New York State's attorney general has subpoenaed company records about its research going back decades, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a Rolling Stone interview published Tuesday, said Exxon's actions would amount to «a betrayal» of humanity if it's found to have suppressed
knowledge about climate risks.
Not exact matches
«This study adds to a growing body of
knowledge about the increases in wildfire
risk and
climate change,» said Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
Expertise needed: (1) engineers with
knowledge about pipeline
risk and reliability, (2) scientists with
knowledge of
climate change that could be caused by tar sands development.»
It was
about the realities of
climate science and long - term
risk assessments and how they are a bad fit for the policy arena, no matter what your worldview or level of
knowledge.
His scholarship, research, and communication
about climate science and economics — especially the impact of government policies that needlessly raise energy costs, condemning the elderly and poor to pain and suffering and even
risks of death — have made valuable contributions to public
knowledge.
Newcombe is
about to launch his own carbon finance startup, but he warns that «betting on an individual company requires
knowledge of the regulatory
climate as well as its ability to manage that
risk, which is esoteric.»
In addition to concealing the known
risks, Exxon and Suncor... directed, participated in, and benefited from efforts to misleadingly cast doubt
about the causes and consequences of
climate change, including: (1) making affirmative and misleading statements suggesting that continued and unabated fossil fuel use was safe (in spite of internal
knowledge to the contrary); and (2) attacking
climate science and scientists that tried to report truthfully
about the dangers of
climate change.