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was to ensure a majority of people recognized that ‘significant uncertainties
exist in climate science, prompting them to raise questions with Congress and
others responsible for influencing US progress on climate change.»242
5.107. API decided that “ Victory Will Be Achieved ,” when among
other things, “[ajverage citizens ‘understand’ uncertainties in climate
science,’ and these uncertainties become part of the ‘conventional
wisdom ’ and supporters of the Kyoto Protocol are viewed as “ out of touch
with reality.» 243 This reliance on scientific uncertainty, as a weapon to
combat meaningful climate action, continued to build among fossil fuel
companies as international efforts ramped up to mitigate climate change.
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5.108.During this period, the following respondent Carbon Majors
were API members directly, or through their predecessors, subsidiaries or
affiliates: British Petroleum, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, ExxonMobil, Husky
Energy, Marathon Oil, Murphy Oil, Shell Oil, Suncor, and Total.244
5.109.Exxon funded the activities outlined in the Roadmap Memo to
continuously manufacture and peddle doubt about climate science and action.
For example, between 2000 and 2004, Exxon donated $110,000 to
organizations tied with Steve Milloy, a member of Global Climate Science
Team, and a known tobacco advocate , 245 Previously, Milloy led an
organization called the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition that “had
been covertly created by the tobacco company, Philip Morris, in 1993 to
manufacture uncertainty about the health hazards posed by secondhand
smoke.” 246 In an article about the links between climate denial and Big
Tobacco, U.S. Representative Henry Waxman pointed out that “not only are
we seeing the same tactics the tobacco industry used, we’re seeing some of
the same groups.» 247
Id .
Emphasis supplied; See: Walker, J. ( 1998 , April 3 ), Draft Global Climate Science Communications
Plan, [E-mail to Global Climate Science Team, attaching the Draft Global Science Communications Plan],
available at
https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/fiIes/documents/Global%20Climate%20Science%20Communica
tions%20Plan%20%281998%29 .pdf ( last accessed on 12 September 2019 ).
244
Muffett, C., supra note 141 , p. 32.
245
Annex “B” hereof; See : Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Association v. Chevron Corp. el al ,
supra note 184, p. 61 -62, citing Union of Concerned Scientists (2007 ), Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How
ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco ’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science . Cambridge, MA,
USA , p. 19, available at
https://www.ucsusa .org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/global _warming/exxon_report.pdf (last
accessed 12 September 2019).
246
Union of Concerned Scientists (2007 ), Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big
Tobacco ’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science . Cambridge, MA , USA, p. 10 , available
at https://www.ucsusa.org /sites/default/files/Iegacy/assets/documents/global _warming/exxon_report.pdf
( last accessed 12 September 2019).
247
Id., p. 19, citing Hertsgaard, M. (2019), While Washington Slept, Vanity Fair, available at
https://ww\v. vanityfair.com/news/2006/05/ warming200605 ( last accessed on 12 September 2019).
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