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8/1/2016
Exxon Believed Deep Dive Into Climate Research Would Protect Its Business | InsideClimate News
Researchers conducted Exxon's first climate-related project aboard
the Esso Atlantic tanker, pictured here, between 1979 and 1982.
1970s, interviews with
former company
employees, and other
In 1981,12-year-old Laura Shaw won her seventhgrade
science fair at the Solomon Schechter Day
School in Cranford, N.J. with a project on the
greenhouse effect.
For her experiment, Laura used two souvenir
miniatures of the Washington Monument, each with
a thermometer attached to one side. She placed
them in glass bowls and covered one with plastic
wrap - her model of how a blanket of carbon
dioxide traps the reflected heat of the sun and
warms the Earth. When she turned a lamp on them,
the thermometer in the plastic-covered bowl
showed a higher temperature than the one in the
uncovered bowl.
If Laura and her two younger siblings were
unusually well-versed in the emerging science of the
greenhouse effect, as global warming was known, it
was because their father, Henry Shaw, had been
busily tracking it for Exxon Corporation.
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.
Find the entire project
here.
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Henry Shaw, a former Exxon scientist, and his son David Shaw.
(Credit: Family of Henry Shaw)
"I knew what the greenhouse effect was before I
knew what an actual greenhouse was," David Shaw,
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