Revealed: Exxon Made “Breathtakingly” Accurate Climate Predictions in 1970s and ’80s | Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global warming.

ZeroCool@feddit.ch · 1 year ago

Revealed: Exxon Made “Breathtakingly” Accurate Climate Predictions in 1970s and ’80s | Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global warming.

Paranoid Factoid@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

They own rights to the oil in the ground. To not pump it up and sell it represents a loss of potential profits they could have achieved otherwise, putting them at a disadvantage to competitors who did.

This is their logic.

Revealed: Exxon Made “Breathtakingly” Accurate Climate Predictions in 1970s and ’80s | Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global warming.

Revealed: Exxon Made “Breathtakingly” Accurate Climate Predictions in 1970s and ’80s | Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global warming.

Revealed: Exxon made “breathtakingly” accurate climate predictions in 1970s and '80s