UN leader attacks fossil fuel companies in Davos for sowing doubt on climate change

, which showed that Exxon's own climate research accurately predicted the pace and severity of global warming.

Despite that information, the study found, the company chose to publicly cast doubt on climate science findings, including UN-sponsored research, for decades."The science has been clear for decades. I’m not talking only about UN scientists, I’m talking even about fossil fuel scientists," Guterres said.

“We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking our planet. And just like the tobacco industry, they rode roughshod over their own science."Guterres' speech comes at a fraught time of simmering conflicts and a deadly pandemic. Powerful divides are getting harder to bridge, Guterres warned, and tackling climate change is caught up in this maelstrom.Guterres implored political and business leaders to speed the transition away from fossil fuels and reject plans to expand fossil fuel production.

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As Davos kicks off, Oxfam calls for tax on food companies to reduce inequalityFood companies making big profits as inflation has surged should face windfall taxes to help cut global inequality, anti-poverty group Oxfam said, as the World Economic Forum's annual meeting gets underway. This is economic illiteracy. Producer price inflation is actually up more than consumer price inflation Correction:Inflation as a word andThe real happening:Extortion should be inserted in its place!When will actual names and numbers of food corporations eventually being hit with windfall profits taxes be released if ever?A good way to put money back in tithe Treasury right,?
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