Today saw a significant milestone in the fight against global warming. President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed 1,179 mile pipeline to bring tar sands petroleum from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
This action has positive results. It takes the pressure off the new Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. It solidifies the position of the U.S. as a leader in the fight against global warming. It benefits the entire globe.
This week we also learned that Exxon deliberately withheld data or skewed data about the effects of emissions on global warming. Exxon’s corporate lies have been compared to Big Tobacco’s lies about the effects of smoking.
What Exxon did was so much worse. Big Tobacco’s lies hurt individual smokers. Exxon’s lies have affected the entire planet.
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