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Exxon Mobile: we must pay people to spread misinformation, Michael Crichton: (lemmy.ml)
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[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For some reason I read State of Fear recently. At the end of the book he wrote page after page of why he thought global warming wasn't real.

I can't recall the exact language he used, but he said something to the effect of "we shouldn't use any global warming protections until we can exactly predict the weather for ten years. If we can't predict the weather precisely, the obviously we can't prove global warming is real."

Aside from being full of misleading and cherry picked data. The book was terrible. The whole thing read like a bad science lesson from a second rate conspiracy theorist.

If you really want to vomit from propaganda masquerading as entertainment, watch Landman.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People in the oil industry hate landman. It shows things in a terrible light and not at all realistic. My wife thinks it’s hilarious how stupidly inaccurate it is.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suppose I never got that far into the show. After the scene where Billy Bob portrays himself as an expert on why windmills don't work, I just about threw my remote at the TV. It's just plain lies. Viewers took it as truth.

"Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete?

"Or make that steel and haul this s*** out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f****** thing, or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won't offset the carbon footprint of making it.

"And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery.

"And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It would take 30 years if we started tomorrow."

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah the whole show is lies though. They hide up murders and accidental deaths and tons of negligence, and also a landman does none of those things lol. They are sales people who schmooze land owners to try and get deals to cross their land. Billy bob is like a super hero doing everyone’s job 🤣.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m sure Crichton was handsomely compensated.

[–] stenAanden@feddit.dk 1 points 1 month ago

Not even... The podcast I was listening to says he made these claims years before Exxon began their propaganda campaign.