Exxon CEO accused of lying about climate science to congressional panel

[turbinetree]

Source: The Guardian

The chief executive of ExxonMobil, Darren Woods, was accused of lying to Congress on Thursday after he denied that the company covered up its own research about oil’s contribution to the climate crisis.

For the first time, Woods and the heads of three other major petroleum companies were questioned under oath at a congressional hearing into the industry’s long campaign to discredit and deny the evidence that burning fossil fuels drove global heating. When pressed to make specific pledges or to stop lobbying against climate initiatives, all four executives declined.

The chair of the House oversight committee, Representative Carolyn Maloney, pressed Woods about statements by his predecessor, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond, who in the 1990s said the scientific evidence for climate change was “inconclusive” and that “the case for global warming is far from air tight”. In 2002, Exxon ran advertisements in the New York Times calling climate science “unsettled”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/28/exxon-ceo-accused-lying-climate-science-congressional-panel

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I guess Woods and the other boy's haven't been living on this planet....

[sakabatou]

1. They've known about climate change since the 80s, at the very least, if not earlier.

[rickyhall]

3. Oh, come, since the 60s. We talked about it my high school chemistry class in the early 70s.

The hippies talked about it 50 years ago.

[Champp]

2. I'll bet all my Halloween candy this Woods wanker is Republican

another lying republican - grifting off the USA and the world, sending the climate into the freaking Danger Zone so the rich can get richer. Republican-think is super sick.

[marie999]

4. I don't think you will find too many CEOs that aren't Republican.

[Champp]

5. Republican individual & collective degeneracy, ethical and moral, is stunning

How can they look themselves in the mirror.

[marie999]

6. That's the problem, they don't have a problem looking at themselves in a mirror.

[GB_RN]

10. That's Because...

They can't see their reflections! Vampires don't have reflections in a mirror.

[czarjak]

7. Iceberg Tip?

[orleans]

8. consequences for lying to congress? nt

[tiptonic]

9. Real men

Real men (with tiny man parts) drill for oil. So I have been told.

[JudyM]

11. In the part of the hearing I saw, they also refused to show any remorse or sense of responsibility

Burn em down. They should be shouldering a large part of the responsibility for mitigating the grave damage their decades of false assertions caused.