Every day the effects of climate change become more tangible, not as a future to fear, but as a reality to endure. Our understanding of the physical world means we know what’s caused this, and we have for a long time. As the Guardian reported as part of a comprehensive examination of the oil industry’s climate denialism: “ExxonMobil continued to fund climate denial through at least 2018. One of their 2004 advertorials claimed ‘scientific uncertainties’ precluded ‘determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change.’ That was untrue. Nine years earlier, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had concluded a ‘discernible human influence on global climate.’”The punchline: “ExxonMobil’s chief climate scientist was a contributing author to the report.”All this reporting suggests when oil companies discussed climate change internally and with other industry insiders, they said one thing.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 10, 2022 17:00 UTC