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Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change communications

May 17, 2021

New research by CSSN Scholar Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes – covered by CNN, Rolling Stone, and other outlets – finds that ExxonMobil’s public climate change messaging mimics tobacco industry propaganda by using rhetoric about risk and demand to blame customers and justify fossil fuels.

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