New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say
New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say
Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say. Among the files, reported for the first time today by DeSmog and Follow The Money, and published on Climate Files, there is a 1970 i...
“It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”
Yikes.
It sounds bad, but the shareholders
Sculpture by Isaac Cordal
So 35 years ago they said... the truth.
I'm in my 40s and I still get Pikachu face