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Big Spend by Big Oil: Trade group allies outspent clean-energy groups by a whopping 27x
You’ve probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They’re meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future. But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the face of a rapidly heating world. Most also provide financial support to industry groups that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political activities, often to thwart polices designed to slow climate change.
Allies of Big Oil Far Outspend Clean Energy Advocates
You’ve probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They’re meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future. But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the face of a rapidly heating world. Most also provide financial support to industry groups that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political activities, often to thwart polices designed to slow climate change.
Research Finds Big Oil’s Trade Group Allies Outspent Clean Energy By A Whopping 27x
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was first published at The Conversation. You’ve probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They’re meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future. But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the face of a rapidly heating world.
Miles de millones en publicidad de los combustibles fósiles
Seguramente habrá visto anuncios que promocionan a las compañías de gas y petróleo como las soluciones al cambio climático. Pretenden ser inspiradoras y esperanzadoras, con escenas de un futuro verde y limpio. Pero estos anuncios brillantes no son lo único que hacen estas empresas para proteger sus intereses sectoriales frente a un mundo que se calienta rápidamente.
Big Oil’s trade group allies way outspend clean energy groups
The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, which represents oil refiners and petrochemical firms, has spent millions on public relations campaigns, such as promoting a rollback of federal fuel efficiency standards. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Feb. 14 (UPI) -- You've probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They're meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future.
Los grupos aliados de las grandes petroleras gastaron miles de millones en publicidad y grupos de presión para mantener el negocio de los combustibles fósiles
Seguramente habrá visto anuncios que promocionan a las compañías de gas y petróleo como las soluciones al cambio climático. Pretenden ser inspiradoras y esperanzadoras, con escenas de un futuro verde y limpio. Pero estos anuncios brillantes no son lo único que hacen estas empresas para proteger sus intereses sectoriales frente a un mundo que se calienta rápidamente.
Big oil spent 27 times more than green groups to keep fossil fuels flowing
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Big Oil's trade group allies outspent clean energy groups by a whopping 27x, with billions in ads and lobbying to keep fossil fuels flowing
By Robert Brulle, Professor of Sociology, Brown University But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the face of a rapidly heating world. Most also provide financial support to industry groups that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political activities, often to thwart polices designed to slow climate change.
Big Oil's trade group allies outspent clean energy groups by a whopping 27x, with billions in ads and lobbying to keep fossil fuels flowing
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Big Oil's trade group allies outspent clean energy groups by a whopping 27x, with billions in ads and lobbying to keep fossil fuels flowing
You’ve probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They’re meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future. But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the face of a rapidly heating world. Most also provide financial support to industry groups that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political activities, often to thwart polices designed to slow climate change.
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition
ABSTRACT Ever since climate change became a political issue in the late 1980s, a number of industry coalitions have formed to oppose mandatory carbon emissions reductions. One key coalition was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC). This paper conducts a historical and empirical review of the activities of this coalition.
Congress' investigation of fossil fuel companies is only the beginning
This Thursday, fossil fuel company executives will testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee about their role in spreading disinformation to prevent action on climate change. This made-for-tv and long-overdue hearing will likely draw parallels to the tobacco executives testifying before Congress in 1994 about what they knew about the dangers of smoking.
Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations
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What obstruction to Biden's climate initiative will look like
Here it comes. © getty What obstruction to Biden's climate initiative will look like As President Biden announced new ambitious climate goals for the United States Thursday, opponents to climate action - aided by top public relations firms around the country - began blanketing the airways with a combination of obstruction and greenwashing. We knew they were going to do this, because we've seen it many times before.
Opinion/Brulle: DonorsTrust supports plutocracy, not democracy
By Robert J. Brulle Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is known for his exposure of the dark side of the conservative movement and how dark money is affecting everything from climate policy to judicial appointments. During the recent confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Senator Whitehouse detailed how DonorsTrust, one dark-money operation, is a primary funder of the conservative agenda.
When Climate Change Was a Nonpartisan Issue
In 1988, global warming became front-page news—and 30 years later the U.S. has yet to take meaningful action. June 23, 1988, marked the date on which climate change became a national issue.
Corporate promotion and climate change: an analysis of key variables affecting advertising spending by major oil corporations, 1986-2015
Author Listed: Robert J. Brulle (Brown University) Melissa Aronczyk (Brown University Rutgers University) Jason Carmichael (Brown University McGill University) Abstract Advertising by fossil fuel companies is a ubiquitous element of modern political life.
From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement
For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. (Lorde, 1984 Lorde, A. 1984. “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”. In Sister outsider, Edited by: Lorde, A. 110–113. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press. [Google Scholar]) 2009 Solomon, S., Plattner, G., Knutti, R. and Friedlingstein, P. 2009. Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions.
Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989-2015
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Human Health and Environmental Inequalities
Annual Review of Public Health Vol. 27:103-124 (Volume publication date 21 April 2006) First published online as a Review in Advance on August 9, 2005 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.27.021405.102124 Robert J. Brulle1 and David N.
Avoiding cultural trauma: climate change and social inertia
ABSTRACT The failure of societies to respond in a concerted, meaningful way to climate change is a core concern of the social science climate literature. Existing explanations of social inertia display little coherence. Here, a theoretical approach is suggested that integrates disparate perspectives on social inertia regarding climate change. Climate change constitutes a potential cultural trauma.
Science, Climate Change, and Policy
Global warming deniers have garnered a lot of attention in recent years. From opinion columns and letters in our local newspaper to heated reporting on Fox News (whose trademarked slogan “Fair & Balanced” is often anything but), those who doubt the underlying science of global warming are receiving unprecedented access to the American public and to policymakers. Let me offer a few thoughts on all this. I’ve long had a fascination with the science of climate change.
Climate change doesn't have to be polarizing
June 23, 1988 marked the date on which climate change became a national issue. In landmark testimony (PDF) before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, James Hansen, then director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies, stated, "Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.
30 Years Ago Climate Change Became News And Both Sides of Politics Took It Seriously
June 23, 1988 marked the date on which climate change became a national issue.
When Climate Change Was a Nonpartisan Issue
June 23, 1988, marked the date on which climate change became a national issue.
30 years ago global warming became front-page news - and both Republicans and Democrats took it seriously
June 23, 1988 marked the date on which climate change became a national issue.
30 Years Ago, Global Warming Was Front-Page News; Republicans and Democrats Took It Seriously
June 23, 1988, marked the date on which climate change became a national issue.
30 Years Ago Global Warming Became Front-Page News - and Both Republicans and Democrats Took It Seriously
June 23, 1988 marked the date on which climate change became a national issue.
30 years ago global warming became front-page news - and both Republicans and Democrats took it seriously
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Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S., 2002-2010
Atkinson M, Baumgartner F, Coggins K, Stimson J (2011) Mood and agendas: developing policy-specific conceptions of mood. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago IL. March 31, 2011Google Scholar
Climate Misinformation Campaigns and Public Sociology
On July 11, 2016, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) took to the floor of the Senate to discuss climate change. Rather than focusing on the well-known science of climate change, he focused on the “Web of Denial”—the network of think tanks and foundations that promote misinformation in order to delay action on climate change.
Elite cues, media coverage, and public concern: an integrated path analysis of public opinion on climate change, 2001-2013
To analyze the factors affecting US public concern about the threat of climate change between January 2002 and December 2013, data from 74 separate surveys are used to construct quarterly measures of public concern over global climate change. Five factors should account for changes in levels of concern: extreme weather events, public access to accurate scientific information, media coverage, elite cues, and movement/countermovement advocacy.
Three theories on the silence of the fossil fuel industry at the Paris climate summit
Dead sunflowers stand in a field near dormant oil drilling rigs in Dickinson, North Dakota, Jan. 21, 2016. Over the past year, falling oil prices have forced a decrease in drilling and fracking new wells in North Dakota's Bakken shale play. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
America has been lied to about climate change
Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about the ethics of global warming. Need a primer? Catch up here. Robert Brulle is a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Focus: Society and the Pope's encyclical
Focus: Society and the Pope's encyclical In June 2015, the Pope delivered a high-profile encyclical on climate change and the environment. The near-200 page document called for the Catholic church to enter a 'dialogue with all people about our common home'. This Focus provides a scholarly foundation for that dialogue, with world-leading ecologists, sociologists and economists highlighting the strengths and limitations of the Pope's call for action. Sue Colvil/iStock/Thinkstock
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