One of the world’s largest oil companies accurately forecast how climate change would cause global temperature to rise as long ago as the 1970s,ssd 500gb samsung 850 evo josh allen womens jersey svetr fox creolen gold gucci prix aspirateur à eau amazon vendita orologi a pendolo amazon violino nero giga sport yeezy boost 350 v2 onyx sofas de lujo en piel bass sunjun sandals nike airmax plus fff cascos de moto para niños adidas femme sarenza tamaris myggia researchers claim.
ExxonMobil’s private research predicted how burning fossil fuels would warm the planet but the company publicly denied the link, they suggest.
The academics analysed data in the company’s internal documents.
ExxonMobil denied the allegations.
“This issue has come up several times in recent years and, in each case, our answer is the same: those who talk about how “Exxon Knew” are wrong in their conclusions,” the company told BBC News.
Corporations including ExxonMobil have made billions from selling fossil fuels that release emissions that scientists, governments and the UN say cause global warming.
The findings suggest that ExxonMobil’s predictions were often more accurate than even world-leading Nasa scientists.
“It really underscores the stark hypocrisy of ExxonMobil leadership, who knew that their own scientists were doing this very high quality modelling work and had access to that privileged information while telling the rest of us that climate models were bunk,” Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University, told BBC News.
The findings are a “smoking gun”, suggests co-author Geoffrey Supran, associate professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami.
“Our analysis allows us for the first time to actually put a number on what Exxon knew, which is that the burning of their fossil fuel products was going to heat the planet by about 0.2C of warming every decade,” he said.
Researchers have never before quantified the scientific evidence in ExxonMobil’s documents, he says.
In response, ExxonMobil pointed to a 2019 US court ruling that concluded: “ExxonMobil executives and employees were uniformly committed to rigorously discharging their duties in the most comprehensive and meticulous manner possible.” BBC