Letter: Climate change denial driven by corporations

Two recent reports about climate change turn our debate upside down.

(1) China’s autocratic government’s policy is to eliminate all fossil fuels. This year, they installed more solar panels and wind turbines than all other nations combined. So far, they reduced fossil fuel consumption by 20 percent. Soon, China won’t be a customer of our fossil fuels.

(2) Exxon/Mobil publicly apologizes for their history of energy production. In the 1960s and 1970s, their company scientists demonstrated that climate change is caused by fossil fuels. Their scientists urged managers to rescue the company by diversifying, “get in on the ground floor” of renewable energy technologies.

The problem is the 115-year history of cooperation among the fossil fuel companies from Rockefeller’s monopoly. Those other corporations purchased the propaganda expertise from the tobacco advertising agency’s successful cancer-denying program. So Exxon joined them.

Today, Exxon/Mobil openly regrets this decision. Maybe it’s too late for them to profit from renewable research. They admit that 100 percent of all environmental scientists recognize climate change is worsening, and caused by fossil fuels. Exxon confessed that all climate change denial originates in an advertising agency.

Kennewick

This story was originally published November 10, 2015 at 4:52 PM with the headline "Letter: Climate change denial driven by corporations."