THE CLIMATE DENIAL MOVEMENT & FOSSIL FUEL INFLUENCE IN ACADEMIA
Intentional efforts by a number of organizations have created barriers to meaningful climate action. From lobbying to creating junk science websites, a panoply of coordinated activities have sown the seeds of doubt in the minds of many and effectively wasted decades. Social scientists have begun to study these efforts, who funded them and how they continue to block and delay action on climate change and steer research away from anything that might jeopardize the hegemony of the fossil fuel industry.
Resources
Geoffrey Supran and Algorithmic Transparency Institute, September 2022 Three Shades of Greenwashing
Global Registry of Fossil Fuels
Robert Brulle, April 2022 Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition
Divest Harvard, November 2021 Beyond the Endowment: Uncovering Fossil Fuel Interests on Campus
Corporate Accountability, Global Forest Coalition & Friends of the Earth International, June 2021 The Big Con: How Big Polluters are advancing a net zero climate agenda to delay, deceive and deny
Influence Map - How the oil majors have spent $1Bn since Paris on narrative capture and lobbying on climate
Robert Brulle 2020:Denialism: organized opposition to climate change action in the United States
Robert Brulle 2013: Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations
John Cook, Geoffrey Supran, Stephan Lewandowsky, Naomi Oreskes, Ed Maibach 2019: America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change
Ben Franta 2021: Early oil industry disinformation on global warming
Barnard University 2018 Fossil Fuel Divestment and Climate Action Methodology
Oxford Martin Principles for Climate Conscious Investment 2018
Ben Franta 2020: The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities
Ben Franta 2018: Early oil industry knowledge of CO2 and global warming
Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway 2010: Merchants of Doubt
Geoffrey Supran & Naomi Oreskes 2017: Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)
Center for American Progress, Jennifer Washburn 2010: Big Oil Goes to College
Center for Science in the Public Interest 2008 Big Oil U
ExxonMobil 2019 Worldwide Giving Report pages 9 -15, pages 19-22, pages 24-27
Climate Social Science Network
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Scholars at Brown for Climate Action Advancing Brown's Response to the Climate Crisis
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
