{"query_echo":{"q":"","filters":{"organization":["Center for Climate Integrity"]},"warnings":[]},"total":{"value":65,"relation":"eq"},"page":4,"page_size":20,"self":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/api/v1/search?organization=center-for-climate-integrity&page=4","stability":"beta","ai_marking":{"digital_source_type":{"uri":"http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/trainedAlgorithmicMedia","name":"Created using Generative AI"},"notice":"Summary and key insights are generated using artificial intelligence."},"results":[{"id":"cliint-000026","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/cliint-000026","title":"Results from National Survey on Climate Liability Lawsuits, Messages, and Issue Support","publisher":{"name":"Center for Climate Integrity","organization":"center-for-climate-integrity"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"en","date_published":"2019-02","source_url":"https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/media/CCI_2019_Polling_Brief.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"A February 2019 survey of 16,798 registered US voters indicates broad, bipartisan support for holding oil and gas companies responsible for climate change damages and adaptation costs. The data shows that support for lawsuits against polluters increases significantly after respondents are informed about the fossil fuel industry's history of disinformation campaigns.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000026#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"A majority of US voters support holding oil and gas companies financially responsible for climate impacts, with 70% stating they should be responsible for some portion of protection costs and 71% supporting lawsuits to pay for climate-related damages.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000026#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Information regarding the fossil fuel industry's deception campaigns increases the proportion of voters who hold these companies responsible. The percentage of respondents who view oil and gas companies as 'very' or 'somewhat' responsible for impacts like extreme heat and sea level rise rises from 67% to 83% after reading about the deception. Furthermore, the share of respondents identifying these companies as the entity most responsible for paying for adaptation costs increases from 22% to 45%.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000026#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Support for holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate costs is bipartisan. After learning about disinformation campaigns, support reaches 91% among Democrats, 78% among Independents, and 73% among Republicans. Support for lawsuits specifically is 88% for Democrats, 68% for Independents, and 59% for Republicans.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000026#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"While some voters feel personal responsibility for climate change, this sentiment decreases after they are informed about industry deception. The percentage of respondents who 'strongly' agree that every person is responsible for climate change drops from 43% to 35% after learning about the industry's deception and legal efforts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000026#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change adaptation","fossil fuel industry","climate finance"],"geography_discussed":["California","Florida"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["public opinion survey"]},{"id":"cliint-000010","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/cliint-000010","title":"Energy Scenarios for Various CO2 Limits","publisher":{"name":"Center for Climate Integrity","organization":"center-for-climate-integrity"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/deception/1979-Exxon-FerrallMemo.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The study evaluates three energy scenarios (A, B, and C) to determine the fuel mixes required to limit atmospheric CO2 concentrations. 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The document warns that CO2 concentrations reaching 500 ppm would likely cause undesirable climatic changes, whereas 440 ppm is considered a relatively safe level.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000010#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The study identifies that feedback mechanisms involving carbon exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and oceans are so significant that small changes could either drastically offset or increase the temperature impact of fossil fuel combustion.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000010#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Coal and shale oil, as well as synthetic fuels derived from them, are characterized by high CO2-to-energy ratios. Shale oil is not predicted to be a major future energy source due to its high emissions and the environmental damage caused by its mining.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000010#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Under Scenario B, which limits CO2 increase to 75%, atmospheric concentrations would reach 400 ppm around 2010, causing noticeable temperature changes, and near 500 ppm around 2080, which would likely result in undesirable climatic changes in many regions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000010#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Scenario C limits atmospheric CO2 to 440 ppm, which is viewed as a relatively safe level where global warming and precipitation changes would be noticeable but not extreme. 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Without CO2 removal or disposal methods, this would limit coal combustion to only one billion B.O.E. in 2100, representing less than 1% of total world energy demand.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000010#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["carbon dioxide","coal","natural gas","petroleum","nuclear power","biomass","solar energy","geothermal energy","climate change"],"geography_discussed":["United States","Soviet Union"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["scenario analysis","predictive modeling"]},{"id":"cliint-000039","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/cliint-000039","title":"BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE ROBERT BRULLE, CENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY, JUSTIN FARRELL, BENJAMIN FRANTA, FRESH ENERGY, STEPHAN LEWANDOWSKY, MN350, MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY, NAOMI ORESKES, GEOFFREY SUPRAN, and the UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE AND AFFIRMANCE","publisher":{"name":"Center for Climate Integrity","organization":"center-for-climate-integrity"},"document_type":"legal commentary","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/media/Eighth_Circuit_Deception_Amicus_082521.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document asserts that the defendants had internal knowledge of the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1950s but spent decades funding disinformation and public relations strategies to manufacture doubt. It highlights a contradiction where companies publicly denied climate change while privately adjusting infrastructure, such as oil rigs and pipelines, to account for rising sea levels.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000039#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The defendants had actual knowledge of the risks associated with fossil fuels by the late 1950s and no later than 1968. The American Petroleum Institute (API) was aware of research on carbon dioxide as early as 1954, and a 1968 Stanford Research Institute report commissioned by API warned that rising CO2 levels would likely lead to melting ice caps and rising sea levels.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000039#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Exxon conducted extensive internal climate research from the late 1970s through the early 1980s that confirmed the scientific consensus on global warming. By 1982, Exxon's internal models and a corporate primer recognized that continued fossil-fuel combustion could lead to \"potentially catastrophic\" events and that major reductions in combustion were needed to mitigate these risks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000039#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The defendants implemented sophisticated public relations and communication strategies to manufacture doubt about climate science. This included the 1998 Global Climate Science Communications Team action plan by API, which aimed to make the recognition of scientific uncertainties part of the \"conventional wisdom\" to influence policymakers and the public.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000039#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There was a stark contrast between the defendants' internal scientific findings and their external public communications. A study by Dr. Supran and Dr. Oreskes found that while 80% of Exxon's internal documents and 83% of its peer-reviewed papers acknowledged that climate change is real and human-caused, 81% of its newspaper advertorials from 1989 to 2004 expressed doubt.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000039#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The defendants provided substantial funding to individuals and organizations to promote contrarian theories and discredit climate science. Between 1997 and 2018, Koch funded 90 organizations with at least $145 million, and between 1998 and 2019, Exxon spent at least $37 million funding 69 such organizations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliint-000039#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Exxon privately acted on climate science to protect its own infrastructure while publicly denying the risks. 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