How the BBC let climate deniers walk all over it | George Monbiot

The fossil-fuel multinationals fund thinktanks' and research institutes'. But it's gullible public service broadcasters that give them credibility

Yes, we should rake over the coals. And the oil, and the gas. Democratic accountability means remembering who helped to stoke the climate crisis. We should hold the fossil fuel companies to account.

In 1979, an internal study by Exxon concluded that burning carbon fuels will cause dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050". In 1982, as the Guardian's Climate Crimes series recalls, an Exxon memo concluded that the science of climate change was unanimous". Then it poured millions of dollars into lobby groups casting doubt on it.