{"id":25285,"date":"2017-09-06T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25285"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:08:24","slug":"hurricane-harvey-climate-denial-fake-news-and-exxonmobil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25285","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Harvey, Climate Denial, Fake News and ExxonMobil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hurricane Harvey, Climate Denial, Fake News and ExxonMobil<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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For well over twenty years, climate deniers have tried to stymie discussion of extreme weather events and climate change. Why? Because extreme weather kills people, destroys property, trashes things and costs billions of dollars. \u00a0And that\u2019s when people start searching for accountability blame. Hurricane Harvey\u2019s damage is breaking records. Who will pay, remains an unanswered question. \u00a0What we do know is that a concerted campaign of climate denial, over the past three decades, has measurably slowed down society\u2019s reaction to the climate crisis and has wasted valuable time and money.<\/p>\n

For example, in October 1998, the Cooler Heads Coalition put together a \u201cMedia and Congressional Briefing\u201d titled \u201cExtreme Weather and Climate Change\u201d, held in the Cannon House of Representatives office building. The sponsoring organizations are a who\u2019s who of \u2018free market\u2019 anti-government groups. Many of the organizations are connected to Koch money and most of them were being funded by ExxonMobil in 1998 and subsequent years. The Competitive Enterprise Institute\u2019s Myron Ebell was the chair of Cooler Heads then and now. CEI received $85,000 from Exxon in 1998. The full roster of Cooler Heads members got over $472,000 in grants from Exxon that year.<\/p>\n

The guest speaker was the famous hurricane scientist Wizard of Oz, Dr. William Gray (who passed away in 2016).<\/p>\n

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In the wake of hurricane Harvey, its important to recall the corporate\u00a0fake news<\/em> campaign of 2006 to suppress the discussion of hurricanes and climate change. \u00a0The campaign was spearheaded by DCI Group<\/a>, then employed by ExxonMobil, and connected to TechCentralStation<\/em>, a news<\/em> site DCI Group set up to insert corporate friendly messages and third party messengers onto the internet before blogs were really a thing. \u00a0Video cassettes with a prepared news segment were distributed to Gulf state local TV stations.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Harvey, Climate Denial, Fake News and ExxonMobil For well over twenty years, climate deniers have tried to stymie discussion of extreme weather events and climate change. Why? Because extreme weather kills people, destroys property, trashes things and costs billions of dollars. \u00a0And that\u2019s when people start searching for accountability blame. Hurricane Harvey\u2019s damage is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,1517,15895,1041,2779,15724],"class_list":["post-25285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-denial","tag-climate-investigations-centre","tag-exxonmobil","tag-fake-news","tag-hurricane-harvey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25286,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions\/25286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}