Exxon 1977 management briefing vs 1997 advertorial
Mobil Corporation — advertorial sponsored essay, The New York Times Op-Ed Page Advertorial
“Reset the climate clock... The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could plunge economies into turmoil. Let's not rush to judgment before facts are in.”
James F. Black — Senior Scientific Advisor, Exxon Research & Engineering, Exxon Management Committee Briefing, Exxon Headquarters, NYC
“There is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels... mankind has a time window of 5 to 10 years before the need for hard decisions.”
The Split:Twenty years before Mobil bought full-page New York Times ads demanding we 'reset the climate clock' because the science was supposedly 'too uncertain', its senior scientist had already briefed the board that scientific agreement was clear and fossil fuels were the primary cause.
When an energy firm pleads for 'more time to study the science' in an advertorial, check if their scientists concluded the study two decades earlier.