For over 30 years scientists at ExxonMobil have accurately projected the warming effects of fossil fuels on the planet, even as the company downplayed climate science while cautioning against any drastic move away from hydrocarbon usage, according to a recent study, the New York Times yesterday reported.
“A new study published Thursday in the journal Science found that over the next decades, Exxon’s scientists made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet. Their projections were as accurate, and sometimes even more so, as those of independent academic and government models,” the Times reported as it pointed to the study, released in the journal.
“Yet for years, the oil giant publicly cast doubt on climate science, and cautioned against any drastic move away from burning fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change. Exxon also ran a public relations program – including ads that ran in The New York Times – emphasizing uncertainties in the scientific research on global warming,” it added.
