Sorry not to have posted much today--both of your bloggers are up to their ears in things. But my latest Science Progress column just went up: It's about recent revelations of the "what did they know and when did they know it" variety concerning the fossil fuel industry and global warming. Here's a sampling of my take:
At this point, anyone who seriously engages with the historical, journalistic, and also increasingly legal record on climate change over the last 20 or so years will find a gap between the state of scientific understanding on the one hand, and what some prominent corporate players were saying on the other. Inevitably, then, industry was either advised competently about the science and ignored it—as the latest memo would appear suggest—or was ill-advised, which is hard to believe given the size and scientific resources of most of these companies. In addition, there’s at least ...
