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Oil Companies Knew Coral Reefs Would Dissolve. In 1978.
In 1978, an Exxon scientist asked a question in capital letters: were the oceans dissolving coral reefs? By 1982, Exxon's own scientists had the answer, in writing. So did Shell by 1986. This episode traces a newly published Oxford University study that dug through more than fourteen thousand pages of fossil fuel industry documents and found that the world's biggest oil and gas companies understood, decades before the public did, exactly how their product would wreck coral reefs.
We walk through what the industry knew and when, how a funded think tank report in 2012 was built to look like an…
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