期刊
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
卷 71, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102386
关键词
Oil industry; Climate change; Global warming; Agnotology; Denial; Public relations
资金
- Climate Social Science Network
The study reveals that Total was warned about the potential for global warming from its products as early as 1971, and began promoting doubt regarding the scientific basis for global warming in the late 1980s before ultimately accepting climate science publicly in the late 1990s while pushing for policy delay. Exxon, through IPIECA, coordinated an international campaign to dispute climate science and weaken international climate policy starting in the 1980s.
Building upon recent work on other major fossil fuel companies, we report new archival research and primary source interviews describing how Total responded to evolving climate science and policy in the last 50 years. We show that Total personnel received warnings of the potential for catastrophic global warming from its products by 1971, became more fully informed of the issue in the 1980s, began promoting doubt regarding the scientific basis for global warming by the late 1980s, and ultimately settled on a position in the late 1990s of publicly accepting climate science while promoting policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel control. Additionally, we find that Exxon, through the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), coordinated an international campaign to dispute climate science and weaken international climate policy, beginning in the 1980s. This represents one of the first longitudinal studies of a major fossil fuel company's responses to global warming to the present, describing historical stages of awareness, preparation, denial, and delay.
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