Climate News: Fossil fuel companies knew about the cause and impact of global heating, but denied and obfuscated the facts

World-recognized climate activist, Bill McKibben (pictured), has regularly made the point that fossil fuel companies are the villains in the whole climate issue. "Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s"; "Let’s face reality. Fossil fuel interests have destroyed the Cops – we need something new"; "ExxonMobil ignored accurate global warming studies by its scientists for decades, research finds"; "Michael Pascoe: There’s a quantifiable cost to George Pell’s style of climate denial"; "ExxonMobil predicted climate change while downplaying risk"; "Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections"; "Fossil Fuel-Linked Companies Dominate Sponsorship of COP27"; "Climate change: UAE names oil chief to lead COP28 talks"; "Exxon Scientists Accurately Predicted Climate Damage While Company Pushed"; "‘Realistic’: UAE appoints oil chief to be COP28 president"; "Disastrous floods in WA – why were we not prepared?".