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Exxon : the road not taken / by Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song.
Van Pelt Library QC981.8.C5 E99 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banerjee, Neela, author.
- Cushman, John H., Jr., author.
- Hasemyer, David, author.
- Song, Lisa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exxon Mobil Corporation.
- Climatic changes--Research--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Economic aspects--Research.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Science and industry--United States.
- Science and industry.
- Energy industries.
- Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
- Research.
- Climatic changes--Research.
- History.
- United States.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Public relations.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Energy industries--Public relations.
- Physical Description:
- 82 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York?] : InsideClimate News, [2015]
- Summary:
- Relying on primary sources dating back to the 1970s, describes how Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research and then, without revealing what it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate-change denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own research had confirmed--Adapted from publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Exxon's own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago
- Exxon believed deep dive into climate research would protect its business
- Exxon confirmed global warming consensus in 1982 with in-house climate models
- Exxon's business ambition collided with climate change under a distant sea
- Highlighting the allure of synfuels, Exxon played down the climate risks
- Exxon sowed doubt about climate science for decades by stressing uncertainty
- Exxon made deep cuts in climate research budget in the 1980s
- More Exxon documents show how much it knew about climate 35 years ago
- Exxon's oil industry peers knew about climate dangers in the 1970s, too
- Appendix I. List of documents [available for download]
- Appendix II. Characters [Exxon executives and others]
- Appendix III. Related stories
- Appendix IV. Frontline videos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781518718670
- 1518718671
- OCLC:
- 946895600
- Online:
- http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken
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