It's not just fossil fuel companies that hide known facts for reasons of profit margins but governments as well. With royalties front and centre in many of their climate harming trade decisions.

And here for Australia, coal is king. We could have and should have embraced exclusively public nuclear energy some time ago. And simply allowed the coal producers to market their entire coal production offshore. Until carbon tariffs forced the cession of that trade.

Had we done that, today energy prices as reticulated energy could be as low or lower than 3 cents PKWH. With now bug free MSR thorium as the principal source of carbon free dispatchable energy.

Moreover, the technology can be tasked with burning problematic nuclear waste. Nuclear waste we would be paid annual millions to accept. And then used as free mostly unspent fuel to generate electricity that could cost less than a penny PKWH.

Governments/political hypocrites/villains are just as bad or worse than Exxon with their climate harming policies and trade deals.

Simply put, the fossil fuels we export to the world could be creating as much as 40% of all carbon emissions. Burning less coal at home is worth SFA when we are producing less than 1.4% of international carbon emissions anyway.

And the song and dance we make about that unmitigated obscene hypocrisy of the first water, as we continue to pour our fossil fuels to the world in maximum amounts and export effort.

MSR thorium is the mother of miracle cancer cure bismuth 213. And for us, make us the premier medical tourist destination in the world. And an energy exporting superpower! Making annual trillions, plural, in export incomes.

All virtually pissed against the wall by conflicted, tame or, I believe, bought and paid for, pollies.

If there's another more logical and rational explanation it escapes me!
Alan B.

WTF?

I made a mistake when I said public domain.

I was trying to indicate that the information is now available to the general public.

Forget climate change and just focus on the very best economic outcome and climate change will become a non-issue or simply take care of itself. As we earn annual trillions plural, with the right policy paradigms enacted by folk not in the pockets of fossil fuel companies. And if the cap fits?

Simply put, the 12 thousand coal mining jobs could be replaced in other mining jobs and manufacturing industries, as could current export revenues, and then some!

It's the economy, Stupid.
Alan B.

WTF?

Alan B states: " Forget climate change and just focus on the very best economic outcome."

That's the whole point: Exxon did forget about climate change (in the sense that they downplayed their role in it) for THEIR very best economic outcome.

Along the way they rusted on 50 years worth of science deniers.

I wouldn't say Exxon are good guys. But they're not as bad as the UN. Hiding behind UN Net Zero, Albanese Labor can run 43% "emissions reduction" on their left hand, extreme population growth on their right. As Watersnake more or less points out.

Arguing amongst ourselves about who pulled the plug out of the bottom of the boat, or who knew about it, is time wasting.
We must focus our efforts on stopping the water coming in, and do it soon, or the boat will sink, and we will drown.
What's done is done. Now we must try to remedy the situation.
And as we do this, we should retain as much as possible of the life we are used to.
We don't want to live in a cave, and cook over a smoky fire do we?
I think the human race can adapt where necessary, and live a life which is quietly rewarding.