How oil capitalists conspired to spread climate change denialism — in 1988
In the summer of 1988, the United States experienced the worst heat waves and droughts since the Dust Bowl. Ominous images of burning forests, withering fields and sweltering cities filled the American press and elicited nervous suspicion: was this the work of the so-called greenhouse effect? Had the danger of which some scientists warned already arrived?
It was amid this tense national atmosphere climatologist
James Hansen intervened with his testimony to the Senate, in which he
forthrightly asserted that "we can ascribe with a high degree of
confidence a cause and effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and
observed warming." The suspicions were sound: "It is already
happening now." Describing the extreme summer as a taste of things to
come, the report in the New York Times also noted that the testifying
scientists "said that planning must begin now for a sharp reduction
in the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels that release carbon
dioxide." Planning for a sharp reduction? The very notion injected panic
in fossil capital…
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