MOBIL OIL--they calculated sea level rise into their new facilities, while denying it

[kpete]

A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York Times and Washington Post.

“Let’s face it: The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could plunge economies into turmoil,” the ad said. “Scientists cannot predict with certainty if temperatures will increase, by how much and where changes will occur.”

One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea levels.

“An estimated rise in water level, due to global warming, of 0.5 meters may be assumed” for the 25-year life of the Sable gas field project, Mobil engineers wrote in their design specifications. The project, owned jointly by Mobil, Shell and Imperial Oil (a Canadian subsidiary of Exxon), went online in 1999; it is expected to close in 2017.


http://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/

[paleotn]

1. They're dishonest, yes....

But not stupid.

[airplaneman]

2. Can we sue them? n/t.

[laundry_queen]

3. Of course they did.

Just like how they are scrambling to diversify into alternative energy. Typical.

[countryjake]

4. K&R!

[Hekate]

5. KnR