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Climate Town is legit one of the best discoveries I've ever made on YouTube

It was great working with you Climate Town! In all sincerity, we appreciate your transparency on all fronts - from advertising to clearly vocalizing your beliefs. Transparency is key for creating a trustworthy news environment. Keep up the good work!

Fun Fact: Schmertz is "Pain" in German. Well, technically the word "Schmerz" without the T is "Pain". But close enough. I think the name is perfectly suiting for a guy that inflicted and through his legacy still inflicts tons of pain to our planet's climate.

Excellent coverage on the topic. I’m afraid as a regular consumer of news media I was confused by the commercials and messages oil companies were sending out. Makes me sad to admit that their interference was working. Thank you for making this video to remind average folks like me the truth.

I really appreciate so much you including concrete actionable things in all your videos. "here is a problem, and a suggestion for something you can do about it right now" does wonders for my anxiety when so much of what I see and hear day to day is only the "here is a problem" part.

i love your crowd shots. imagine walking around downtown and some guy is ranting about oil companies with a lapel mic blue taped to his sweater

This is really important, holding media outlets accountable for their reporting is a crucial part of the fight for a safer climate. Because whoever controls the media controls how and what people think.

I would love a follow up in 6 months to see if any of these newspapers ACTUALLY listened.

I was actually part of a documentary crew and the whole project was funded by Exxon-Mobil. They originally told us they wouldn't even want to be recognized, just happy to provide the funding. As the project neared completion though, they started to get more and more involved in putting their name on it. It's not in the credits itself, but at the premiere and all the literature produced it was quite prevalent. They also asked us to make changes to the documentary specifically because it might put one particular politician in a good light, someone who did not have a good opinion of the company at large.

To add on what others have already said in terms of this channel being one of the viewers' favorite discoveries on YouTube, the fact that you regularly refer to more potentially high quality informative and educational content is deeply appreciated.

Super stuff. I know the tobacco industry’s playbook well, and how it was the model for the fossil fuel companies (another podcast worth checking out is ‘How They Made Us Doubt Everything’ by the BBC) but I didn’t know about the origins of the advertorial! Herb Schmerrrrzzzz

The amount of ads I get on FB about how Shell is installing 10000 new electric chargers or what ever is insane. I think it's because like it's mentioned in the video, they specifically target people who don't like oil companies, to introduce doubt and make it seem like that maybe they're not that bad.

Props to YouTube for finally allowing creators to block some kinds of ads. But also knowing they have a category for "get rich quick" ads which is scams 101 and they still allow those in their platform is kinda depressing ^^

Thank you for this, once again, fantastic video! Media companies should totally be shamed for what they've been doing. If only we the public could focus on something for longer than five minutes at a time..

Something insane I learned this year? We don’t need a single politician to fix the world and make it the way we want. Y’all are so talented and hard working I honestly don’t believe they could stop us.

NYT online subscriber here, for more than a decade. I'm going to shift my media budget from NYT to Climate Town. And let the NYT know why I did that. Thanks for the excellent content!

the fact I eagerly await each one of your videos telling us how much our climate is screwed is a testament to your skill. Please never stop!

This is infuriating. They think we’re stupid, and they’re not wrong.

I'm so grateful to channels and content creators like Climate Town for producing these incredibly helpful and informative videos, which is something very welcome for me, considering that here in the UK our 'public service' broadcaster (that the the public are forced to fund should they wish to watch any live broadcast television) is far too busy inviting climate change deniers onto their prime time panel shows, than to properly cover issues like the ones raised on this video. Thank you for the important work you do.