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Article

1 Jan 2007

Author:
Union of Concerned Scientists [USA]

[PDF] Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science

In an effort to deceive the public about the reality of global warming, ExxonMobil has underwritten the most sophisticated and most successful disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry misled the public about the scientific evidence linking smoking to lung cancer and heart disease... In response to both the strength of the scientific evidence on global warming and the governmental action pledged to address it, [after 1997] leading oil companies such as British Petroleum [BP], Shell, and Texaco [now part of Chevron] changed their stance on climate science and abandon the Global Climate Coalition [which had lobbied against the Kyoto Protocol].