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Exxon Mobil contributed quietly to climate science and loudly to raising doubts about it.

— Naomi Oreskes

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Exxon chose the path of disinformation, denial and delay.

Available documents show a discrepancy between what ExxonMobil's scientists and executives discussed about climate change privately and in academic circles and what it presented to the general public.

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