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Climate Data Manipulation: Energy Companies Funded Misleading Research for Decades
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Climate Data Manipulation: Energy Companies Funded Misleading Research for Decades

The Guardian Investigations
by Robert Hayes
February 27, 2026
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Energy companies funded misleading climate research for decades while their own scientists confirmed human-caused climate change. Newly uncovered internal memos reveal a coordinated campaign to manufacture scientific doubt.

Newly uncovered internal memos show that major energy companies funded research designed to cast doubt on climate science while their own scientists confirmed the reality of human-caused climate change.

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