If you're the world's largest oil company, it probably makes more sense to tell the public that you don't believe in global warming than to say that you intend to obstruct preventative measures in order to protect your profits, even if means destroying the planet. So, when the NYT tells readers that Exxon Mobil "had long been skeptical of global warming," how does it know that this is true?
--Dean Baker
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