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Robert is joined by Molly Lambert to discuss the Bastards Who Covered Up Climate Change.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Exxon accused of misleading investors on climate change
2. An investor enquiry: how much big oil spends on climate lobbying
3. Column: A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real
4. Exxon’s Climate Concealment
5. Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show
6. Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings
7. On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
8. Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
9. Did ExxonMobil Just Admit It’s Still Funding Climate Science Deniers?
10. Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change
11. Two-faced Exxon: the misinformation campaign against its own scientists
12. Rex Tillerson to oil industry: Not sure humans can do anything to battle climate change
13. Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson's 'Wayne Tracker' Emails, Witness Says
14. Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk
15. ‘All Rhetoric and No Action’: Oil Giants Spent $1 Billion on Climate Lobbying and Ads Since Paris Pact, Says Report
16. The new science fossil fuel companies fear
17. Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change

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