Exxon Mobil Warming Up To Global Climate Issue

When it comes to the issue of climate change, Exxon Mobil says it has been misunderstood.

“Many people want to stick us in a bucket that says we want to deny this,” said the company’s vice president for public affairs, Kenneth P. Cohen, during a conference call this week. “That is flat wrong.”


Cohen said that the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, long the leading corporate symbol of skepticism about global warming, has never denied the existence of climate change. He added that “the global ecosystem is showing signs of warming, particularly in polar areas” and “the appropriate debate isn’t on whether the climate is changing but rather should be on what we should be doing about it.”

The modest statement, coupled with the disclosure last year that the company is no longer funding a Washington think tank critical of climate change actions, is reshaping the oil giant’s role in congressional efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions.

Washington Post