ExxonMobil tried to censor climate scientists to Congress during Bush era

Source: The Guardian

ExxonMobil tried to censor climate scientists to Congress during Bush era

Exclusive: 2001 intervention adds to evidence that oil company was aware
of the science and its implications for government policy and the energy
industry

Suzanne Goldenberg
Wednesday 25 May 2016 11.00 BST

ExxonMobil moved to squash a well-established congressional lecture series on climate science just nine days after the presidential inauguration of George W Bush, a former oil executive, the Guardian has learned.

Exxon’s intervention on the briefings, revealed here for the first time, adds to evidence the oil company was acutely aware of the state of climate science and its implications for government policy and the energy industry – despite Exxon’s public protestations for decades about the uncertainties of global warming science.

Indeed, the company moved swiftly during the earliest days of the Bush administration to block public debate on global warming and delay domestic and international regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to former officials of the US Global Change Research Program, or USGCRP.

The Bush White House is now notorious for censoring climate scientists and blocking international action on climate change by pulling the US out of the Kyoto agreement.

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