Oil companies knowledge of climate change
Posted: April 9th, 2018, 11:56 am
It seems that oil companies were well aware of the dangers of global warming whilst publicly denying its existence
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/busi ... 94636.html
In The Greenhouse Effect, a 1988 internal report by Shell scientists, the authors warned that “by the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilise the situation”.
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Similar documents have previously emerged concerning ExxonMobil’s knowledge of climate change.
In both cases, critics pointed out that the documents contrasted sharply with the public stand the companies took on climate change throughout the 1990s.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/busi ... 94636.html
In The Greenhouse Effect, a 1988 internal report by Shell scientists, the authors warned that “by the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilise the situation”.
.
.
.
Similar documents have previously emerged concerning ExxonMobil’s knowledge of climate change.
In both cases, critics pointed out that the documents contrasted sharply with the public stand the companies took on climate change throughout the 1990s.