ExxonMobil
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Climate
ExxonMobil: 'The science is uncertain' — while internal scientists confirmed warming
Made 2000-01-01 · Audience: General public
The promise
“Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.”
For decades ExxonMobil publicly cast doubt on climate science. Internal documents and an independent peer-reviewed analysis later showed the company's own scientists had accurately projected human-caused warming as early as the 1970s, while its public communications cast that same science as uncertain.
What actually happened (2 sourced violations)
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#1
2023-01-13
8,413 days later
primary evidence
Exxon's internal scientific projections from 1977 to 2003 are shown in Science to have been highly accurate predictions of warming — contradicting decades of public-facing doubt.
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#2
2022-05-24
8,179 days later
primary evidence
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court allows the state's consumer-protection lawsuit against ExxonMobil for misleading the public about climate to proceed.
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