Exxon Mobil 'knew' nearly 30 years ago, but continued to promote climate denial

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xxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists.

“Despite this”, the Guardian reports, “the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial.

“The email from Exxon’s in-house climate expert provides evidence the company was aware of the connection between fossil fuels and climate change, and the potential for carbon-cutting regulations that could hurt its bottom line, over a generation ago – factoring that knowledge into its decision about an enormous gas field in south-east Asia.

“The field, off the coast of Indonesia, would have been the single largest source of global warming pollution at the time,” it is reported.

Read the Guardian story - “Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years”.