"They modelled and predicted global warming with shocking accuracy and skill, only for the company to spend the next couple of decades denying that very climate science," said Dr Geoffrey Supran, a coauthor of the study in the journal Science.
The company is the target of a number of lawsuits in the United States, several of which are ongoing, an activist campaign tagged"Exxon Knew," and the European Parliament and US Congress have held hearings into the oil behemoth. Dr Supran, who now teaches at the University of Miami, said he and his coauthors from Harvard and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research had analysed private ExxonMobil graphs and tables that had never been scrutinised before.
The documents contained 16 global mean temperature projections linked to a rise in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. On average, the ExxonMobil scientists predicted average warming of 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade, equivalent to the current rate."Projections are based on completely unproven climate models, or, more often, sheer speculation," ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond said in 1999.Several of the ExxonMobil scientists involved with coming up with the projections testified before Congress in 2019.
Everyone new of this… why is this news,
It’s no different to when big tobacco knew smoking killed. Only this time it’s the whole planet at risk. Driven by profit and greed 🤯
Scientists discovered global warming around 100 years ago. Why are people expecting an oil company to advocate not using oil?
Rte could you check out the reports that were pushed in the seventies that another big freeze would happen in the next 30 years
Big oil lied. Make them pay.
The only threat of global warming that we know is 100% true, is the Irish and globalist government organising millions of 'climate refugees' to come here.
Take the wealth from the families of the executives who covered it up. Make decisions like this inter generational.
It’s f’n Baltic….move on
A new year but the same old nonsense from Rte. So the climate is warming as we struggle to pay exorbitant prices for energy to heat our homes. If its warming as we are told by the'experts'we won't have to use so much fossil fuel thus reducing our carbon emissions. Problem solved
This is nothing new....it's common knowledge.
If only they had stopped exploration and refining oil decades ago....Too late now ...
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