Appeasement in the Bizarre World of Climate, Politics, and Big Oil

Watts Up With That?

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball

I know a great deal about this bizarre world because I have incorrectly been accused of being in the pay of Big Oil. In the early days, I did try to get their money in order to show them why they could ignore the great deception of global warming. I wanted to show them how pseudoscience was being used by ideologists to push a political agenda.

The charge by environmentalists that Exxon knew about the CO2 and global warming issue is correct because I, among others, told them directly. The charge that they did nothing is incorrect. They chose to ignore scientific evidence and follow a policy of appeasement, apparently, in the naïve belief they could placate the ideologues and win a PR battle.Right now, I am enjoying watching them squirm and wriggle as they fight lawsuits from those they thought they appeased. They…

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