Exxon deliberately misled public on climate science, say researchers

ExxonMobil has knowingly misled the public for decades about the danger climate change poses to a warming world and the oil giant’s long-term viability, according to a peer-reviewed study.

 An activist protests outside Exxon Mobil’s
annual shareholder meeting in Dallas in 2016.

An analysis of nearly 200 documents spanning decades found that four-fifths of scientific studies and internal memos acknowledged global warming was real and caused by humans.

Read The Guardian story - “Exxon deliberately misled public on climate science, say researchers.”

(Listening to a panel discussion last night at the RMIT University about climate change and the law, it became obvious that it was rather difficult to prosecute someone, or a corporation, for the outcome of a damaged climate, but it was viable to initiate legal action on the basis that an organization had failed to acknowledge a difficulty, had not been honest in its dealings with shareholders or the public, and so had failed in its fiduciary responsibilities - Robert McLean)