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[–] gotnuffin 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Big oil, coal and gas via sympathetic media (read greedy). They have thrown money and pundits at it for so long, not sure they could stop even if they wanted to.

By this point though you'd think they'd pack it up, as blind Freddy can see the writing is on the wall. But I watched FOX roll out Steve Milloy to say the Canadian wildfire smoke was no threat to humans a couple of weeks back. Steve Milloy has been called out as a climate denier since the '90s yet they still use him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy

There are many more of them, it's fun playing spot the denier disguised as an expert in the media but ultimately it is sole destroying knowing how far they have infiltrated and destroyed legitimate science and the public's perception.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/05/double-agent-fossil-fuel-lobbyists

https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/27/fossil-fuel-oil-gas-giants-shell-bp-using-british-influencers-to-go-viral/

https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/26/doj-investigation-big-oil-climate-deception-congressional-democrats/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/07/climate-solutions-big-oil-ipcc-report