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As you were writing this post, did you have a source for this, or was this hearsay? Not asking you to look for a source now, just curious about the quality of i
by eternauta3k 4y ago
As you were writing this post, did you have a source for this, or was this hearsay? Not asking you to look for a source now, just curious about the quality of information in HN.
- LQDH 4y agoI don't know about BP, but this internal memo from 1988 is what people are referring to when they say shell knew about climate change in the 80s: https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/Shell_Climate_1988.pdf https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/Shell_Climate_1988.pdf
- afry1 4y agoSource here: https://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/ https://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/ The investigative research that brought this up was a big development in proving that they knew on an institutional level that the science was real.
- hristov 4y agohttps://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/ https://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/
- replyOnce 4y agoThere is this article from ArsTechnica talking about a lawsuit from the city of New York against chevron which describes the issue described by the OP https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/judge-dismisses-new-york-city-climate-lawsuit-against-oil-companies/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/judge-dismisses-... The direct quote from the complaint (found here on page 5: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/show_temp.pl-15.pdf https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/show_...) would be: Meanwhile, beginning in the mid-1980s, Exxon and other major oil and gas companies, including Mobil and Shell, took actions to protect their own business assets from the impacts of climate change, including raising the decks of offshore platforms, protecting pipelines from coastal erosion, and designing helipads, pipelines, and roads in the warming Arctic)