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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (224156)	3/14/2007 4:59:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Yeah, who's the IPCC, anyway? Let's not listen to them. Exxon, CEI,AEI, have all the answers, right? Don't stop believing in your delusional world, whether it's Iraq or Iran or oil or climate change. Well, Exxon has finally figured it out. It's ours and it's real. Exxon Mobil has no more doubts on warming Big Oil behemoth Exxon Mobil Corp. has dropped any pretense of questioning whether global warming is real. Now the company is seeking to position itself as an active player in efforts to lower greenhouse gases. "The appropriate debate isn't on whether climate is changing, but rather should be on what we should be doing about it," Kenneth Cohen, Exxon's vice president of public affairs, told reporters on a conference call Thursday. The call came less than a week after an international panel of hundreds of scientists said new research showed global warming was "unequivocal" and that human activity was primarily responsible for the most significant factor in temperature change — greenhouse gases. "Climate is changing. It's a serious issue. The evidence is there," Cohen said on the call, which was arranged in part to allow Exxon to state its position on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report. When pressed, Cohen said "there is no question that human activity is the source of carbon dioxide emissions," and emphasized that Exxon is working with various policy groups and universities to find ways to produce energy while lowering greenhouse gases. Cohen's statements appeared to be the most definitive yet in the company's effort to show Exxon cares about climate change and wants to do something about it. Message 23271344