Roger Cohen, retired Exxon-Mobil executive, scientist and global warming denialist, is the “Donald Trump” of science.
He spouts off as if to be taken seriously, but what he says lacks any semblance of substance, fact or truth.
In fact, the global warming denialism he perpetrates is not just wrong and harmful in promoting non-action, it’s a major scandal at a time of climate crisis that most media ignores.
Check how little the media probes any Republican congressional leaders or presidential candidates about their views on climate policy. The party itself is in ignorant denial.
Cohen surfaced in the Herald and his Fort Lewis talk in January 2007. He tried to make a case that published climate science was all wrong and perpetuated as a conspiracy to get more research funding – a ridiculous theme that I publicly debunked, as did several other writers.
Cohen’s continuing comments (Herald, Dec. 24) that anthropogenic carbon dioxide’s “very small footprint” is nothing to worry about – in fact, “benefits us all” by providing “a major increase in plant life” – is a display of his system ignorance, if not a fraudulent spin on the truth.
To follow his line of thought, one would think if we just stay on Exxon’s “business as usual” path, we’ll end up with a greener planet and no climate problems.
The Herald deserves credit for digging up Cohen’s 1981 internal email, demonstrating that he has been part of the fossil-fuel industry’s fraudulent campaign of denialism for decades, when in fact its own scientists were confirming what public scientists were saying at that time – that the world is facing “catastrophic effects” due to global warming.
Thanks also for printing a real climate science article opposite the “Lost Bet” Cohen article, headlined “Massive tree die-off,” which pointed to “devastating consequences” of global warming.
Cohen either ignores the evidence or simply doesn’t read articles by real climate scientists. He does not publish any of his claims in scientific journals, nor does he reference any climate science.
He simply spews out his unjustified “beliefs” and expects the world to take him at his word.
Root Routledge
Durango
