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8/1/2016 More Exxon Documents Show How Much It Knew About Climate 35 Years Ago | InsideClimate News<br />

injoliet, Illinois, Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images<br />

BY JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR.<br />

In our series, "Exxon: The Road Not Taken,"<br />

InsideClimate News published several dozen<br />

documents that established the arc of Exxon's<br />

pioneering yet little-known climate research, which<br />

began 40 years ago.<br />

Our reporting team chose them from the thousands<br />

of mainly internal company documents that we<br />

reviewed in our 10-month investigation.<br />

In addition to the ones we have already published<br />

since September—which ExxonMobil has now<br />

downloaded from the ICN website and imported to<br />

its blog—there are more worth sharing.<br />

FOLLOW<br />

State AGs and<br />

Groups Defy Lamar<br />

Smith's Subpoena<br />

Over Exxon Climate<br />

Probes<br />

BY DAVID HASEMYER<br />

FACEBOOK.COM/INSIDECLIMATENEWS<br />

^ TWITTER.COM/INSIDECLIMATE<br />

Each illuminates a nuance of Exxon's early internal<br />

discussions about climate change, from interactions<br />

at the highest echelons to presentations for the<br />

rank-and-file. The documents reveal the contrast<br />

between Exxon's initial public statements about<br />

climate change and the company's later efforts to<br />

deny the link between fossil fuel use and higher<br />

global temperatures.<br />

SPECIES ON THE<br />

MOVE<br />

Monarch<br />

Butterfly<br />

A selection of previously unpublished memos and<br />

reports are included and explained here, as part of<br />

ICN's continuing exploration of Exxon's climate<br />

documents.<br />

Monarch butterflies can<br />

migrate 3,000 miles, but<br />

they can't escape climate<br />

change.<br />

Exxon Senior Vice President Weighs in on the<br />

'Greenhouse Program" (1980)<br />

This memo from June 9, 1980, indicates that carbon<br />

dioxide research was not a project that Exxon's board<br />

simply greenlighted. It was an issue so important that<br />

at least one senior vice president was paying close<br />

attention to the science, and he was interested and<br />

versed enough to argue its arcana.<br />

RELATED<br />

Exxon Made Deep<br />

Cuts in Climate<br />

Research Budget in<br />

the 1980s<br />

BY JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR.<br />

App. 582<br />

https://insideclimatenews.Qrg/news/01122015/documents-exxons-early-co2-position-senior-executives-engage-and-warming-forecast 2/9

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