Exxon Shell Covers Up Climate Change

An internal Exxon report from the 1980s, which discussed the reality of climate change was leaked out to the public via the Guardian. In 2017, a Dutch news organization released a similar report from Shell. The stories generally summarized in Outrage Social Media posts is this, Exxon Shell slash whoever knew about climate change for decades and hid their research. But today I'm going to tell everybody the story of how this sorry state of affairs came to be. It actually starts further back in 1959 when physicist Edward Teller warned the oil and gas industry about global warming at an energy symposium.