We’re going to keep the modelling team together. We can no longer afford this level of research. Not so that we could deny the problem.ġ982. I was convinced Exxon was doing this research to get a place at the table to be part of the solution. If we didn’t reduce fossil fuels in a significant fashion, we were going to be facing significant climate change in the future.Įxxon knew. There were uncertainties, but the uncertainties were when, how fast? Form a responsible team that can carry bad news, if any, to the corporation. Rationale for Exxon Involvement: Develop expertise to assess how greenhouse gas effects business. Programme goal: Use Exxon expertise and facilities to help determine the likelihood of a global greenhouse gas effect. Presented by myself, Edward A Garvey, Henry Shaw, Wallace S.Brocker, Tara Takahashi Proposed Exxon research programme to help assess the greenhouse effect. They weren’t going to make any money out of it.įor somebody 22 or 23, I was really happy there. So they wanted to move into other fields related to energy. The oil companies were doing really well in the seventies. Salary $18 600 which in those days was a lot of money for somebody fresh out of school. When they offered me a position in their research department, to me it was a really good fit. No executives from ExxonMobil or leading industry groups agreed to be interviewed.Įd Garvey. This film is based on a year of investigative research, over 100 interviews and thousands of newly discovered documents. This campaign of denial brought thirty-odd years’ of profit at the expense of the planet. They realised it was going to be an existential threat to their business, but they made a deeply unethical decision. This is the story of how big oil went on to fool the world. More than 40 years ago, oil industry scientists warned that burning fossil fuels would cause climate change. What do you do when you learn that the product you make threatens the entire planet? For more than 150 years, oil and gas has played a critical role in our society. As the world’s leading climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issue new warnings about climate change and the soaring cost of fuel highlights the world’s ongoing dependence on fossil fuels, this series details exactly how we got her Drawing on thousands of newly discovered documents, the film goes on to chart in revelatory and forensic detail how the oil industry went on to mount a campaign to sow doubt about the science of climate change, the consequences of which we are living through today.Ģ022 is set to be a year of unprecedented climate chaos across the planet. Scientists who worked for the biggest oil company in the world, Exxon, reveal the warnings they sounded in the 1970s and early 1980s about how fossil fuels would cause climate change – with potentially catastrophic effects. The story of what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change more than four decades ago. A dead planet will result in dead people, and a people and/or its leaders who are psychologically and/or ethically desensitised to the consequences of this Terran violence have no chance of long-term survival.’ ‘As we inflict violence on the planet to the point of mortality, we inflict violence on ourselves, to the point of our mortality. ‘We must not only go to zero emissions, we must actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere’ (italics around text are Peter Wadhams (2016) A Farewell to Ice).
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