Everything you've ever wanted to know about the oil industry and climate change! This video is the true story of what the oil industry knew about climate change and what they did about it between the 1950s and today.
0:00 Intro
1:05 1960s
4:02 1970s
7:05 1980s
9:39 1990s
13:38 2000s
This video was created in collaboration with Dr. Benjamin Franta, a researcher at Stanford University investigating the history of fossil fuel producers and climate science. Several of his articles were used as references for this video:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0349-9
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming
https://www.smokeandfumes.org/documents/document16
This is a video adaptation of my 3-part webcomic: https://sustainabilityillustrated.com/en/2019/02/26/petroleum-history-comic/
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Board room photo (thumbnail and video) by Drew Beamer on Unsplash
Music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound, Youtube Audio library and https://freesound.org
Edward Teller photo by w:User:Greg L, Papa Lima Whiskey - EdwardTeller1958.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10812046
Power plant photo by Aditya Joshi on Unsplash
Highway photo by Alexander Popov on Unsplash
Flood photo by Chris Gallagher on Unsplash
Tornado photo by Nikolas Noonan on Unsplash
Large Low Boom sound effect by duckduckpony on https://freesound.org