The U.S. president might doubt the reality of human-driven climate change, but you know who doesn’t? Major oil companies. In fact, they’ve known the reality of the problem for decades.
Take Royal Dutch Shell, for instance.
In 1991, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant produced a film, called “Climate of Concern,” that warns of potentially catastrophic risks from burning the very oil and gas that companies like Shell produce.
Its narrator speaks of a “new sense of urgency” driven by the “realization that our energy-consuming way of life may be causing climatic changes, with adverse consequences for us all” — like famine, flooding, waves of climate refugees and extreme weather. Read more…
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Originally syndicated from In an ironic twist, a 1991 Shell ad contains a warning about climate change
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