French fossil fuel giant Total was warned about the potential catastrophic effects of pumping fossil fuels into the air fifty years ago, new research has unveiled
French fossil fuel giant Total was warned about the potential catastrophic effects of pumping fossil fuels into the air fifty years ago but chose to do nothing, new research has unveiled.published on Wednesday by three historians in the Global Environmental Change journal shows that the company was warned of the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as 1971, but chose to obfuscate or downplay the issue in the ensuing decades.
In the 1990s, the study says, the company began publicly acknowledging climate science while pursuing a lobbying strategy aimed at preventing or delaying any regulation of the industry.following the paper’s publication, TotalEnergies responded that Total and its sister company Elf did not have more knowledge of climate risk than what was published in scientific journals at the time.
This is when, researchers say, IPIECA formed a working group on global climate change, which began working to emphasise uncertainties in climate science. Funding was approved for scientific research that could “sharpen the industry’s ability to emphasize climate model limitations and potentially make global warming appear less alarming,” researchers wrote.
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