Exclusive: 2001 intervention adds to evidence that oil company was aware of the science and its implications for government policy and the energy industryExxonMobil moved to squash a well-established congressional lecture series on climate science just nine days after the presidential inauguration of George W Bush,a former oil executive, the Guardian has learned.
Exxon’s intervention on the briefings, and revealed here for the first time,adds to evidence the oil company was acutely aware of the state of climate science and its implications for government policy and the energy industry – despite Exxon’s public protestations for decades approximately the uncertainties of global warming science. Related: My father warned Exxon approximately climate change in the 1970s. They didn't listen | Claudia Black-Kalinsky Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com