Today we're going to continue with Part 2 of our series on what the oil companies really

knew about global warming in the 1970s and 1980s.

Did Exxon and the other fossil fuel producers know that they were causing global warming

and yet chose to ignore their own scientists and continued with business as usual.

Today we have the exciting and surprising conclusion.

That's coming up right now on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

What the oil companies really knew, Part 2.

Today we're going to continue with Part 2, the concluding half of our series on what the oil companies

knew about global warming as far back as the 1970s.

The popular narrative that you've heard is that they knew all about it, that their

scientists did all they could to warn them, but they still did nothing.

Devil May Care, let the chips fall where they may.

Last week we found that some of the earliest findings are not exactly the way they've

been reported.

And so today we're going to level up and look at the biggest story in all of this popular

reporting.

Exxon, from where the majority of the uncovered reports have come, the poster child

for ignoring science in the name of profits.

The characterization of their giant role in all of this is where we turn our skeptical

eye today.

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