Journal article
Early oil industry disinformation on global warming
- Abstract:
- Determining the onset of organized disinformation about global warming is critical for understanding its political history and evaluating the responsibilities of fossil fuel producers and other relevant parties today. A newly discovered archival document shows the American Petroleum Institute was promulgating false and misleading information about climate change in 1980, nearly a decade earlier than previously known, in order to promote public policies favorable to the fossil fuel industry. This finding demonstrates early use of public-facing disinformation about global warming by the petroleum industry and suggests commercial fossil fuel interests played a more obstructive role in climate change discourse and policy throughout the 1980s than previously understood.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/09644016.2020.1863703
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Environmental Politics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 663-668
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-01-05
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1743-8934
- ISSN:
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0964-4016
- Language:
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English
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1577884
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pubs:1577884
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2023-12-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Benjamin Franta
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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