to takers, this is europe unaltered 0 i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career, but mil country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why me this is al jazeera, i'm danny navigator with a check on your world headlines us president joe biden has spent around an hour and a half meeting with the head of the roman catholic church at the vatican. the meeting comes ahead of the started the g. 20 summit in rome this weekend. our white house correspondent, kimberly how can, has this update from the vatican? both of these leaders are very concerned is the issue of climate change. this is something that the spider ministration and joe biden himself have identified as an existential threat. they see global economic recovery linked to addressing climate change and this is something that po, presses for his heart,

has also identified as a problem that is hurting the least of these around the world, specifically the working class and those that have been marginalized. so there is a feeling among both of these men that there's a shared responsibility, particularly among the wealthy, around the world to see that this is address in order to help those that are suffering so disproportionately from climate change. top oil and gas executives have denied misleading the public about climate change. the ceos of major oil companies appeared before the u. s. congress. it's the 1st time they've testified under oath on the subject francais, it's ordered. the captain of her british fishing vessels seized earlier this week to appear in court next year. already said the troll, or was fishing illegally, infringed territorial waters. european commissions reportedly suspended funding to the world health organizations operations in the democratic republic of congo. not softer and independent inquiry found more than 88 workers,

some of whom worked for the w h o. sexually exploited and abused women during their response to the abolla outbreak on the head of the w. h. o. 's, reportedly on course to be reelected for a 2nd 5 year term without any opposition. 28 countries submitted. dr. ted dresses name for an i'm a nation, according to a letter obtained by the reuters news agency. the top us diplomat in taiwan has stress washington's commitment to help the island defend itself. sandra wood, curt described relations with ty, pay as rock solid. say smoke has changed its name. the parent company of the famous social media site is now called meta chief executive mark zuckerberg says it reflects a future worlds with farmer online interaction. those are the headlines. it's back to the campaign against the climate next on al jazeera boone. oh,

this is the story about a group of men who wants you to doubt climate change. the story of a campaign that has impacted our world forever. ah, back to naomi arrest, guess. we left her with a pile of papers and this pile became the beginning of a big investigation where she also gets hold of the strategy paper. it was my alice through the looking glass moment when my whole life kind of changed. risk is drops everything and decides to find out who's arguing against the climate scientists bit by bit. she begins to understand why these pundits a so effective in general, they're much better communicating then real scientists are because real scientists are. well, i know what insult my call is, but you know, most scientists are scientists. they like to be left alone. so you take

a group of people who are intrinsically actually pretty poor at communicating. and now you put them up against professional communications. professional p r. people, somebody who might go against me on t v or radio, i might go more than i do. they may be scientist. i'm not a scientist. ah, but they're not necessarily good communicators. and if you put a board communicator up against a good communicator, even garbage arguments tend to went out. 2 2 ah . 6 i started doing research to try to find out who are these people that are attacking me and why are they saying these extraordinary things about me? and that was the investigation that led to the book commercials of death, merchants of doubt, she calls the climate skeptics. but that doesn't stop the attacks on the contrary. so they, i sent out an email chain to each other,

talking about what they could do to get me to discredit me. they call me all kinds of names. one day, something happens that will radically changed. jerry taylor's life i was in the debate in the early 2, thousands with joe rome and on this tv show where we were debating, i said, look, joe, it's been more than a decade since james hanson testified. and for the united states senate about global warming. we've only seen about a quarter, a warming that james hanson as we should have seen by now. and if this continues to play out, there's no reason to think that while climate change, it will be a relative the. so we left the studio and went in the green room, and joe said, did you even read james hanson's test for your? do you just, you know,

is there you are these just talking point somebody wrote for you. what you're talking about here. the scenario to scenario be in a scenario c. so if you look at the scenario be, you'll find that the emissions we've seen since is testimony pretty much track what he hypothesized under scenario b. and if you look at the temperature projections, the pretty spot on. so when you go on television, you say that the models are running hot, that's complete garbage. so here's what i challenge. we say you go back to your office and you reread hands in his testimony and you tell me if what i'm saying is it right? he says, or be a hack. i don't care. i said because i'm not debating you again. i don't, you know, i hate this kind of so i went back to my office. i looked at the hands and testimony thinking, well, i'm not going to let joe rob, you know, walk away thinking he got the better of me in the green room. right. and i read the

testimony to look like it actually reflected with joy to me. so i went down the hallway to the scientist and explained what an average estimated jo. this is, you know, the conversation we had looked testimony in. looks like joe's right. so what am i missing? so i was certain i was missing something and it turned out it wasn't missing anything. me. it became clear to me in the course of the back and forth that he was knowingly misleading people. would that narrative, they offered that i had offered on television. but it was from that point forward that i began to do a little bit more of the due diligence that i should have been doing all along with

regard to scientific narratives, i was offering sometimes it was in conscious disingenuousness. sometimes it was your cherry pick data that worries knock apart. sometimes you would find that the, the papers which it looks, all impressive, were never publishing or peer review journal though it looks like they were published in peer review journal, but they weren't. if you bother to look at the response to the paper, you find to get shot full, a halt, but these are things which i never done. and when i began to do that due diligence, which i should have been doing in the bath, i found that the story i just told you played itself out over and over and over again. we presented taylor's critique to patrick michaels, who rejects taylor's account. he says, his facts were scientifically documented,

and he still thinks james hanson is wrong, and denies misleading. the public kato has not replied to the critique in spite of repeated requests. let's take a look at the economics. the oil industry strategy paper describes her large sums of money had to be given by the oil and energy industry to think tanks and organizations among recipients see fact well around the works. the best thing to do is, is have the courage to do nothing. well, get any money from the oil companies. we might get some and competitive enterprise institute. we don't disclose our dinars. however, some of our donors disclose that they fund us. the most notable being exxon mobil, which funded a number of groups for probably a decade. tax records, financial reports, and other documents show who exxonmobil funded after the strategy meeting from 1998

to 2006. 0 sh. the data shows that the world's major oil company in the years after the meeting donated at least $12000000.00 and probably much more to climate critical organizations and fin tanks. and they're not the only ones funding the skeptics. oh, and american research projects has mapped out how other oil companies and many wealthy conservatives have donated billions to climate skeptics. mm. mm. scientists, and it's like, have been paid by the oil industry. does this influence their work? one such climate skeptic, steve malloy, who was present the i p i meeting as described,

his relationship with the industry like this. are you in bed with big oil and if so, how good and bad are that? ha, not better than he was is trying to do the right thing on climate change. myron able also rejects that the oil money his thing tank receives has any influence. we develop our policies based on what we think are based on our principles and what we think the evidence and the facts are at. once we done that, we try to find funding for it so. so if someone wants to fund, as i would like to find a lot more funding for what we do then is fred singer, the man behind the leipzig declaration, the danish broadcasting corporation investigated that list in 1997 minute your piece. go honestly, was you tears, you sleepy has kind of own older european sciences there 15 of him that say that they are not climate scientists. blue

dave's, i have not seen any evidence for that. but they have told us we've talked to everyone, they said they're not climate scientists. what's your question? i mean, you present them as climate scientists. i'm told i was told that with climate scientists tried to sing as organization s e p p which is behind the list. well, they also received money from exxon mobil. they, the oil industry was a main bank roller and cheerleader for opposition to climate action. their financial support of the climate skeptics in the scientific community ensured that we had the references and the citations that we needed to make a credible argument. which

is the earth getting warmer and there's a lot of discussion about that. is it? i think in it the answer to that is in some places. yes. and, and others know, patrick, michael's doesn't want to comment on the critique that he is received money from the oil industry, climate, skeptical scientist willie soon didn't respond to the critique that he's been paid by the industry. fred sing as lawyer has been presented with the critique of singer, but hasn't replied steve. malloy dropped an interview at short notice and has declined to comment on the critique. many of them have previously said that their research isn't influenced by money from. for instance, the oil industry. this is all about deflection. it's all about distraction. you know, jim hanson is here, tell you the truth about climate change and they're saying, oh, don't look at jim hanson. look at me over here or pay attention to this report that

i wrote, that claims that we don't really know if there's climate change. so it's all about distraction deflection. i'm to create confusion to crate, smoke and mirrors so that people don't really know what's going on. and then they say, i don't know, you know, i don't know what to think. i'm just going to get my kids to soccer curricle. oh, the oil industry strategy of sewing doubt? has it been done before? i believe nicotine is not addictive. yes, mr. johnson, our congressman, cigarettes and nicotine clearly do not meet the classic definitions of addiction. there is no attack lot. we'll take that of know, in the mid 19 hundreds, scientists realized that smoking was dangerous. the tobacco industry made every effort to counteract the new knowledge. and internal documents says bout is our

product, since it's the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists in the minds of the general public. the industry succeeded in delaying regulation of tobacco for decades. that successful campaign was now copied by climate skeptics. when science established the danger of smoking, tobacco companies published ads against it, oil companies did the same after james hanson's presentation. so the idea is to make it seem that we don't really know for sure if this is a palm, because if we don't know, then it would be premature to allow the government to say regulate tobacco. and then the same argument is used on climate change. and who did this for the tobacco industry? some of the scientists and pundits who, indirectly or directly got money from the tobacco industry reappear in the climate debate. one of the 1st prominent climate skeptics was frederick sites

many years before he headed research projects for the tobacco industry in the sixty's. the tobacco company very clearly said that there wasn't a direct linkage if people want to believe that it was their own doing. but you think that was also political on the part of the tobacco companies? well, they wanted to keep up sales. was it irresponsible on the part of the tobacco company? it was irresponsible, a part of the smokers and fred singer, co author to report downplaying the danger passive smoking dependent steve malloy who was present at the api i meeting concurrently worked for both tobacco and oil companies. and the organization which myron able directed politically also worked for the tobacco industry. and jerry taylor,

the arguments that i made at the time it was that when it comes to 2nd hand smoke, that the epidemiological evidence has been form was not particularly persuasive. but the fact is, is the same kind of arguments, the same stylized arguments that were made against to action to regulate tobacco are pretty similar to the arguments that we used against climate change i now, but what did the industry know about climate change? when it launched this campaign, when the answer can be found on board a ship off the coast of texas, in 1979, a man on the ship did something so important to exxon that this presentation film

was produced for the company's management. the man was ed garvey, and today it looks like this. the videotapes were taken to show to the corporate board about this really exciting research project that the company was doing to study the effects of increased c o 2 and on the planet. and it contributes the science of climate change. 40 years ago, almost 10 years before james henson speech an internal scientific department at exxon researched global warming. they funded the project because the thought the science was important to thought exxon needed to be involved. and um, they were concerned about climate change, et garvey passed his measurements on to the scientists who analyze data. the scientists that exxon, the modelers, mathematicians and the physicists were modeling climate change. modeling the impacts of increased c o. 2 in the atmosphere that i know a very clear that they knew that c o 2 increase was changing the climate on the

planet. on its website, exxonmobil says it's data on climate change was published in scientific journals. however, exxon fails to mention the ad city to put out calling the science unsettled. i mean, the, as a day they put out, i don't think anyone in their scientist, scientific division can support them as a scientist and say of his needs a truthful facts that we're putting out. but i think the statements they were making were, are clearly misleading and designed to, to, to mislead people. so while the oil industry publicly spread doubts internal documents show that its own scientists had warned of global warming. and this 978 confidential report for exxon's management. a senior scientist says it's scientifically accepted that fossil fuels influence climate. he also writes that within 5 to 10 years, humanity may have to make tough decisions in this field. a few years later,

in 1981, the head of exxon's research department warns that the consequences of global warming may be catastrophic for a substantial fraction of the population. that was almost 40 years ago. yet exxon's ceo later says that this on tv there is a natural variability that has nothing to do with me with that a climate the climate has changed every year for millions of years. another oil company also knew early on the climate change was underway. in the eighty's shells, scientists warned of alarming consequences when the global warming becomes detectable. it could be too late to do anything or to stabilize the situation. yet for decades, shell has continued to finance organizations that spread doubts about climate

science. the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe if the oil industry, after the hansen testimony. it said, you know, we're not going to argue with james hans, because we think he's right. we think this is correct. had they done that? it would have cut the legs out of climate denial ism and skepticism. right. well, if you can persuade exxon mobil as we then i'm not sure why edge and listen to you, right? but that's not what happened as a human being. and as a father and grandfather and hopefully a great grandfather's graph, someday it's, i'm really scared for our children. and their future was not to do with changes on a planetary scale. we can't just turn on go back to the other way. you can, i mean for my own experience, you can clean a river in clean and se where a clear lake do the reset it so to speak. we don't get reset button on the planet. we don't get a reset button. and that's,

that's really frightening. and we don't get a reset at that's really scary dish ah. with exxon mobil denies withholding data on climate change. it's website states that the risks of climate change are real and that exxon mobil through such has been published in scientific journals. we'd like to ask exxon mobil. wyatt funded

climate skeptics and an add some statements as cost bouts on climate science. but exxon did not answer these questions and declined an interview. we'd also like to ask a p, i about the critique that it spreads doubts about climate science. but a p, i hasn't replied nor agreed to an interview. exxonmobil and api, i writes that they are working on technologies that may reduce climate change. they've also said this in commercials, plans capture c o 2. what if other kinds of plans captured it to if reduced carbon

emission levels to the lowest generation? let's make tomorrow better together. ah, beyond dogs, light beyond petroleum b, b. but our green all the oil companies, actually today we asked the wells 5 largest oil companies, how much they invest in green technology and how much they invest in extracting fossil fuels shall answers that it now spends 5 percent of investments on green technologies. the french oil company to tile says it spends 10 percent b, p, chevron, and exxon mobil did not answer. so we asked influence map an organization who

analyzes key climate issue figures to review their investments. the figures show that all 3 oil companies are at the low end and chevron is at less than one percent. 2 combined figures show that the wells, 5 largest oil companies, fossil fuel investments, are at 95 percent. on average blue . i think it's fair to say that the climate change deniers have one that in 1988 jim hanson tells us the climate change is underway. so if it had not been for the denial campaigns, i think it's pretty clear the political momentum was there with the political will, was there. they have succeeded in preventing climate action

for several decades where it would have occurred earlier, had it not been for their efforts. today, we could be living in a world where $6080.00 maybe even 90 percent of our energy would be from renewable energy. we've had 30 years, that's a lot of time to make technological change. and we'd also be living in a different world politically. and in some ways, maybe this is even the more horrible thing about the effects of what these folks did. they made dis, information, mainstream. they made it okay for the president united states to say the climate change was a hoax. my name is marnie bell and i'm leaving the trump transition team on environmental matters is an added climate change. deny your well, mr. trump, when he ran for president i, i did the environmental protection agency. i was the leader that team mm

ah ah. in the country with an abundance of resources red. lauren won indonesia, his friends for me. we move pool to grow and fraud. we balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs.

investment. let be part when the this is growth and progress in either media. now, the karone of iris has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color, put in britain at is proportionally high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom platelet citizens. britain's true colors coming soon on out, just sarah, ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle airways. hey there, good to see you. here's your headlines for the americas, we've got active weather coming up from the mid atlantic. this is going to strike d. c, and we do have a coastal flood warning in play. what this means is we could see

a meter of water inundate low line areas in d c, including the d. c. c, food market. so that's something we're going to watch carefully off to the west right now. we've got a couple sunny days in vancouver at 11 degrees. moister has spilled over the other side of the rockies and so for calgary, this could produce up to 10 cell meters of smell, west of calgary and bat, snowfall warnings in play. 2025 centimeters, not out of the question. well below average, this trick or treaters are going to have to bundle up as wall go to western us right now. mostly dry pitcher will see some rain into northern california, but nothing like we saw over the last little while central is 30 degrees off to central america. heavier strain through mexico will be towards south guatemala. and as we head toward honduras and for western parts of cuba, getting stripe with some rain break through into the bahamas, top end of south america, rio de janeiro. it remains gloomy and miss sea and rainy with the high of 25 degrees. and for patagonia temperatures have been wall above average, and that extends further toward the north and santiago with

a height of $32.00 degrees. that's it see soon. ah, the weather sponsored by katara ways. ah, this is al jazeera ah, you're watching that is our fly from headquarters in del hi jodi navigator coming up in the next 60 minutes. us president joe biden. miss pope francis, the vatican ahead of the g. 20 summit. as a leader seek to find a common ground on climate change. the u. k. threatens to board french both while paris again warns of sanctions in a deepening dispute about post breakfast fishing rice.