The Texas-based oil giant Exxon financed right-wing think tanks to help spread climate change denial across Latin America. That’s according to newly revealed documents published by The Guardian and DeSmog which uncovered a widespread campaign by Exxon to finance the U.S.-based Atlas Network, a coalition made up of more than 500 so-called free market think tanks and its partners worldwide, in order to spread lies about the role of fossil fuels in causing the climate crisis.