The Power of Big Oil Part One: Denial (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

Watch part one of “The Power of Big Oil,” a three-episode FRONTLINE docuseries investigating the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change.
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Go inside the decades-long failure to confront the threat and increasing impacts of climate change in “The Power of Big Oil.” This deeply researched docuseries reveals what scientists, corporations and politicians have known about human-caused climate change for decades, and the missed opportunities to mitigate the problem.
Parts two and three of “The Power of Big Oil” premiere April 26 and May 3 on PBS and online: to.pbs.org/3rByEEe
“The Power of Big Oil” is a FRONTLINE Production with Mongoose Pictures in association with BBC and Arte. The series producer is Dan Edge. The producer and director of episode 1, “Denial,” is Jane McMullen. The editorial consultant is Russell Gold. The senior producers are James Jacoby and Eamonn Matthews. The executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
Exxon’s Early Research - 1:51
What the Fossil Fuel Industry Knew - 11:42
The Politics of Climate Change - 18:37
Koch & the Lobbyists - 29:29
Spreading Climate Change Uncertainty - 39:16
The 1996 IPCC Report & Pushback - 47:48
The Kyoto Protocol in the U.S. - 1:00:19
“Code Red for Humanity” - 1:17:22
Credits - 1:23:00

[@iammrbeat]

They're still in the denial, even though it's literally happening. It's like saying the sun is not in the sky when it is.

[@innawoods2131]

You always struck me as a PBS kinda guy. Have a great day!

[@jakebredthauer5100]

There are many people in denial about the climate change theory. Not so many are in denial about the Sun. It makes more sense to deny climate change than it does to deny the Sun.

[@innawoods2131]

@@jakebredthauer5100 if we didn't have decades worth of research that is easily accessible to anyone with an internet connection, you may have a point. Without access to a world's worth of information at their fingertips, it took a few centuries to reach a consensus on what or where the sun is. With the availability of info now out there, from a variety of credible sources, climate change denial is more akin to willful ignorance.

[@jakebredthauer5100]

@@innawoods2131 It would take too long to look at that. What harm has climate change done so far?

[@philippealexandra468]

Well it’s not in the sky, but I know what you mean ;)

[@mlebaron1]

It’s astounding to hear the lobbyists and PR people say, in so many words, “our job wasn’t to tell the truth, our job was to sow doubts about what was true”. Only one of them sounded as if he’d ever given it any thought.

[@MrLarryLessor]

In my 20 years since college, I've learned that this is what many Americans think their life is devoted to: Making money.. and continuing to let the money flow. Even at the expense of truth, or even safety, or public good etc.

[@burjalmadre]

@@MrLarryLessor What will it take to upend this harmful, routine way of thinking in American society?

[@MrLarryLessor]

@@burjalmadre That thinking will always be here - be part of our country... but hopefully less and less people will believe in that since it has failed after 20 or 30 years of companies trying it. I just had a golf outting yesterday where my retired friend said he worked at Sears for some years and they just were really rigid in their way of thinking and had little room for new ideas - and now they are pretty much going bankrupt after over 100 years of business. There are people who just don't understand that "Making a profit" is not even one of the top 4 reasons this country was created: Read the Preamble to the Constitution: The first sentence talks about to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense..... It doesn't even mention "promoting he general Welfare" until the 3rd or 4th goal.... So it's certainly not #1. And "general welfare" does not even necessarily mean private wealth: So making profit FOR YOURSELF was not one of the main reasons for this country - I've had buddies who were very profit-oriented who argued "Yeah but the Pursuit of Happiness implies pursuit of property". Still even if you make that interpretation the first 3 or even 4 reasons for creating America was NOT maximizing profit. If more people could understand and accept/ realize that, then maybe more people would contribute to wanting a safer, cleaner planet. And ensuring justice for all and "a more perfect union". A lot of Americans nowadays have no interest in unity, they are all about amassing wealth and property for themselves, and they think government should just stay out of the way as much as possible and let people be 'free". Many of those people have lost sight of why this country was created - it wasn't to allow people to do whatever they want without limits.... , and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity

[@brentb5303]

@@burjalmadre Michael Rupert, which is an interesting character for many reasons, did a talk to a few people in a church twenty years ago that really had me asking myself these very questions. His way of putting it was to call it the infinite growth paradigm. Our entire way of thinking is predicated on the idea that growth must continue forever. Which anyone over the age of 6 knows is impossible. We are living in a finite space with limited resources. Even the most brilliant minds at the University of Chicago economics department over look the long term effects of their models. I would argue they can’t see past the next quarter let alone a decade or century down the road. Identifying the problem in thinking isn’t the issue. Deprogramming the masses to not contribute to the problem is insurmountable. Try telling someone they shouldn’t invest money. When you contribute to a 401k you’re contributing to the problem. When you get a credit card, you’re contributing to the problem. So the problem is easily identifiable but you’ll look like a nut case when you give someone the solution.

[@keirfarnum6811]

When openly lying is acceptable in society and is even seen as being part of one’s job and responsibility, it shows that society has truly gone to he||.

[@d.j.walker3671]

I never cease to be amazed at how open people are about the shameful things they did and said after just a little time has passed.

[@scottnelsen164]

People will do and say anything for money. That and power are why we are in this global warming crisis.

[@greg-op2jh]

100©💯

[@nunyadambusiness3530]

that part. they probably got "compensated" for just talking. while we're doing back breaking labor on their behalf. not for our own benefit. @@scottnelsen164

[@mtn1793]

Money worshipping psychopaths. This is the time when Satan inherited the earth.

[@patriciaschoemaker9348]

'Its just business', Robert Gates, Former Director of Defense, GWB Administration

[@applesomething]

This breaks your heart when you’ve been alive since the 70s, heard all about this impending crisis during the 80s, and then to see it really happening now.

[@mayb8876]

Damn

[@neilsiebenthal9254]

But at least a handful of individuals made billions for themselves though right? That's what's really important, keeping the rich, rich...

[@gussampson5029]

It's literally not happening. Didn't you see? They were predicting the doom and gloom would happen in the 70s, then the 80s, then Manhattan would be underwater by the year 2000. Now they say 2030 will be the apocalypse. They show a flood and act like that was caused by climate change. Did we not have floods before? Did we not have drought and wildfires? It's ridiculous to think that regular extreme weather events somehow confirm climate change. Every prediction they've ever made is wrong. Climate change is an issue and we've got at least 100 more years to deal with it. And we have been dealing with it. More research, more technology, more innovation.... Even with no significant government action, there are going to be no significant effects to us from climate change. And all the failed predictions show us the foolishness of believing that we're in a state of imminent doom.

[@neilsiebenthal9254]

@@gussampson5029 that's a lot of mental gymnastics and science denying.. Let me guess.. You think the earth is flat and space doesn't exist either.. Oh and were probably all just in a vr simulation run by aliens also..

[@y2ktube]

"heard all about this impending crisis - to see it really happening now" - Yeah right Missy, I'm ALL for pollution solutions (clean oceans & clean water etc.) ! - But here's the problem; Liberals throughout the decades have been screaming like 'Chicken Little' about "Existential" threats : IN THE 1960's as a child, the schools taught 'There's a coming Mini-Ice-Age"! - In the 70's they screamed about that AND "We're Overpopulating the Planet" ! - In the 80's and 90's they screamed "Critical Oil" ! - Next came all the blah blah of "Global Warming", which then morphed into "Climate Change" - How can anybody with any commonsense take the BIG GOVERNMENT, TAXation, wealth REDISTRIBUTION Leftists seriously? - Green is the new RED - - - (Communism) Just RELAX, the Earth has proven to be SO resilient; i.e. Countless Volcano eruption's, above ground Nuclear tests & Chernobyl (with its Butterflies & daises). In fact, one can visit & take a Chernobyl guided tour group from Kyiv...

[@topgrain]

The sad inevitability for humankind is that most of the power is in the hands of the most irresponsible.

[@madimakes]

The love of money will make a formerly responsible person irresponsible

[@sniper887]

And least accountable

[@fedexpress14]

You all cling to this idea that this is a problem of just bad people who don’t care. These are people who are simply doing what is best for themselves and their families economically under a system that puts little to no value on collective society. This is a systemic problem and the system is CAPITALISM.

[@lilblackduc7312]

After "Traitor Joe" pushes the world into Thermonuclear War...So-called man made C(lie)mate Change will be a moot point.

[@fedexpress14]

@@lilblackduc7312 We’d already be there if the other side was in charge. I’ll take where we are now and stay alive for now.

[@NightDocs]

Change can’t start unless you’re being informed and you’re informing others

[@HateTheIRS]

Climate change does not cause wildfires that’s false

[@s.z.6200]

And Big Oil isn’t trying to quash the information.

[@jakebredthauer5100]

Fortunately, we still have some free speech.

[@lilblackduc7312]

@@jakebredthauer5100 Yeah, right. 😁 🤣 😁 🤣

[@RLeezyDeezy]

Information is power....

[@artmusic2]

June 23, 1988 the Congress hearings show the OIL corporate-acracy KNEW CLIMATE DISASTERS were a direct result of their industry. Scientists' data were already apparent in the late 1980's to all the world. Heartbreaking and well-done documentary FRONTLINE.

[@maxdoubt5219]

I remember the scene in Titanic where a crew member, who knew the ship was sinking, was sent below on some urgent errand. On his way he passed through a party. People drinking and dancing, unaware of the emergency. That's what Big Fossil is saying: don't ruin our party with bad news.

[@brandonbellestri7512]

Exactly

[@mastercreamer1398]

Have you ever taken psilocybin? You probably should if you haven’t

[@coyotelong4349]

This is why I fear humanity is doomed. We are an incredibly smart, resilient, and creative species, but our ability to set aside personal interests in the interest of the greater good, to benefit the species collectively, is sadly lacking on the scale we need to make a difference.

[@mlight6845]

Our nature is to protect our community. If we have been deceived for decades about a slowy arriving danger that is hard to perceive with our 5 senses, we do not act.

[@jiayangshao4736]

@@mlight6845 where is the climate danger, where are you when the ice age happened. nice to see a documentary when oil price is in the triple digit and oil companies made money. where is this documentary when oil price was very low for 7 years

[@HateTheIRS]

Climate change does not cause wildfires that’s false

[@thelouster5815]

It’s not so much us, it’s the greedy sociopaths who naturally funnel into power that hold the rest of us back for their own short-sighted, limited self interests.

[@coyotelong4349]

@@jiayangshao4736 The ice age has nothing to do with this… You’re just proving my point

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

One of the best things about Frontline is the narrator, his voice is so smooth and tonally perfect, consistent year after year: William Lyman is an American voice-over artist, actor, and musician. Being known for his polished, resonant voice, Lyman has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984 and played William Tell in the action/adventure television series Crossbow

[@themela9showwithfulaniyira338]

Right!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HateTheIRS]

Climate change does not cause wildfires that’s false

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

@@themela9showwithfulaniyira338 Are you agreeing or just screwing around?

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

@@HateTheIRS It's a huge factor, no one has said it "caused" wildfires....

[@HateTheIRS]

@@TheCommunicationCoach it’s not a huge factor at all

[@graywolf2107]

GREED IS THE NUMBER ONE EXISTENTIAL PROBLEM FOR HUMANITY.

[@toddmacdowall4924]

We need to bring back the horse and buggy!

[@SamuelMindel]

This needs to be part of high-school education across the US. This is part of our history, and our stain on the globe.

[@urbugnmetoday3183]

And you wouldn’t be here without it…

[@casperchristensen6451]

​@@urbugnmetoday3183 wouldn't be here without what exactly?

[@urbugnmetoday3183]

@@casperchristensen6451 oil exactly

[@patrickmcelroy5341]

@@casperchristensen6451 you wouldn't be on the internet without oil. All plastic is made from oil.

[@StevieAustin-ow3gc]

If this documentary was introduced into the US curriculum, then Republican led legislatures would immediately pass censorship legislation for its cancellation.

[@alkh3myst]

"I didn't hear about climate change until I was in graduate school." (in the 2010s,) As for me, I first learned about climate change, still then called the "greenhouse effect" in my science classes in 8th grade, in 1971.We even had a whole-class experiment, where we had a terrarium we put under a heat lamp, and as we gradually pumped more and more CO2 into the tank, the temperature rose higher and higher. This constant shift in the name for the same process is one of the most effective ways Big Oil hid this problem from the world. First, it was the "greenhouse effect" (old school). Then it became the innocuous-sounding "global warming" (Al Gore version). Now, it's "climate change", and people who never noticed this climate catastrophe shell game, the vast majority of people who weren't paying close attention to climate science probably thought each new name was a separate and unique effect. This is how the human race came to "boil the frog", namely ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised at all if ExxonMobil was behind the steady name changes.

[@hotdog7346]

All propaganda. You been brainwashed

[@oliverrojas3185]

Thanks for explaining how your science class went about demonstrating the proposed effect of carbon dioxide emissions. In autumn of1985 or 1986 I remember a mother carpooling her son and I to school and listening to a news account on the radio warning of the effects of global warming. At that time, I was not scientifically inclined, but the message did not seem out of line with reality: drive more vehicles, increase emissions, and you have a challenge developing in the atmosphere. Today at 49, I am still over come by an ominous feeling when I drive by a 15 story smoke stack from which whilte smoke is billowing out.

[@alkh3myst]

@@hotdog7346 No, I just paid attention while I was in school. You might want to try that, sometime.

[@Erin-rg3dw]

Agreed - my parents (in their 60s) talk about that at some point in their lives, the big thing was a new ice age, so they somewhat have wanted to blow off everything else since then because it keeps changing (as you said, terminology). We were recently cleaning out my grandparents' house - longtime readers of Reader's Digest - and lo and behold there's RD editions from the late 80s/early 90s giving tips on how to save the climate and the environment. So none of this is "new" by any means, despite what people want to believe.

[@lilblackduc7312]

..After "Traitor Joe" pushes the world into Thermonuclear War, the 'climate' will be a moot point. 😁 🤣 😁 🤣

[@MYRRHfamily]

Human beings will collectively get what they deserve. But the problem is that so many don’t deserve what the world is giving them. It’s insane.

[@monicaperez2843]

Martin, what you describe is group karma. I worry what kind of world our children and grandchildren will inherit. Sadly, I agree with you 100 percent!

[@MYRRHfamily]

@@monicaperez2843 Americans are irresponsible. Our biggest problem is epistemological irresponsibility. We take freedom of speech, and freedom of religion, mush them together and come out with the idea that it’s cool to THINK whatever you want, regardless of the facts. And then we are toast. End rant.

[@ReverendKeven]

Let's eat them and absolve ourselves

[@aeroripper]

We're doomed frankly at this point, better off spending the money on disaster relief and working to secure increasingly scarce water resources. This issue is going to dominate the international politics of the second half of the 21st century and beyond.

[@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993]

@生活有滋有味 do you drive Do you use electricity?

[@RankinMsP]

Depressing from beginning to end. This should be compulsory viewing for all.

[@michaelcap9550]

PBS = Left wing pablum.

[@Praisethesunson]

If the international criminal court was worth it's title they would have imprisoned every single executive of Exxon as soon as their deliberate crimes for the sake of profit were known.

[@justinblackwood4241]

Frontline is doing the best investigative journalism in the United States right now. Keep it up!!! Climate change is the most pressing issue that humanity faces right now, we need to take immediate action or face the consequences.

[@juicyparsons]

right?! I expect this content from left-leaning youtube independents but seeing this get to PBS is awesome

[@alkh3myst]

We're facing the consequences right now.

[@topgrain]

@@juicyparsonsPBS deals in facts, and truth. And that is quite "left leaning." If you are right leaning, and believe PBS to be your buddy, you are extraordinarily delusional.

[@heynow01]

@@juicyparsons if you want to see a great example of just how good Frontline is, watch the Frontline part one on the Russian interference of the 2016 election. Almost every single person they interviewed in now under investigation by John Durham. The cast of conspirators that were colluding to frame DJT is so huge, Durham can only focus on about 20 main characters. Frontline used all these liars to tell a completely false story. It makes you wonder why people would risk their reputation and careers to blatantly lie about what they knew. The funniest part of these Frontline productions is listening to the narrator's booming voice speak with such authority as he lies about everything he says. But here we are again and the same story of lying and twisting facts to create another false narrative. They always fail to mention the changes they are proposing is going to make China the most powerful and richest country in the world. China is laughing their asses off the we are crippling our economy and our security and paying them to build all the unreliable solar and wind turbines. China is building one new coal fired electrical plant every Month and drilling for oil as fast as they can. It's like we just handed them the keys to our country and asked them to please take good care of us innocent fools. I wonder why they aren't building hardly any solar or wind farms?

[@heynow01]

Gee, I wonder if the timing of this fictional climate propaganda is related to poopy pants shuddering our greatest natural resource. This Frontline garbage is the worst kind of one sided propaganda. I'm glad they had the courage to sneak in Al Gore, the biggest climate huckster of them all. The very same guy that made himself a multimillionaire by accepting free ownership in a fake carbon off set company. It allows big carbon output from companies and says you can buy credits to sponsor carbon reduction, to off set your carbon output. People actually bought that hook line and sinker, just like they keep buying the hucksters predictions of climate catastrophe even when they fail every time.

[@larryjones5655]

I'm convinced "big business" decides this country's politics. Furthermore, nearly all who seek/hold political office are "owned" by "big business", and therefore, (sadly) almost always act in the interest of their "masters", not what's best for this country.

[@jackgardner8225]

I've been convinced of the same for decades because I have witnessed it. We have the best government money can buy.

[@virgilpalmer2427]

Larry.. you couldn't be more right...

[@sassagrass7095]

We live in a corporate oligarchy

[@jakebredthauer5100]

@@sassagrass7095 Sounds like fascism.

[@juliehenderson1672]

Corporations write legislation. Legislators, congress, doesn't read it. They cherry pick what will benefit them. Corporations run the country and Congress works for them in exchange for getting/retaining their position.

[@JonnoPlays]

What about the hole we punched in the Ozone layer with CFCs? I'm only about a quarter of the way through so I'm hoping this is mentioned at some point.

[@edbarr1379]

Shows how greed can make you disregard the destruction of the world, just because its your job, or you want to get rich.

[@rbagany]

"The planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!" (George Carlin)

[@donsudia2674]

I love George Carlin. He's either smiling down on us. Or screaming up at us.

[@Tiger1x1]

George Carlin a legend miss him

[@raymondbisbing2238p]

Ok

[@truthismycause2800]

Prophet Carlin

[@galejohnson6953]

Recently binged watched some of George Carlin‘s shows. Amazing and sad How much of what he had to say is still true today!

[@nelsonbarrios1718]

I have a strong feeling that I waisted my time today watching and confirming what I already knew, that corporate interests and lobbying rule the entire world

[@kaiserY]

Thank you. The most suffering thing I can imagine now is watching an environmental scientist talking about a chapter on climate change written by him for 20 mins.

[@tocode5434]

I think this is what professionalism looks like in journalism and narrating. And the narrator's voice is so smooth that it makes you keep listening.

[@andrewstoehr]

Leave it to PBS Frontline to absolutely nail the introduction to the global warming/fossil fuel company problem. Start with Venus, and the timing of the first moment we learned it was an oven.

[@stephenafonja8193]

Oil hadn’t nothing to with this@stephen afonja

[@pastexpiry2013B]

Venus is a terrible example. It has MAGNITUDES of higher CO2 and Methane levels than Earth.

[@Mk-il3zq]

1:19- " it cost the country and it cost the world".....how are these liars not seen as criminals? Where is the justice???

[@goldencyclone4984]

The answer is money.

[@crisismanagement]

Justice will come.

[@KirsySlane]

Maria Rosa's Daughter Way...Again...Thanks NYPD...Sag Harbor's

[@hjohnston3534]

I just had a one-sided conversation with my sister about this. I told her that big oil KNEW the effects of fossil fuels on the environment in the 70's and suppressed it. She just rolled her eyes because Tucker Carlson hasn't told her that it is real. Sadly, she is too far right to see the light.

[@johnnysupreme5718]

The same people saying the world would end in a decade 50 years ago are still going at it today with the same bullshit. You can look at a picture of the Statue of Liberty today and one from when it was first built and see that man-made Climate Change is pure nonsense. The politicians who demand you freak out about Climate Change all live on beachfront property and fly massively polluting jets across the world all day for fun. The oil companies are terrible, corrupt and pollute way too much, but Climate Change alarmism is still bullshit.

[@kiwitrainguy]

"Too far right to see the light" - that's good, mind if I use it?

[@ScottPalangi]

Frontline is always the best

[@Vaninasanta]

DON´T LOOK UP! As an ecologist from my ten years, I deeply THANK YOU for such an overwhelming ethical, clear and profound documentary. Yes: LOOK UP!!! Please!!!

[@janetmarmaro8269]

✔️🌸

[@y2ktube]

"DON´T LOOK UP!" - Yes, yes, THE SKY IS FALLING ! - Said Chicken Little... - Google it : Even with the peril of losing their jobs/grants in Academia, there are HUNDREDS of brave scientists who openly counter this MAN-MADE climate change garbage... Again, I'm ALL for pollution solutions (clean oceans & clean water etc.) ! - But here's the problem; Liberals throughout the decades have been screaming like 'Chicken Little' about "Existential" threats : IN THE 1960's as a child, the schools taught 'There's a coming Mini-Ice-Age"! - In the 70's they screamed about that AND "We're Overpopulating the Planet" ! - In the 80's and 90's they screamed "Critical Oil" ! - Next came all the blah blah of "Global Warming", which then morphed into "Climate Change" - How can anybody with any commonsense take the BIG GOVERNMENT, Carbon TAXation, wealth REDISTRIBUTION Leftists seriously? - Green is truly the new RED - - - (Communism) - Just RELAX, the Earth has proven to be SO resilient; i.e. Countless Volcano eruption's, above ground Nuclear tests & Chernobyl (with its Butterflies & daises). In fact, one can visit & take a Chernobyl guided tour group from Kyiv...

[@Vaninasanta]

@@y2ktube Yes, I see your point. But all of the issues that you comment are proven factual and true in time, scientists do see things in advance because... well, that´s what they do! They *study* things and are able to project them in the future. There´s no question about the earth, I completely agree with you, it *will* survive, no doubt about it. But *WE* won´t. And that´s the issue here. Also... commies?? On the XXI Century??? We´re on 2022, dear, no 1922... I mean, c´mon! It´s old stuff, they don´t exist anymore, like the dinosaurs 🙄

[@y2ktube]

@@Vaninasanta - "scientists do see things in advance" - Yes of course, especially if your College Grant is something you wish to keep (there are many instances cited that show if you don't agree with the Leftish 'Agenda', they pull you out of the Academia MONEY loop. "commies?? In the XXI Century??? We´re in 2022, dear, not 1922... I mean, c´mon! It´s old stuff" - Wow you're totally blinded. - Maybe now that Twitter will stop censoring conservatives, you'll begin to see that you've been fooled. That's why the saying exists : “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill

[@Vaninasanta]

@@y2ktube Well, at least from my side, I really *really* want us humans to move forward, not backwards... one can dream...

[@pt_atx]

Narrator could talk about watching paint dry and I would listen. He's awesome.

[@rg9810]

TONIGHT ON FRONTLINE.....PAINT CHIPS.... DID YOUUUUU SWALLOW??

[@Mr.T-BAGGIN-UR-MOM]

Lol, that's kinda g.-.y.

[@T61APL89]

He's like Bill Kurtis from American Justice, its so good!

[@FoundLamb]

Completely agree 🙌🏻

[@cantweallgetalong]

Yeah, listen to him on the Russian collusion documentaries. Very impressive liar.

[@paulcarlton598]

These are great, thank you for uploading these Frontlines.

[@kevchard5214]

The sickening part is all the criminals for profit involved in lying to the world will never be held responsible for their criminal actions and the world is suffering now for their actions.

[@ignaziolaudando6497]

Same can be said for our healthcare system for big tobacco companies in one way or another they’re killing us for somebody’s profit

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

"Thank you for Smoking" 🚬

[@redwhiteblue9866]

Sadly you can add the American food supply to the list of corporate profit over peoples health. Don't be deceived by thinking "they wouldn't do that". They sure as hell would and do.

[@mlight6845]

The ~40 people supporting the tobacco industry moved to support the oil industry.(Merchants of Doubt, 2011).

[@redwhiteblue9866]

@@jiayangshao4736 In order for me to be a hypocrite I would have had to have made a comment about the oil industry which I did not do read it again. But I'll make a comment now, if we could just get honest information we could make an informed choice about the best way for us to move forward in terms of our energy needs.

[@HateTheIRS]

Climate change does not cause wildfires that’s false

[@Monkeybongoes]

Cutting back on fossil fuels may or may not lead to job loss as other industries open up. What undeniably leads to job loss is shipping them overseas, as many CEOs did in the 80s, 90s and 2000s.

[@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993]

Cheaper always wins in economics

[@peteosmussen9423]

@@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993 in the short term. The long term effects of pollution are coming home to roost.

[@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993]

@@peteosmussen9423 as it should. survival Of The fittest .can't save everyone

[@peteosmussen9423]

@@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993 The biggest polluters are probably NOT the fittest.

[@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993]

@@peteosmussen9423 doesn't matter. Let nature decide. Or go ahead and thanos ppl if you're 'fit' enough to. Fittest will be left standing one way or the other

[@mathematicus3141]

Wow, that is a comprehensive view. Thank you Frontline!

[@joekaplowitz2719]

What we received from Kyoto was the lesson that no one can win in a challenge against Big Oil. This remains true 31 years later.

[@Daveomabegin]

I'm glad that this documentary was made, but omg it is depressing. I feel like we're headed towards a precipice, and the most powerful people in our society are trying to convince the busy ignorant plebians that there is no precipice. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@screaminpman]

It is sad. The dishonest climate change deniers should be in jail, but of course, wealthy people never face consequences in America.

[@rg9810]

We've been at that point...

[@DirtFlyer]

Just be optimistic and Don't Look Up!

[@LynxStarAuto]

@@DirtFlyer you mean don't look down.

[@tselot909]

@@LynxStarAuto . .

[@Eks_Sinoveta]

Frontline never disappoint, Number 1 channel for curated documentaries 🔥🔥

[@craigjoyner9857]

Hands down. Several tremendous documentaries.

[@MinusEighty]

I am so disappointed in this documentary. Pure propaganda. Total nonsense.

[@craigjoyner9857]

@@MinusEighty , please explain what is propaganda in the documentary. Genuine questions.

[@MinusEighty]

@@craigjoyner9857 Sorry I don't have the time. In short nothing has happened, and nothing will happen. It has been forty years and none of the predictions of doom have happened.

[@lilblackduc7312]

In 1988 Eco-Terrorists claimed = "All of Manhattan & half of Florida will be underwater by 1993...no wait, 2000 (Y2K), no wait 2012, I meant to say 2022. 😁 🤣 😁 🤣

[@richardklyver8767]

Incredible, thank you for what you do to educate the public and provide truth.

[@GibsonReview]

The only solution I see is going after these CEOs and their families. The Kock has two children. They threaten ours we go to theirs. This has now become an existential threat on our chidren's future.

[@wreaverfizzlefen3234]

Even by FRONTLINE's lofty standards, this is outstanding, and very much looking forward to the next episode.

[@MinusEighty]

I could not disagree more.

[@xchopp]

@@MinusEighty Because...?

[@MinusEighty]

@@xchopp There is no global warming crisis. Frontline is doubling down on nonsense from forty years ago that time has proven to be false. How long can we keep pretending? The predictions were wrong.

[@putler965]

No it isn't. If they were going to feature Al Gore, they should have mentioned his $30K annual utility bill.

[@ryangibson2831]

FRONTLINE does not have lofty standards. At least I don't think so. I find them very credible.

[@FloridaRaider]

For investigative reporting, Frontline is the gold standard.

[@zokitchvlog]

informative

[@nikkiwroten2296]

PBS along with NPR is a liberal news media propaganda outlet !

[@Gantana844]

Love FL. No ads, no BS. Just good stuff. Keep up the good work y'all

[@youdonthavetoreadthispost.5850]

I worked in the oil industry - none of this is a surprise to me - exhaust gas analysis was part of my job. I can do the math !

[@dafinaglgrrrr8565]

My family criticized me in the 1980s as I was adamant about recycling, energy conservation and alternative solutions to an outdated grid which use’s more energy to supply the grid than it provides. Yet I have not given up and now with many grandchildren becoming aware I believe they will do what our predecessors failed to.

[@douglasengle2704]

Don't use global warming as an example it has been paused at about 1°C since the early 1990s and it is high school taught science earth's greenhouse effect is always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor and can't be changed.

[@cwidd1929]

This is the real shit right here - this is why you subscribe to PBS. A few of Frontline's recent documentaries have been quite tepid (e.g. Pandora Papers, Power of the Fed, etc.), but this kind of deep, multi-part, multi-hour long, expansive investigation that hits at all the major players, the personalities, the connective tissues behind the financial decisions, the legislation, the consequences - this is why Frontline is a leader in investigative documentary programming.

[@wolfejar]

I’m a PBS donor. $20/mo. Frontline and all the PBS kids shows is why I continue to support PBS. Our American society is coming unraveled because we don’t have good Journalism. Our founding fathers knew this. Free and open press. We lost our journalism starting in the late 90’s and early 00’s with the internet. No one wanted to pay for the “news” in return pay journalist salaries.

[@marileesteele1804]

@@wolfejar Investigative reporting is expensive, long , human labor intensive ,demands focus due to complexity hence not entertaining hence not highly profitable or popular. The "press" doesn't exist, coverage is national not local national and editor are controlled by moguls, conglomerates & hedge funds. Profitability is mostly from ad revenue. I am grateful you donate because I couldn't possibly process with ad interruptions every 5 minutes. Long live PBS!!!!

[@JW-pb8fg]

HA HA HA! YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW "REAL SHIT" FROM YOUR OWN SHIT!

[@VelleyIndustrial]

We're all PBS donors, unless you don't pay taxes.

[@davehansen9124]

​@@marileesteele1804

[@davidav3980]

I wonder why I dont watch these documentaries regularly and I make them to be my MUST watch documentaries on the weekends. Seriously thank you !!!!!

[@clementsun]

I am completely livid. This should have 1 billion views. And there should have been unceasing outrage because of it. The people named in this series, who created and abetted this deception, need to be held to account. And thank God for these journalists for exposing them. What they have done amounts to a crime against all of humanity. There should be, at the very least, class action civil lawsuits against all of them to relieve them of whatever wealth they have ill-gotten. People who have been on the wrong side of history need to be prosecuted for the damage they have wrought to serve as a lesson for others yet to come. They are the embodiment of evil. Pure evil.

[@swayback7375]

Frontline knocked it out of the park here. Sadly the impact is ….0 Things like this should spark real change, it’s remarkable that crimes like this go unpunished, it’s mind blowing to me that all this evidence is essentially worthless. The fact that we’re still fighting over “Is climate change real” …well that is the craziest thing of all

[@mindsigh4]

i think the biggest blind spot, (& i believe there was a concerted effort to keep it blind) is human over population. in the 1960s people were talking about it (where i am in U.S.) books, movies mentioned it, & then what happened? it became sacrilegious to say that there are too many people. well, corporations wouldn't want less "consumers" & leaders need tax revenue from growing population, & wars need fresh supply of indoctrnatable youth, etc.& some races/ethnicities/religious types may be encouraged "our people" to breed out of fear they'll be "replaced" but why don't regular folks talk about it? if i know someone is "expecting " a baby, i figure, ok, hope they do their best, & since they've made the decision, im pro baby as far as their family, but inside im still thinking, ok, that's ur dream, but geezus, 7 billion effiing people already, uh, can u not do the math? enough fuuuucking people already.

[@sherriianiro747]

That's what they said about the tobacco industry and look what happened.

[@philipgates8693]

Yes, there’s no law against seeking confusion in relation to science. I can’t help but think of the religious idiots in Italy when Galileo said that the earth is not the center of the universe, that the earth rotates around the sun….throw him in jail.

[@vivigesso3756]

Radical liberals created a fake narrative.

[@douglasengle2704]

The observational evidence is that global warming was reported at 1.1°C in 1991 with a lot of news coverage. In 2022 global warming was reported at 1.06°C with no news coverage. In late 1994 it was announced for unknown reasons global warming has suddenly paused in the early 1990s. It is high school taught science that earth's greenhouse effect is always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor and can't be changed. All the greenhouse radiant energy is entirely absorbed by greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the earth's surface. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over 99% of earth's greenhouse effect is from water vapor.

[@savagecub]

It really should be titled “The power of big MONEY” because that’s really what’s at play here. Until we do away with lobbyists and establish term limits this will always be with us.

[@trinalittlefield6294]

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying ­ lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else." - George Carlin Complete agree. Our government really needs an overhaul. Especially the crooked crazy GOP holy shit! But the corporate dems aren't much better as far as big business interests are concerned.

[@chuckevilsizer2383]

There's no way you can eliminate lobbyists.....free speech. And term limits require a constitutional amendment.

[@trinalittlefield6294]

@@chuckevilsizer2383 what does money have to do with speech. It's one thing to talk to a member of congress about your needs. It's another to pay that member of congress to meet your needs. We are not on level playing field anymore. Why are corporate America's needs more important than mine? Did ExxonMobil cast a vote? The idea that corporations are somehow "people" who somehow deserve the same freedoms is ridiculous. It's legalized bribery and a Supreme Court decision that either needs to be overturned or legislated out if we ever want to go back to politicians who work for the people.

[@fromashestoangels378]

@@trinalittlefield6294 well said.

[@chuckevilsizer2383]

@@trinalittlefield6294 there are supreme court decisions i dont like too. But our laws are passed by congress and the states, and the court interprets the constitution whether you like it or not

[@ddg4860]

Thank God PBS. Isn't the only place to get information !!!!

[@pinkpeonyy]

Thank you for posting this video and showing the truth

[@tfreej920]

I believe I have watched every episode of Frontline since I was a kid. I think this 3-part series is one of its all-time best. THANK YOU, Frontline!!

[@frederickruderman2997]

Probably why he is the narrator 😂. Of course, I agree with you

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[@jaredkinneyjr]

Meanwhile China / Mexico & every other non-Western country pollutes 100x more than US but us Americans cant farm or drive cars??? Sure, makes sense

[@kiwitrainguy]

Well, that made a lot of sense!@@irafeiger

[@jenniferedmonds7069]

Notice Dr. Hansen speaking from his "earthship" with passive solar heating design. Awesome.

[@carley4063]

In what universe can we put a stop to these monsters? They would see the entire planet burn to satisfy their greed.

[@1550arenteria]

I use to be a mortgage lone officer. I never heard of a loan officer asking for extra money after the closing. I'm glad the bank won the case.

[@CaptainRedbeard.]

Thank you Frontline for consistently great investigative journalism!

[@thatguybrooke]

Ohh, They sure do know how to Dramatize a "crisis". It's Definitely not about making Money 💰 money money! They've been blowing this horn for almost 50yrs.. but sure I guess we're down to 9yrs or something huh? 🙄 I feel sooo bad for all those banks w 30yr. mortgages on these beach front properties...that'll apparently be ruined 😢...🙃😅🤣 *If you believe that?.. I've got a bridge to sell you my friend.

[@lilblackduc7312]

Nazis foretold government-subsidized media PBS = "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play". -Joseph Goebbels

[@SixHundredandThirteen]

@@lilblackduc7312 the government has a hand on everything, all media Hollywood etc. Pretty much all subjects of life

[@michaelschneider-]

@CaptainRedbeard. +1.. Agreed. A Big Ole Thank You to the entire Frontline staff..

[@jefft5152]

​@@lilblackduc7312 15% of funding is in no way a deciding factor. Can you say the same of Faux's controlling interest?

[@DennisMoore664]

15:51 - there are few things I hate more than someone taking a piss on me and trying to tell me it's raining. (this whole program makes me deeply angry. I've known this was coming coming since I was in grade school. Don't know where they were but I was being warned about environmental catastrophe over and over back in the 70's and 80's. Most anyone who says they didn't know using polluting products like fossil fuels was going to be a problem didn't want to know because they had an immediate profit motive at stake. And now their grandkids and the rest of the world are all pissed off at them and they want to minimize their part - freaking people.)

[@jkholtgreve]

Carl Sagan talked about it on the original Cosmos in 1980 for Heaven’s sake. Not a secret at all.

[@robertpowell4845]

park your car, never drive it. don't heat your house, stop use of all energy. As a person following the science for 40 years we are dead. The climate change 15 years ago. we are ghosts. I strongly believed in "global warming" 40 years ago. that is the reason we know we are ghosts.

[@41357500]

ok.........do you set your heat at 68 degrees? do you have the audacity to have air conditioning? if so do you set ur ac at 80 degrees? nope.....no one really cares,,,,,,,so stfu

[@jenwendy7]

omg I couldn't contain myself through this whole f***in' show. I'm so pissed I'm here in the comment section looking for solidarity.

[@DennisMoore664]

@@jenwendy7 Hosed people of the world unite!

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

Front line did a good job putting light under some pretty heavy rocks for us to see clearer.

[@iagiag5312]

I wish The New York times or CNN could be at this level of journalism

[@fourdegreeswarmer]

The best part of the killing BTU Tax segment was corporation’s saying the quiet part out loud: if we have to pay it, we’ll pass it onto the consumer in order to preserve our profits. The fact that all these people questioned the tax and not the corporation that was willing to put their boot on the neck of the working class to preserve the margin, tells you everything you need to know.

[@daniel213141]

I was thinking the same thing and the fact the Koch brothers have opposed every meaningful social initiative from Universal health care to public transit expansion speaks volumes about their real motives.

[@simplethings3730]

There are ways to keep them from passing the BTU on to consumers. Such as consumer reimbursement. It just requires legislation that would never be proposed or passed.

[@devalapar7878]

Did you calculate it? I am not sure if they would still make a profit. For me it was always clear that we have to change everything and that everyone has to pay more for things. Transportation is the biggest source of CO2. So cities have to change. People have to stop living in one family homes. We need walkable cities and good public transport. But you can't have that if everyone lives in a one family home as in the US. If we stopped driving cars, we would already reduce 10-20% of the CO2. We don't only need a CO2 tax. We also need a waste tax, so that companies focus on recycling and make their products repairable.

[@heynow01]

@@devalapar7878 You are right on target. The more you tax and inflate the cost of living, the easier it will be to get people to comply with the one world agenda. Even if the climate goals are never achieved, it was a good motivator to get people to accept a lower standard of living to allow for the elite to live like royalty.

[@devalapar7878]

@@heynow01 I have no idea what this has to do with one world government. First, there is nothing like that in the world. Second, it has nothing to do with waste and CO2 level. I would say living in a walkable city raises your standard of living. Today, the cost of waste is paid by taxpayers. And in the future it would be part of the price of a product. This would give companies an incentive to develop better products. Ones that don't create as much waste. So we would pay more for products but we would pay less for taxes. It is the right thing to do, no matter in which system you live. And it is not new! We have similar regulations everywhere.

[@zEropoint68]

nothing is going to change until these companies are held financially liable for the damage resulting from their malfeasance. reporters keep quoting these giant dollar amounts for damages, but it means nothing to the people actually responsible for them. instead, it's the victims who will pay that price, most of which will probably just end up going right back to the people who did the harm in the first place. the more damage they do, the more money they make. it's sick to the point of just giving up, acknowledging there's no way out, and accepting the consequences of our actions.

[@zz449944]

Why is most of the blame placed on the energy companies? They are doing a job -- providing exactly what society and individual consumers demand, consume, and willingly pay for every single day of their lives. That all of these energy companies are so successful at running their businesses is because consumers don't cut back on energy usage and instead use more and more every day. Personal energy consumption keeps rising, so the smart energy companies keep providing it -- it is just good business. In the end, the blame for increased energy usage goes to consumers and individuals who use more and more petrol and more electricity instead of using less. Until individual people learn to stay at home and unplug some shit, nothing will change.

[@trinalittlefield6294]

@@zz449944 because they lied?? And then started a huge ass disinformation campaign which prevented any meaningful policy changes or reforms in the last 40 years?? Did u not watch the show?? Yes, they're a business. But they had an ethical obligation not to fucking lie just so they could line their pockets extra fat. I mean seriously, they're not rich enough?? Their future generations won't even be able to spend all their billions... plus they'll be too busy trying not to burn up.

[@trinalittlefield6294]

@@zz449944 and to be fair, I get what you're saying. Personal responsibility IS important. Unfortunately half the damn country doesn't even believe we have a problem yet (I'm not sure globally how people feel) thanks to the lies they've been fed. Look at the past administration's response. A big ole disinformation campaign. It's frustrating.

[@kevinrisneraprilrisner4595]

I could go into great scientific detail about my take on the subject. And not sudosciece. But to keep it short.: B.S.

[@EyeonthePrize247]

LMFAO, you mean “pseudoscience?” I’m so sure you can go into “great scientific detail” when you can’t even spell, lol.

[@NotFluplaxio]

It will never cease to amaze me how much bs you can get away with when you have enough money and a public lazy enough to just buy whatever message you feed them. I know the internet changed our access and understanding, but these companies just lied boldly at every turn. The best we get is a weak excuse 30 years later.

[@chriskriskovic5914]

Wow! Exxon had a huge head start in the alternative energy sector and Lee Raymond pissed it away with his very poor judgment. Shareholders should have been irate! The level of executive misconduct on his part was enormous. Not just in suppressing scientific fact and lying to anyone willing to listen but in dooming Exxon’s future as an energy company. Pretty dumb on his part.

[@nottroy4500]

Frontline is the best journo doc series we have right now. Always nuanced and well-researched, backed up by interviews with experts and the people in power. Thankful for them.

[@davidanalyst671]

Experts like al gore, who said the world only had 10 years left... 17 years ago

[@lilblackduc7312]

..Nazis foretold government-subsidized media PBS = "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play". -Joseph Goebbels

[@nikkiwroten2296]

PROPAGANDA journo doc series

[@nottroy4500]

@@nikkiwroten2296 Interesting take, Nikki. What are a few examples of what you consider to be honest journalism?

[@TheMightySynchromess]

And totally biased.

[@archbishopcorrinesheemaame2574]

THANK YOU...FRONTLINE...

[@lancemarshall241]

Why didn't Exxon continue to fund research into alternative energy sources? As long as money is being made does it matter how the energy is produced?

[@Dangic23]

The documentary “How Big Oil Conquered the World “ Is a MUST see

[@poppystars9005]

Or how big oil populated the world…

[@Dangic23]

@@poppystars9005 Nope. Documentary explains. With 100% verifiable references.

[@jakebredthauer5100]

@@Dangic23 Are you denying that a high population is dependent on high energy use?

[@Dangic23]

@@jakebredthauer5100 No. Not related to my post.

[@jakebredthauer5100]

@@Dangic23 I suppose that documentary is from Front-line and Frontline is making a case for stronger, more powerful, larger government to cut off energy to cut off the world population.

[@MeAndDad_1723]

Corporates who fund congressional pockets own it all. Including laws, policies and regulations. The right ideas never has more money then the wrong ideas; Sovereign Economics.

[@rcpilot179]

And the Corp gives across the board. Red or blue, our government isn't shy about taking gifts.

[@lynnjudd9036]

Ralph Nader would have loved this comment when he wrote "Who Runs Congress?"

[@davidalvarez7262]

Regulatory capture is no joke. We got the oil companies chasing next months profits tells you its a systemic issue.

[@Pug_Mom11]

Citizens United made it possible for these corporations to funnel massive amounts of cash into our politics

[@AdamWestish]

Oil companies are making trillions destroying the earth. They should pay the costs of conversion, not consumers. That they're also the ones making it impossible to switch to solar, etc, also makes it _necessary_ that they foot the costs. Or alternatively they could just face the firing squads and the money to do so is taken by force.

[@angelarch5352]

Thank you for this important video. Amen, Namaste, Stay safe.

[@marissadower-morgan3313]

I am ashamed of this beautiful and intelligent country .who has always had the ability to change and grow new forms of energy . There is no excuse for this .Greed is obviously the cancer in this society .

[@john_dee1431]

Raymond of the 80's - single man's voice deciding the fate without choice of millions. This cannot ever happen again.

[@catvids8786]

Felt so broken now, wtf I can't sleep thinking if I turned a blind eye to this through these years, or did I make myself believe that this industry doesn't cause too much because of those "unproven theory" that is somehow discussed in schools too. I feel sorry for the third world countries like ours, it's summer and we have three consecutive typhoons already. Philippines is used to it every year, but I felt like it gets worse. When I had watch a Q and A in a Miss Earth pageant few years ago, I raised my brows when a candidate said that she wanted to terminate operations of oil industries so bad, primarily because of burning of fossil fuels. I was like "omg you're brave but you're insane. That's close to impossible." But now I just wanted to cry😭 I've fantasized this field so much.

[@jameswilliamson3210]

Thank you for learning. Later is always better than never. There are a lot of things that are unavoidable now, but it is no time to give up. We can still make sure things won't be as bad as the could be

[@catvids8786]

@@jameswilliamson3210 thank you so much sir for your kind words. More power to you

[@jimmyf9545]

At least you have come around to see your errors. You were hoodwinked.

[@orhanmekic9292]

So sad and heartbreaking.

[@cherylgibson7038]

“Thumbs up” for content; “thumbs down” for corporate corruption.

[@MikaelChoi]

Long Live PBS Frontline!

[@cyrusdubash3097]

That would prove this program wrong.

[@RAZR_Channel]

So predictable that people get spooked by "it's going to cost jobs"... when the real consequence is : "it's going to cost lives"...

[@manuelpopp1687]

Funny how they empathize uncertainties when it comes to the climate but not when talking about the economy.

[@gruntslayer3524]

Imagine the greed of a handful of individuals dooming the entire planet. What a wonderful system capitalism is

[@kenlodge3399]

I'll say it was in the 90s when I first heard about climate change, but wasn't until closer to 2000 when began to really appreciate how serious its implications are. So I really don't need to say anymore as that is the result of all the major players efforts to convince me whether it is a relevant concern or not. In fact I'll insist mine is a typical response to global warming, that how I know of it is almost entirely as a point of conflict, more political than anything scientific. Mostly cliche by now, but as this report points out is the validity of misinformation. By the actions of a certain President who promoted war in the early 2000s, he elevated for an entire generation the practice of misinformation as a legitimate method of discourse and debate. Now since that time how many Hot Button issues have arisen on a national level which have continued to validate and enhance the benefits of misinformation. To the point, Denial of Responsibility, on a national level, is becoming a more and more accepted practice to achieve political outcomes.

[@V.E.D.A.N.G]

I loved the voice who' describes what all happened over all the years and basically sums it up

[@JonnoPlays]

"I'm clearly on the wrong side of history" He says from the kitchen table of his million dollar house. Yeah he feels real bad I'm sure.

[@Omid-on-Life]

Great report!! Thank you!

[@jimyoung648]

I wish they had included a bit on the dispute between Roger Revelle and S. Fred Singer shortly before Revelle passed away. To me, Revelle was near the end of the 10 to 15 year period he thought was necessary to determine if the trend was going to become a problem that needed serious action. I only learned of Revelle's role in climate science and oceanography years after I had provided some very minor DMSP weather Satellite support to the Office of Naval Research that he had been so instrumental in during WWII, his later leadership in the International Geophysical Year (1957 and 58), work at Scripps Institute and role in starting UCSD. Justin Lancaster raised the details of what I believe was Singer's misuse of Revelle's inputs to his book but had been stopped by a SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) at the critical time (so much for important free speech being able to be heard). To me Singer seemed to use Revelle's wanting to use a 10 to 15 year period of further operation as if it was just starting, not just ending.

[@rhmendelson]

Extremely informative, but heartbreaking. Thanks for putting this together!

[@tomnisen3358]

Untruth

[@amielvasco3503]

They stopped investing and drilling, and now people are complaining about high oil prices saying they are price gauging because of the tight supply. Isn't this what every anti-oil folk asked for? They go drill green energy faster, then... 😆

[@austinadjutant5684]

You seem highly misinformed. The gas companies have the ability to drill more but they don’t want to because these high prices are great for them. Hence their record breaking profits and that is why they are price gouging.

[@amielvasco3503]

@@austinadjutant5684 They will always have the ability and if one company out of the many oil companies decides to take advantage of low supply in the global (not just the entitled US) markets, nothing is stopping them from growing faster than the known big oil companies coz they had the courage to produce more when prices are high. Also, can't you remember when oil is too cheap that it actually went negative and the oil industry lost a lot of money due to overinvestment? How about what happened to oil prices during lockdowns that destroyed demand while they still have a lot of supply that they had to stop drilling? Did anybody care about the oil industry? Now every brainless people care coz they are the one losing money and not the oil industry anymore. Be an adult, stop complaining and invest in oil companies if you think oil is gonna go up and stop asking the government for support like a baby that make the US flood the world with printed dollars that creates global inflation...big government is the problem.

[@williamcrowley5506]

@@amielvasco3503 where the hell did you get that they stopped investing and drilling? And yes, they will stop, either when we consumers say enormous gh as we don't want billions to die, or billions die and the demand is no longer there.

[@sherriianiro747]

I have a question - decades ago when the government lowered the boom and created the EPA and the Clean Water Act companies never threatened price increases as they do now because it wasn't a monopoly then like today. Where did the ant-trust laws go to ensure free enterprise? They were created from public demand during the Gilded Age but you never hear about enforcement anymore.

[@saralynfosnight5139]

I remember the first time I heard of global warming-1983, I was at an artists' colony in Western Massachusetts. It was November and the temperature was 65 one day. Very warm for November. Just last week, in Chicago, the temperature was 79 degrees, again in November. Things are worse, not better. These corporations are killing us all.

[@craigplank7432]

I don't know which was more chilling, this or the Putin episode. This is excellent!

[@emiliorosa9896]

Thanks you Frontline for amazing work and information

[@EB-ri6bb]

"It was my job to do that" echoes "I was only following orders"

[@o0o-jd-o0o95]

They did the same thing when the investigation of lead and leaded gasoline came about

[@xchopp]

Let's not fail to remember just how awful the WSJ and its editors have been on this issue -- and contributors such as George Will: WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY for the spreading of such lies?

[@jimmyf9545]

Totally agree.

[@suyashyadav7827]

documentaries like these should be made to run 24hrs on national tv. moreover all senators and congressman assets and their lobby background should be disclosed

[@HateTheIRS]

Climate change does not cause wildfires that’s false

[@jakebredthauer5100]

That is not freedom of speech to force people to fund speech they do not agree with.

[@juliehenderson1672]

These documentaries should be standard curriculum in high schools. Many students don't learn truth until grad school.

[@JW-pb8fg]

YEH! ALONG WITH NAZI GERMANY DOCUMENTARIES! BOTH ARE FILLED WITH DESPICABLE LIES AND PRETEND HORROR STORIES! HA HA HA! DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THIS CRAP?

[@oslowcloud]

YES Frontline this is good stuff!

[@jacobreuter]

The bass drop at :30 is lit

[@wmurch3]

Another fantastic expose from Frontline. Nobody does it better...nobody. Can't wait until part 2!

[@grumpy7678]

At 111 minutes I listened to ex Senator Hagel whine that he "was not a scientist" but that it seemed to him that the evidence was unclear. Of course it was unclear ... he attended numerous meetings with those opposing the Kyoto Conference draft resolutions, meetings that included the Exxon CEO. They fed him the industry line and even provided drafts of the upcoming Byrd-Hagel resolution (that when passed killed any possibility of meaningful US involvement in any global effort to mitigate climate change). To me, after a congressperson says "I am not a scientist, but..." the next statement should be "here is what the National Academy of Sciences has stated several times about global warming, its causes, and the predicted effects". The National Academy of Sciences was created (in 1863) to provide technical and scientific guidance to Congress. They had by the mid 90s issued several reports on climate change and its causes, including the famous 1979 Charney Report, showing the scientific consensus on the human cause of adverse climate change. Every congressperson then and now should rely heavily on the NAS reports, and not on the latest unpublished negative assessment "just released" by the oil industry led forces against doing anything. My two cents ...

[@pjpredhomme7699]

He was given bags of cash that told him made the science real clear - these guys knew . When Jr Bush was president and they were going thru government reports - and crossing out findings all thru them - he couldn't figure out what that meant . He knows what he did - no clue why he agreed to go on camera - maybe he thought he would not look as bad as he did - narcissism will make people do funny things

[@douglasharbert3340]

Every single one of you watching this documentary enables them. If you want to save the environment, then stop driving your vehicles, heating your homes, and using any plastic or electronic devices. No? I didn't think so ..

[@yeeeehaaawbuddy]

It's interesting that all of these interviews took place in luxurious rooms, with extremely rich people that are literally the ones that allowed this all to happen. Anyway...