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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: golfer72 who wrote (1384912)12/27/2022 3:21:52 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1584438
 
"Jimmie doesnt realize science has been coopted and politicized"
by the purveyors of fossil fuels....

“God Bless Trump”: 25 Years Ago This Man Kick Started the First Fossil Fuel–Funded Campaigns to Attack Climate Science
By Graham Readfearn • Sunday, January 29, 2017 - 03:58

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At the heart of big coal’s denial campaign was Fred Palmer, who served as Peabody’s senior vice president of government relations from 2001 to 2015. In 1997, Palmer founded the Greening Earth Society, a now-defunct industry front group that argued that burning fossil fuels was good for the planet. The group was based in the same office as the Western Fuels Association, a consortium of coal suppliers and coal-fired utilities that Palmer also ran.

“Every time you turn your car on and you burn fossil fuels and you put CO2 into the air, you’re doing the work of the Lord,” Palmer told a Danish documentary team in 1997. “That’s the ecological system we live in.”

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The 70's were like a different world."
Yeah; the oil companies were doing global warming research.

How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits ...


For decades, 1960s research for the American Petroleum Institute warning of the risks of burning fossil fuels had been forgotten. But two papers discovered in libraries are now playing a key role in lawsuits aimed at holding oil companies accountable for climate change.
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