How Oil Giants Hid the Climate Change Truth for Decades - Seed Documentary
New documents prove that since 1957, oil companies like Exxon and Shell have known that burning fossil fuels changes the climate - based on internal secret research. Then, they discontinued the studies to do an about-face - they commissioned counter-studies, which were widely disseminated via lobby groups. They deliberately financed research to discredit their own results, tried to explain climate change through sunspots, or denied it altogether. They stressed statistical errors and uncertainties. Climate change deniers still work like this today. "For me, this is the biggest scandal in human history," says Carroll Muffett, Chairman of the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, an NGO dealing with environmental law
