ExxonMobil, a major oil company, reportedly forecast climate change in the 1970s

According to academics, one of the biggest oil firms in the world correctly predicted how climate change will raise the global temperature as early as the 1970s.

They claim that ExxonMobil's internal studies foresaw how using fossil fuels would warm the world, but the company outwardly rejected any connection. The academics examined the internal company documents' data. ExxonMobil refuted the charges.

Selling fossil fuels that emit gases that scientist, governments, and the UN agrees causes global warming has brought in billions for companies like ExxonMobil. The results imply that ExxonMobil's projections were frequently more precise than those of even top-tier NASA scientists.

Naomi Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, said that it underscores the stark hypocrisy of ExxonMobil leadership, who happened to know that their own researchers were doing this very top quality modeling work and had direct exposure to that classified info while telling the rest of us that climate models were bunk. Geoffrey Supran, co-author and an associate professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami, claims that the findings represent "smoking gun" evidence.