A new study finds Exxon's internal research from the 1970s predicted global warming accurately despite the company's public contradictions
A collection of internal documents made public by a former Exxon employee in 2015 showed the company knew of climate change years before it became a public issue.Todd Spitler, a spokesman for Exxon, said the company's understanding of climate science developed along with the broader scientific community, and its four decades of research in climate science resulted in more than 150 papers, including 50 peer-reviewed publications.
"In 2019, Judge Barry Ostrager of the NY State Supreme Court listened to all the facts in a related case before him and wrote: 'What the evidence at trial revealed is that ExxonMobil executives and employees were uniformly committed to rigorously discharging their duties in the most comprehensive and meticulous manner possible….The testimony of these witnesses demonstrated that ExxonMobil has a culture of disciplined analysis, planning, accounting, and reporting'.
"[It] gives us airtight evidence that Exxon Mobil accurately predicted global warming years before, then turned around and attacked the science underlying it."
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