‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/world-is-on-verge-of-climate-abyss-un-warns Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1788586613855097243 Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02052024/from-the-archive-exxon-research-global-warming/ By Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer May 2, 2024 .