Climate crisis - How oil companies hushed up research results | DW Documentary

Climate change is not news to big oil companies. They’ve known about it for more than 40 years, even burying their own research results on the links between carbon emissions and global warming.
In the 1970s, oil conglomerates commissioned research into climate change. It predicted the global warming that we’re facing today. But US oil companies hushed up these findings rather than accepting responsibility. Just like the tobacco industry before it, the industry spent millions on a disinformation campaign. This campaign aimed to discredit the results, sowing doubts about human-induced climate change, so the companies could stave off tougher climate policies and continue drilling for oil and gas unhindered. Now they are facing dozens of lawsuits.
In the US, for example, the city of Charleston on the southeastern Atlantic coast is suing Big Oil for climate adaptation costs. The city says the companies are to blame for the increased flooding it is facing. The legal dispute could make history. The municipality alleges that climate change could have been effectively tackled decades ago had it not been for the oil industry’s ‘multi-decade campaign of deception.’ Oil companies have denied the allegations.
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[@Limewire1984]

Legality versus morality. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's moral.

[@koushikdas1992]

What about lower middle-class people like me!? I have to ride on bike for my work. On average, I generally ride between 40-50 kms on daily basis. The bike runs on petrolium oil. Without it, I can't earn livelihood. What have you thought for us?

[@yulusleonard985]

@@koushikdas1992 Mine use grapene sealed lead acid.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Agreed. And just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's immoral.

[@benzzoy]

Correct. Especially when legality is 100% determined by paid politicians who value their bank accounts and careers over the interests and needs of their constituents.

[@manuelpopp1687]

@@koushikdas1992 I ride 40 km a day to work on a bicycle. But that is not the point. If these criminals hadn't lied 40 years ago, most people would have cheap, reliable, and save public transport by now. (Of course, EVs would also be on a totally different level by now, but public transport is even more environmentally friendly and, besides, can even be used by handicapped or elderly people who cannot drive a car.) The reason people are using cars is that the entire infrastructure of almost every country on earth is built around cars. Only within the last years, some pioneer countries started investing into bicycle and public transport and it massively, MASSIVELY improved the quality of life for everyone. Especially for people who live in cities, but also for everyone else. It all comes down to political decisions which are affected by what we, the people, know, as well as by that what companies do to influence such decisions. If politicians and the public had not been confused through lies, you would probably not even need a bike.

[@med7743]

Its called GREED & not caring about anyone else

[@vmavpt74]

>But oil prospection/ drilling continues without stop!...

[@interstellarM81]

That’s capitalism for you. $$ (profits) over everything including lives

[@RM360CR]

Ok but in the end is supply in demand, consumer want cheap oil either from fracking or from wars so is it fair or logical to blame when it is the consumer who support this... We all know what this companies are doing is not secret...

[@RM360CR]

and that sub saharan female is not native american she has no right to that land..

[@siyabongampongwana990]

I mean women do want the top dog. What's the point of being ethical and as a result broke, fustrated and without a lady.

[@Rac-fpv]

We’ve known fossil fuel companies have know for years, and as a punishment, we give them tax breaks.

[@jimthain8777]

Except for Nigeria. Nigeria removed oil subsidies. They are probably the ONLY country in the world to do so.

[@vble2337]

Fossil fuels come from dinosaurs remember. Everything comes from the earth.

[@wisu3529]

Let’s give them oil companies a finger wag and a good stern talking to. That will teach them!

[@geoms6263]

Those companies would go bankrupt if people stopped buying from them...

[@jimthain8777]

@@vble2337 Actually it's mostly plants. Because before we started cutting them down, plants outnumbered animals in a massive way. So dinosaurs would be just a fraction of fossil fuels. Fun fact: Once all coal is used up there will be no more. The reason for that is microbes. Coal formed before certain microbes that break down wood evolved. After the microbes evolved coal stops. That's why coal is in a band at about the same depth everywhere on Earth.

[@bakerkawesa]

Greed is costly. The sad part is that the greedy won't be the ones who foot the bill.

[@norwegianzound]

That's called generational theft.

[@bluegold21]

That was the plan from the start. And Exxon must have also liaised with other oil comps to get such an accurate prediction for CO2 production. They all knew what would happen. The most sadistic of their strategies was to tap conservative groups to teach the god-fearing public that climate can only be affected by god. And tbh the leaders of those religious groups probably knew full well that they were lying to their congregation, especially the watchtower nuts who without coincidence began to rise in popularity during the late 70s and early 80s' just as the global warming signal was observed by scientists. The oil comps then began turning it into a political question as opposed to one of health and safety. Scientists had no political party. But the right-wing corporate fascists did, including support of the conservative zealots. It was always a rigged game and if hell was real then they belong in it.

[@karenharrison9094]

Sad is we already tipped and we are kept alive by SRM solar radiation management

[@jonc67uk]

Actually they're equally screwed in the long term. Ecosystem collapse isn't a survivable thing, even if you're wealthy.

[@Magik1369]

It will be each and every one of us that pays for their greed with our lives by 2030.

[@kated3165]

I'm in Eastern Canada and for the past years we were increasingly commenting on how ''weird'' our winters were becoming. This year we asked, ''where the heck did winter go??!''. We did get snow, and temperatures got colder... but this was NO Canadian winter.

[@TheIndyspace]

It's not 'climate change'...It's *weather modification*.

[@andrewreynolds912]

But we know its climate change ​@@TheIndyspace

[@freeheeler09]

Thel, that is a wild claim. Care to back it up with data?

[@TheIndyspace]

​@@freeheeler09 , you're not interested in the 'data'. And it's not a *claim*, it is fact. If you were interested in factual data, you would have discovered the truth for yourself, instead of dropping your ignorance in the comments sections...

[@chrisskyllas1309]

Weather fluctuates. We'll be fine. If anything humans (and many other species) do better in warmer climates than in cold ones. Cold temperatures are more deadly.

[@kevinJmadsen]

All of this has been obvious from the 1970s.And again when doctor hansen and sagan testified to congress in 1983.

[@acetate909]

BS. In the 1970 climate alarmists were promising we were entering an ice age. Then in the 1980s they did a complete 180⁰ and claimed we were experiencing global warming. And the "experts" predictions have been comically wrong for decades. In then 1990s they claimed the polar ice caps would be almost completely melted by 2020 yet those same ice caps are larger than they've been in decades. They predicted several degrees of warming but even with their skewed and biased reports the temperature has barely risen one degree in 5 decades. When are people going to acknowledge this whole thing is about power and control and the climate science is absolute junk meant to scare the population into compliance. The real issue is pollution of our air and water, not C02 emissions.

[@volkerengels5298]

YES. Seen this way, the video is pure hypocrisy. Lazy, ignorant people point to the bad guys.

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

Funniest part, less politicians support doing anything about it now, than they did in 1983. Democracy suffers in this environment, as these companies buy our representatives.

[@vade137]

Oh, they lied to Congress. It was obvious in the 1970's because about 20 countries were running Weather Modification, aka climate change, programs in their countries to change the climate. By 2010's over half of the countries in the world were running programs to change the weather/climate...so, with that many countries running weather change programs many people would notice. However, weather/climate change has very little to do with you, me, and the oil companies. If the Governments around the world stopped running their weather modification programs the "climate change" would just stop. Look on the World Meterological Organization for a list o Weather Modification Programs by Country, they provide a list of these to the UN every year. Years 1980-2010 are discoverable on the internet...after 2010 becomes tricky, they put a lock on the lists. The lists will tell you: Country, Program Name, Weather Modification Delivery Method, Year. Now, if you still really want to hate the energy companies...look into whether they cause earthquakes....they'd rather you run in circles over 'climate change' than actually look into their earthquake activities.

[@RodoffeReiNe]

😮1969🎉1984🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@adityabindra01]

DW suddenly coming up with all these amazing documentaries like okayyy… that’s some great research and people working behind the scenes 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your positive feedback!

[@TheAlchemistZero1]

Akin to exclaiming: "How could we stop stabbing ourselves to death when profits are on the line!?".

[@satpolpp1]

More like 'How could we stop scratching ourselves and stabbing others to death when our profits are on the line?

[@AVADAMS1967]

Brilliant!

[@milesinnz]

has it never occurred to you to ask where the demand comes from ???? I guess not...

[@AVADAMS1967]

@@milesinnz For me, the 'demand' comes from necessity. Many people believe we have 'free will', but as I study the thesis of "The Matrix" series, I see that free will is only an illusion, another control mechanism. Our society has been built on the premise that we will use petroleum products (gas, plastic, synthetic fibers) or we will perish. It takes 5 acres of land to feed a single human. Are we all ready to go back to the 19th century? and raise our own food? There are 394,342,000 acres of arable land in the US, and 333.3 million citizens, just a little over 1 acre per person. The option is to ask to be accepted into an Amish community, and well, I don't think that would work out well for one such as I.

[@RetroCat31]

It’s a hopeless situation. Big oil will never surrender. Greed rules the 21st century…..

[@lessdatesmoreonmyplates1457]

Yup, it's over

[@user-mk5uz1ez3k]

Check out the lost century and how to reclaim. We're fd

[@vade137]

They don't have to surrender, they are not causing any problems with the climate and your energy consumption is also not changing the climate. What the energy companies may be causing are earth quakes, and they may be hiding that they know they are causing earth quakes. As for 'climate change'...that is caused by over half of the Governments in the world runinng programs to change the climate, they call it Weather Modification. They report on these projects every year to the UN via the World Meteorological Organziation. If you search for WMO Weather Modification Country Lists Yearly Reporting...you may be able to find some of the lists between 1980-2010. Pretty interesting read...and you will not like the UN or all of this blaming you for climate change propoganda. They know exactly who is changing the climate, how it's being done, the program names, and organized by Country. It's not you, me, or the gasa companies changing the climate...it's the UN, WMO, and Governments that are changing the climate...and, if they stop running the programs...climate change just stops. Kind of funny. Now, try to look into energy companies causing earth quakes, you'll get shut down very quickly...which means you're onto something real.

[@keepitreal2902]

Not hopless. People are switching to EVs at a fast pace now and coal power is going away. We can fix this. But we have to keep the pressure on our politicians

[@skkedys1t36]

You so naive, electric cars awful for environment, do your research

[@deepashtray5605]

During this video an ad for a large gas guzzling pickup truck popped up... oh the irony. We're not going to fix this.

[@wisu3529]

KZbin premium has no ads. ❤

[@catalin200284]

@@wisu3529 you are so smart, but not on the subject ...

[@deepashtray5605]

@@wisu3529 My comment appears to have gone over your head.

[@wisu3529]

@@deepashtray5605 nope, I got it the first time. And I agree with you. But I’m guessing you’re still learning satire?

[@deepashtray5605]

@@wisu3529 If your reply is meant to be satire then yes, I will concede that there is more to learn. I love satire and find it quite remarkable how so many people flat out don't get it. But no one is an expert... except maybe Dave Chappelle.

[@hloop6440]

Thanks DW, you should do a deep dive on the sheer amount of skewed information out there (and it's origins) that make it harder to discern the unbiased facts for the general public in todays information age.

[@Fenthule]

The amount of misinformation and blatant disinformation these days is actually terrifying when you compare that to how bad the average person's media literacy is.

[@robertmarmaduke186]

DW should next do a deep dive on Germany and Poland building coal-fired powerplants like French toast.

[@vade137]

Easy, go to the World Meteorological Organization, look up Weather Modification Programs by year. They provide a yearly list to the UN of all of the programs run around the world to change the weather/climate. Currnetly, over half of the Governments in the world have programs to change the weather/climate and at least 20 countries have been running these programs since the 1970's, including the USA.

[@fcooett]

Greed is the scourge of humanity

[@alexisbendelamousseauchocolat]

+1. But, I might say, Humans are the scourge of humanity. Us all. But, where do we start? I am 42/M fighting the ordinaries of life.

[@Andreas-hh9yg]

Big Oil, a good student of the tobacco industry.

[@QT5656]

Joined at the hip. Look up the history of cigarette filters.

[@QT5656]

These private petrochem companies have lied about PFAS too.

[@TheKingWhoWins]

Bisphenol A

[@jessebutterfield8487]

All because people want $$$$$$!

[@andrewreynolds912]

Blame capitalism

[@andrewreynolds912]

Capitalism won't save us from climate change its demand for endless profit and growth will des'troy us

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

But we are the PEOPLE ! Get involved man √

[@volkerengels5298]

OH - we poor victims. Didn't we know for min20 years..?

[@robertmarmaduke186]

In Chuuk they use giant stone coins for the trade. Every civilization developed 'coins of thevrealm'. Your's is the first civilization those that grasps at $tuden Loan Foregiveness, while marching against Corporate Greed in your Eddie Bauer Air Jordans and rose-gold i-Phone slave-made gear.

[@RobertHasty]

We've had more snow pre 2005 in one year then we have in last 15 years. Winters are definitely getting warmer, a lot less snow. I don't care what anybody says, we have sped up the climates warming patterns and it's only getting worse.

[@vble2337]

lol.

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

Yeah, a seasons pass at the ski resort is pointless. We only had a few weeks of decent snow, in northern Alberta.

[@coreyg638]

Crazy that our planet has cycles and some of those cycles are longer than a human life and in some cases those cycles are longer than humans have kept records so to us it seems like something NEW happening that's never happened before but it's just something we haven't witnessed

[@QT5656]

@@coreyg638 It's not natural cycles. Variations in orbital tilt and solar irradiance cannot explain the recent rapid warming. However, the extra CO2 and other greenhouse gases can just as predicted in the 1970s and even earlier. Stratospheric cooling is just one example of clear evidence that the warming is due to heat being trapped rather than extra heat reaching us.

[@andrewday3206]

@@coreyg638 It is true the earth has a 41,000 year wobble. It is also true our orbit varies in a 100,000 year cycle. But these changes in climate are both rapid and predicted by the physics and modeling of Climate Change

[@leszekkot3373]

You expect them to be both ethical and profitable?😅

[@vsstdtbs3705]

The next documentary should be how old ladies hushed talk on overpopulation. It is women that are the majority voters, and want to selfishly survive. Any politician talking about overpopulation loses their job.

[@leav388]

Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson got a cabinet post instead of the capital punishment chamber.

[@StressRUs]

Blaming oil companies for producing the oil and gas we keep purchasing from them is absurd. Econ 101: "supply and demand ". If we keep up the demand, they will keep up the supply. Questions?

[@NaughtyGoatFarm]

So many similarities to the tobacco industry knowing about the health impacts of smoking

[@erkinalp]

except on a much larger scale

[@user-gc8pc3ol6l]

And the same trick of buying scientists to agree with them. Those scientists are a disgrace to science. Selling their souls and the pursuit of truth to participate in the lies.

[@MyLoganTreks]

Studying biology in college the late 90's, this all was news even back then. I decided all the reefs would be dead, so I worked a 20 yr career in banking wealth management instead where I saw the profits being made from generational wealth and institutional investments in the oil industry. Lobbyists got paid very well on these issues. It's not about the well-being of people it's clearly about the profits. Vote for the change you want to see in this world as if your children's generations will have to live with your decisions. The newest form of this investing is in Disaster Capitalism, Cat Bonds, Blackstone.

[@mpinline1]

Sometimes I wonder what is Blackstone or any of these greedy monsters gonna do with all the money they've hoarded once life is gone from Earth! I cherish the thought that I won't be here to see their fear faces when there is no one left on Earth to fleece.

[@BufordTGleason]

Shame on us…we fell for the same thing perpetrated by big tobacco, until after years, they were finally held to account for what we had known for sometime. The oil companies just used the same playbook on how to create doubt about scientific results

[@vade137]

They really have very little to do with "climate change" BUT they may be responsible for earthquakes. "Climate Change" is casued by Weather Modification Programs being run in over half the countries of the world. The World Meteorological Organization sends a list to the UN every year of these programs: Country, Program Name, Method of Weather Mod Delivery, Year. It's not the energy companies or gas or the energy you or I use...it's these programs run by governments, at least 20 since the 1970's.

[@sambranton3346]

You fall for all the lies governments and media tell you. During lockdown it got hot. Motorists reduced by 90% globally yet you still lap up the lies that it's the motorist driving causing the extra hot weather we got as a result, surely it should have cooped down! It actually heated up because the sun has been more active than ever recorded, but that's an inconvenient truth these liars don't even mention as a possible reason. We have heard every decade since the 60s about this is going to kill us off. Not a single thing they said ever happened, except more taxes. They are doing this to lock you into 15 minute cities, no other reason. Please wake up. And before you slate me please not I love this planet, and hate seeing it get destroyed through greed, the people telling you all these lies only care about control, and thats of you, not the climate. When your taxes keep going up because of this ask yourself where that money is going and why despite global efforts nothing changes. Its because its all a lie. The pollution we should be tackling is being ignored, because the people doing it are the same ones blaming you for driving your car. Oil is bad for the environment, but global warming is a lie, its been a lie they 1st used it to raise tax, it worked in terms of revenue for these greedy people so stop buying into it.

[@kindnuguz]

This is the same reason fusion and other types of energy have not been able to succeed. Because it would bankrupt them overnight. Imagine never needing a drop of fuel for the military or cars etc.. Also have to remember it went from coal to oil and hasn't changed since as the main source of energy. When that happened they vowed to not let the same thing happen again.

[@mujkocka]

I lived in 6 different countries since I was 17. I have lived in both hemispheres, Sydney Australia didn’t need air con 30yrs ago. Now it’s necessary. Fire and drought in the uk. Xmases in Quebec barely have snow…we are doomed

[@sallymclain1600]

I wish advertising had limits in the US. We really to think about it.

[@user-gc8pc3ol6l]

Advertising is a stain on humanity. Always pushing materialism and the worst traits in humans. George Orwell described it perfectly as the rattling of the swillbucket in human society.

[@orlandoedelriocantillo9404]

This is an awesome investigation. Thanks DW :)

[@Sonicorchestra]

The willful ignorance of the people running the oil companies puts them individually in a very precarious ethical position. A judgement of ‘evil’ becomes a viewable assessment.

[@ottobormann]

A retroactive tax and expropriation of the wealth generated by gas and oil is necessary to just manage the new Climate reality extremes.

[@xskrym]

As we speak, the desert called United Arab Emirates is yet to dry up after meters high flooding.

[@lisagahan6512]

Cloud seeding is normal there

[@shaunowebdevo]

And the hot spells are getting hotter and hotter

[@xskrym]

@@lisagahan6512 they seeded the most rain in 75yrs?

[@karenharrison9094]

Since he 40s our government has been involved in SRM solar radiation management

[@volkerengels5298]

@@lisagahan6512 You like to say nothing. ...to spread false information. U Exxon ???

[@paulneufarn]

Are wars climate - friendly? Why are not the wars stopped? 😟

[@nicholis]

I live in Coastal SC where Hunting Island (opening segment). Thats damage from the hurricanes from a few years ago that killed those trees.

[@sentientflower7891]

Hurricanes were mentioned. Check the transcript.

[@ConradSzymczak]

Yup. Woke Disinformation.

[@nicolatesla5786]

If the barometric pressure of hurricanes is lower the storm surge is higher and higher seawater will actually kill anything inland

[@fastinradfordable]

⁠@@nicolatesla5786yes that is how hurricanes work. But don’t forget hurricane destroy far far from oceans

[@jimthain8777]

While hurricanes DO play a role, they are also worse because of this. These coastal trees, can survive a little sea water once in a while, they've lived with hurricanes for thousands of years. however, when sea levels rise, even just millimeters, the saltwater no longer drains back into the sea, it stays among the roots, and that is something the trees can't survive.

[@josephdonais4778]

I am not surprised DW didn't use Thalidomide as an example.

[@markarca6360]

Because it was made by a German company.

[@josephdonais4778]

@@markarca6360 my point

[@lukemastaah]

example for what, for climate change? 😂😂😂

[@josephdonais4778]

@@lukemastaah corporate bs

[@sobolanul82]

To be honest with ourselves, fossil fuels gave us the possibility to develop our present civilization in a rapid way. Fossil fuels are a blessing and in the same time a curse. What is outrageous and criminal is that from a point in history, fossil fuel industry, lobby guys, politicians stopped thinking about healthy global development and pursued only money for themselves. And we got at this point when global warming and climate change are in our lives and getting worse year by year speeding on a path towards total collapse without the possibility to reverse them. My respect and sympathy goes with all the scientists which for the last decades dedicated their lives to research the problem and inform the public. And they have done it against all obstacles raised by the criminal lobby against science. LOOK UP!

[@MeganOHowe]

wrong. hemp has been and still is being suppressed as a renewable energy source. where hemp is legal its highly over regulated, hemp burns cleaner than coal, renewable energy like biofuels from hemp burn 80% cleaner. I made a sustainability documentary Antimatter Future how to develop more efficient spacecraft and aircraft, big industry doesn't want safer and more efficient solutions

[@robvanderveen3411]

Now we know they knew about and greed drove them deliberately to sacrifice the future they should be made to pay for the consequences seize all there money and assets strip the wealth of the people responsible imprison them for life. Absolute disgrace.

[@Oxymorone7]

People keep blaming politics for everything, but it's non-politicians who do the bulk of the damage.

[@QT5656]

No, it's private coorporations and the mega wealthy that bribe and pressure politicians to repeatedly undermine democracy.

[@user-gc8pc3ol6l]

Yes but the politicians are in the back pocket of the corporations and their lobbyists. To be a politician now you have to be a plutocrat. And where does the funding come from ?

[@woodchipgardens9084]

Heat is always temporary and Night Time is always Cooling, Winter is always freezing and forest fire always melts Glaciers.

[@casf6857]

When we stop demanding larger cars/ trucks , electronics , gadgets and the fuel to produce and run them, companies will stop making/ suppling them. We are all at fault here . Companies produce and supply our extravagant demands. Lets start blaming ourselves. I bet the "queen" drove away in her large SUV after the drama in the video.

[@MannIchFindKeinName]

we do not ask for them, companies take away your choice to get actual products. Thats why they have so many patents, they keep the real solutions away from us, locked up and sue everyone trying to sell it. Additionally ads, but thats a whole other story :D

[@user-el3nu7qp1t]

Germany shut down their clean nuclear reactors and then burnt more coal.

[@sentientflower7891]

Nuclear reactors are not clean.

[@sushionaram]

here in Poland we hear alot that they boycott us, for wanting to build real reactor because its "dirty energy" close to their border, yet push for more bans on Polish coals...

[@swanky_yuropean7514]

No they didn't. coal power generation went down as well. Wind and solar generate twice as much power in Germany than coal.

[@ottobormann]

True.

[@ottobormann]

@@swanky_yuropean7514the carbon footprint of solar panels and windmills is barely or not offset during is productive life time in many areas of the world.

[@sebastianhuvenaars6537]

Humanity is no stranger to unimaginable crimes, but everything described here takes things to a whole other level. Knowingly and willingly setting fire to the only known ecosystem in the universe beyond cruel. An ecocaust.

[@Daara92]

Extractive industries are some of the most profitable, its not labor intensive, some multinational corporations don't pay taxes where they make profits, also sometimes damage to environment and wildlife is irreversible. They need to be sued and pay into an international fund to restore habitat and environments that have been ruined as a result of their unsustainable production and lack of rigorous environmental studies and precautions

[@gardencity3558]

Who would administer this "international fund" the trustworthy UN? Your naievity is showing.

[@volturnianlobster9350]

It feels like I was born into a dying world and the only way out is to leave sometimes

[@stevangelical7052]

Hang on 'til 2026.

[@mdog6726]

You’ve been brainwashed.

[@DeathsGarden-oz9gg]

If every home owner removed all grass and replaced it with native flowers bushes and trees unless desert then cactus and some native trees. If all off ramps with there empty dirt sides were full of native flowers bushes and trees then it can and will make a dent in the co2. Plant everything from seed it will be cheaper and it will adapt better to there environment.

[@Cowicide]

80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies. This is an evil corporate problem where profits and pure evil, greed is put ahead of all the rest of humanity. They are the ones humanity needs to target for both change and revenge for the damage already done. The fossil fuel industry has switched up to trying to get average people to either give up in despair or take on the blame on each other instead of them. Do not fall for it.

[@5353Jumper]

To balance our current atmospheric carbon emissions we need around 35% more natural carbon sinks. Trees, and other natural places like peat lands. That is 35% MORE nature than we have now. Where are we going to put it? Of course we need to stop destroying natural carbon sinks, reclaim some natural land, and sure plant some trees. But there is no way we can plant more than a trillion trees. Plant your trees. But also cut emissions from your life and the company you work for as well.

[@07Flash11MRC]

You are completely ignoring all of those plants take a lot of time to grow. Trees take up to 200 years to grow and take up all of the co2 we need them to.

[@bobdooly3706]

😢The Ocean level (as recorded at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour in Australia) , reveals that no change whatsoever has occured to ocean levels since 1870.❤

[@csibesz07]

And this is only about CO2 and climate crises. However, they also produce plastics, micro plastics and completely stopped the transition to less pollution, more sustainable materials...

[@susanne5803]

Naomi Oreskes: "Merchants of Doubt" (2010). No surprise here ...

[@daviddeshazo5183]

It's so mind blowing to me that someone could feel good about doing this. Like once they found out it was bad they could have shifted their business strategies started investing in research and development for green alternatives, informed the people of that so they would be in support and be like "Man this company is awesome they care about this planet"

[@csibesz07]

We would all have solar panels by now.

[@suehowie152]

I wonder how these CEO'S look their families in the eye..

[@minariv8300]

They don't have morality all they learn is just to profit

[@horsebee1]

The fascinating thing is that as was pointed out the strategies employed by the oil companies are exactly the same as those employed by the tobacco industry in the 1960's and 70's. Even more than that the recovery strategies used by those same tobacco companies are already being copied by the oil companies. Once the tobacco industry realized that it could not fight the changes they pivoted to another similar product that they could control and that product is vaping with claims that it is a healthy alternative to smoking, something that research is proving wrong. For the oil industry it is hydrogen, once again a product that they can control and monopolize. It looks green and is not something that can be done on a small scale but when you look a little deeper it is not green at all and makes no sense in the transport sector. The problem they have with direct electricity is that they are unable to control the production of distribution nor will they ever be able to therefore they cant control the price.

[@Rustea314]

Sugar is good for you, Vaping will not harm your lungs. A corporations is person. Smoking enhances lung function. You are asking a corporation to lie by giving them free speech. End Citizens United.

[@joseluistortajadablasco359]

If it is just oil companies fault just ban them...I guess it' easier to point to a culprit than to solve the complete dependence of our civilization on fossil fuels 

[@DSAK55]

That was fucking obvious since the 1990s

[@hahtos]

Well, many of the oil-producing regions of the world will feel the effects of climate change the hardest. The Persian Gulf is well on its way to becoming uninhabitable hot and humid. And if Florida is a few meters under water is not a great loss for humanity.

[@karenharrison9094]

Funny 😆!! But it’s entire coastal cities worldwide going under

[@shyft09]

the people in "oil-producing regions of the world" often don't have much of a say, but you seem to blame them? (instead of the largest economies and companies in the world who actually do have the power to do something about it, but choose not to) interesting take

[@shyft09]

anyway, it's not even true that oil producing regions suffer the worst. Bangladesh doesn't produce any oil, but it's almost underwater at this point

[@koushikdas1992]

​@@shyft09So you want to say rich Arab states like Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Omen, Saudi Arab have not much to say! Irony it is!

[@QT5656]

Russia will actually likely be better off. USA thought they'd won the cold war but weren't playing the long game.

[@dosang1953]

Keep up your relentless good work DW - Democracy of World! The best of World!

[@chkee17]

It is undeniable that fossil fuel companies contribute to the climate crisis. However, it is important to consider our own contributions as well. One of the most important steps we can take is to raise public awareness about this issue.

[@rynoopperman5010]

You could literally take all these spokespeople’s opinions and change the topic from Oil to religion and it all will fit…😂 Get them young and teach them non-scientific rhetoric 😉

[@QT5656]

It's not natural cycles. Variations in orbital tilt and solar irradiance cannot explain the recent rapid warming. However, the extra CO2 and other greenhouse gases can just as predicted in the 1970s and even earlier. Stratospheric cooling is just one example of clear evidence that the warming is due to heat being trapped rather than extra heat reaching us.

[@marc7769]

Stratosphérique cooling says nothing about green house gas effect. Climate sensitivity does. However, we know very little about climate sensitivity.

[@QT5656]

@@marc7769 "says nothing" 😂 You're clearly not an atmospheric physicist. The people who award the Nobel prize disagree with you.

[@marc7769]

@@QT5656 correct and I never claimed to be one. However I listen to genuine climate physicists like Richard Lindzen and William Happer.

[@QT5656]

@@marc7769 😂 Happer has barely published anything on climate and one of his own unpublished reprints refutes the claims he makes publically. Twenty years ago Lindzen claimed clouds would buffer any warming and he's been proven wrong. You should greatly widen your reading.

[@marc7769]

@@QT5656 All I know on climate I owe to these two gentlemen. Perhaps you have better sources?

[@madhavanunni7335]

Great work DW!

[@detectiveofmoneypolitics]

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is still following this content cheers Frank

[@TheVitamin421]

this makes me sick

[@rickygapinski9059]

Don't you find a funny that the State troopers association can't do their threat assessments to understand that there are a victim of a crime

[@fastinradfordable]

Stockholm syndrome

[@florindefloriane164]

DW the best jurnalistic investigation 🎉

[@michasosnowski5918]

Great piece DW. It would be great to know who the shareholders were at the time of research made into warming in the 80s. We could give them retirement they deserve, not that which money can buy.

[@flotsamike]

How did scientists in 1982 predict that China would become such a huge manufacturing center and global consumer? That was an amazingly accurate prediction but there were so many variables, I just wonder how they did it. No one predicted the United States collapse of oil consumption between 2008 and 2015.

[@Cowicide]

They looked at overall trends for many decades, not geopolitical ups and downs here and there. And, in the 1980's China was already ramping up industry to say the least. December 1978 was when the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced China's "reform and opening," which kicked China's capitalist economic development into high gear. Any dolt could see where that was going.

[@ev.c6]

And the greatest lie they spread nowadays is that EVs are not ready yet. 😅

[@sparky7915]

Corporate profits overrule everything. This happened also with Roundup. It was well known how toxic and lethal it is and yet the corporation was making so much money it spread much misinformation about Roundup. Tragically it is still for sale in stores. The pollution in Bangladesh is unbelievable!

[@ArchersPlace]

A lot overdue with this one other journalistic outlets have been reporting on this for years

[@nipundubey6586]

For oil and gas we expolited nature, now for lithium we are again doing the same. Ultimately its a never ending cycle of torture exploitation of nature. We all get cover up of green energy . But we should ask govt and these companies , how much green they are in real??

[@danielpicassomunoz2752]

It takes two to tango: consumers who want to see the gas cheaper ("affordable energy") and big oil. Both have their wants before what's responsible

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

One side has billions in profits per year propped up by bought out politician subsidies. The other side has 40% of the population not able to afford basic costs of living.

[@huha47]

The oil industry knew about the consequences of their industry since the 1960s, and recently I heard that it might go back even further to the 1940s. Any legal action against them in the past was considered to be political, thus no action taken. I definitely agree that the industry should not be getting subsidies for their recklessness. There might finally be legal action taken against the industry based on crimes against humanity which I whole heartedly support.

[@shaynaletter5589]

Each of us must modify our behaviour, and the way we consume energy, both renewables, and fossil fuels. We must do whatever we can, individually, as well as collectively.

[@TheAlchemistZero1]

Civilization has entered late-stage capitalism. Capitalism is an insatiable hunger, one which is inherently incapable of expressing the concept of "enough" - it's a system that must chronically engorge (without pause). Poverty is the mother of necessity; the comfort of the rich, depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. the Alchemist -Ø1

[@Cowicide]

100%

[@christophery8927]

Opening intro. The editor made the colour really grey like a film!

[@Tm-eg2lx]

Who first coined the term "Carbon footprint" Which companies are making the biggest profits from climate change Investors in Oil companies are laughing all the way to the bank

[@adelam.6123]

It's so sad what is going on 😢

[@petername2608]

Soon this is coming for all😂

[@ronaldjanert7456]

More than sad… it’s criminal. Ultimately it’s genocide, and it’s also ecocide - which is orders of magnitude worse than mere genocide - because it’s the extermination of most species on the planet.

[@kohtalainenalias]

Capitalism

[@Berley_1234]

u have to watch the agendas here... nothing is black and white

[@Cowicide]

@@kohtalainenalias 100%

[@BMMEC2009]

And hundreds of people stand at the pump and bitch when they are filling up thier gas guzzling vehicles and blame prices on the president. Ugh

[@soulafein32]

May humanity's love for oil be our downfall, it's gonna hurt like hell.

[@danboyd6609]

If only Big Oil had been honest all along we would never have the issues that we have now. The world would never have consumed the cheap energy that was provided and there would have been a mad rush to fuel-efficient cars. If you believe that you'll believe ANYTHING !

[@sentientflower7891]

Why did they lie, then?

[@gardencity3558]

BS the World needs cheap energy to survive just like factory farming. Without either we die.

[@Cowicide]

@@sentientflower7891 Don't make people like this use their brains. If they used their brains they wouldn't be fossil fuel industry apologists in the first place.

[@QT5656]

@@sentientflower7891 profits, power, maintaining monopoly.

[@sentientflower7891]

@@QT5656 true. But the great tragedy is that humans never had free will and couldn't have stopped even if humans were intelligent enough to accept science.

[@Tianshanwarrior]

More people more resources needed to sustain them.

[@kated3165]

Capitalism demands constant population growth... which is why Politicians are pushing for MORE babies. Going as far as taking away reproductive rights in the US... So much for ''caring about the children'' SMH.

[@07Flash11MRC]

Not true. Only the elite is consuming ever more. They are taking 10 minute flights in their private jets. The rest of us working class people can't even afford to destroy the climate.

[@Angry84YouTube]

Raise your hands if you know it's going to get worse first.

[@woodchipgardens9084]

4 seasons and hours of night time cooling are unbreakable unless you can prove a change in Angular momentum.

[@jec_ecart]

At the very moment, lots of EV related cover up is happening. 😢

[@joshlewis575]

Worst thing to happen to energy was tesla becoming so popular. Everyone then had to catch up on building ev's instead of dumping all those billions into finding a new fuel source with less hazards.

[@michasosnowski5918]

@@joshlewis575 New fuel sources like what?

[@rowannadon7668]

@@michasosnowski5918there are none. The only solution is to reduce energy use by 90%. Not gonna happen

[@janinfatino9447]

Watching a movie about misinformation and comment with misinformation😂. All latest researches show that EV are the most reliable alternative - and we do a lot of research in Germany and are leading in gas engine production. You will always find papers showing the opposite cause sience is democratic and everyone can publish. You are responsible to check if your recourse is valid e.g. in Germany the association of the gas engine building companies has done a research- what outcome would you expect? Afterward it turned out that they calculated with a 1 l/100km engine and the EV only used electricity from coal. But even then the EV was not much worse. That showed me that even in the worst worse Szenario EV are the best solution. Regarding some other misinformation: Do you know that most Lithium comes from Australia and that the tourism industry in the Attacama uses more water that Lithiumproduction. New batteries like in Tesla Model 3 don’t use Cobalt anymore. The proportion of renewables in Germany in 2023 was over 60%. China has built more solar in 2023 that the total rest of the world in his history.

[@shyft09]

distraction, buddy. anything and everything is better than the impending climate catastrophe Stop. Burning. Fossil. Fuels.

[@stormicrossroad7454]

Stop the war machine, air travel, and the fashion industry. Space exploration needs to go also.

[@joshlewis575]

Tesla/ space x is my favorite sham in the world for this. Rocket fuel is different than ours, but I'm sure it releases plenty of harmful things too. They're basically blasting rockets up weekly now. I wonder how many teslas you'd need to put on the road to offset just 1 launch.

[@Cowicide]

80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies. That should be our focus above all else, or at least 80% of it.

[@rowannadon7668]

@@Cowicidethose 57 companies produce products that feed 1000s of other companies. It’s not that simple, 80 percent of human energy use comes from fossil fuels and that isn’t changing any time soon

[@Cowicide]

@@rowannadon7668 If you think forcing corporations to stop killing off humanity isn't "so simple" wait until you get a load of how "not simple" it is to pay TRILLIONS not doing anything about it - and trying to cover the escalating damages to humans and property from unmitigated climate disaster. I guess you haven't noticed that Florida has insurance companies leaving coverage for the state and elsewhere? That's not sustainable in any way, shape or form. You may not be able to handle the truth that these corporations have to switch to more sustainable energy sources, but the climate doesn't care about your fragile sensibilities and will burn down your home and/or flood it nonetheless. Think on that while you choke on smoke this summer.

[@07Flash11MRC]

This comment just shows how you know exactly nothing about space. Rockets fly by oxygen and hydrogen. The end product is water. Space travel is in no way responsible for climate change.

[@jamsbong]

Where is the evidence of sea level rise? Netherland is still around and that country is below sea-level.

[@minariv8300]

Listen boy It will happen slowly in maybe hundred years if Arctic ice don't completely desapear

[@wulanfuji2159]

Thank you, DW.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching!

[@D4rkBl4de]

They like to blame cows, but it's not cows AT ALL that are causing the issue. In fact, cows are part of a natural cycle and are beneficial to the earth.

[@gardencity3558]

Right! Then they "Green Elites" like scummy Gates et al blames us for dirving cars to live while they fly private jumbo jets everywhere...

[@koushikdas1992]

Cow farming! That is really a threat to the environment. Not cow animal though. They are part of nature like us. But cow farming is not the part of nature.

[@Mis-AdventureCH]

No the dotted line in the graph....no use of fuels. Not that far off the solid line. It was also a model that did not take into account natural trends or the sun. It also didn't take into account skewed data from weather stations where paved, urban heat sinks grew up around them....which is most of them. This was literally freshman year statistics graphing exercise.

[@JohnBosco.1308]

The scientist who first raised the alarm was right. They won't be around when all hell breaks loose.

[@geoms6263]

Those companies would go bankrupt if people stopped buying from them...

[@alexmaclean1]

Uh yea, that's kinda how every business ever created works.

[@benediktmorak4409]

It is not only the oil multis. Tell a German or any other driver to leave his jalopy just for ONE day at home and not use it. Big howls are coming from every corner... So already after 2 minutes i stopped watching...

[@lo2740]

yes this docu is ridiculous, USA governement and many other countries governements are certainly as much to blame, if not more, than these oil companies, they operated in a legal frame that was provided to them by said governeemnts, so.. By the way, lobying is also allowed, so, i do not really see what how we could blame them, nor how this is going to solve anything. USA as a whole are certainly more to blame than all of the oil companies together, beucase USA relied and stuill rely on the overusage of fossil fuels to keep its world economic domination.

[@tanujSE]

What difference does it make -The smiths

[@mecdrum7]

Money has become the god of destruction. Greed is a disease

[@wisu3529]

Corporations are people that don’t give a shite about anything but money.

[@Tony-kq6py]

By volume, the dry air in Earth's atmosphere is about 78.08 percent nitrogen, 20.95 percent oxygen, and 0.93 percent argon, adding up to 99.96 percent. A brew of trace gases accounts for the other approximately 0.04 percent, including the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. To think that a small increase (200 parts per million in the last hundred years) of carbon dioxide would affect the weather is absurd.

[@michasosnowski5918]

Then raise your alcohol contentration to 2 promiles and drive. Obviously 2 promiles(2 out of 1000) cant affect your system! Think about any poison concentration in your body that can kill you and you have your "absurd" claim thrown out of the window.

[@Yand57738]

@@michasosnowski5918 “my body is made up of 70% water, 15% protein, and 15% fat for a total weight of 180 pounds. Thinking a couple grams of dimethyl mercury can cause damage is absurd!” These deniers sure are funny, and dumb 😂

[@rowannadon7668]

I’m sure you have done the experiment yourself then and measured the warming effect right? So you can provide some evidence for your claim? Oh wait we have done the experiments and we know that CO2 increases the ability of the air to trap thermal radiation…😂

[@biffandhapp418]

You should give these numbers to the climate scientists, I bet they'll be glad to discover this. All of them have been wasting their time with science and math when they could have just consulted you about the make up of our atmosphere.

[@QT5656]

"small increase"... LOL... over 2,000,000,000,000 tonnes of CO₂ have been emitted by human activity since 1850.

[@wavydavy9816]

How about we stopped blaming the 'oil companies' and actually pinned some of this shit on the 'people who worked for the oil companies', because an oil company can't actually hush anything up without help from people.

[@VulcanData84]

Return On Energy Invested 1.3 Corn, 7 Solar PV, 10 Natural Gas, 18 Wind, 80 Nuclear Today's, 80 Coal, 100 Hydropower, 2,000 Nuclear, LFTR

[@sensi4641]

Wow this is so good!

[@iamspeed4130]

first

[@iamspeed4130]

guys can i get pinned for my fastest click of my life

[@lukemurray4950]

Why don't you do a video on the cover up by the climate alarmists who not only have had evidence disproven but all their solutions are not helping the environment but making a select few incredibly rich?

[@vivalaleta]

You don't know what you're talking about. You've swallowed gas corporations' propaganda and are just repeating what you've heard.

[@CormacHolland]

Oh will you shut up man.

[@albertoserrano67]

Your thinking of repugs stalling gov by not passing legislation 😂

[@a-aron2276]

Show your work!

[@solarwind907]

Maybe for the same reason Trump never locked up Hillary? No evidence? Total BS?

[@shadrizvi5161]

I do not know if there have been similar investigations about Allopathic medicines Chemical pesticides Chemical Fertilizers Carbonated drinks, etc. Those are some similarly harmful products from some hugely profitable businesses. And the worst is mobile communication!

[@prawnstar9213]

Watch them read those prewritten statements word for word.. can’t get a single one of them to actually speak. Nothing happens after those kind of committee investigations..

[@K-Von]

First 😮

[@attract1234]

It's a German Public Broadcast meaning it's propaganda channel. Climate change 😂

[@benediktmorak4409]

one thing i do agree with. Deutsche Welle is the German Political mouthpiece. Like CNN or FOX NEWS is the American. Or if one wants to Russia Today comes from Moscow... So all those -news - are to be considered VERY carefully!

[@solarwind907]

Data is data, no matter who presents it. Exxons own scientists told us decades ago. Burning fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases, and changes the climate. Climate deniers are kind of like anti-VAX ers now. Billions of people got the jab but there’s still a few nut cases out there who would rather watch their kids die then get them vaccinated. Climate deniers have zero scientific reasoning or critical thinking skills. There is so much peer reviewed science out there now that there’s no way they haven’t been exposed to it already. Just a waste of time talking to them.

[@Shaddarhim]

"I'm brainwashed by the oil industries lies and too stupid to understand basic science" there fixed your comment :)

[@johnnyblue4799]

@@Shaddarhim Funny how everybody claims to have science on their side. Btw, there's nothing basic about the climate science. It's very complicated. What's the last scientific paper on climate research that you've read?

[@Shaddarhim]

@@johnnyblue4799 I'm studying geosciences at a university in Germany. Yes I do know how the science behind it works as far as my lectures go. Whats your scientific background on this subject? KZbin university?