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8/1/2016 More Exxon Documents Show How Much It Knew About Climate 35 Years Ago | InsideClimate News
climate change than during the time of Shaw's
memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive
Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit:
"Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as
to whether human activities are having a significant
effect on the global climate."
At Exxon's annual meeting in 2015, chairman Rex
Tillerson said it would be best to wait for more solid
science before acting on climate change. "What if
[after] everything we do, it turns out our models are
lousy, and we don't get the effects we predict?"
A Presentation on 'CO2 Greenhouse and Climate
Issues' (1984)
Exxon began incorporating CO2 estimates into its
corporate planning as early as 1981, this March 28,
1984 presentation shows. The company
acknowledged the link between fossil fuel use and
climate change throughout most of the 1980s.
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In 1984, Shaw no longer ran Exxon's CO2 research.
He had been moved from that post a few years
earlier as the company shifted its focus from the
expensive empirical research on the tanker to
cheaper, yet still highly significant, climate modeling.
By the mid-1980s, Shaw worked on keeping track of
emerging independent climate research and
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