So, after all the back-tracking and 'clarifications', what have we got here?

Well, it seems that these activist scientists from the Rockefeller Fund have found that Exxon scientists used similar data and methodology to other 'climate scientists' and came to broadly the same predicted outcomes. The predictions were wildly incorrect and overall the Exxon scientists differed with other scientists by up to 30% but this, it seems, is what passes for close agreement!

Since Exxon had long since agreed that there is warming in the system and that their product contributes to that warming, the Science article has nothing to reveal there. It seems that their biggest revelation, which so vexes WTF?, is that Exxon scientists did calculate the level of CO2 that would, theoretically yield a dangerous warming although, it seems, Exxon scientists didn't describe it as that. So what was that level? Well, again its not spelt out but appears to be around 600ppm which, at current rates, would happen around two centuries from now!!

So, in the end, the main beef that the article's authors have is that the Exxon scientists, using the same data and coming to similar conclusions about projected warming, weren't alarmed by it. That's it! They looked at the data and didn't scream..."the sky is falling" whereas the authors are convinced that Exxon's product is devasting to the planet. Same data - different conclusions. That used to be what science was all about but in the world of climate 'science' different conclusions need to be denounced.

As I said, this just a continuation of the jihad waged by those who seek to destroy the fossil fuel industries. Having failed in the courts, where truth rather than propaganda is paramount, they've returned to the propaganda. As usual, some have fallen for it.

In days gone by we had a user in OLO who went by the name of ant.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.asp?id=19073

He (I'm pretty sure it was a he), made so many errors that eventually he created a new nick of Tony. Having exhausted the credibility of both nicks, ant eventually exited the group.

ant was, like WTF?, also very vexed by the ExxonKnew meme and rather distraught when the courts made a mockery of the claims.

Just saying!