The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. January 13, 2023 Exxon Scientists Privately Predicted Global Heating with "Breathtaking" Accuracy in the 1970s --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new study in the journal Science confirms Exxon was fully aware of the link between fossil fuel emissions and global heating but spent decades refuting and obscuring the science in order to make maximum profits. The report finds that Exxon - as early as the 1970s - predicted with "breathtaking" accuracy the disastrous climate path that is now wreaking havoc around the globe. .