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"Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was
looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change –
and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of
the problem, and what they knew about it.
I pored over boxes of papers, thousands of pages. I began to recognize
typewriter fonts from the 1960s and ‘70s and marveled at the legibility of past
penmanship, and got used to squinting when it wasn’t so clear.
What those papers revealed is now changing our understanding of how climate
change became a crisis. The industry’s own words, as my research found, show
companies knew about the risk long before most of the rest of the world.
On Oct. 28, 2021, a Congressional subcommittee questioned executives from
Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute about industry
efforts to downplay the role of fossil fuels in climate change. Exxon CEO
Darren Woods told lawmakers that his company’s public statements “are and have
always been truthful” and that the company “does not spread disinformation
regarding climate change.”
Here’s what corporate documents from the past six decades show."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
