Sentences with phrase «exxon modeled its research»

In the 1970s, Exxon modeled its research division after Bell Labs, staffing it with highly accomplished scientists and engineers.

Not exact matches

Exxon also hired scientists and mathematicians to develop better climate models and publish research results in peer - reviewed journals.

One scientist who crossed over from academia to Exxon Research was Brian Flannery, an associate professor of astronomy from Harvard and an expert in mathematical modeling.

So Exxon (now ExxonMobil) shelved an ambitious but costly program that sampled carbon dioxide in the oceans — the centerpiece of its climate research in the 1970s — as it created its own computerized climate models.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

Exxon's own modeling research confirmed this and the company's results were later published in at least three peer - reviewed science articles.

On the reliability of climate models, the InsideClimateNews report on Exxon's climate research efforts of the late 1970s and early 1980s makes for interesting reading:

He accuses the NYT of playing down the seriousness of global warming by ignoring: «the substantial number of climate scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some of the leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

«Models are controversial,» Roger Cohen, head of theoretical sciences at Exxon Corporate Research Laboratories, and his colleague, Richard Werthamer, senior technology advisor at Exxon Corporation, wrote in a May 1980 status report on Exxon's climate modeling program.

Exxon also hired scientists and mathematicians to develop better climate models and publish research results in peer - reviewed journals.

I've gotten funding (not a lot) from the Petroleum Research Fund, to model the long - term lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere, not at all an Exxon company objective.