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ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial.
The email from Exxon’s in-house climate expert provides evidence the company was aware of the connection between fossil fuels and climate change, and the potential for carbon-cutting regulations that could hurt its bottom line, over a generation ago – factoring that knowledge into its decision about an enormous gas field in south-east Asia. The field, off the coast of Indonesia, would have been the single largest source of global warming pollution at the time.
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However, Exxon’s public position was marked by continued refusal to acknowledge the dangers of climate change, even in response to appeals from the Rockefellers, its founding family, and its continued financial support for climate denial. Over the years, Exxon spent more than $30m on thinktanks and researchers that promoted climate denial, according to Greenpeace.
Exxon said on Wednesday that it now acknowledges the risk of climate change and does not fund climate change denial groups.
It's the classic modus operandi of corporate denialism:
*Put the bottom line of dollars in investors pockets over public safety - in this case, the 'public' being everyone on the planet
*Blatantly lie, lie, and lie some more
*Rely on the political coalition of business interests that would sell their own mother for a buck and the dumbed-down science-is-scary crowd (including the whackos who despise science and peddle creationism in its place)
On a side note, you'd think that the fact the freakin' Exxon admits that a) the planet is warming, and b) humans are causing it, would clue in the useful idiots to the fact that climate change is happening, but this only illustrates how wonderfully useful those idiots are - even when the puppeteer has let go of the strings, the puppets continue to do their dance.
LOL, I don't suppose it had anything to do with the fact removing CO2 from natural gas a process that has to occur even if you are venting it into the atmosphere is expensive.... That couldn't possibly be the reason, could it?
On a side note, you'd think that the fact the freakin' Exxon admits that a) the planet is warming, and b) humans are causing it, would clue in the useful idiots to the fact that climate change is happening, but this only illustrates how wonderfully useful those idiots are - even when the puppeteer has let go of the strings, the puppets continue to do their dance.
Unbelievable...
What is unbelievable is you somehow managed to get that from email that says no such thing.
Hmmmm.... "a) the planet is warming, and b) humans are causing it..."
So how are they going to explain this new study that shows the geothermal heating underneath the Antarctic is strong enough to create lakes and rivers?
(Better yet, can't wait to see how they blame that on us humans...)
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That couldn't possibly be the reason, could it?
