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Corporate climate scientists: advocates for science or protectors of status quo?

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imageExxon's about-face on climate science exposes the critical role of internal corporate scientists.jeepersmedia/flickr, CC BY-SA

Exxon is well-known as a key architect of the fossil fuel industry’s campaign against the regulation of greenhouse gases, an effort that took off in 1989 with the founding of the Global Climate Coalition.

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