Exxon Mobil has no more doubts on warming

Big Oil behemoth Exxon Mobil Corp. has dropped any pretense of questioning whether global warming is real. Now the company is seeking to position itself as an active player in efforts to lower greenhouse gases.

“The appropriate debate isn’t on whether climate is changing, but rather should be on what we should be doing about it,” Kenneth Cohen, Exxon’s vice president of public affairs, told reporters on a conference call Thursday.


The call came less than a week after an international panel of hundreds of scientists said new research showed global warming was “unequivocal” and that human activity was primarily responsible for the most significant factor in temperature change