denial, Delay, and Delusion, Told in Forms 10-K (1993-2000). Mar 8 2016. http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2016/03/08/exxonmobil-and-climate-change-a-story-of-denial-delay-and-delusion-told-in-forms-10-k-1993-2000/
[xia] TheConversation.com. I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist. Aug 24 2017. https://theconversation.com/i-was-an-exxon-funded-climate-scientist-49855
[xii] TheGuardian.com. Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report. Mar 21 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/22/top-oil-firms-spending-millions-lobbying-to-block-climate-change-policies-says-report
[xiia] PriceofOil.org. Fossil Fuel Industry Has Spent Nearly $2 Billion on Lobbying to Kill Climate Laws. Jul 20 2018. http://priceofoil.org/2018/07/20/fossil-fuel-industry-has-spent-nearly-2-billion-on-lobbying-to-kill-climate-laws/
[xiib] InfluenceMap.org. How the oil majors have spent $1Bn since Paris on narrative capture and lobbying on climate. Mar 2019. https://influencemap.org/report/How-Big-Oil-Continues-to-Oppose-the-Paris-Agreement-38212275958aa21196dae3b76220bddc
[xiii] TheGuardian.com. What do we know about the top 20 global polluters? Oct 9 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/what-we-know-top-20-global-polluters
[xiv] Ibid.
[xiva] Twitter.com. 350 Europe: Status Update. Oct 16 2019. https://twitter.com/350Europe/status/1184488182802464769
Aren’t the ones using the fuel making the carbon?
Shame there’s no clear, international ecocide legislation. The CEO’s of these companies should hang.
These companies should be forced by governments to work out and pay for a solution to reverse the damage they have done. And the damage they purposely intend to keep doing increasingly.
20 GREAT REASONS TO LET BIG OIL DIE NOW:
Enough climate change
Enough air pollution in our cities
Enough lung deceases and premature death
Enough ugly oil spills…..
Enough ugly oil drilling
Enough water polution
Enough sea level rise
Enough oil sand fracking
Enough ugly oil and gas tankers burning dirty oil
Enough noise disturbing the whales
Enough acidification of oceans and coral bleaching
Enough ugly refineries
Enough ugly oil storage
Enough ugly tank stations
Enough oil and gass truck disasters on our roads
Enough jet crash fires and death
Enough complicated, dirty and expensive maintenance of combustion engines
Enough dependance of the petro mafia and the Middle East corrupt and decadent leaders
Enough with big oil lobbyist bypassing our democracies
Enough oil wars and dirty oil politics
Enough oppression of clean and green decentralized energy for everyone and the poor.
Fossil fuel can no longer compete with renewable. Next generation double efficient and clean perovskite solar at half price will do the final kill very soon anyway.
Has anyone calculated the true and total cost/damage of 150 years of oil? You would be chocked!!!
This is the perfect opportunity to employ millions in the switch to 100% renewable backed up with coming megawatt energy storage and improved safe nuclear like Thorium reactor, Traveling Wave Reactor, molten salt, fusion and hydrogen boron reactor.
Holding them accountable by government officials is a stupid idea lmao, pretty much all government officials are bought. The only way to stop them is to end corruption in the us
This is an excellent video, informative and to the point. Thank you for creating it.