New TV Ad Campaign: “While California Burns, Oil Executives Get Rich”

SACRAMENTO and SAN FRANCISCO — As major oil companies rake in record profits from high gas prices, and Californians suffer from record heat waves, wildfires, and droughts, the Center for Climate Integrity is launching a new ad campaign to raise awareness about the oil and gas industry’s role in causing the climate crisis and then blocking climate progress to protect corporate profits. 

The ad portrays oil executives relaxing in a mansion while they explain the industry’s history of deceiving the public about their products’ role in fueling the climate crisis: 

“Have you noticed that the world’s on fire? Record heat waves? Does that worry you? Well, it should. Because this climate thing is your problem. And at Big Oil, we’ve made sure it’s not ours.” 

“Forty years ago, when our own scientists predicted that burning fossil fuels could lead to ‘catastrophic effects,’ we spent billions to sweep it under the rug.”