Even earlier ...

The Shell logo is pictured at a gas station in London on February 2, 2023. 

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Exxon knew about climate change in the 70's. Seems Shell knew about GW even earlier but hey, it's all about the money, right?

However, as Follow the Money detailed, the newly unveiled records show that "Shell already began collecting knowledge about climate change in the 1960s. The company not only kept well abreast of climate science, but also funded research. As a result, Shell already knew in the 1970s that burning fossil fuels could lead to alarming climate change."

Faced with a global oil crisis, rather than using its climate information to publicly sound the alarm and shift to cleaner practices, the company "focused instead on a nonsustainable profit model," launching Shell Coal International in 1974.

Lest we forget ...

View of ExxonMobil storage tanks of the petrochemical industry in the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

AP Photo/Peter Dejong

In “Assessing ExxonMobil’s Global Warming Projections,” researchers from Harvard and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research show for the first time the accuracy of previously unreported forecasts created by company scientists from 1977 through 2003. The Harvard team discovered that Exxon researchers created a series of remarkably reliable models and analyses projecting global warming from carbon dioxide emissions over the coming decades. Specifically, Exxon projected that fossil fuel emissions would lead to 0.20 degrees Celsius of global warming per decade, with a margin of error of 0.04 degrees — a trend that has been proven largely accurate.

Blowback, AKA the law of unforeseen consequences, rule.

A large plume of smoke rises from BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in 2010. The explosion killed 11 people and is being pointed to by some legal experts who argue that oil companies should be prosecuted for climate-related homicide. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

A hellscape awaits ...