Memorandum for the Petitioners | 63 the Charles Koch Foundation, ExxonMobil, and the Southern Company. The investigation revealed that Dr. Soon was “giving back to the corporations” by “neglecting to report this financial support to the scientific journals.” Dr. Soon has been documented as “prominent climate change skeptic.””°! 5.117.A recent Harvard study by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes analyzed respondent ExxonMobil’s internal papers, public statements, and campaigns between 1977 and 2014. It showed that the company misled the public about what it knew about the risk of climate change. Expert witness Dr. Geoffrey Supran of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explained in his Statement’ and testimony before the Honorable Commission that their peer-reviewed study” concluded that respondent ExxonMobil emphasized doubts about the scientific evidence that blamed fossil fuel burning for global warming when communicating with the public, but acknowledged, internal communications. at the same time, those scientific facts in its Dr. Supran explained that: . available documents quantifiable discrepancy between show what a systematic, ExxonMobil’s scientists and executives discussed about climate change in private and in academic circles, and what it presented to the general public.* 5.118.As demonstrated by overwhelming evidence presented during the National Inquiry, some of the respondent Carbon Majors contributed to, and acknowledged, climate science in private and in academic journals read only by a small number of academics. However, they created confusion and doubt about science and solutions in advertisements and _ other communications read by millions of consumers and key decision-makers. D.7. Even now, following the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015 and the IPCC’s 1.5°C Report in 2018, respondent Carbon Majors’ actions continue to demonstrate intent to put profit over people and planet 5.119.In 2015, the nations of the world adopted the landmark Paris Agreement. It brings almost all nations into a common goal to undertake 260 Ibid. 61 DeSmog, Willie Soon, available at https:/Awww.desmogblog.com/willie-soon (last accessed on 12 September 2019). 262 See Exhibit “DDDDD” to “DDDDD-22,” Profile and Statement of Geoffrey Supran, PhD, dated 02 August 2018. 263 See Exhibit “J,” Supran, G. and Oreskes, N. (23 August 2017), Assessing ExxonMobil's Climate Change Communications (1977-2014). 264 Supran, G., supra note 262.