"Not surprisingly, by the late 1970s and early 1980s, ExxonMobil scientists understood quite well the mechanisms of climate change and its broad implications for the oil business."

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“Science treads in the same footsteps of our ancestors, answering to our longing to understand where we fit in as we look up to the sky.”

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