Author Archives: Kert Davies

Report: The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas – July 2026 – Center for Climate Integrity – Links to footnoted documents and sources

THE FRAUD OF “CLEAN” NATURAL GAS – How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution https://climateintegrity.org/evidence/gas-deception Footnotes for each section of the report Executive Summary i United Nations Environment Programme, “Facts about Methane,” https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/energy/facts-about-methane ii International Energy Agency, Global Energy Review (2025), https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/5b169aa1-bc88-4c96-b828-aaa50406ba80/ GlobalEnergyReview2025.pdf iii Siru Yang et al., “Associations […]

ExxonMobil funding of 3rd party organizations 1992-2018

These figures were gathered from annual Exxon and ExxonMobil documents, including their publicly distributed “Caring Neighbors” and “Worldwide Giving” reports and Form 990 tax forms as submitted to the IRS by the ExxonMobil Foundation. The collection of these documents started in the early 2000s via the Greenpeace ExxonSecrets project. The Brown University Climate Development Lab […]

DeSmog Investigation – Archival Documents Reveal Oil Companies Funded Climate Science in 1954 – Were Told 70 Years Ago That CO2 Emissions Could Impact “Civilization”

These documents were uncovered by Rebecca John as part of her investigation into the oil and gas industry’s early knowledge of climate science and its response to this knowledge. Reported with links to documents via DeSmog on January 30, 2024 and November 12, 2024 New Evidence Reveals Fossil Fuel Industry Sponsored Climate Science in 1954 […]

Mobil and ExxonMobil Advertorial Op-Ads 1972-2006

This post has links to DocumentCloud for our collection of paid ads (aka Advertorials) that Mobil then ExxonMobil placed, virtually every week for decades, on the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages starting in the early 1970s. This is not an exhaustive collection of every advertorial placed by these companies. Instead it contains […]

Weather Denial Documents

Below is an annotated collection of documents gathered through the years amassing evidence of corporate efforts to deny the connection between climate change and extreme weather events.   There are two major blocks of evidence: They knew climate change would cause extreme weather: Corporate entities “knew” extreme weather would be an impact of anthropogenic climate change. […]

New North Sea Documents: Oil industry research into enhanced oil recovery 2003-2023

A new collection on Climate Files of industry and government reports examining the potential for using the UK’s planned carbon capture projects to pump more North Sea oil and gas via a process known as enhanced oil recovery is published below. These documents were assembled by energy journalist Michael Buchsbaum while working on a project […]

New Shell Oil Documents: “Dirty Pearls” Investigation 2023-24

These documents were uncovered during five years of research by Vatan Hüzeir of Changerism, while a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as part of his investigation entitled, Dirty pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990. The first stories on this material were published on April 1, 2023 by DeSmog and by […]

“Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections” Science, January 2023, Supran, Rahmstorf, Oreskes REFERENCE DOCUMENTS

Below are the Exxon internal documents that were footnoted in the paper “Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections” (G. Supran et al., Science 379, eabk0063 (2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.abk0063) published January 2023. Coverage of the paper was wide: New York Times, Guardian, Associated Press, Politico, LA Times, NPR, CNN, CNBC… Exxon Internal Document References in the paper […]