The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a report entitled The Climate Deception Dossiers.
For nearly three decades, many of the world's largest fossil fuel companies have knowingly worked to deceive the public about the realities and risks of climate change.
Their deceptive tactics are now highlighted in this set of seven "deception dossiers"—collections of internal company and trade association documents that have either been leaked to the public, come to light through lawsuits, or been disclosed through Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests.
So now we have some idea of "What fossil fuel companies knew and when they knew it". Full report available here [pdf].
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Friday July 10 2015, @12:20AM
Yeah, I know, bad form replying to your own post, but to make it clearer, if you're tasked to find a power source for the eternal flames of Hell, solar beats coal hands down. Well, as long as you can manage to get management to agree to locating Hell on the surface of the sun. Now if you were looking to create Hell on Earth, well, coal has some nice features--like burning on a cloudy day.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @05:42AM
Now if you were looking to create Hell on Earth...
That effort would be so DOOMed!