Why focus on Exxon Mobil?
I had actually had my eye on Exxon going back to the Valdez oil spill. It turns out they have been a major force in getting the Bush administration to throw their weight behind Rajendra K. Pachauri as chair of IPCC (because they didn’t like what current chair Robert Watson was saying). It made me realize the power ExxonMobil has. Pachauri surprised ExxonMobil and the administration in supporting the report of the IPCC, saying that this is a very serious problem, the same thing Watson had been saying. That was a story that got very little attention, and was the first story that came to mind when I began talking to Peter Vandermark, who is the executive producer. In a nutshell, what else has ExxonMobil been up to? They’ve confused the public for years, when there’s been a definite urgency to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels, by funding foundations out of which the skeptics come. They have a huge influence over the Bush administration and governments around the
