If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.
So.
The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."
Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?
According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.
No, really:
"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."
Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:
"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."
Gets better.
He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)
"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."
So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?
"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."
And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?
"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...
"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."
"Back in 1979, #Exxon had privately studied options for avoiding #GlobalWarming. It found that with immediate action, if the industry moved away from #FossilFuels and instead focused on #renewable energy, fossil fuel pollution could start to decline in the 1990s and a major #ClimateCrisis could be avoided.
"But the industry didn't pursue that path. Instead, colleagues and I recently found that in the late 1980s, Exxon and other oil companies coordinated a global effort to dispute #ClimateScience, block fossil fuel controls and keep their products flowing.
"We know about it through internal documents and the words of industry insiders, who are now beginning to share what they saw with the public. We also know that in 1989, the fossil fuel industry created something called the Global Climate Coalition—but it wasn't an environmental group like the name suggests; instead, it worked to sow doubt about climate change and lobbied lawmakers to block clean energy legislation and climate treaties throughout the 1990s.
"For example, in 1997, the Global Climate Coalition's chairman, William O'Keefe, who was also an executive vice president for the American Petroleum Institute, wrote in the Washington Post that 'Climate scientists don't say that burning oil, gas and coal is steadily warming the earth,' contradicting what the industry had known for decades. The fossil fuel industry also funded think tanks and biased studies that helped slow progress to a crawl."
🤬 #Exxon files lawsuit against investors' climate proposal
“This is the first time Exxon is seeking to exclude a shareholder proposal by filing a complaint in court. It says the investors are "driven by an extreme agenda" and that adopting stricter emission goals would be detrimental to its business and share value” #BigOil#ClimateCrisis
Wie viele #Bauern wurden schon mit Kampfgriffen verhaftet, bespuckt und mit Öl übergossen? Haben schon Wutbürger unter Polizeiaufsicht selber Hand angelegt? Hat die Feuerwehr bereits eine Pressemitteilung gegeben? Jemand behinderte Rettungswagen gezählt? Natürlich die Polizeigewerkschaft was dazu gegeifert? Söder? Merz? Echo?
Rapid reductions in fossil fuel production and use are essential to limit global warming to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels. Our new research shows most of the world's major coal, oil and gas companies are yet to make meaningful reductions.
Sept 16 (Reuters) - The state of California has sued major oil companies including Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), Shell PLC (SHEL.L), and Chevron Corp (CVX.N), accusing them of playing down the risks posed by fossil fuels, according to a court filing on Friday....
“#Exxon executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might hurt its oil-and-gas business, according to internal Exxon documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with former executives.” #ClimateCrisis#BigOil https://apple.news/AaH5o1PklTo-iWksNg1aDKg
The findings from Oil Change International wouldn't come as a surprise to many.
They reveal a stark disconnect between the climate plans of the 8 largest US and European-based international oil & gas producers, and the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The strategies of US firms Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil were found to be ‘grossly insufficient’ across all evaluated criteria.
"Yesterday, we told the CEO of #ExxonMobil to 'eat shit.' We didn't do so lightly. #DarrenWoods makes $20 million a year as his already leviathan oil company increases production quarter on quarter, robbing the world of countless lives and ecosystems. He just got back from #COP where he touted decreasing industry emissions as a solution — as though it isn't his literal product keeping choking and burning our world. #Darren's company actually produced one of the first scientific reports (in 1977) showing that their own product would lead to apocalyptic levels of heating — and they buried it.
And he was literally about to be handed an award from an elite society of scientists and businessmen when we got on stage and told him what we think of him. We shut down the whole event, the whole room fled, and we held the stage so long that they turned out the lights. No awards were awarded.
Yeah, people like Darren are the scum of the Earth and we aren't afraid to say so. It's 2023. People like Darren should be sitting in #InternationalCriminalCourt instead of getting awards." #climateaction #climatechange#climateshutdown#exxon#endfossilfuels#cop28#nyc#manhattan#stem#richpeople#protest#activism#bigoil#Darren https://www.climatedefiance.org/
Wer mit Kampfbegriffen wie „Den Bundestag kräftig eindieseln!“ fossile Privilegien einfordert, hat an sich schon jede Legitimation verloren und nichts begriffen.
Man könnte z.B. auch für mehr Geld beim Agrarziel 2030 einstehen. Und ohne die Gesundheit der lokalen Bevölkerung zu gefährden.
“‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier.
Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers.” #fracking#ClimateCrisis
If you thought it was ok to vote #Brexit because the UK would still be environmentally protected to the same levels as EU or more because #Gove and #Johnson told you so…you were mistaken.
They didn’t even write their plan or promises on the back of an envelope.
Their lips moved - they lied.
The divergence wasn’t accidental, it was deliberate to appease #BigOil.
By Ariane de Vogue and Ella Nilsen, CNN
Updated 2:06 PM EDT, Thu July 27, 2023
"The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for construction of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline to proceed, granting an emergency request from backers of the project that has the support of Congress and the Biden administration.
"The justices agreed to lift lower court orders that froze construction of the project while legal challenges play out.
"The Supreme Court’s order is a victory for #WestVirginia Sen. #JoeManchin, a conservative Democrat who has championed the project and pushed for it during #DebtCeiling negotiations in June.
"In the brief order, the court offered no extensive reasoning and no dissents were noted.
"The order came as the White House announced new actions to combat #climate-fueled extreme heat, which has been baking cities in the Southwest for weeks before moving Northeast on Thursday.
"Despite #ClimateActivists urging the #Biden administration to stop approving #FossilFuel projects like the #MountainValley Pipeline, White House officials have been supportive of the pipeline since it was first introduced in Congress last year. More recently, administration officials including White House senior adviser #JohnPodesta and Energy Secretary #JenniferGranholm voiced support this year for the pipeline’s approval.
"The White House did not immediately return CNN’s request for comment on the Supreme Court allowing the pipeline to proceed."
Figueres for years argued that oil and gas companies should have a seat at the table in climate policymaking discussions, but in June wrote an op-ed in Al Jazeera entitled: “I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong.”
The puppet of #BigOil#Sunak sits for 3 years on £1 billion of funds intended to provide rapid chargers for EVs at all UK service stations.
This is intentional. As is the row back on sales of petrol and diesel vehicles. Big Oil wants us using there filthy, climate destructive product for as long as possible and Sunak obliges at every opportunity.
"Greenpeace protesters drape giant oil-black fabric over Sunak’s mansion - Activists enter grounds of Yorkshire home in protest against prime minister’s pledge to ‘max out’ UK oil and gas reserves. Greenpeace activists have climbed on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire mansion and draped it in oily-black fabric to “drive home the dangerous consequences of a new drilling frenzy”.
The climbers managed to get on top of Sunak’s constituency home in Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, on Thursday morning, as the prime minister flew to California on holiday.
After reaching the top of Kirby Sigston Manor using ladders and climbing ropes, they unfolded 200 sq metres of oil-black fabric to cover a whole side of the property. At the same time, two other activists unfurled a banner stating: “Rishi Sunak - Oil Profits or Our Future?” across the grass in front of the house."
Nearly two-thirds of the top fossil fuel producers in Australia and the world aren't on track for 1.5°C climate target (phys.org)
Rapid reductions in fossil fuel production and use are essential to limit global warming to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels. Our new research shows most of the world's major coal, oil and gas companies are yet to make meaningful reductions.
California sues oil giants for downplaying risks posed by fossil fuels (www.reuters.com)
Sept 16 (Reuters) - The state of California has sued major oil companies including Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), Shell PLC (SHEL.L), and Chevron Corp (CVX.N), accusing them of playing down the risks posed by fossil fuels, according to a court filing on Friday....