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Columbia U and LA Times joint investigation looks at ‘How Big Oil Braced for Climate Change’

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· December 31, 2015
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How Big Oil Braced for Climate Change
It was two-pronged strategy: Publicly emphasize doubt about climate change science, while internally gird for rising sea levels and warming temperatures. As we told you in October, Exxon took that approach in the late 1980s. Records and interviews show the strategy was widespread within the oil industry during the 1990s and early 2000s. Read the latest in The Times’ and Columbia University’s joint investigation.

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