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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:40 AM Dec 2016

"The report... reads like a checklist for the apocalypse..."

The New Yorker on the latest science and most alarming news about climate change, and the parallel appointment of Exxon's climate-change denying oil baron, Comrade Rex Tillerson as Comrade Casino's secretary of state.

Will the Republicans bring us the firkin apocalypse first, or will it be freakin Armageddon?

"As has been copiously documented, ExxonMobil has a long history of peddling misinformation on climate change."

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/rex-tillersons-state-of-denial

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"The report... reads like a checklist for the apocalypse..." (Original Post) Achilleaze Dec 2016 OP
Exxon a leading promoter of climate disinformation Achilleaze Dec 2016 #1

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. Exxon a leading promoter of climate disinformation
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:58 PM
Dec 2016

How perfectly Republican.

From The New Yorker: "The group concluded that ExxonMobil “has been—and still is—a leading sponsor of think tanks, advocacy groups, and trade associations that promote climate science misinformation.”

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