Exxon Is Quietly Planning New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant for Texas’s Gulf Coast
https://truthout.org/articles/exxon-is-quietly-planning-new-8-6-billion-plastics-plant-for-texass-gulf-coast/
#FYI #ExxonKnew #ShellsLies #ecocide
Die Berechnung von Exxon in 1982 war so genau, dass das Modell bis heute den Verlauf der Erhitzung korrekt wiedergibt. Wer will, kann das an meinem Hintergrundbild nachsehen, dort habe ich auf der Grafik von Exxon die aktuellen NASA Messungen als rote Linie fortgeführt.
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is ABSOLUTELY ON FIRE* today (and grimly hilarious), skewering crypto among many other enshittified things, not least the politicians who were warned of the consequences of their actions, but still continued to do the wrong thing, whether through stupidity, ideology or graft:
*Take Malcolm Turnbull, the former Australian Prime Minister. When he was told that the laws of mathematics dictated that it was impossible to build selectively effective encryption of the sort he was demanding, he replied, "The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia"*
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/
#tech #media #crypto #lafires #auspol #climateemergency #climatechange
*and he's writing as #la literally burns - though as he points out, the authorities were warned, time and time again, about the dangers. Not to mention that #exxonknew long ago about the consequences of its actions...
"The climate emergency has been steadily worsening for decades. LA is just the latest place to be on fire, or under water, or under ice, or baking in wet bulb temperatures. Last week in southern California, we were warned to expect gusts of 120mph."
"They were warned. #ExxonKnew: in the early 1970s, Exxon's own scientists warned them that fossil fuel consumption would kick off climate change so drastic that it would endanger human civilzation. Exxon responded by burying the reports and investing in climate denial."
Long thread/31
Well that didn't take long. I'm organizing a small group of volunteers willing to rake Warren Davidson's face.
Republican congressman calls for halting of disaster relief to California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/warren-davidson-republican-disaster-relief-california-wildfires
Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt? An excerpt from Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis.
The Case for Letting Malibu Burn https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/
The most horrific wildfires in recent US history have one key feature in common https://www.businessinsider.com/wildfires-los-angeles-lahaina-paradise-weather-cause-climate-crisis-2025-1
#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus
Im Zusammenhang mit den global zunehmenden #Extremwetterereignissen ist interessant, dass die Lobbyausgaben des US-Branchenverbands #AFPM in 2024 den Höchsten Stand aller Zeiten erreichten:
#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus
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*[Ausgaben für] Öl- und Gaslobbyismus erreichen 72 Millionen Dollar in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres 2024*
Von #MollyTaylor (OpenSECRETS.ORG)
15. August 2024
"Der amerikanische Verband der Kraftstoff- und #Petrochemiehersteller...
"Internal documents over the last 45 years reveal the fossil fuel industry has long known their products would supercharge extreme weather." #BigOil #ExxonKnew #Climate https://heated.world/p/big-oil-knew-monster-storms-were
#California sues Exxon over plastics #recycling 'deception'
September 24, 2024
BBC
"California's attorney general is suing #ExxonMobil, alleging the oil giant engaged in a 'decades-long campaign of deception' about the effectiveness of #PlasticsRecycling.
"In the civil lawsuit filed on Monday, Attorney General Rob Bonta accused Exxon of contributing to a 'deluge' of plastic pollution, while telling Californians that recycling was a fix.
"'For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when they clearly knew this wasn’t possible,' Bonta said."
@nixCraft
MS AI feeds→ #Chevron & #ExxonMobil
Google AI feeds → #TotalOil
Amazon AI feeds → #Shell & #BP
Chevron is the worst:
#ALEC member, finances climate denial, finances republican politicians, caught in a scandal with Microsoft (#cloakroom project to hold secret meetings between rt-wing politicians corporations)
#ExxonMobil has the worst history:
#ExxonKnew, oil spills, etc.
No surprise...!
Oil and gas lobbying reaches $72 million in first half of 2024
By Molly Taylor
August 15, 2024
"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers led the oil and gas industry in federal lobbying expenditures in the first half of 2024, marking the first time the trade association outspent the top individual companies in the industry.
"The trade association, which represents 450 fuel refining and petrochemical companies, leads the oil and gas industry with $8.1 million in federal lobbying expenditures over the first half of 2024. This level of spending marks a shift in influence, as individual oil and gas companies have typically outspent the trade association by millions of dollars.
"The oil and gas industry altogether spent $72 million on federal lobbying in the first six months of 2024 as the #EPA introduced some of its strongest-ever regulations to reduce #FossilFuel emissions. The industry is on track to exceed last year’s expenditures, which totaled $137 million after adjustment for inflation, and is the fifth-highest lobbying industry of the year.
"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers emerged as the top spender after doubling its federal lobbying expenditures from 2022. Between 2016 and 2022, the trade organization spent, on average, $3.4 million annually without adjusting for inflation. In 2023, spending jumped to $6.9 million in 2023.
"In the first six months of 2024, the American Fuel and #Petrochemical
Manufacturers has already spent more on federal lobbying than any prior year."
Do you remember?
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
We analyzed 32 internal documents produced in-house by #ExxonMobil scientists and managers between
>1977
and 2002, and 72 peer-reviewed scientific publications authored or coauthored by ExxonMobil scientists between 1982 and 2014.
I'm old enough to remember this -- and it stuck with me! Conditions for life on planets is such a rare thing -- I don't understand why we are deliberating messing with that! F-ing #Corporatocracy and #Crapitalism! Consume, pollute, and to hell with the consequences, eh? Not a good way to do things! (Talk about sh*tting where you live!)
#CarlSagan Warns Congress about #ClimateChange (1985)
November 18, 2021
"Without climate change, we couldn’t inhabit the #Earth as we do today. The #greenhouse effect, by which gases in a planet’s atmosphere increase the heat of that planet’s surface, 'makes life on Earth possible.' So says Carl Sagan in the video above. He adds that without it, the temperature would be about 30 degrees centigrade cooler: 'That’s well below the freezing point of water everywhere on the planet. The oceans would be solid.' A little of the climate change induced by the greenhouse effect, then, is a good thing, but 'here we are pouring enormous quantities of CO2 and these other gases into the atmosphere every year, with hardly any concern about its long-term and global consequences.'
"It’s fair to say that the level of concern has increased since Sagan spoke these words in 1985, when 'climate change' wasn’t yet a household term. But even then, his audience was Congress, and his fifteen-minute address, preserved by C‑SPAN, remains a succinct and persuasive case for more research into the phenomenon as well as strategies and action to mitigate it.
"What audience would expect less from Sagan, who just five years earlier had hosted the hit PBS television series Cosmos, based on his book of the same name. Its broadcast made contagious his enthusiasm for scientific inquiry in general and the nature of the planets in particular. Who could forget, for example, his introduction to the 'thoroughly nasty place' that is Venus, research into whose atmosphere Sagan had conducted in the early 1960s?
"#Venus is 'the nearest planet — a planet of about the same mass, radius, density, as the Earth,' Sagan tells Congress, but it has a 'surface temperature about 470 degrees centigrade, 900 Fahrenheit.' The reason? 'A massive #GreenhouseEffect in which #CarbonDioxide plays the major role.' As for our planet, estimates then held that, without changes in the rates of fossil fuel-burning and 'infrared-absorbing' gases released into the atmosphere, there will be 'a several-centigrade-degree temperature increase' on average 'by the middle to the end of the next century.' Given the potential effects of such a rise, 'if we don’t do the right thing now, there are very serious problems that our children and grandchildren will have to face.' It’s impossible to know how many listeners these words convinced at the time, though they certainly seem to have stuck with a young senator in the room by the name of #AlGore."
Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/carl-sagan-warns-congress-about-climate-change-1985.html
Video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI
So as a result of this 
#climatecrisis news, we ..
* Prosecute individual #BigOil executives for #conspiracy
* Institute massive class-action civil #lawsuits against these companies.
* Ban all #advertising for #FossilFuels and products that require fossil fuels.
@uspolitics
@legaltech @ClimateNewsNow @climateemergency @aristeon89 @geopolitics #law #legal #media
" If someone substantially contributes to or accelerates a death, that counts as “causing” it. If they did so intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly, that counts as “culpable mental state.” "
Well, #ExxonKnew. #ShellKnew. They all knew, very early on and with astonishing accuracy, what the burning of their product will do. They not only kept on selling the product at great profit, they lied about it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/179624/fossil-fuel-companies-prosecute-climate-homicide
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Former Exxon top DC lobbyist Keith McCoy “confessed to everything: funding fake grassroots groups and falsifying the science – he even names the senators who took his bribes. McCoy singled out Manchin for special praise, calling him "a kingmaker" and boasting about the "standing weekly calls" Exxon had with Manchin's office.”
#ClimateEmergency #ExxonKnew ##ClimateCriminals #WestVirginia #USPol #Manchin #Renewables
