What Exxon Knew about the Earth's Melting Arctic
Source: Los Angeles Times
The gulf between Exxons internal and external approach to climate change from the 1980s through the early 2000s was evident in a review of hundreds of internal documents, decades of peer-reviewed published material and dozens of interviews conducted by Columbia Universitys Energy & Environmental Reporting Project and the Los Angeles Times.
Documents were obtained from the Imperial Oil collection at Calgarys Glenbow Museum and the Exxon Mobil Historical Collection at the University of Texas at Austins Briscoe Center for American History.
We considered climate change in a number of operational and planning issues, said Brian Flannery, who was Exxons in-house climate science advisor from 1980 to 2011. In a recent interview, he described the companys internal effort to study the effects of global warming as a competitive necessity: If you dont do it, and your competitors do, youre at a loss.
Read more: http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/
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If your blood does not boil at this story, you do not understand the issue. Inside Climate News team broke a similar story a few weeks ago, which did not crack the mainstream. Now it looks like this will have legs.
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JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)trueblue2007
(17,218 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)Of greedy corporations with NO ETHICAL COMPASS. They rake in excessive amounts of money knowing full well the damage its costs BECAUSE they get away with pawning off the expense of correcting that damage on the tax payers. They don't give a CRAP about you and YOUR CHILDREN.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)and people wonder why bernie is so popular....
this is some messed up shit.
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)Thanks for the thread, greenman.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)I bet it will be 5 years or less- but it seems like a big collective yawn when it does come out.
Humans not acquitting themselves well as a species.