In season one of Drill, we examined the creation of climate denial.

We talked to scientists and uncovered documents that outlined a decades-long propaganda campaign

launched by Big Oil.

We dug into a lot, but there was still plenty that we didn't quite get to.

For one thing, climate scientist Ken Caldera said something to me that I couldn't get

out of my mind.

Eric Barron was performing paleo-climate simulations and then running the model and trying to figure

out where in ancient times the upwelling zones might have been in the oceans because those would

be zones where oil might form.

And the oil companies were funding this work as part of their oil exploration.

At the same time that they were kind of talking down the models in terms of their ability to

have futility for current policy, they were using those very same models to help guide their

oil prospecting.

I don't know if you caught that, but what he's saying there is that during the same years that

companies were saying that climate science was just too uncertain to inform regulations

or for anyone to make decisions about the future based on it.

They were using that exact same science to prospect for more oil.

So obviously they felt pretty confident about those models.

And then when I started reading the full complaint filed in that legal case we mentioned at the

end of season one, where West Coast craft fishermen are suing oil companies.

I came across this list of patents that oil companies started applying for in the 70s.

For all the various types of machinery and boats that you'd need to drill in a melting

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