Fossil fuel industry knew about climate change for decades but mislead the public for profit

The fossil fuel industry has known about the reality of human-caused climate change for decades. For a very long time before climate change became part of the global discourse.
But it deliberately funded and orchestrated denial and disinformation campaigns against climate action. So that business continued as usual and bottom lines were protected.
A new report by researchers from Harvard, George Mason and Bristol universities has alleged this.
The report is called America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change.
An internal memo of Exxon Mobil Corp in 1977, among others, forecast:
I. CO2 RELEASE MOST LIKELY SOURCE OF INADVERTENT CLIMATE MODIFICATION.
II. PREVAILING OPINION ATTRIBUTES CO2 INCREASE TO FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION.
III. DOUBLING CO2 COULD INCREASE AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE 1°C TO 3°C BY 2050 A.D. (10°C PREDICTED AT POLES).

These are consistent with modern climate research. As climate change consensus became robust, the industry attacked the consensus and exaggerated uncertainties, which:
I. Reduced public understanding of climate change
II. Lowered support for climate action
III. Stopped accurate information on the subject
IV. Polarised the public along political lines
V. Led to a lack of public dialogue and private conversation
Scientific evidence was challenged by tactics including cherry-picking, fake experts, and conspiracy theories. The fossil fuel industry’s denial-and-delay tactics come straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook says the report

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