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8/1/2016 Exxon Sowed Doubt about Climate Science for Decades by Stressing Uncertainty | InsideClimate News<br />

"It is highly unlikely," he said, "that the temperature<br />

in the middle of the next century will be significantly<br />

affected whether policies are enacted now or 20<br />

years from now."<br />

The Doubt Industry<br />

Exxon and its allies had been working hard to<br />

spread this dilatory message.<br />

First, they set up the Global Climate Coalition (GCC),<br />

a lobbying partnership of leading oil and automobile<br />

companies dedicated to defeating controls on<br />

carbon pollution.<br />

"As major corporations with a high level of internal<br />

scientific and technical expertise, they were aware of<br />

and in a position to understand the available<br />

scientific data," recounts an essay on corporate<br />

responsibility for climate change published last<br />

month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic<br />

Change.<br />

"From 1989 to 2002, the GCC led an aggressive<br />

lobbying and advertising campaign aimed at<br />

achieving these goals by sowing doubt about the<br />

integrity of the IPCC and the scientific evidence that<br />

heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels<br />

drive global warming," says the article, by Harvard<br />

climate science historian Naomi Oreskes and two coauthors.<br />

App. 568<br />

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22102015/Exxon-Sowed-Doubt-about-Climate-Science-for-Decades-by-Stressing-Uncertamty 13/19

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