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Oil Giants Deny Spreading Disinformation On Climate Change
- By The Financial District
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min read
Top executives of ExxonMobil and other oil giants denied spreading disinformation about climate change as they sparred Thursday (Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, in Manila) with congressional Democrats over allegations that the industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming, Matthew Daly reported for the Associated Press (AP).
Photo Insert: A very slick strategy is allegedly being employed by big oil.
Testifying at a landmark House hearing, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods said the company “has long acknowledged the reality and risks of climate change, and it has devoted significant resources to addressing those risks.″
The oil giant’s public statements on climate “are and have always been truthful, fact-based ... and consistent” with mainstream climate science, Woods said.
Democrats immediately challenged the statements by Woods and other oil executives, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the contribution of fossil fuels to global warming. “They are obviously lying like the tobacco executives were,″ said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee.
She was referring to a 1994 hearing with tobacco executives who famously testified that they didn’t believe nicotine was addictive.
The reference was one of several to the tobacco hearing as Democrats sought to pin down oil executives on whether they believe in climate change and that burning fossil fuels such as oil contributes to global warming.
Maloney and other Democrats have focused particular ire on Exxon, after a senior lobbyist for the company was caught in a secret video bragging that Exxon had fought climate science through “shadow groups” and had targeted influential senators in an effort to weaken Biden’s climate agenda, including a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a sweeping climate and social policy bill currently moving through Congress.
