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Exxon's Scientists Predicted Warming for Decades While Exxon Executives Sowed Doubt

Predictions made by Exxon's own scientists beginning in the 1970s accurately tracked the actual progress of subsequent warming, and those scientists explicitly contradicted dismissals of anthropogenic climate change linked to fossil fuels. 

Spin Doctors Have Shaped the Environmental Debate for Decades

by Melissa Aronczyk

E. Bruce Harrison shifted American business's response to the environmental movement from a posture of denial and refusal to one of strategic compromise that elevated industry's scientists to an authoritative position which has kept a brake on green reforms and regulation.