A new study says Exxon Mobil’s scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming.
, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists' conclusions, a new study says.
The Exxon-funded science was "actually astonishing" in its precision and accuracy, said study co-author Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard science history professor. But she added so was the "hypocrisy because so much of the Exxon Mobil disinformation for so many years ... was the claim that climate models weren’t reliable."
The paper quoted then-Exxon CEO Lee Raymond in 1999 as saying future climate "projections are based on completely unproven climate models, or more often, sheer speculation," while his successor in 2013 called models "not competent." Similar lawsuits from New York to California have claimed that Exxon and other oil and gas companies launched public relations campaigns to stir doubts about climate change. In one, then-Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Exxon’s public relations efforts were " reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s long denial campaign about the dangerous effects of cigarettes."
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