Sentences with phrase «exxon on its climate research»

As a Columbia University scientist, Broecker collaborated with Exxon on its climate research starting in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s.

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Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

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 scientists conducted an extensive research program on climate change and «The Greenhouse Effect», running complex CO2 monitoring experiments and publishing peer - reviewed papers, because the company was deeply interested in this emerging threat to its core business, oil, and ultimately the company's survival.

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The American Petroleum Institute together with the nation's largest oil companies ran a task force to monitor and share climate research between 1979 and 1983, indicating that the oil industry, not just Exxon alone, was aware of its possible impact on the world's climate far earlier than previously known.

Lastly, the study reveals that Exxon found it necessary to also focus its research on international climate change development and research programs.

Then, Dave Hasemyer learned from scientist Michael MacCracken, who had long helped run federal climate research programs, that Exxon scientists had worked with the government on climate science as far back as the early 1980s.

He previously sat on the board of the Climate Accountability Institute, which «manipulated academic research to smear Exxon,» according to one report.

It is striking that specialists in the industry understood the risks of climate change early enough to expand research efforts into the problem substantially in the 1970's, about the same time Exxon launched cutting - edge research on its own.

If a judge decides his case can be heard — a big if, considering that no lawsuit against big oil has made it to that stage — then Berman can call on Exxon, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron to make internal reports and research into climate change available.

The research presents a distinct echo of an investigation of Exxon's climate record published by InsideClimate News almost two years ago, and casts significant new light on the duration and depth of industry's climate research — and how electric companies that use fossil fuels responded to the emerging science from the 1960's onward.

When Mr. Schneiderman launched the investigation back in 2015, he argued that Exxon Mobil may have committed fraud by failing to broadly announce the results of research conducted by its own scientists on the contribution of fossil fuel combustion to climate change in the 1970s and 1980s.

Exxon's latest low - carbon investment arrives as the energy giant is facing growing scrutiny over its actions on climate change research

In 2007, Exxon pledged in its corporate responsibility report that it would no longer contribute «to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

In his remarks, Gore praised InsideClimate News and cited the L.A. Times and the Columbia School of Journalism for their investigative reporting that, after independent investigations, reached similar conclusions about Exxon's role in climate research and its attempts to undermine the consensus on climate science.

Schneiderman has demanded that Exxon turn over documents on climate science research and communications covering a span of almost four decades.

ICN's series on Exxon's early research into global warming showed that the company was at the forefront of climate change research as early as 1978, long before the general public was aware of the looming crisis.

Activist group CREDO and green energy company Clean Energy Choice are listed as sponsors on InsideClimate News» website, the media outlet responsible for spearheading investigations into Exxon over its climate research.

An 18 - page subpoena issued to the oil giant late Wednesday seeks documents from Exxon (NYSE: XOM) related to its research into the causes and effects of climate change, to the integration of climate change findings into business decisions, to communications with the board of directors and to marketing and advertising materials on climate change, the person said.

The document shows that Exxon contributed $ 55,000 to Soon in 2007 and 2008 for research on Arctic Climate Change and $ 76,100 between 2008 - 2010 for research on solar variability.

Yet after a decade of internal discussions and research on global warming, Exxon spent more than 20 years discrediting climate change science.

«Now it's come down to a few of these groups to be the good foot soldiers of the corporate community on climate change,» said Kert Davies, a research director for Greenpeace, which has tried to organize an international boycott of Exxon.

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's research laid the groundwork for a 1982 corporate primer on carbon dioxide and climate change prepared by its environmental affairs office.

Exxon spokesman Alan Jeffers said this week the company did not fund Soon last year and that it funds hundreds of organizations to do research on climate and the environment.

The deposition comes just one day before Trump is to be inaugurated as U.S. president — and a little more than a week after a Massachusetts judge ruled that Exxon must hand over more than 40 years of its internal research on climate change, denying the oil giant's request for a protective order that would have blocked Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's subpoenas.

Oreskes relied on a series of invalid research methods to determine Exxon used ads to cast doubt on climate change, Cleveland State University researcher Kimberly Neuendorf, who has 40 years» experience conducting content analysis, said in a March 1 report critiquing Supran's work.

In the past, I have received scientific research grants from Exxon - Mobil Foundation, Southern Company and the Charles G. Koch Foundation for my work on various topics, including scientific research on the Sun - climate connection.»

The documents reveal that beginning in 2008, Soon worked on a research project titled, «Understanding Solar Variability and Climate Change» to which Exxon contributed $ 76,000 annually to the project.