Why Big Oil faces court cases that echo the litigation against Big Tobacco in the ’90s | CBC News
Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers, based in Amsterdam and working for De Correspondent and The Guardian, uncovered documents produced by Shell in the 1980s.
He published a confidential Shell report from 1988 called “The Greenhouse Effect” that contains a dire warning: “By the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilize the situation.”