Lately the Canadian media has been rehashing the incident last year in Parliament when Zelensky was here, but I see absolutely no mention of this...
Three Conservative MPs who met with far-right German politician will stay in caucus
Anderson , a member of European Parliament ..... which has been under surveillance as a suspected extremist group in Germany and is accused of downplaying Nazi crimes, opposing immigration and pushing anti-Muslim ideology.
*s.o. recently posted a newspaper 📰 article from the previous turn of the century and how 🤔 the burning 🔥 of fossil fuels would lead to #GlobalWarming (in my words)
I know, I needed to edit this post for adhering better to the #PascalCase convention.
Also, it fit in nicely with my re-boost today of the #BigOil fiasco background, inspired by the new allegations that even 👉#Shell's #CarbonCapture plant might be a complete fraud, as it possibly even emits way more #GreenhouseGases than it captures!👈
New Evidence Reveals Fossil Fuel Industry Sponsored Climate Science in 1954
Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of climate science funded by the fossil fuel industry, adding to growing understanding of Big Oil’s knowledge of climate change.
"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."
Editorial: California’s lawsuit against Big Oil could help end decades of climate lies.
“…it’s notable that the state is also trying to prevent oil companies from continuing to make false or misleading statements about their role in overheating the planet.”
Warum dürfen #Auto- und Energiekonzerne überhaupt Dividenden ausschütten und ihren Managern #Boni zahlen, wenn sie ohne staatliche #Transferleistungen seit mindestens 2 Jahrzehnten nicht mehr profitabel wären?
Setzt das nicht völlig falsche Anreize und führt zu massiver kognitiver Dissonanz, wenn man sich auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit ein Luxusleben macht?
Richtig. Es ist das deutsche Spiegelbild von #BigOilKnew. Der deutsche Beitrag zur globalen #Klimakrise.
Ich beginne mal mit ein paar Gedanken zur #Autobranche, die die Motivation der Akteure vielleicht klärt:
Bereits spätestens 1990 waren auch in der #Automobilindustrie Alternativen zum Verbrennungsmotor in der Diskussion. Sie setzten sich nicht durch, weil Erdöl zu billig waren und weil die Automobilindustrie kräftig mitverdiente. Nicht nur die Hersteller- und Zulieferer,...
Hm ich hatte jetzt wieder einen Namen erwartet. Den der #DoEvilCompany, Nestlé...aber konnte ihn auf die Schnelle nicht bei den (nicht genannten) "Konzernen" finden.
Die internationale #WasserMafia bereitet sich seit Jahren auf die #Wasserkriege vor. In ein paar Ländern haben diese bereits begonnennen.
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."
#BigOilAndGas can afford to fix the problem they created!
Largest oil and gas producers made close to $100bn in first quarter of 2022
Shell made $9.1bn in profit, almost three times what it made in the same period last year, while Exxon raked in $8.8bn
Oliver Milman, Fri 13 May 2022
"#Shell made $9.1bn in profit from January to March, almost three times what it made in the same period last year, while #Exxon raked in $8.8bn, also a near threefold increase on 2021.
"#Chevron upped its profits to $6.5bn and #BP reveled in its highest first-quarter profits in a decade, making $6.2bn. #CoterraEnergy, a Texas-based firm, had the largest relative windfall of the 28 companies, with a 449% increase in profits on last year, to $818m."
TPTB love to tell us to eat vegan or drive less or stop using #incandescent light bulbs, when the BIG PROBLEM is being caused by #BigOil and #BigGas!
#Methane is a more potent polluter than #CO2 - here’s how energy firms can help contain it
Oct 26, 2021
"Methane is a #GreenhouseGas that’s 80 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. It is estimated to account for 30% of the rise in global temperatures."
#BigOilKnew exacerbates the #ClimateCrisis releasing 100s of 1,000s pounds of gas to cope with #HeatDome due to poor engineering concepts
"#Oil and #gas companies in West #Texas released hundreds of tons of toxic gasses into the air last week as a record-breaking 👉#heatwave drove pressure inside #pipelines and compressors to dangerously high levels.👈
One company, #Houston-based #Targa Resources, alone released more than half a million...
Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2009-2016, who helped negotiate the Paris Agreement, finally realizes what all veteran energy transitionistas eventually realize: That it's foolish to think FF companies will ever be good partners in the #energytransition.
The impudence of the successors to the people who caused this #ClimateCatastrophe with an average global temperature not seen in 120,000 years is outrageous.
Your horizon in this respect seems to be longer than mine.
I think our conclusions might be quite similar, despite our quite likely very diverse backgrounds.
This makes these conclusions all the more scarier.
I am not sure if the #BigOilKnew demagoguery had anything to do with the right-wing renaissance. I have not looked at this aspect enough. However, as one strongman and his clan is much easier to bribe, I would not put it past them. They signed up for #Terracide, time...
In light of the paper from Geoffrey Supran, @rahmstorf, and Naomi Oreskes showing that #Exxon predicted #GlobalWarming extremely accurately between 1977 and 2003, contradicting their decades of #ClimateDenial, this exchange between Rep. AOC and Exxon scientists is worth revisiting.
"...is to immediately stop the expansion of fossil fuel production, #BigOil executives are seeking to #greenwash their activities and continue to mislead the American people about their role in this crisis [#ClimateCrisis] .”
#MahyarSorour's, "deputy legislative director of the #SierraClub, [2021] statement in response to the executives’ testimony in the House Oversight Committee hearing on #ClimateChange.