an action could meet a crisis. what crisis own al jazeera lou? hello, i'm down jordan tom with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, ethiopia government is declared a nation wide state of emergency. as to grind, rebels advanced further south. the u. s. is demanding an end to the conflict and has suspended the government for a key trade program. the u. s. envoy for the one of africa is calling for restraint from all sides. and the u. n. 's urging an immediate end to the balance to enable the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid. we have been in touch with the officials in ethiopia, and the secretary general himself has spoken repeatedly with prime minister abbey

ahmed. to see what can be done to bring the violence to a halt and and also of course to allow for the full scale return of humanitarian assistance to the places that need it. including places like mikaela and afar sedans, main opposition leader says the deposed prime minister could return to form a new government. many monopoly has held meetings with abdullah hun dock who remains under house arrest. tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating against the military takeover. i so says it was behind an attack on cobbles, largest military hospital, at least 19 people have been killed and dozens more seriously injured. one of the dead is the commander of taliban special forces, palestinians fighting against forced eviction in a neighbourhood in occupy these jerusalem have rejected a compromise put forward by israel supreme court. the court proposed the families be allowed to stay in their homes for 15 years while recognizing

a jewish settler organization as the landowners. more than a 100 nations have pledged to reverse deforestation within the next decade at the un climate summit in glasgow. leaders also agreed to cut levels of methane emissions by 30 percent. the u. s. is given a final approval to pfizer is corona virus vaccine for children. the food and drug administration had already said the shot was safe for children. ages 5 to 11. a smaller dose was recommended. elections are taking place across parts of the united states a year ahead of crucial mid terms. voters are choosing mares and other local officials are also considering referendums on state policies. but the most closely watched races are in virginia and new jersey to decide on who becomes the next governor. for those with the headlines, the news continues here now to sierra after the campaign against the climate statement. thanks a lot, bye for now. blue. 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. a 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 are much better at communicating then real scientists are because real scientists are. well, i don't want to insult my call. it, 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 know 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 what 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 have 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, toppled radically changed jerry taylor's life. i was in a 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 him for the united states and about global warming. we've only seen about a quarter, a warming that james answers 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 into 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, what a scenario away we had a 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 crack. 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. i think he got the better of me in the green room right. and i read the

testimony to look like it actually reflect to a joy to me. so i went down the hallway to the scientist and explained what it averages to. jo, this is the conversation. we had a look testimony and looks like joe's right. so what am i missing? 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 and knock apart. sometimes you would find that the, the papers which you look so 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 it get shot full of holes. 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 past, 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 workers. the best thing to do is, is have the courage to do nothing. i 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 has described his relationship with the industry

like this. are you in bed with big oil and if so, how good and bad are that? the ha, not better than he was just 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 among you piece going as clueless you. tears you sweetie, has kind of own older european sciences there. 15 of him that say that they are not climate scientists,

blue thieves. 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 with

is the earth getting warmer and there's a lot of discussion about that? is it? oh, i think it is 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 has 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 him,

hanson, look at me over here or pay attention to this report that i wrote, the 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 as a 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,

doubt 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 is teeth. one of the believe that it was their own doing. but do you think that was also political on the part of the tobacco companies? well, i wanted to keep up sales. was it irresponsible on the part of the tobacco company? it was irresponsible part of the smokers, me and fred singer, co author to report downplaying the danger, patrick smoking, the pundit, steve malloy, who was present at the a p 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 for 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, the arguments that we used against climate change, ah 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 should contribute to the science of, of climate change. 40 years ago, almost 10 years before james henson's speech, an internal scientific department at exxon researched global warming. they funded the project because i thought the science was important if alex on needed to be involved. and um, they were concerned about climate change, et garvey passed his measurements on to the scientists who analyzed 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 i was really, 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 system 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 see if it needs a truthful facts that we're putting out. but i think that statement they were making were 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 1978 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 that 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 handsome 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 and so 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 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. ok, 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. we don't get a reset, but that's, that's really scary. dish. oh. right now 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 api 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 ah, 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. chances that it now spends 5 percent of investments on green technologies. the french oil company total 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 it 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 nice have why that in 19 any age em, 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 well 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 this information mainstream. they made it okay for the president united states to say the climate change was a hoax. my name is my irony bill and i'm leaving the trump transition team on environmental matters is an avid climate change deny or. well, mr. trump, when he ran for president i, i did the environmental protection agency. i was the leader that

ah ah we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get to places that others are not. the 1st is going on, the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. hello there. let's got in north america and it's been a chilly start to the month for many central areas in the u. s. we've had

temperatures below average across the great lakes. the states like illinois, iowa, and missouri. we've also seen some snow fall in michigan, and as we had for the easter eastern parts of canada, quebec has seen a bit of a wintery mix linger now to the northeast of the u. s. it has dried up nicely now that that storm system has moved away, but quite a bit of cloud cover remains along that east coast. but for the wet and windy weather, we have to head to the west coast. we've got a weather system that's brought some really wet and windy conditions to western areas of canada. british columbia, seen some torrential downpours, and that system is going to pull into california, oregon, and washington over the next few days. so it is looking rather wet here. but down in the southwest is, is looking dry, a breezy, lots of sunshine coming through. it's down in the deep south that we are seeing those severe storms rolling across texas. pushing across into louisiana, we could see some flash flooding as those rental rains continue. now as we move to

central america, it's looking a lot finer and dryer for mexico. the heavy rain can be found in belize, costa rica, and panama. ah . if america held up a mirror to itself, what would it see in the center race is the story of america what's working and what's not? a lot of people are only talking about that. it wasn't at the top of the agenda. if america can handle multiple challenges on multiple fronts, we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera, tens of thousands of children, were born into lives under the i school regime in iraq and syria. now, many are in camps either orphans, all with that, we don't mothers, rejected by that own communities can do like people are going to welcome the mouth about, of course, mom. and you documentary his, that chilling and traumatic stories for the children, throw stones at me,

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