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   Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 04:50:42 JST Robert Link

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   • Kim Perales

   @KimPerales I've quoted elsewhere a nice bit from the movie "Local Hero," in which an oil "scientist" talks placidly about averting the next ice age by diverting the gulf stream and melting the ice caps. This isn't something touted as a danger to avoid, but the actual goal.

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     Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 04:50:43 JST Kim Perales

     "Major oil companies were alerted about the planet-warming effects of FFs as early as 1954, newly unearthed docs show."

     Big Oil & their enablers, are killing us, at an escalated pace.

     The warning, from the head of an IDU-created group known as the Air Pollution FND was revealed by Climate Investigations Center & published Tues by DeSmog.

     “Every time there’s a push for climate action, [we see] FF cos. downplay & deny the harms of burning FF.”-.

     #ClimateCrisis #BigOil https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/big-oil-fossil-fuel-warning?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco