The study in the journal Science Thursday looked at research that Exxon funded that didn't just confirm what climate scientists were saying, but used more than a dozen different computer models that forecast the coming warming with precision equal to or better than government and academic scientists.
The Exxon-funded science was “actually astonishing” in its precision and accuracy, said study co-author Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard science history professor. But she added so was the “hypocrisy because so much of the Exxon Mobil disinformation for so many years ... was the claim that climate models weren't reliable.”
The paper quoted then-Exxon CEO Lee Raymond in 1999 as saying future climate “projections are based on completely unproven climate models, or more often, sheer speculation,” while his successor in 2013 called models “not competent.” Exxon, one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, has been the target of numerous lawsuits that claim the company knew about the damage its oil and gas would cause to the climate, but misled the public by sowing doubt about climate change. In the latest such lawsuit, New Jersey accused five oil and gas companies including Exxon of deceiving the public for decades while knowing about the harmful toll fossil fuels take on the climate.
University of Illinois atmospheric scientist professor emeritus Donald Wuebbles told The Associated Press that in the 1980s he worked with Exxon-funded scientists and wasn't surprised by what the company knew or the models. It's what science and people who examined the issue knew. Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald asked: “How many thousands of lives have been lost or adversely impacted by Exxon Mobil's deliberate campaign to obscure the science?”
Yet keep selling their shit and making trillions. Makes sense.
Just stop.
Well the should know as the were the big contributors to the problem.
Back to 'global warming' again?
Can someone explain to me that if global warming is real and sea levels are rising, why are politicians buying massive homes by the sea shore
Global warming doesn't exist, the climate change is cyclical. That's why idiots scaremonger about the next ice age one day, or water levels rising the next whenever it suits their needs. 1 solar flare can do x1000 more harm then we can do in the next 10,000 years.
There IS NO global warming! Hasnt warmed in over 30 years!
Global warming 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So if that’s true, they did nothing about it. In fact, they added to it 🤘
The same people that lied to you about Covid for years are now telling you to “trust us” when it comes to climate change.
Did the Exxon Valdez leak in Alaska play a significant role ?
Let's go to net zero, we can live like caveman again. Sorry cavepeople for the woke
Shocking that one of the biggest economic contributors to the climate crisis knew about it 50 years ago....
Oh wow really cool guys...