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Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014) [1]

This paper assesses whether ExxonMobil Corporation has in the past misled the general public about climate change. We present an empirical document-by-document textual content analysis and comparison of 187 climate change communications from ExxonMobil, including peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications, internal company documents, and paid, editorial-style advertisements ('advertorials') in The New York Times. We examine whether these communications sent consistent messages about the state of climate science and its implications—specifically, we compare their positions on climate change as real, human-caused, serious, and solvable.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
23/08/2017
Geoffrey Supran [3], Naomi Oreskes [4]
Environmental Research Letters [5]
12
8
1-19
Tags:
Energy [6], Industry [7], United States Of America (US) [8], Multinational Corporations (MNCs) [9], Climate Change [10], Fossil Fuels [11], Climate Science [12]
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[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f
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