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8/1/2016 Exxon Made Deep Cuts in Climate Research Budget in the 1980s | InsideCiimate News<br />

the first time of the risks of climate change, and<br />

launched internal research programs unparalleled<br />

among its oil industry peers.<br />

ICN provided an Exxon spokesman copies of the<br />

documents being published today and requested<br />

any additional information about climate research<br />

spending during the 1980s, the period closely<br />

examined in ICN's series, "Exxon: The Road Not<br />

Taken." The spokesman, Alanjeffers, declined to<br />

provide any additional budget numbers.<br />

rx— Exxon Sowed Doubt<br />

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by Stressing<br />

Uncertainty<br />

by david hasemyer and<br />

john h. cushman jr.<br />

How Exxon<br />

Overstates the<br />

Uncertainty in<br />

Climate Science<br />

by john h. cushman jr.<br />

One of the documents, a June 18,1982 memo to<br />

Harold Weinberg, a top research official, informed<br />

him that the year's budget for research into the<br />

looming C02 problem was to be cut from $900,000<br />

to $385,000 immediately, and to just $150,000 the<br />

following year, an 83 percent cut.<br />

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"We feel this rate of expenditure should be<br />

sufficient to fulfill the Corporation's needs in the<br />

C02 greenhouse field," said the memo, written by<br />

A.M. Natkin, environmental affairs coordinator in<br />

the corporate science and technology department.<br />

"These funds are intended to <strong>support</strong> a resident<br />

source of scientific expertise on all phases and<br />

aspects of the C02 Greenhouse effect," he wrote. "It<br />

is important for the corporation to stay abreast of<br />

developments in order to assess the impact of new<br />

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25112015/exxon-deep-cuts-climate-change-research-budget-1980s-global-warming<br />

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