How Oil Companies Hid the Truth About Climate Change

The ENDEVR documentary highlights the actions of oil companies in hiding the truth about climate change. According to the video, former oil industry executives and Donald Trump’s cabinet talked down the reality of climate change.

However, New York’s attorney general believes that oil companies have known about the threat of climate change for decades and have been funding research into climate change for 60 years without telling the public.

The documentary also claims that old studies, such as the Brandon Report from 1957 and the Robinson Report from 1968, prove that high-level executives in oil companies were aware of the effects of burning fossil fuels on the global climate but tried to sow doubt and prevent legislation. The oil industry is accused of re-writing reports and denying the existence of unfavorable studies.

We see how the oil industry knew about the dangers of climate change as far back as the 1940s, and yet they hid this knowledge from the public and continued to prioritize their profits over the well-being of the planet.

The documentary sheds light on the ways in which the oil industry used its wealth and power to suppress evidence and sow doubt about climate change, ultimately delaying action and exacerbating the severity of the problem. It highlights the urgent need for governments and individuals to hold these corporations accountable and take action to combat climate change.

They funded research into climate change as early as the 1940s and 50s, but instead of warning the public about the dangers of burning fossil fuels, they hid the truth and actively sowed doubt about climate change.

They did this by cherry-picking parts of studies that highlighted uncertainties and downplayed the reality of climate change. They also used their financial resources to fund studies that supported their own interests and denied the existence of studies that did not.

The documentary shows that the oil industry’s cover-up of climate change is one of the biggest scandals in global history. Prosecutors like New York’s Attorney General believe that the oil industry committed fraud by not disclosing what they knew about climate change to the public, and they are investigating this claim.

The lawyer Carol Muffet, who is also investigating the fraud, says he has found documents proving that oil companies have been secretly funding research into climate change for 60 years.

The video suggests that the oil industry’s cover-up of climate change began in the 1940s when oil companies commissioned the first studies into how increasing car traffic affects the environment. As car use increased, Los Angeles was plagued by smog, and when people started blaming oil and gas for the smog, the oil industry fought back.

The industry created the Smoke and Fumes Committee to combine science with public relations to delay action on air pollution measures, including measures that would address carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. The Committee’s goal was to prevent possible legal restrictions on the industry.

In conclusion, the video argues that the oil industry has known about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and climate change for decades but has hidden the truth from the public.

The industry has used its financial resources to fund studies that support its own interests and has actively sowed doubt about climate change to prevent legislation against the use of fossil fuels. The video suggests that the oil industry’s cover-up of climate change is one of the biggest scandals in global history.