Between 1954 and 1956, fossil fuel companies funded climate science through an organisation called the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, which was formed in 1953 to tackle Los Angeles' smog problem. --- “The present trend of fossil fuel consumption will cause dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.” - This was from an internal Exxon report in 1979. [Supran 2023-01-13 - Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections](zotero://select/items/1_9QE9TLSD) https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22092015/exxon-confirmed-global-warming-consensus-in-1982-with-in-house-climate-models/ From 1998, Exxon also hired the same lobbyists who worked for big tobacco to debunk climate science claims - https://www.everand.com/read/305154226/Dark-Money-how-a-secretive-group-of-billionaires-is-trying-to-buy-political-control-in-the-US Between 2003 and 2010, 91 conservative organisations received half a billion dollars in funding - [Brulle 05/2021 - Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations](zotero://select/items/1_8KH5FJB6) https://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/ --- Source: [[Power for All]]