Star Wars fans rejoiced last night with the debut of the final trailer for the newest Star Wars movie.

It's been 38 years since George Lucas debuted the Star Wars movies and gave birth to one of the world's most recognizable franchises.

And just two months after Star Wars was released 38 years ago - the Exxon Corporation was poised to become a leader in climate change research.

Yes, you heard that right - according to Inside Climate News - in July of 1977 a scientist working for Exxon told powerful oil executives at Exxon's headquarters that the planet was warming - and that it was caused by burning fossil fuels.

James F. Black told the audience "In the first place, there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels."

A year later - he put a fine point to his conclusions when he wrote "Present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical."

That was a decade before Congress heard James Hansen - as Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies - testify about man-made climate change.

Exxon knew about how their entire business model threatened humanity a full decade before Congress - and what did Exxon do about it?

Well - believe it or not - they took serious action - Exxon launched new research into carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and how it impacts the earth.

They worked with university scientists and the Department of Energy - and they were the early leaders in the field of climate and energy research.

Based on that - you'd think that by 1988 when James Hansen gave his congressional testimony - scientists from Exxon would be next in line to testify about the realities and dangers of global warming.

But that's not what happened.

Instead - in the late 1980s - Exxon made an about-face.

Read more here.

-Thom

 

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... OH Canada! Liberals Win (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Event: Chicago, Il. Nov 11: "Lunch 4 Labor".

Article: "Jim Webb expected to drop bid for Democratic presidential nomination " by Ben Jacobs.

Article: "Joe Biden gauging politics, staffing for 2016 run" by Dana Bash, Eric Bradner, Jeff Zeleny and Jim Acosta.

Article: "Colbert Super PAC" by Wikipedia.

Article: "High stakes in Benghazi showdown" by Scott Wong and Julian Hattem.

Letter: "To Elijah Cummings" by Trey Gowdy.

Article: "Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's 'deal in blood' with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion had even started" by Glen Owen and William Lowther.

Article: "UN to call on governments around the world to decriminalise all drugs, says Richard Branson" by Adam Withnall.

Article: "Superdelegate" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Man Who Builds Luxury Bomb Shelters for Paranoid One Percenters" by Lynn Parramore.

Article: "NASA predict huge asteroid will just miss Earth as it zips past this Halloween" by Matthew Dunn.

Article: "Project for the New American Century (PNAC)" by Wikipedia.

Video: Matthews Praises Trump for Going After Bush on 9/11: Dems 'Never Had the Stones'.

Article: "Canada ends decade of conservative rule, says CBC" by Rob Gillies.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "US lifts oil export ban -- now what?" by Dan McSwain.

Clip: Phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Everett Dirksen (R) 968. "Here's the latest information we've got... This is treason. ... "

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy " by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

Article: "Jim Webb Exits Democratic Primary, Leaves Door Open For Independent Bid" by Jessica Taylor.

Article: "Justin Trudeau: Who is Canada's new Liberal prime minister and what is his platform?" by Callum Paton.

Article: "For Canada, Justin Trudeau Election Offers Change of Tone" by Ian Austen.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Moderate Republicans' Threat: Paul Ryan for Speaker-or We Quit" by Jack Fitzpatrick.

Article: "Freedom Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal ruling protects pot dispensaries that follow state law" by Bob Egelko.

Article: "Rand Paul's Solution to LGBT Discrimination: Go Back in the Closet" by Brandon Lorenz.

Article: "Joe Biden for President? Media Buzz Ignores How Veep Worsened Student Debt on Big Banks' Behalf" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Student Debt: Obama Administration Tries To Block Bankruptcy Courts From Reducing Education Debt" by David Sirota.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Luke Vargas 

Article: "UNODC Spokesperson Statement" by David Dadge.

Article: "Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban" by Robert Scheer, May 22, 2001 .

Article: "After six years on the rise, Afghan opium crop cultivation declines - UN survey" by UN.

Article: "UNESCO chief 'deplores' bid to name Western Wall part of Al-Aqsa" by Times of Israel.

Article: "U.S. Approves $11 Billion Saudi Buy of Lockheed Littoral Ships" by Anthony Capaccio, Madeline McMahon.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 10/20" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 10/19" by Victoria Jones.

Book: ADHD and the Edison Gene: A Drug-Free Approach to Managing the Unique Qualities of Your Child by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Why Your Child Is Hyperactive: The bestselling book on how ADHD is caused by artificial food flavors and colors by M.D. Ben F. Feingold.

Article: "Hunter vs. farmer hypothesis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "London Police 'Super Recognizer' Walks Beat With a Facebook of the Mind" by Katrin Bennhold.

Book: Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard E. Gardner.

Book: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks.

Article: "Biden contradicts Clinton's account of bin Laden raid decision" by Jordan Fabian.

Article: "South Dakota tribe to open nation's 1st marijuana resort" by Regina Garcia Cano.

Article: "Corporate Welfare for the Kochs" by Joe Nocera.

Article: "The truth about Iraq" by Molly Ivins.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Has Heard About That Hashtag" by Ana Marie Cox.

Bible: Proverbs 22:16: "One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty."

Article: "Tikkun olam" by The Movement for Reform Judaism.

Site: Tikkun Magazine.

Article: "Whose Order Is Being Disordered by ADHD?" by Thom Hartmann, 1999.

 

Article: "Now Is The Time For A Carbon Tax, IMF Chief Says" by Samantha Page.

Article: "Massive Coral Bleaching Event Is Sweeping Across The World's Oceans" by Jess Colarossi.

Article: "Warming Oceans Behind Historic Coral Bleaching Events: Scientists" by Nadia Prupis.

Article: "Most worker ants are slackers" by David Shultz.

Article: "This Tiny Country Is Going 100 Percent Organic" by Natasha Geiling.

Article: "Major Pumpkin Supplier Is Anticipating Yields Cut In Half" by Natasha Geiling.

  

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