In 2015, investigative journalists discovered internal company memos indicating that Exxon oil company has known since the late 1970s that its fossil fuel products could lead to global warming with “dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.”
Additional documents then emerged showing that the US oil and gas industry’s largest trade association had likewise known since at least the 1950s, as had the coal industry since at least the 1960s, and electric utilities, Total oil company, and GM and Ford motor companies since at least the 1970s. Scholars and journalists have analyzed the texts contained in these documents, providing qualitative accounts of fossil fuel interests’ knowledge of climate science and its implications.
In 2017, for instance, we demonstrated that Exxon’s internal documents, as well as peer-reviewed studies published by Exxon and ExxonMobil Corp scientists, overwhelmingly acknowledged that climate change is real and human-caused. By contrast, the majority of Mobil and ExxonMobil Corp’s public communications promoted doubt on the matter.
I'm shocked, I tell ya.... shocked.
Just like the cigarette manufacturers knew the danger to our health, the fossil fuel companies know they're destroying the planet.
Al Gore's Professor noted a warming climate in 1958.
They should be sued for class action punitive damages, in the same way that tobacco companies were sued.
The two are different. The tobacco industry was just criminal, a sort of mafia, but the fossil fuel industry was encouraged and pampered by society and politics, not only in the West, because our civilisation is hooked on this stuff. Up until two decades ago, nobody, except some "green weirdos" wanted to hear anything about possible side-effects of our fossil fuel addiction. Even now, with evidence in plain sight, plus/minus a third of society is still in denial
@Thibaud70 Is there a court for crimes against humanity? There should be.
@TheoryNumber3 Humanity doesn't have enough time left to punish them.