Greenhouse Effect:
Shell Anticipates A Sea Change
New York Times, (20 December 1989), Greenhouse Effect:
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Into the 1990s, following the establishment of the IPCC and the start of the
global climate negotiations, the fossil fuel industry ran full blown campaigns
that manufactured doubt about climate science, concealed the foreseeable
human impacts of using fossil fuel products, and delayed meaningful actions.
Shell, “Climate of Concern” video
about deadly and devastating
consequences of climate change
Shell, Climate of Concern, available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VOWi8oVXmo,
(Jelmer Mommers, Shell made a film about climate change in
1991 (then neglected to heed it’s own warning),
De Correspondent (27 February 2017), available at
https://thecorrespondent.com/6285/shell-made-a-filmabout-climate-change-in1991-then-neglected-to-heed-itsown-warning/692663565-875331f6
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Information Council
on the Environment Climate Denial
Ad Campaign
Lukens, F. (02 May 1991), Information Council for
the Environment Test Market Ad Materials [Letter to Bill
Brier]; Brier, B. (15 May 1991), Information Council on the
Environment Climate Denial Ad Campaign, available at
http://www.climatefiles.com/denial-groups/ice-ad-campaign/
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The United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opens for signature
at the Rio Earth Summit.