Thursday 5 April 2018

Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show

Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show

Internal company documents uncovered by a Dutch news organization show that the oil giant Shell had a deep understanding, dating at least to the 1980s, of the science and risks of global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions. They show that as the company pondered its responsibility to act, Shell's scientists urged it to heed the early warnings, even if, as they said, it might take until the 2000s for the mounting evidence to prove greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were causing unnatural climate change.

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