processed, you will, you will lose it. it will be a loss for holding a documentary. explores how autocratic leaders undermine democracy to consolidate their power through the eyes of those who dare to stand and defy it. our country deserves so much better than being ruled by a cleft aquatic dictatorship, opposing autocracy. democracy maybe on al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm marianne mazin london, our main story, the salish you as president joe biden says, he believes he secured enough support for signature $1.00 trillion dollars spending program. it took ras step of meeting with senators on their own turf at the capital to add them to bag. the economic and climate focus package hilly, all democrats to support it. in order for the bill to pass in, the evenly split senate package was initially supposed to be were 3 and

a half trillion dollars, but it was cost in half off to devise of negotiations. these are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive or anything else, the pits, americans against one. this is about competitiveness versus complacency, competitiveness versus complacency about expanding opportunity not opportunity didn't and i spoke leading the world. we're learning the world passes by alan fish. it brings us more in this from the white house. well, a lot of the stuff to joe buys, as we talked about for a while. in fact, is what he campaigned on is what he got a leg to dawn is what he's been talking about since he moved into the white house that this was going to be his signature piece of legislation. it's so important to him that he delayed his trip to europe this morning. so you could want to capitol hill to speak to members of the democratic party who sit in the house to say, look, we need to the when we've got the senators on board,

we need everyone including the progressive caucus to vote for this. it's not the $3.00 trillion dollar bill that we were talking about is $1.00. and they have lost important things that many in the progressive caucus wanted such as a paid family leave. that was something that the u. s. is way behind it's g 7 competitors with and something that the progressive caucus was very keen on. they've lost a drive on prescription drug prices. they've lost a elements of vision and hearing and dental from medicare. but he was telling them, this is a when they're getting a lot of things that important like elderly care and making sure that children have got good schools from the age of 3 through to 16. the fact that there can be a continued child tax credits across the u. s. so joe biden then flew off to europe, essentially leaving nancy pelosi to coordinate the voice. but seeing he has a framework, the having a framework in actually delivering in the end. there still

a bit of work to go and given that there's been a lot of talk about this, he would like to see a when, by the time you arrives in rome, certainly by the time the g 7 gets under way, there's no guarantee that will happen the u. k. some of the french ambassador admitted deepening route of a post breaks at fishing rides is comes ours off to a french authorities seized a bush taller operating in french territorial war, says scout dredge was escorted to the northern portion however, where its crew fell to prove they have the correct fishing licenses. the un security council is calling on sedans, military leaders to restore the civilian lead transitional government. the council issued its 1st statement on the christ is expressing serious concern about the takeover. the stock shows of condemnation cruelly under fatality hahn is dismissed at the fix on bassett is off today, spoke count against mondays, takeover some say officials of value disobedience and activists. a mass demonstrations are planned for the weekend rebels in ethiopia. northern tegra

region say at least 6 civilians have been killed and another government as strike the philippine army claims at target to the site. and mckayla used by to grind forces to make and repair weapons, but a spokesperson for the right people. liberation front says a civilian residence is actually farmers in should i have been protesting against the government plan to go a 100 percent organic. they say that there isn't in our fertilizer for this, just as the cultivation season gets on the way governments band, all imports of chemical fertilizers. and the social networking giant facebook has rebranded itself. a company is now called meta chief, executive mach zika bug may denouncement at a virtual conference. it comes after increasing scrutiny from politicians on regulators over facebook market power and the policing of its abuses on its platforms campaign against the climate as the program coming out next.

ah, georgia. you want to talk to me rec, we're doing a commentary about climate change. well this is simple science look up, the higher c o 2 levels are leading to the greening of the earth. and so i don't, you know, do you think that's a bad thing? so so more in depth most viewed as a good thing. yes, i think so. absolutely. imagine a world where you can't trust science. let me tell you about

a group of men who've tried to convince you, adjust that a group who wants you to doubt climate change? ah, this is the story about how these men were promoted by the world's largest oil companies. ah, the story of a campaign is impacted our world forever. this is a scientist from nasa who's come to the american senate with a message to the world which you here in a moment while you hear it, try to guess what it's for dr. hanson, if you started off, would appreciate it. ok,

thank you for the opportunity to present the results of my research on the greenhouse effect. the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence, a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. ok, this is from 1988. that was when a phone look like this, the internet look like this. and it was when the world realised that climate change had to be taken seriously. that's what side is called the greenhouse effect, and i have a longer all that good mean devastating changes to all life alter. it's largely a problem of our own making. we're running out of time to find a solution. scientists predict arise in temperatures that will eventually melt, the polar ice caps forest fires in the west. food riots as the sahara desert spreads the land of if it's been prevented, cold if

a tv it cost and to play who defeated in 1988 the you and established the climate change organization i p. c. c, where scientists from the whole world agreed with james henson with and well cletus listened. those who think were powerless to do anything about this greenhouse effect, or forgetting about the white house. and then the evidence is that the damage is being done. we can just do nothing. this is more than 30 years ago. only the world was ready to act on global warming. but something happened at dublin, this year to counter to the atmosphere will produce

a tremendous greening of planetary in the years following james hanson's speech. critics appear on tv. the theoretical speculations about future warming. a have no good scientific basis. we would like critics who question climate change weight of this global warming thing. it sounds like a scam. well, i think you're seeing it now. we told you this was, this is one of them. i spent most of my time in newspapers and magazines, and on t v and radio to argue against climate action against panic, the economy would actually improve if we have a doubling of background, greenhouse gas. how can it improve? well, because we might have a longer growing season. i'm fairly glue. i'm fast on my feet. cool on tv, and i also do my homework. in the years after james

henson's speech, jerry taylor was hired by the think tank kato, my name is jerry taylor. i'm the director of natural resource studies here at the cato institute, kato hired people like me, primarily to change public opinion. and that's what i did. there may be some extreme events that occur down the road and we don't know what the chances for that might be. the climate skepticism is entirely dependent upon the promotion of doubt about the underlying science. james hanson at nasa thinks it's maybe 710121520 percent. other scientists think there's probably more like 0.3 percent. the denial about the underlying sciences. the critical is the critical juncture that event. while taylor takes a sip of water meat mock murano. yeah, i'm going to be looking at you can be sitting there just be there. so i be like, my job essentially is covering the global warming movement and communicating to the

public, the latest findings. you look at the, the satellite data we're, we actually had no significant warming since 1998. actually no warming, we've been cooling and recent years. you had a background as a salesman. can you see how well that was really i was adored. i worked at the door to door salesman, which is a actually a great background to build narratives in the meat. now, when you only have 1520 seconds, you gotta work on your sound bites and you gotta work on your, you know, you're building a narrative to a customer. i. that was a great training ground for being and media and communication. marana is communications director for committee for constructive tomorrow, or c, fact an organization whose focus is on communicating that climate change. isn't that big problem? wait, so how does it do that time? i believe that's an a television in the base as you have to make the other person

defend their stupid idiotic comments. bill nye say global warming will cause many bad weather events. and guess what? bad weather events happen all the time? and then i'll also go in with rapid fire facts, bottom line, we've done the longest period without a major us category 3 or larger hurricane hitting the us since at least 900100 maybe the civil war, bottom line, new study in the journal nature. peer reviewed, no change, and you, i believe in what bill nye just did was waste everyone's time explaining that c o 2 is rising. i believe you should get some crush your wait, wait a minute. are you a scientist? i'm not a scientist, but i do play when on tv. occasionally, people don't take positions because they find themselves reasoned into those positions. they take positions that they want to take for emotional or india, logical reason. and then they mobilize their reasoning power to justify taking the

positions they want to take. we can get and this is jerry taylor's recipe for doing just that. today's a lot of people who don't know what to think about climate change are being told by people like me. there's a relative non event. it's the same sort of wolf crime that the environmental movement is done from time immemorial. you know, 1st we were told there was a population bond that was going to wipe out humanity and that bomb never went off . and we were told we're going to run out of fossil fuels and agricultural commodities, rog and star, that never happened. and this is just the latest iteration of the usual story from environmentalists that if we continue to go down last a fair capital is roads. we're going to blow up the planet and destroy mankind. maybe there's something in the pictures you can't see. it's essential to light it out and bring it in. oh c o 2. now some politicians want to label

carbon dioxide a pollutant. imagine if they succeed, they call it pollution. we call it life. this tv commercial is from the think tanks, competitive enterprise institute. and so is myron evil, it's clear that the earth, his granny and so i don't, you know, do you think that's a bad thing? competitive enterprise institute is a conservative american think tank and myron eagle has its department on energy climate and environment. iron able believes the climate debate started like this. global warming as a political project was initiated in sweden, in the early 19 eighties. they needed a recent, essentially, to increase tax revenue. i mean, remember, i think you're aware of this in denmark,

the welfare state needs a lot of money and it needs more and more money as it goes on. ah, all the climate, skeptical pundits you've just met, work for interest organizations and think tanks. think tanks are like the arsenals for the war of ideas. there are the places where ideas are then weaponized and public policy terms, and then they are vigorously argued and promoted on capital hill, and on tv radio. and so kato was extremely influential because it was one of the largest right of center thing tanks of the united states still is had a lot of visibility because again, invested in communication. so taylor is spreading climate skepticism from one of the most influential think tanks in the usa. jerry taylor tells us that his arguments build on calculations from research,

patrick michael's also employed by kato, any one who goes around and says that carbon dioxide is responsible for most of the warming of the 20th century, hasn't looked at the basic numbers. the climate, skeptical pundits, get bare arguments from a group of climate, skeptical scientists, physicists and climate scientists. fred singer, is behind the organisation science and environmental policy project s e p, p s e p. p is behind the so called leipzig declaration, where some 100 scientist raised bouts about global warming, some 100 a soap climate scientists actually signed in appeal, put their names down, and were warned about taking hasty steps against global warming. and global warming was still a and a they phantom problem with

global warming. no more. oh, so on one side we have james hanson and a lot of un scientists. and then we have a number of scientists and pundits who say the exact opposite of these things with ours, that possible be naomi arrest gus harvard professor decided to investigate just that. so in the early 2, thousands, the american media were presenting climate change is a big scientific debate. and that struck me as weird because none of the scientists that i knew thought it was a debate. so i decided to undertake an analysis of the peer reviewed scientific literature. the i p. c. c. had already stated that most of the observe warming was likely to be due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. so i posed the

question, how many papers published in peer reviewed scientific literature? this agree with that statement? i'm to answer that question. naomi. a rescue looks up research papers for global climate change. the words appear in 937 scientific papers to arrest his reads them all. and what i found was none. there was no dissenting public polish sanctuary. period literature on the basic question of whether or not men may climate change was happening. and i'm a professional historian of science, so i thought, well, if i don't know this, then probably a lot of other people don't know it too. and so i wrote a small paper in 2004 called the scientific consensus on climate change. that paper changed my life because immediately the paper was published i started getting hate mail, threading, phone calls, people filing complaints against me to my university. people accusing me of being

a communist. a stalinist rescues comes on a huge criticism and she doesn't understand why until she's at a conference in germany shortly after over beer after the sessions. one day i was just chatting with some colleagues. i mentioned how this very strange thing had happened to me. and one of the people there was eric conway, i mentioned the name of one of the people who was attacking me, and eric said, well, naomi, you know, is the same person who attacked shari roland over the ozone hall. and he told me this amazing story that i knew nothing about at the time that the scientists who had worked on the ozone hole had been the target of attacks in which people had claimed that there was no holes on hold at the science was wrong. that the scientists were fraudulent, that the scientists were communists. all the things that i was being accused of

these great nobel prize winning scientists had also been accused of. and so eric said to me, yeah, when we get back to mark, i'll send you. i'll send you an envelope with a bunch of stuff. so he sent me this package arrives a few days later and i take out these papers that he sent me and it was like you could take out the word on hole and put in climate change and he could take out the word roland and put an rascal, and otherwise it was identical awe on a spring day in 1998, a group of men meet at the oil industry organization, american petroleum institute.

a number of oil companies are represented. companies like exxon. let's it exxon c, e o at the time. explain who they are. we are the largest private company in the world. our company sells a 1000000 barrels a day of products. that's a 1000000000 gallons every 3 dates. back to the american petroleum institute, a p, i where some of the biggest players in the oil industry, a meeting, one of the participants is myron able and they solicited advice. i guess we had certain kinds of expertise that they didn't have a it was an industry effort with some help from people like me. in documents from this meeting, you can see a clear purpose victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science. and when these uncertainties become part of conventional wisdom, according to the documents big oil, once the public,

to doubt the science behind climate change. and it wasn't scientists who were invited to the meeting. i'm not an energy analyst expert and i'm not a climate expert i. i have a certain amount of experience in translating a policy into into action. and i suppose that was what they're interested in. be at the meeting of strategies worked out. that paper was lay to leaked and it shows how the oil industry plans to spread doubts about science. ah, i strategy paper describes a national media relations program, which in a different ways will influence the media by recruiting and training scientists. it also explains that they will try to influence journalists. this one john stossel is

even mentioned in the paper titled is program chill out because after i researched the global warming scare, that was my conclusion. we ought to just jill out. mm. the paper from the meeting shows the mindset of the world's largest oil companies. despite the fact that the un, several world leaders and most scientists clearly point in another direction, the oil industry wants to raise doubts about the science behind climate change. me the. the strategy paper explains how schools to be influenced by an initiative called national direct outreach and education. ah,

many universities like harvard regularly receive funding from private companies. this is a perfectly legal, common practice many prestigious universities. jeffrey superman is a ph. d. student will join him at a film, screening in $21700.00 bill for kennedy center announced a screening of a film time. and essentially it's hell. it tells the audience about how for the foreseeable future, we're going to be relying on fossil fuels, how renewables of way off in the distance, not right now, not really reliable. and frankly promoting hoss truths at best. about inevitability of continued fossil fuel usage grange them with that, or what we're seeing or right. well with fewer susan's, if you has the permit your home. and surely this is a reasonable film until we dug just

a little bit beneath the surface the academic talking heads, the ones that were present to this professor. the universities, without exception actually will have deep ties to the oil and gas industry from consultancy relationships to running sensors, reliance and fossil fuel funding to literally being on the boards of natural gas companies. producer of the film was show oil company, the director of the film. he was a v p of oil and gas company that's taking $300000.00 from show loyal company. so you see a pattern emerging hit episodes like the film screening prompted jeffrey superman to write a ph. d was naomi rescues as his supervisor about the connections between the oil industry and academia. let's see what he found out. the harvard receives massive

funding from several oil companies. stanford's energy department also gets millions from the oil industry. the university denies that sponsors control its research, and on its website, the university emphasizes its academic independence. but a few lines later, it's described who really decides what research to fund. final decision about funding is made by the management committee, which includes one person from each of the responses and the main sponsor, who has a say in what research is funded, is exxon mobil berkeley birthplace of the 1900. 68 student uprising has an energy research center in which the oil company be p as invested millions. according to jeffrey super and b. p has a say in what will be researched. exxonmobil said at funds, universities to promote green technologies. and shell tells us that wants to help

solve the serious climate challenge. why is this a problem? i mean, if they use their money for doing some research for good, what was the problem when the very people, the very institutions, the supposed to be solving the climate crisis, a fundamentally reliant on the industry that has the most to lose from their work. that's a pretty big conflict of interest. jeffrey super thinks that the many millions are intended to influence students, teachers, and scientists. this strategy come straight out of the playbook. the a p i. strategy paper also states informing teachers and students about uncertainties in climate change will erect a barrier against efforts to impose kyoto like measures a measure put in place to limit the emissions of c o 2. and that's why in the medical research community, there are a stablished practices there established rules by which one must disclose these kinds of conflicts of interest. many universities used to receive millions from the

tobacco industry. but in 2131 universities including harvard, decided not to let tobacco companies sponsor health research. we have nothing like that in energy and climate views . ah, no fixing longer house and shorter deadlines, south korean delivery drivers are literally being worked to death. one 0 one, east explorer, the dark side of consumer convenience in south korea on al jazeera, a,

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