BUT THE ‘INTERNAL DOCUMENTS’ ARE A 2014 EMAIL BY A RETIRED EXXON EMPLOYEE REFLECTING ON PAST DISCUSSIONS OF THE IDEA
People in an office environment often engage in email discussions about political ideas, facebook postings, upcoming concerts, and restaurants. Now a powerful pro-government climate hysteria organization called the “Union of Concerned Scientists” is pointing to a 2014 email chain involving various “liberal” (in the government-trusting sense) college professors as the “smoking gun” that proves ExxonMobil’s knowing deception regarding manmade global warming.
In the email chain, the professors chime in with typical grievances regarding such things as the Supreme Court’s 2010 CITIZENS UNITED V. F.E.C. decision, and the profit motive of U.S. corporations. One professor attached an email by a long-former Exxon and Mobil employee named Lenny Bernstein as evidence that those corporations “knew” that carbon dioxide caused global warming during the 1980s.
Hardly shocking or startling, Bernstein’s discussion claimed that “Exxon first got interested in climate change in 1981” as it sought to develop certain natural-gas reserves in Indonesia. “In the 1980s,” writes Bernstein, “Exxon needed to understand the potential for concerns about climate change to lead to regulation that would affect [the Indonesia] and other potential projects.”
“Whatever their public stance, internally they [Exxon execs] make very careful assessments of the potential for regulation, including the scientific basis for those regulations. Exxon NEVER denied the potential for humans to impact the climate system. It did question – legitimately, in my opinion – the validity of some of the science.”
There you have it. This bit of hearsay by a former Exxon employee–who later went on to be a contributor to IPCC documents–is the “smoking gun” in the Union of Concerned Scientists’ “report.” Read the Union’s claims here (with links to the “report”).
And by the way, even the retired Exxon-Mobil employee admits in his email that the science behind the government’s CO2-driven-climate-change theory is riddled with flaws.
