Exxon researched and started making changes to its operations in the 90s and 00s in response to climate change predictions that its own internal scientists agreed with — even as it fought in public to discredit climate change science. Exxon treated it as a business expense and competitive necessity, but not a social obligation that impact its bottom line.
What Exxon knew about the Earth’s melting Arctic
Back in the 1990’s, Exxon was publicly taking the position that the scientific research on global warming was contradictory and too sketchy to act upon. But, at the same time, its own researchers were quietly incorporating some of those scientific conclusions into the company’s operational forecasts.
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Sad. We know it's coming. Thanks for helping doom all life on earth, assholes.
+Ryan S Doubtful that all life is doomed. The planet has gone through greater cataclysms. Some major species die-offs are likely, though, and human civilization (or something passing for it) will be pretty precarious at best.