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The Daily Beast Podcast

Are We Just Going to Ignore That Exxon Video?

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A lobbyist for a giant oil company admitted in a video that the industry spreads disinfo to stop efforts to combat climate change and no one really talked about it. Molly Jong-Fast had Emily Atkins, climate reporter and author of the daily climate newsletter, HEATED, come on this bonus episode The New Abnormal to find out why: “The fuckery is immense.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This Christmas, discover the Whitney Houston story you never knew.

0:04.4

Wait, how about it? It's on the same thing.

0:07.2

From the right level, hemi and rap city.

0:09.1

This is what they want.

0:10.0

America's sweetheart. You won't give it to them.

0:12.2

Just watch me.

0:16.5

I want to dance with somebody. Only in cinemas now.

0:22.3

Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the new abnormal.

0:25.5

We thank you so much for being here.

0:27.5

Today we have an extra special episode with Emily Atkin.

0:31.1

The author of the Daily Climate Newsletter heated.

0:33.6

And we're going to talk about how we actually changed the discussion around climate change.

0:37.6

By the way, if you want an alert when each bonus episode from the new abnormal drops,

0:41.8

you can subscribe in your member dashboard.

0:44.1

Head to the dailybees.com slash membership slash newslurs to sign up for email alerts.

0:50.3

Hi Emily, welcome to the new abnormal.

0:53.2

Thank you for having me. Very excited.

0:55.3

You know, one of the many reasons why I wanted to have you was you talked about this idea

1:01.1

that like with the pandemic, where we had to learn how to write about COVID,

1:07.7

we need to learn how to write about climate, that more generalized people in the opinion space

1:13.5

and in the more straight newsy space need to know how to cover climate.

1:18.1

Yeah, I mean, I've really wanted this for a long time.

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