Executives at ExxonMobil continued in recent years to raise doubts internally about the dangers of climate change and the need to cut back on oil and gas use, even though the company had previously conceded publicly that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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Previously unreported documents published on the front page of The Wall Street Journal Thursday show that ExxonMobil continued to work behind closed doors to cast doubt on climate science, even after the company publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel-driven greenhouse gas emissions and climate change in 2006.The documents—which detail email exchanges between executives, board meeting conversations, and other company proceedings—revea…

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The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that as recently as 2016, Exxon executives were privately pushing back on the idea that humans need to cut their use of oil and gas to limit global warming.(Image credit: Brian Harkin/Getty Images)

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Exxon minimized climate change internally after conceding that fossil fuels cause it

Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately after 2006.

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“Exxon Mobil issued its first public statement that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change in 2006, following years of denial,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Yet behind closed doors, Exxon took a very different tack: Its executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might hurt its oil-and-gas business, according to internal Exxon documents revie…

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Executives privately sought to downplay link between fossil fuels and climate change despite public pronouncements, WSJ reportsExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents revealed by the Wall Street Journal.The new revelations are based on previously unreported docu…

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