The BBC has produce a three part series Big Oil v The world. Available on you tube (part 1 can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0iiVhOSWQg&t=11s) I have been researching this for the last twenty years. What has been available in peer reviewed papers has now been documented by the BBC - no longer is this information hidden by any paywalls. If you are interested in the ways in which the Fossil Fuel industry has systematically fostered climate scepticism and discouraged any attempts by politician to reverse the process that has been generated by CO2. As a consequence we have lost fifty years, a period during which we could have maintained our quality life without compromising our future.

Climate hysterics have been "played" by people making massive profits from renewables, Marxists and politicians in thrall to bureaucrats.

Dear BAYGON,

Yes indeed. It has been quite astounding the revelations around the lengthy disinformation campaigns against action on global warming. The same firm which worked so successfully for the smoking giants to delay regulation were instrumental in the fraud as well.

The result is we are still seeing their useful, parroting, idiots on forums like this. It is instructive to see the type of person who became fools for hire, really for free. Amazing marketing when you think about it.

AGW, global warming, whatever the latest misnomer is, is just insane scaremongering, with none of the predictions, wild guesses, models etc. coming true since the BS started decades ago. All the by-such-and-such dates have come and gone.

The latest bullshite-breaker is the news that the GBR has more coral than EVER.

Hi BAYGON,

Thanks for this topic.

I watched Q and A last night and on the panel was the
CEO of CSIRO. It was gratifying to hear his views
as a scientist as well as from other panel members
and members of the audience. Concerns about climate
is very real. As is the insistence that action needs
to be taken - especially regarding investing in
renewables. We're one of the standout countries in terms
of human development status. Our science is world class.
We've been able to come up with so many inventions
and innovations - and we should continue to lead.

Of course we'll always have the naysayers who are
comfortable in their ideologies. And as history has shown
on issues which require radical solutions that are likely
to harm economic and political interests - censorship,
misinformation, and attempts to stop any progress will
continue to exist.

New ideas instead of being welcome for the opportunities they
open up will always be seen as threats by some people.
Luckily - things are changing thanks to a younger generation.

This is just a regurgitation of the whole 'Exxon Knew' saga. Its already been fully debunked in many places including this forum as well as in the courts. It was originally pursued by about 20 US state AG's but as they became increasingly aware of how erroneous the claims that #ExxonKnew were, they dropped off. Last man standing was New York who were humiliated in the courts.

Its also a regurgitation of the long since debunked claims that the fossil fuel industry put enormous sums into the sceptic community when the truth is the sceptics are outspent by orders of magnitude by the alarmists. Hilariously the whole #ExxonKnew meme was started by an alarmist group called Inside Climate News (ICN) who, and the alarmist never talk about this, who were lavishly funded by the reliable anti-fossil fuel Rockefeller Brothers Fund. ICN actually gave editorial control over the issue to the RBF.

Its old news, long since debunked. But when has that ever stopped the BBC or the alarmist community in general?