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The Worst Corporate Scandal in History
It deserves more than a shrug
The woke left-wing scientists are really trying to panic us about global warming. Check out some of these dire predictions they’re peddling:
“The consensus is that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial revolution value would result in an average global temperature rise of (3.0 ± 1.5)°C [equal to 5.4 ± 1.7°F]…There is unanimous agreement in the scientific community that a temperature increase of this magnitude would bring about significant changes in the earth’s climate, including rainfall distribution and alterations in the biosphere.”
And take a look at this plea for urgency:
“Present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical.”
OK, Doomers. I swear, these ivory-tower, tree-hugging hippies are always trying to convince us that climate change is a global crisis. They want you to think that the only way to avoid a global disaster is to cut our use of fossil fuels as quickly as possible.
Wait, what’s that?
The above quotes aren’t from some hippie environmental scientist?
The first one is from the director of the Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Laboratory at Exxon in 1982, and the second is from a report by Exxon’s Products Research Division in 1978?
You’re saying they knew the whole time?
They knew and they misled us
It’s the biggest corporate scandal in history — bigger than Bernie Madoff, bigger than Enron, bigger than FTX. Exxon realized it was contributing to a planetary crisis, and it chose to keep contributing to it. And most of the world has reacted to the revelations with a shrug.
We’ve known about the fact that Exxon understood the basics of climate change for a while. The first big leak of their internal climate documents came out in 2015. Since then, there have been more damning revelations — we’ve found out that Exxon scientists (and those that worked for other fossil-fuel companies and trade groups) had reached the conclusion that climate change was real and…
