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- 1Fossil fuel funding laid groundwork for Trump attacks on research, study finds▼Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says https://www. theguardi
A new study argues that decades of fossil fuel industry funding and influence over American universities helped prepare the ground for the Trump administration's current assault on university research, particularly climate science. The findings suggest industry ties compromised academic independence, leaving institutions vulnerable to political pressure. Commenters are sharing the report as evidence of long-term corporate shaping of US academic research.
- 2Corporations call emissions a drop in the ocean: counting the real cost▼Corporations claim their fossil fuel emissions are a drop in the ocean. But what if we could count the real cost?
A new examination challenges the frequent corporate argument that individual companies' fossil fuel emissions are insignificant compared to global totals. The piece asks what the true cost of those emissions would be if they were fully counted, pushing back on a common justification used by major polluters to downplay their share of responsibility for climate change.
- 3Fossil fuel influence enabled Trump's attacks on university research, study says●Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says https:// slrpnk.net/po
A new study argues that decades of fossil fuel industry funding and influence over American universities helped lay the groundwork for the Trump administration's current assaults on university research. The finding links corporate climate denial and industry-backed science on campus to today's political attacks on academic institutions, drawing attention on left-leaning social media.