jim hanson, who presented these nasa projections to the senate in the us in 988. interesting. despite knowing about climate change, early on x, on for decades, apparently funded climate change deniers. how much damage do you think that did? well, i can, i'm pretty sure that it did a lot of damage in delaying climate policy. not exxon alone. of course, it was the fossil fuel industry in general that invested hundreds of millions of dollars in basically this information campaigns to the public sewing doubt about climate change. and we have seen some of these means that exxon's put into the public. they are appearing in german election campaigns, for example, even recently. and i think it did a lot to give the impression to the public that climate science is debated when we have had a consensus on human close climate change in the scientific community for decades. now, these are pretty powerful allegations are, could this study have consequences for exxon? will the company be held accountable? well, there is a number of court cases against exxon going on in the unite