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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Climate News: Fossil fuel companies knew about the cause and impact of global heating, but denied and obfuscated the facts
Description: World-recognized climate activist, Bill McKibben (pictured), has regularly made the point that fossil fuel companies are the villains in the whole climate issue.
"Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s";
"Let’s face reality. Fossil fuel interests have destroyed the Cops – we need something new";
"ExxonMobil ignored accurate global warming studies by its scientists for decades, research finds";
"Michael Pascoe: There’s a quantifiable cost to George Pell’s style of climate denial";
"ExxonMobil predicted climate change while downplaying risk";
"Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming...