In court, Big Oil rejected climate denial | Dana Nuccitelli
by Dana Nuccitelli from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JXTE)
If even oil companies accept human-caused global warming, why doesn't everybody?
In a California court case this week, Judge William Alsup asked the two sides to provide him a climate science tutorial.
The plaintiffs are the coastal cities of San Francisco and Oakland. They're suing five major oil companies (Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips and BP) to pay for the cities' costs to cope with the sea level rise caused by global warming. Chevron's lawyer presented the science for the defense, and most notably, began by explicitly accepting the expert consensus on human-caused global warming, saying:
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