{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Your Planet, Your Health","title":"Gaslighting (Big Oil Knew)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d0d5d44e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5956,"description":"In this episode, Ralph and Luc spotlight what the oil companies knew about CO2’s impact on the climate, and how they lied to you to sustain their fossilized business model – even if it risks drilling us into oblivion… This argument will soon be heard in court as part of a series of lawsuits against Big Oil.\nWe start by looking into the history of scholarship on this issue, dating back to the 19th Century.\nWe highlight the record of what the oil companies such as Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute were saying behind closed doors – and contrast this with their contemporaneous public statements.\nWe draw upon scholarship uncovered by Naomi Oreskes and the #ExxonKnew movement.\nSources:\n• If you would like to read California's lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP and the American Petroleum Institute for deceiving the public for decades, you can access it here:\nhttps://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FINAL-9-15-COMPLAINT.pdf\n• We quote from the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt; How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.\n• We also sample a couple clips from the 2014 documentary derived from it, also titled Merchants Of Doubt, directed by Robert Kenner and co-written by Kim Roberts.\n• We cite reporting from this 2017 article from the Center for Public Integrity: “The United States of Petroleum” by Jie Jenny Zou, accessible athttps://apps.publicintegrity.org/united-states-of-petroleum/\n• You can read Edward Teller’s “Energy Patterns of the Future” 1959 Presentation at the Energy and Man conference organised by the American Petroleum Institute in full here:\nhttps://www.planetaryhealthforbusypeople.com/whats-now-and-whats-new/edward-teller\n\n• We sample a couple clips from the 1981 British TV documentary by Thames Television called “Warming Warning”\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMjnvfkeJJ0&list=PL7WD0g9dS3jlkXemuiPdoj4RF416JTpn6&index=3\n• We read from...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/5XkwNmrWJ2k3MN7j0KvxIho_I14uevX_RN2mI3neSlo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM5ODY4LzE3MDE2/NDE0OTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}