Exxon Scientists Knew About Global Warming for Decades While Company Denied It

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'They knew all of that. They’ve known it for decades.'

, a team of international researchers has found that scientists employed by multinational oil and gas company Exxon were strikingly accurate in their predictions of global warming — for almost half a century.

The company's scientists were eerily accurate in their projections made between 1977 and 2003 of how burning fossil fuels would end up causing global temperatures to rise.notes, some of their projects turned out to be even more accurate than other independent and government models.

 

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