2/n: For a one-stop, up-to-date primer on this history, check out this amicus brief by experts @NaomiOreskes, @RBrulle, @BenFranta, @STWorg, & me filed yesterday to U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2019/20190129_docket-18-15499-18-15502-18-15503_amicus-brief-8.pdf …

3/n: Short on time? Our Table of Contents offers top-line takeaways.

4/n: Our amicus brief is one of eight in support of CA communities suing fossil fuel companies for climate damages. The others have been filed by @SenWhitehouse, @AGBecerra & other state AGs, counties, cities, @NRDC, @Public_Citizen, and scientists including @PeterFrumhoff.

5/n: Read all of the amicus briefs here: http://climatecasechart.com/case/county-san-mateo-v-chevron-corp/ …

6/n: If you're interested in learning more about the history of climate denial by fossil fuel interests, here are a few other key resources, in no particular order...

7/n: For those visually inclined, here's my testimony on a lot of this material to the Philippines Commission on Human Rights last August: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXT7BOKkWds&feature=youtu.be&t=55m59s …

8/n: For those who like podcasts, check out the excellent crime-drama-style 'Drilled' by @amywestervelt, released in November: http://www.drilledpodcast.com/ . It features many of the foremost experts on this topic (and also briefly yours truly).

9/n: For those who like a journalistic take, a must-read is @insideclimate's groundbreaking reporting in 2015, which alongside @latimes + @columbiajourn, broke the #ExxonKnew story wide open: https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken …

10/n: In 2017, @NaomiOreskes & I published the first peer-reviewed analysis of Exxon's 40 year history of climate communications, empirically demonstrating that the company has misled the public on climate change. Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f …; Op-Ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opinion/exxon-climate-change-.html …

11/n: I've inevitably forgotten some (pls let me know!), but here's my Twitter List of a couple dozen of the most knowledgable and influential scholars and journalists focused on climate denial's history and politics. Follow them! https://twitter.com/GeoffreySupran/lists/climate-denial-diggers …

12/n: I'm fortunate to have as a friend & boss the world renowned expert on all of this @NaomiOreskes. For a one-stop-shop classic on climate denial & its bigger context, check out her and her co-author @ErikMConway's book and film, 'Merchants of Doubt': http://sonyclassics.com/merchantsofdoubt/ …

You can follow @GeoffreySupran.

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