News reports out of InsideClimate News and PBS’s Frontline are suggesting that Exxon Corporaton did early research into climate science as early as 1977. Through a series of internal documents, and interviews with former staff scientists, the report says Exxon management was informed of fossil fuels possible impacts on climate decades before the company would later be involved in efforts to deny and counter similar science. A Exxon senior spokesmen, speaking to On the Media, contends that the reports are inaccurate.
(Video: PBS Frontline)
- Exxon: The Road Not Taken
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago (InsideClimate News) - Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings (Frontline)
- Exxon has known about climate change since the 1970s (Fortune)
- Exxon Responds to InsideClimate News (On the Media)
- A Deep Dive into What Exxon Knew About Global Warming and When (1978) it Knew It (New York Times)
- Exxon knew about climate change decades ago, spent $30M to discredit it (Christian Science Monitor)
