31 detailed discussions of climate science and climate risk in the Robbins and Robinson reports, NPC omits any reference to the analysis or warnings of the oil industry’s own consultants with respect to climate change. Instead, NPC cited only an external report from several years earlier that took a much more critical view of climate science. In a particular irony, NPC’s discussion of climate dismissed outright the possibility that air pollutants could have any impact on the global environment, arguing that air pollution is a purely local phenomenon. In so doing, it directly contradicted a core conclusion and essential warning from scientists the oil industry itself had contracted for advice. (Fig. 13) Fig. 13 Answer 20 above provides extensive documentary evidence to demonstrate that, by the 1980s, major fossil fuel producers were well aware of the growing consensus within the scientific community on the accumulation of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the primary role of fossil fuel combustion in that accumulation, and the probability that this would lead to higher global temperatures with potentially severe consequences for society and global environment. In 1989, the year after both Exxon and Shell expressly acknowledged these realities internally, the Global Climate Coalition was created. During the ensuing 13 years, and during a critical window of opportunity for avoiding or minimizing catastrophic climate change, the members of the Global Climate Coalition carried on a sustained campaign to sow misinformation, uncertainty and doubt regarding climate science and the need for climate action. In 1995, an internal primer on climate science and climate denial by a Mobil Oil scientist, presented several leading arguments by climate denialists together with a detailed rebuttal of those arguments. Despite this, the members continued to fund and orchestrate climate denial operations