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May 15, 2018 by sarahharrop

How Big Oil distorts climate change reality with tweaks in language

The language the oil industry uses to talk about climate change has altered over time as it attempts to distance itself from culpability, says linguistics specialist Dr Sylvia Jaworska in a new post for The Conversation.

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