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5.110.Mr. Davies also pointed to possible funding of the Cooler Heads
Coalition (CHC), in what he described as “the longest running climate denial
coalition.”*“* This was “a coalition of climate denying organizations, funded
through the years by respondent ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothers, the Mercers
and other ‘dark money,’ who have worked to stall the implementation of
effective climate policy since 1997.”2”
D.6.
From the Kyoto Protocol in 2005 to
the Paris Agreement in 2015, the
corporate attack on climate science
and solutions unabatedly continued
5.111.A 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car, investigated
the efforts of oil companies to limit the development and marketing of electric
vehicle technologies. The documentary told the story of new and promising
technology for large Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries for use in
vehicles that was bought by General Motors and, then, respondent Chevron.?*°
5.112.Mr. Muffett explained that the documentary exposed that
“Chevron’s arrangement gave the oil company exclusive control of the
licensing and use of the NiMH battery patent and alleged that Chevron was
using patent entanglement to prevent the further development or use of the
technology.” 7°!
5.113.Meanwhile, in his Statement,>* Mr. Davies discussed how the
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) spread misinformation
following super typhoon Haiyan.??
5.113.1.
CFACT articulated in a blog that—
Typhoon activity in the Philippines is normal.
Despite over-the-top reporting before the typhoon struck
(timed perfectly for COP 19) Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda was
not the strongest typhoon recorded in the Philippines. It was
the seventh. ...
There are no worthwhile science or historical records
which support the notion that extreme storms have worsened
in the Philippines or elsewhere as a result of a warming
planet.2>4
248 Davies, K., supra note 223, p. 7.
249
Id.
250 Muffet, C., supra note 141, p. 30.
251 Ibid.
252 Davies, K., supra note 223, p. 7.
253 Id., pp. 8-9.
254 CFACT Ed. (16 November 2013), COP 19: Filipino negotiator goes on hunger strike over typhoon,
available at https:/Avww.cfact.org/2013/1 1/16/cop-19-filipino-negotiator-goes-on-hunger-strike-overtyphoon, (last accessed 12 September 2019).
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