New study puts a number on what 'Exxon knew' decades ago about climate science
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Climate projections reported by ExxonMobil scientists between 1977 and 2003 were accurate and skillful in predicting subsequent global warming and contradicted the company's public claims, a new Harvard study shows.
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Climate projections reported by ExxonMobil scientists between 1977 and 2003 were accurate and skillful in predicting subsequent global warming and contradicted the company's public claims, a new Harvard study shows.
"ExxonMobil didn’t just know ‘something’ about global warming decades ago — they knew as much as academic and government scientists knew," researchers write in the journal Science. Still, the company "worked to deny it."
Exxon's climate research decades back painted an accurate picture of global warming, according to a new scientific paper. Still the oil company continued climate-denying policy efforts.
ExxonMobil – formerly known as Exxon, and one of the world's leading oil and gas companies – had the numbers on climate change way back in 1977, according to a recent review of internal documents held secret by the company for nearly five decades.
