THEY KNEW AND STILL DID NOTHING
Study says Exxon knew “precisely” about global warming. Exxon’s internal climate research, which began as early as the 1970s, accurately predicted both the speed and gravity of global warming, according to a new study that analyzed dozens of research papers produced by the company’s in-house scientists.
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Between 63% and 83% of Exxon-backed research accurately predicted ensuing climate events and global warming, matching and occasionally even surpassing the accuracy of academic and government projections. Although Exxon dismissed the study’s findings, lead author Geoffrey Supran summarized them as “airtight” and “unimpeachable” in an email to Axios.
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@Madken65 the amount of money the oil industry wastes is ungodly. At least, it was about a decade ago when I was a vendor walking around oil fields and production facilities.
There’s absolutely no reason they couldn’t have already switched to alternatives in many cases.
Oil is that profitable.