False Promises ^17.4%

ProPublica - By Katie Worth, Lucas Waldron, Amy Westervelt, Maddie Stone, Case Jernigan, Anna Donlan - 6/25/2026, 12:00 AM

Negativity Bias 26.3% - Anchoring Bias 15.7% - Appeal to Authority 15.2%

For more than 40 years, oil companies have been funding research at prestigious universities into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Among their favored fixes is carbon capture and storage. An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that boosters of CCS have ignored evidence... more