For decades ExxonMobil publicly cast doubt on climate science. Internal documents and an independent peer-reviewed analysis later showed the company's own scientists had accurately projected human-caused warming as early as the 1970s, while its public communications cast that same science as uncertain.
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#12023-01-13 00:00:00+008,413 days laterprimary evidence
Exxon's internal scientific projections from 1977 to 2003 are shown in Science to have been highly accurate predictions of warming — contradicting decades of public-facing doubt.
#22022-05-24 00:00:00+008,179 days laterprimary evidence
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court allows the state's consumer-protection lawsuit against ExxonMobil for misleading the public about climate to proceed.
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