Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown

Freshly Exhumed writes "In a speech Wednesday, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson acknowledged that burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet, but said society will be able to adapt. The risks of oil and gas drilling are well understood and can be mitigated, he said. And dependence on other nations for oil is not a concern as long as access to supply is certain, he said. Tillerson blamed a public that is "illiterate" in science and math, a "lazy" press, and advocacy groups that "manufacture fear" for energy misconceptions in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations."

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Re:Standard PR

[cpu6502]

I'll apologize after scientists explain the previous global warming events of 10,000 BC, 3000 BC, and 300-1300 A.D.

What good are models to predict the future, if they can't even predict the past? In fact they recently discovered their models were flat wrong about the shrinking Antarctic ice shelf: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/antarctic_ice_not_melting/ Damn these inconvenient truths. Yeah, yeah I know. Ignore these facts; cognitive dissonance; block them from your mind. LOL ;-)

Fundamental problem

[Livius]

Sadly, this was inevitable because the people trying to educate us about the reality of global climate change have a lunatic fringe which *does* overstate the situation, and that's as unhelpful and dishonest as the people pretending that there is no global climate change.