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Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)

Environmental Research Letters article of 2017 by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes comparing 187 ExxonMobil documents.

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The debate

What it found

Given this discrepancy, we conclude that ExxonMobil misled the public.1

Who disputes it

ExxonMobil 23 Aug 2017
Now the company, a major oil producer in Alaska, is accusing Oreskes and Supran of misleading the public with an "inaccurate and preposterous" report.2
As reported by the Alaska Dispatch News from the company's response of 23 August 2017.

Each side is quoted in its own words. Whether a finding holds is not decided here.

Connections 3

ExxonMobil 23 Aug 2017 According to ExxonMobil Scholarship & press 2
As reported by the Alaska Dispatch News from the company's response of 23 August 2017.

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Proof 2 sources

Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014), Environmental Research Letters 12, 084019, Supran and Oreskes, Environmental Research Letters (IOP Publishing), 23 Aug 2017. Scholarship & press
Given this discrepancy, we conclude that ExxonMobil misled the public.
ExxonMobil fights back after study accuses it of misleading public on climate change, Alaska Dispatch News (Anchorage Daily News), 25 Aug 2017. Scholarship & press
Now the company, a major oil producer in Alaska, is accusing Oreskes and Supran of misleading the public with an "inaccurate and preposterous" report.
The company on Wednesday blasted the report's authors as "activists" who have "acknowledged a goal of extracting money from our shareholders and attacking the company's reputation."

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