Seán Burke’s brilliant satirical oil company ad is almost too believable
There have recently been several heat records broken across the world – and not in a ‘Let’s go to the beach’ way. It’s more of a ‘Let’s hide under a wet blanket until the sun goes down’ kind of thing.
Europe’s highest temperature on Monday was in southern Spain – where Andujar reached 44.8C.
Sicily wasn’t far behind at 43.5C.
Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt is in Spain for #BBCBreakfasthttps://t.co/uyn2xyzD2t pic.twitter.com/EEcUPPfhb1
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) July 18, 2023
According to preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the world has just experienced the hottest week on record (average July 1-7). This follows the hottest June on record. At a regional scale, absolute temperature records are being broken around the… pic.twitter.com/94GaehYX2z
— Statista (@StatistaCharts) July 12, 2023
Candidates for the Darwin Awards have been heading to Death Valley, in the hope of being present for the highest ever recorded air temperature on Earth.
Tourists flock to Death Valley hoping to experience heat record https://t.co/rDSsBZZV9t
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 17, 2023
Fossil fuel-producing companies continue to rake in massive profits.
As we are experiencing "the Earth’s hottest week in history" big oil continues to expand fossil fuel production to generate record profits, further escalating the climate crisis.
Future generations will judge the level of these crimes against humanity.https://t.co/ygBYqN5SVE
— Matthias Schmelzer (@MGSchmelzer) July 16, 2023
Which is why this sketch by Seán Burke is a lot more relevant than we’d like.
Oil CEOs after the hottest week ever recorded.
— Seán Burke (@SeanBurkeShow) July 16, 2023
“Here at Snake Oil, we’re doing our bit. The same way we might kiss you on the forehead while choking you to death.”
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A classic https://t.co/sn0f9uxLfJ
— Dr Matt Winning (@mattwinning) July 16, 2023
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Grimly accurate satire. https://t.co/fzfr93H7V3
— Cllr Emma Edwards (@bristol_pip) July 17, 2023
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Yes! Great video showing how duplicitous and lying the advertising of the fossil fuel giants is https://t.co/pvLIELUpc3
— LawyersAreResponsible (@LawyersAreResp) July 17, 2023
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Pure genius. https://t.co/TzuGVMKTib
— Tim Bale (@ProfTimBale) July 17, 2023
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More facts than you'll get from Panorama on the BBC https://t.co/kdDAPYirps
— The EV Puzzle (@EVPuzzle) July 17, 2023
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The joke's on us.#BigOil #ClimateEmergency
🎩@MKalmanovitch https://t.co/x4Sm3K6E3m— Jeanne Yacoubou, MS 🌎 ⏳ (@jeanneyacoubou) July 17, 2023
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No worries, crude oil industries got our back https://t.co/csaRa5UvCt
— Pferdinand von Dysterreich (@zwiedawurzn) July 17, 2023
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For some reason on LinkedIn I get a lot of ads from Shell, with videos about their work in hydrogen tech. I wonder if I'll get myself banned if I start replying with this: https://t.co/43Cp5LwHYe
— harry_wood (@harry_wood) July 17, 2023
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It's funny because it's true! https://t.co/KGLVqZlJyX
— Bruce Elgin (@BruceElgin) July 16, 2023
The eagle-eyed amongst you will have spotted that the sketch isn’t new. We’ll leave Seán to explain what’s going on with that.
I promise to stop resharing this sketch once it stops being relevant 🤞could be a while…
In the meantime: https://t.co/GHpiwOozfd
— Seán Burke (@SeanBurkeShow) July 16, 2023
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