Pictures like these are becoming more and more common as Climate Change alters the world we live in but leading governments are doing little or nothing about it the United States will withdraw from the paris climate accord. Donald trumps cabinet include several former Oil Executives who play down the Climate Change. There is no model that is yet been developed that scientists would say is called because of predicting the future. But some lawyers in the us say big oil is lying prosecutors in new york have sued exxon mobil and other companies in a multibillion dollar case. Every fossil fuel company. Has a responsibility to be honest with us and testers and with the public the First Amendment ladies and gentlemen does not give you the right to commit fraud. Carol moffatt has also been trying to get to the bottom of this law is found documents that he says prove Oil Companies have been researching Climate Change for sixty years without informing the public of the results so they all industry knew from the one nine hundred forty s. And fiftys that there was a connection between the Sea Level Rise and carbon in the atmosphere this is one of the biggest scandals in global history. Just big oil new why didnt do nothing about Global Warming. The trail of secret files leads us to washington d. C. Where we arrange a meeting with the man who discovered and published them. The oral Company Exxon Mobil and its executives have allegedly known about Climate Change for sixty years. The Company Trades in germany under the name. Why should they have kept a lid on this knowledge. I think if you. Were. Works for an environmentalist nongovernmental organization. He shows us studies related to possible Climate Change and its effect back in one nine hundred fifty seven the brennan report examined the effects of vehicle exhaust on our atmosphere it was commissioned by exxon mobil. And the one nine hundred sixty eight robinson report conducted by the Stanford Institute and commissioned by the American Petroleum institute and Industry Federation we have it there in black and white here are a few things that they said about Carbon Dioxide if c o two levels continue to rise at present rates it is likely that noticeable increases in temperature could occur however there seems to be no doubt that the potential damage to our environment could be severe although there are other possible sources for the additional c o two now being observed in the atmosphere none seems to fit the presently observed situation as well as the fossil fuel imitation theory this device was delivered to the oil industry at its very top levels and we can prove that we can prove that high level executives in all of the companies solve this before. So one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the robinson report was already warning the oil industry that vehicle exhaust was probably driving Global Warming. What you do when you avoid whatever the answer is that they immediately asked the Sanford Research institute to go back and check its work they didnt like these conclusions so they said try again they tried to deny and in reporting to the government they began cherry picking. And highlighting only the passages out of this report that talked about the uncertainties not about the reality. This is a story well see over and over again with the oil industry so that the doubt becomes the message its a very effective form of propaganda. Carol moffatt has the evidence to back up his claims he has compared the original robinson report with the revised version so when they exactly do People Industries start this game of cloak and dagger. As we drive through washington muffet explains that big oil was already trying to deflect attention before they even began scientific Climate Research with the huge increase in car traffic in the one nine hundred forty s. Im thinking this is how it started and this is why it started in los angeles in the one nine hundred forty s. As cars were exploding the automobile economy was exploding los angeles was plagued by smog and when the people of los angeles started looking to oil and gas as the reason for small the industry started fighting back and it was that fighting back that led in december one nine hundred forty six to the creation of the smoke and fumes committee and to the oil industrys grand strategy to combine science with Public Relations to constantly delay action on a range of air pollution measures that began with smog but soon expanded to include sulfur dioxide and Carbon Dioxide the main driver of Climate Change. The smoke and fumes committee had one main goal to forestall any attempt to legislate against pollution its president vents jenkins made this unmistakably clear in one thousand nine hundred fifty four. The worst thing that can happen in many instances is that the passage of a law or laws for the control of a given air pollution situation. Big oil began assembling a Network Company supported colleges and think tanks like the stanford Research Institute was donations they returned to faith who were the specific studies studies like the robinson report which returned unsavory results were revised. Forty years later exxon mobil executives were still pretending that these studies were never conducted. Before here saying that hiring people. Are causing a little dip in years in the. Early. Morning to begin to. Loosen the weather here with. Big oil used its advance knowledge. To sow doubt and stymie legislation that might humble it but was this the only reason to secretly investigate Global Warming we drive two hundred kilometers to pennsylvania to visit a former exxon mobil employee. Area of the Delaware River has been a Shipbuilding Center for hundreds of years one of those ships belong to exxon mobil. In one thousand nine hundred ninety oil giant refit of the three hundred meter long tanker for an expedition to the arctic. Much of what exxon did with the voyage it held in him in secrecy this is a company that was very good at controlling what went on. They had every incentive to try ad find a route through the sea ice to get that oil to market where they also looking at the long term prospects of a melting arctic. Indeed the official reason given for the voyage was to look for a shipping passage to access reserves in alaska but carol moffat believes that exxon mobil wanted to find out when pack ice might start melting clearing the way for shipping. The voyage itself was really remarkable they brought the ship for retrofitting here to chester pennsylvania just theaters across the bridge and on that it would be two times because first they cut the shebeen to four pieces and the senate to the senate to shipyards across the country so they could rebuild it and retrofit it and they brought it back to the sun and the Sun Shipyards and put it back together and then sailed it out under this bridge. Did exxon mobil executives already known back then that the pack ice was likely to start melting in the near future one of the scientists aboard the s. S. Manhattan was and when clark. Was it perhaps his job to find out confront when that might happen. We tracked down edwin clark and he agreed to talk for the first time about his work for exxon mobil and the companys motives. Hello gentlemen clerk its nice to meet you at care nice to meet you but i mean to you very nice to meet you dillman. We drive to the shipyard docks of chester with Edward Clarke this is one of the places where the s. S. Man at moores retrofitted in one nine hundred sixty nine. Twenty years later the shipyard shut down. Well i can remember the manhattan sitting between two gates of this nature welders working money. And what was your First Impression when you thought. Its big big big big. And i was so proud to be selected as the a scientist on it. The s. S. Man at moores the first tankard across the Northwest Passage of the voyage forty eight years ago proved that Oil Transports across the arctic sea are feasible for me one of the really interesting questions is how much of the possibility of Climate Change was in the atmosphere you know in the lead up to the manhattan expedition. I didnt really hear about it until in sixty nine i went on to work on the trance Alaska Pipeline and it was a year or two after that that we started putting a provision in there for an increase in soil temperatures due to Global Warming really you know thats amazing you know what two or three years after that that well that no thats thats thats really thats really its really incredible to hear. Back in sixty nine there were proponents and doubters that it really is. And the Scientific Community was was divided on that so. That they. He took into account the risk and started planning for. Well even though yes we did. So edwin clark and ice researcher in the pay of exxon mobil already knew forty seven years ago that the climate was changing he and other scientists were already using the knowledge of Global Warming back in one thousand seventy for the planning and construction of the trans Alaska Pipeline the melting permafrost made it easier to drive these piles into the ground. And one parts colleagues at exxon mobil were also building the oil rigs in the arctic at the same time they already have access to secret knowledge about Climate Change. Our search for new evidence to back up markets theory takes us to robert an engineer who worked for Shell Oil Company in the one nine hundred sixty s. He doesnt want to appear on camera. And though the words he. Doesnt tell you and thank you for your time no problem how can i help you when did it all start well. Three or. Four times change. Was not really being questioned it was being expanders car the question was how it was going because very important in Current System design of the ordering point we ask. What the ice driver week or future why dont you change plantings of these constructs since ice was secret so it was made to pay starboard side sixtys conditions and our own conditions in the future are stable. The last seventy or. So the first platform you designed is still pretty gears operating in cooking. We wanted to confirm these claims and take a look at the platform a journey from washington involves a nine hour flight to Anchorage Alaska is largest city and a four hour drive across the Kenai Peninsula where crude oil has been extracted since one nine hundred sixty three. The Company Responsible did not respond to our inquiries so we its to lift on a fishing boat accompanied by the environmental activist Bob Shavelson hes been battling for years against the pollution caused by the Oil Companies in the area. Of listeners on the front lines of rapid Climate Change were seeing in pads here that are not seen anywhere else in the United States and if you look in the arctic area we have our sea ice is diminishing minute in a decade or so there may be no more sea ice in the arctic thats an incredible impact the permafrost that buys into the ground is building so infrastructure roads are the houses are falling in so theres real quantifiable good bad but i would change that were seeing now that something that were talking theoretically about the future. Finally we arrive at our destination platform eight built by the shell engineer robert and his colleagues. Did he already know that the ice would be thinner in the future and that the rig would last as a result. Fisherman robert ma and his new circuiting their nets ready their fishing grounds are in the same area as the will rakes. This blend from a i spoke to the engineer will build that in the sense that they use findings on Climate Change and you always think c. S. To recalls like that or if they knew that it would be less ice in the future so thats this surprise you know not at all i think theyve known about it for many many decades and theyve just chosen to suppress that information and they realize that all they have to do is say that theres some doubt about this and theres a question about this and they pay people to raise those questions you say Oil Companies are betraying the public oh absolutely yeah i think theyre acting in a in a private interest when they should be acting in the Public Interest and i think its a crime i think its a set of theft not only for current generations but future generations were robbing from our children and thats wrong were doing it in the in the name of money. Robert b. A told us that when he was planning the construction of the oil rig he made use of a study about pack ice from one nine hundred fifty seven did this report already featured findings about Global Warming was the commissioning Company Shell already aware of this and similar studies in the one nine hundred sixty s. We double check the answers with Carol Moffatt. But what do you think about that thats not a coincidence but i think its really interesting and we know now research on the i. Think. There is or there. Are exchanges where as muffins and various engineers yield pieces of a larger puzzle. People reagan cook and lead to appears to have been the first example of an oil company adapting to Climate Change the permafrost was melting engineers took this into account when building the trans Alaska Pipeline they carried out research into the powerful storms in the gulf of mexico to make sure any oil rigs built there. Would be able to withstand future threats and as sea levels rose engineers raised the height of several refineries and rigs along the coast of canada. The Norwegian Oil rig troll was also built two metres higher in one thousand nine hundred nine. And a gas pipeline between germany and norway was heavily reinforced in the early one nine hundred ninety s. These facilities were expensive and the cost of upgrading them was in the billions these investments are an indication that the Oil Companies are already allowing for the effects of Climate Change at a time when Scientific Research into the phenomenon was still in its infancy. What do they already know did big oil really have its own secret Research Program for decades beforehand. Our Research Leads Us to new jersey home to a geochemist who worked on a study on behalf of the board of exxon. And he invited us to visit him. Oh. Good to see you governor yes thats me. Edward garvey worked for exxon mobile from the one nine hundred Seventy Eight to one nine hundred eighty three. So this is your they are all an old x. On the long as its only a helmet still it still fits. And the coveralls. Ok work safely ethel prevent accidents ok i dont fit in there anymore. So you did measure of c o two emissions and that right when i was wearing this we were installing the equipment nor a tank or the measurements of sea water we made measurements of the air we did almost continuously as the ship from the gulf of mexico to the persian gulf and the horn of africa. Big oil must have known that the climate was changing the aim of this Research Project was to better understand that change it was so important that exxon mobil shot a film with Edward Garvey for its shareholders the research took four years and cost about four million u. S. Dollars today garvey grows tomatoes. Right come on just a bit of just really good climate to produce tomatoes here is can you pick one yes. Edward garvey was privy to the results of the study. What has been your findings on so that well its the whole map of the oceans c o two levels so that was it was an important step in understanding the role of the ocean in governing atmospheric c o two it was so new and challenging that it really went my appetite for the kind of work and the scientists i work with they were all excited as well it was just a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in house and within the science itself and you know what i want all we have we presented to the Corporate Board by me but the but the but the my boss because that is the Corporate Board and. The only executives cut funding for the project officially because there was no money for it at the same time they so doubt ab