Category Archives: British Petroleum

DeSmog Investigation – Archival Documents Reveal Oil Companies Funded Climate Science in 1954 – Were Told 70 Years Ago That CO2 Emissions Could Impact “Civilization”

These documents were uncovered by Rebecca John as part of her investigation into the oil and gas industry’s early knowledge of climate science and its response to this knowledge. Reported with links to documents via DeSmog on January 30, 2024 and November 12, 2024 New Evidence Reveals Fossil Fuel Industry Sponsored Climate Science in 1954 […]

Mobil and ExxonMobil Advertorial Op-Ads 1972-2006

This collection is not yet the complete set of all the paid ads (aka Advertorials) that Mobil then ExxonMobil placed virtually every week for decades on the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages, but this folder contains over 100 examples of environmental and specifically climate oriented ads. https://embed.documentcloud.org/projects/exxon-and-mobil-ads-9134/?embed=1 Share this post on your […]

New North Sea Documents: Oil industry research into enhanced oil recovery 2003-2023

A new collection on Climate Files of industry and government reports examining the potential for using the UK’s planned carbon capture projects to pump more North Sea oil and gas via a process known as enhanced oil recovery is published below. These documents were assembled by energy journalist Michael Buchsbaum while working on a project […]

New Shell Oil Documents: “Dirty Pearls” Investigation 2023-24

A new collection on ClimateFiles of old Shell documents around climate change is published below. These documents were uncovered during five years of research by Vatan Hüzeir of Changerism, while a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as part of his investigation entitled, Dirty pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990. New […]

Brulle paper references: Advocating Inaction, Environmental Politics, April 2022

A new paper by Robert Brulle in the journal Environmental Politics introduces several new documents to the ClimateFiles GCC collection, including important internal documents from the Global Climate Coalition and National Association of Manufacturers. Link to the full paper: Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition ABSTRACT Ever since climate change became […]

1994 Fred Singer Proposal to the GCC

This document was buried in our files and surfaced after we published the Global Climate Coalition archives in 2019. The BBC Radio series “How They Made Us Doubt Everything” brings it to light in Episode 5. Share this post on your feed Twitter Facebook Google+

Introduction to the Imperial Oil Archival Document Collection

This collection of documents was gleaned from the Glenbow Museum’s Imperial Oil Archive, over the past several years. The original documents are now housed at the University of Calgary. This is the most comprehensive collection of these documents published on the internet to date and were collected by researchers at DeSmog. Search the entire collection […]