A paper from 1992 shows the oil company anticipating how the melting of Arctic ice sheets could impact its bottom line.

“Do you believe that statement’s misleading?” “All the clauses in there are patently false. And I told them so.” So reads an exchange from the deposition of Joseph Weissman, an ExxonMobil scientist with the company’s former algae biofuels program. The “patently false” statement in question was a corporate press release claiming algae biofuel was a viable solution to climate change that…

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