Exxon Mobil’s decadeslong climate hoax

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

New research shows Exxon Mobil understood the dire consequences of burning fossil fuels decades ago — with scary accuracy. Yet, the company continued to mislead the public about the effects of climate change. We’ll discuss the billions in damages attributed to more frequent extreme weather events. And, a dungeon masters’ revolt! Dungeons & Dragons players united to preserve the spirit of the game. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections” from Science

- “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters” from the National Centers for Environmental Information

- “The Dungeons & Dragons’ OGL 1.1 Tightens Grip On Competition” from Gizmodo

- “‘People are leaving the game’: Dungeons & Dragons fans revolt against new restrictions” from The Guardian

- “Amid widespread backlash, D&D maker scales back ‘open’ license changes” from Ars Technica

- Tweet from @ttjourneys

- “CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months” from Gizmodo

- Get smart on “Spare” from the Make Me Smart newsletter

- “Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal” from BBC News

- “Thousands of Airline Passengers Affected by FAA System Outage” from The New York Times

“Disney will soon require workers to be in-office four days a week” from Marketplace

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0:00.0	Well, I guess since we're not doing the live stream, we could just get going.
0:04.3	Oh, why not? We're all here, right?
0:07.4	I think so.
0:08.4	That means nice.
0:09.9	Yes.
0:13.7	Hello everyone, happy Friday. I am Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
0:21.7	And I'm Amy Scott in Forkai Rizdal. Thanks so much for joining us for Economics on Tap.
0:27.4	And for those of you wondering, the live stream will be back next week on YouTube.
0:33.3	We are given the folks managing the live stream a little bit more time off for the holidays and the
0:40.6	They are all coming back soon and it's going to be amazing. So mean time. Let's talk about drinks. Amy, what are you drinking?
0:48.8	Well, Kimberly, I am drinking a canned cocktail as I often do when
0:54.2	I'm pressed for time.
0:56.2	This is a gin crush lemon and lime flavored.
1:00.5	Um, you know, the skinny little can they don't taste bad.
1:04.4	How about you?
1:05.4	Good.
1:06.4	Sort of the same. I am also drinking a canned spirit free cocktail or as it says on the canned
1:13.4	mocktail because I'm doing dry January. And so mine is also in a skinny little can.
1:18.6	It's called a Capri Spuritz and it has pomegranate cranberry shrub and lemon grass.
1:26.6	It's quite tasty. I've been trying all of these different mocktails and spirit free cocktails and non-alcoholic
1:34.2	wines and things over the last two weeks. And I'm going I think next weekend to like a non-alcoholic
1:42.6	drinks festival that they're doing here in DC, which should be cool.
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