{"id":14804,"date":"2022-09-20T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/non-classifiee\/oil-executives-privately-contradict-their-public-climate-statements\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:55:02","slug":"oil-executives-privately-contradict-their-public-climate-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/news-from-the-front\/oil-executives-privately-contradict-their-public-climate-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil executives privately contradict their public climate statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"tatsu-H1Fsw4vZj tatsu-section  tatsu-fullscreen tatsu-bg-overlay   tatsu-clearfix\" data-title=\"\"  data-headerscheme=\"background--dark\"><div class=\"tatsu-fullscreen-wrap\"><div class='tatsu-section-pad clearfix' data-padding='{\"d\":\"90px 0% 90px 0%\"}' data-padding-top='90px'><div class=\"tatsu-row-wrap  tatsu-wrap tatsu-row-one-col tatsu-row-has-one-cols tatsu-medium-gutter tatsu-reg-cols  tatsu-clearfix tatsu-SkgtsDEwZo\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-row \" ><div  class=\"tatsu-column  tatsu-column-no-bg tatsu-one-col tatsu-column-image-none tatsu-column-effect-none  tatsu-Sy-KowNPZo\"  data-parallax-speed=\"0\" style=\"\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-inner \" ><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad-wrap\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-inline-text clearfix tatsu-B1MFjwEwbi   \" ><style>.tatsu-B1MFjwEwbi .tatsu-inline-text-inner{width: 100%;text-align: left;}.tatsu-B1MFjwEwbi.tatsu-inline-text{margin: 0px 0px 60px 0px;}<\/style><div class=\"tatsu-inline-text-inner tatsu-align-center\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"swatch-white\">The documents were obtained by subpoena as part of a review by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform of the fossil fuel industry&#8217;s efforts over the decades to mislead the public about its role in climate change, rejecting evidence that burning fossil fuels was causing global temperatures to rise, even though their own scientists warned of a clear link. For example, Shell&#8217;s internal documents discussing the company&#8217;s &#8220;net zero&#8221; journey also included guidelines for employees:&nbsp;<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-inline-text clearfix tatsu-SJmYjvNwbs   \" ><style>.tatsu-SJmYjvNwbs .tatsu-inline-text-inner{width: 100%;text-align: left;}<\/style><div class=\"tatsu-inline-text-inner tatsu-align-center\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8220;Please don&#8217;t give the impression that Shell is prepared to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to levels that don&#8217;t make commercial sense.&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-normal-button tatsu-button-wrap align-block block-center  tatsu-r1NYiDNPZj   \"><a class=\"tatsu-shortcode mediumbtn tatsu-button left-icon rounded   bg-animation-none  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/14\/climate\/oil-industry-documents-disinformation.html?smid=url-share\" style=\"\" aria-label=\"NY Times (EN)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times (EN)<\/a><style>.tatsu-r1NYiDNPZj .tatsu-button{background-color: rgba(255,255,255,1);color: rgba(127,128,133,1) ;border-width: 4px;border-color: rgba(232,219,208,1); 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public messages about efforts to reduce GHG emissions and downplayed industry-wide commitments to promote climate policies.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/news-from-the-front\/oil-executives-privately-contradict-their-public-climate-statements\/\" class=\"exp-read-more exp-read-more-underlined\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14816,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14804\/revisions\/14816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}