Court documents and reports reveal that Shell Oil received a confidential memo from scientist James Lovelock in June 1966 warning of climate worsening, knowledge the company allegedly obscured through decades of climate denial campaigns. Shell reported Q2 2026 earnings of $10 billion while facing legal scrutiny over its historical climate knowledge.
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Shell were warned about emissions causing climate change back in the 60s, then spent the next few decades spending a fortune on propaganda rubbishing the Idea www.desmog.com/2026/07/29/t... “What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
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Shell pushes earnings up to $10bn in Q2, 2026. In June 1966, scientist James Lovelock warned Shell in a confidential memo of “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.” Four years later, "Shell would become a founding member of the denialist Global Climate Coalition." Decades old memos like that are now being entered as ev