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Exxon knew

Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago

Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions.

By Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer

 Exxon's Richard Werthamer (right) and Edward Garvey (left) are aboard the company's Esso Atlantic tanker working on a project to measure the carbon dioxide levels in the ocean and atmosphere. The project ran from 1979 to 1982. Credit: Courtesy of Richard Werthamer
Daniel Ellsberg speaking to reporters during a recess in his federal trial in Los Angeles in May 1973. Ellsberg was accused of illegally copying and distributing the Pentagon Papers relating to the Vietnam war. A judge dismissed the charges. Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.

How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time

By David Sassoon
People take part in a protest against ExxonMobil before the start of its trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress

Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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