Margaret Thatcher, drinking your milkshake (source)by Gaius PubliusI had a different piece set up for the next few days, revolving around a recent interview by Noam Chomsky (which Howie wrote about here) that touches on our so-called "capitalism" and also on the Bernie Sanders candidacy.
Exxon, converting oil to money (source)by Gaius PubliusI said earlier that I'd write up Exxon's reply to the (in my mind) blockbuster story broken by Inside Climate News this week about what Exxon knew (or strongly suspected and were studying) about climate change and CO2, as far back as 1977.
by Gaius PubliusThis is a brief follow-up to the blockbuster Exxon story, about how the company knew as far back as 1977 that burning fossil fuel was a big cause of climate change, that they studied the problem for ten years, then abandoned all that good work and started funding the climate denier campaign — all based on a treasure trove of internal documents.Our first story, on how much Exxon knew a
One of several Frontline videos discussing the blockbuster release of internal Exxon documents showing that global warming could well be real and that Exxon was worried about the effect of this knowledge on their businessby Gaius PubliusI've been writing recently about the blockbuster report by Inside Climate News that Exxon knew, as early as 1977, that climate change was very likely real and that continuing to burn fossil fuels would disrupt the livability of the planet.
"... or a lawsuit you never recover from?" (source)by Gaius PubliusI don't want to lose this piece of the story — as you read, keep the name Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and the federal RICO statute in mind. I'll return to Whitehouse and RICO with full focus in a separate piece.
Reporter Neela Banerjee on Exxon and climate change | FRONTLINE by Gaius PubliusAn explosive story reported by Inside Climate News, an award-winning climate organization, and Frontline, reveals that Exxon knew as early as 1977 that earth's climate was being seriously disrupted, and would continue to be disrupted, by carbon dioxide emissions, and yet in the 1980s they pivoted to financing an aggressive climate denial effort anyway.That denial effort continues to this day
Coffeyville, Kansas, where nearly one in five people lives in poverty (source)by Gaius PubliusI want to present this story as a story first, before I let the writer make an analytical point and I make one of my own.
From Thom Hartmann's The Big Picture. Cued to show the first seven minutes. Note the caption under the Politics Panel discussion: "MSNBC disses Bernie.
by Gaius PubliusI'm starting to look at the Biden surge (the surge in news stories about him), and think I see three things happening:
