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Inside Climate News ... INVESTIGATIONS ... Exxon: The Road Not Taken
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| Inside Climate News HOME ABOUT CONTACT REPORTING NETWORK NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP WHISTLEBLOWERS AWARDS MEMBERSHIP DONATE A Pulitzer Prize-winning, non-profit, non-partisan news organization dedicated to covering climate change, energy and the environment. News Investigations Topics Today's Climate Clean Economy Videos Infographics EBooks HOT TOPICS: Arctic Agriculture Military Clean Energy Climate Science Extreme Weather Exxon Investigation INVESTIGATIONS Exxon: The Road Not Taken Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions. BY NEELA BANERJEE, LISA SONG AND DAVID HASEMYER https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken SEP 16, 2015 Exxon Experiment Exxon Believed Deep Dive Into Climate Research Would Protect Its Business Outfitting its biggest supertanker to measure the ocean's absorption of carbon dioxide was a crown jewel in Exxon's research program. NEELA BANERJEE, LISA SONG, DAVID HASEMYER https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092015/exxon-believed-deep-dive-into-climate-research-would-protect-its-business https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092015/exxon-believed-deep-dive-into-climate-research-would-protect-its-business SEP 17, 2015 Esso Atlantic_Full Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions. LISA SONG, NEELA BANERJEE, DAVID HASEMYER https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092015/exxon-believed-deep-dive-into-climate-research-would-protect-its-business https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092015/exxon-believed-deep-dive-into-climate-research-would-protect-its-business SEP 22, 2015 Modeling Graphic Exxon's Business Ambition Collided with Climate Change Under a Distant Sea Throughout the 1980s, the company struggled to solve the carbon problem of one of the biggest gas fields in the world out of concern for climate impacts. BY NEELA BANERJEE & LISA SONG https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102015/Exxons-Business-Ambition-Collided-with-Climate-Change-Under-a-Distant-Sea https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102015/Exxons-Business-Ambition-Collided-with-Climate-Change-Under-a-Distant-Sea OCT 8, 2015 Highlighting the Allure of Synfuels, Exxon Played Down the Climate Risks In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels. BY JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102015/highlighting-allure-synfuels-exxon-played-down-climate-risks https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102015/highlighting-allure-synfuels-exxon-played-down-climate-risks OCT 8, 2015 Exxon Sowed Doubt About Climate Science for Decades by Stressing Uncertainty Collaborating with the Bush-Cheney White House, Exxon turned ordinary scientific uncertainties into weapons of mass confusion. BY DAVID HASEMYER AND JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22102015/Exxon-Sowed-Doubt-about-Climate-Science-for-Decades-by-Stressing-Uncertainty https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22102015/Exxon-Sowed-Doubt-about-Climate-Science-for-Decades-by-Stressing-Uncertainty OCT 22, 2015 Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions. LISA SONG, NEELA BANERJEE, DAVID HASEMYER https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18092015/exxon-confirmed-global-warming-consensus-in-1982-with-in-house-climate-models https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18092015/exxon-confirmed-global-warming-consensus-in-1982-with-in-house-climate-models SEP 22, 2015 Exxon Made Deep Cuts in Climate Research Budget in the 1980s The cuts ushered in a five-year hiatus in peer-reviewed publication by its scientists and the era when the company first embraced disinformation. BY JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25112015/exxon-deep-cuts-climate-change-research-budget-1980s-global-warming https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25112015/exxon-deep-cuts-climate-change-research-budget-1980s-global-warming NOV 25, 2015 More Exxon Documents Show How Much It Knew About Climate 35 Years Ago Documents reveal Exxon's early CO2 position, its global warming forecast from the 1980s, and its involvement with the issue at the highest echelons. BY NEELA BANERJEE https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01122015/documents-exxons-early-co2-position-senior-executives-engage-and-warming-forecast https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01122015/documents-exxons-early-co2-position-senior-executives-engage-and-warming-forecast DEC 1, 2015 Exxon's Oil Industry Peers Knew About Climate Dangers in the 1970s, Too Members of an American Petroleum Institute task force on CO2 included scientists from nearly every major oil company, including Exxon, Texaco and Shell. BY NEELA BANERJEE https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122015/exxon-mobil-oil-industry-peers-knew-about-climate-change-dangers-1970s-american-petroleum-institute-api-shell-chevron-texaco https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122015/exxon-mobil-oil-industry-peers-knew-about-climate-change-dangers-1970s-american-petroleum-institute-api-shell-chevron-texaco DEC 22, 2015 ABOUT THIS SERIES After eight months of investigation, InsideClimate News presents this multi-part history of Exxon's engagement with the emerging science of climate change. The story spans four decades, and is based on primary sources including internal company files dating back to the late 1970s, interviews with former company employees, and other evidence, much of which is being published here for the first time. It describes how Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed. This series was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and has earned national recognition from many other quarters, including the National Press Foundation, the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and the White House Correspondents' Association. Click here to see a full listing of honors. 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