Previously, on Drill.

They did such a good job that the public is more skeptical of climate change now than

the oil companies are.

The world's largest oil companies are embroiled in multiple lawsuits across the country and

the globe at the moment.

While the technicalities of these suits differ, they're all mostly about the same thing.

These companies spent millions of dollars to manufacture doubt about climate change when

they knew the science was sound.

They knew it was sound because they funded a lot of it.

They used this science to guide business decisions for themselves, while paying PR agencies,

front groups, and scientists for hire to tell everyone else it was bunk.

ExxonMobile posted on their website read the documents and so we did.

And they claimed that anyone who'd read these documents would see that they exonerated

them.

But in fact, they didn't at all.

In fact, if anything, they painted a more distressing picture of how much Exxon knew about

this problem scientifically and yet how much confusion they sowed in public about it.

Mirafat, the climate modeling group was established and that the tanker project was funded.

Indicates that upper management felt this has a good idea and wanted to pursue it.

Funded it.

The issue was not where we're going to have a problem.

The issue was simply how soon and how fast and how bad this is going to be, not if.

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